Chara Design - Tumblr Posts
hi, i hope you're doing well today! i'm looking to create a pantheon for a d&d campaign, and i pictured the goddess of weather & seasons as a black woman. i thought making her hair an afro-like cloud would be an interesting way to design her. i'm worried that this may be insensitive, though, and that i'm othering curly hair. she would not be the only black character in the pantheon, but she's the one i'm most worried about being offensive. what are your thoughts on this design choice?
Black Goddess with Clouds for Hair
I think this is a cool idea! You’ve got regular Black characters (women?) too, so even better. Not that there seems to be any poor implications with having the Black goddess; magical Black girls for the win! She may not need a “counter” exactly, but it’s always good to have multiple modes of representation, particularly as she’s not human.
This immediately made me think of artwork by the artist GDBee (whose art adorns the walls of my creative workspace)
"Cloud Goddess Collection”
https://gdbee.store/products/cloud-bundle-print-bundle
”Cosmiss”
https://www.deviantart.com/gdbee/art/Cosmiss-344803672
Artist Credits
www.gdbee.art
www.gdbee.store
Tumblr: @prinnay
-Mod Colette
Horror villain idea where they use social media to track their prey and capture their suffering live
Waiting for the boat to sail ...
A best friend like none other
Chara making banana bread for the first time 🍞😋
ps: I really wanted to add asriel but couldn't figure it out :' )
Well hello there survival/grown up au chara dreemurr
Okay so this new promo image of Jacaerys dropped and dude
Im sorry
This is exactly who Chara would've grown up to look like if they hadn't swallowed a bunch of buttercups like an idiot with a saviour complex
I've been developing an AU surrounding Chara and Asriel surviving past their childhood for quite a while now (like maybe even 2 years tbh) and seeing Jace in Season 2 absolutely slaughtered me cus dude that's exactly how I envisioned a young adult Chara
LIKE HELLO?
That's the look of our favourite incredibly unhealthy and unstable Undertale Chara if I've ever seen one.
LIKE FUCK IT this is just them and Toriel
Tell me I'm not the only one seeing the vision here or has the brainrot just consumed me fully
Little demon child/The first one that fell
Second version with blood under the cut
Who’s soul is that I wonder
1am concept doodles for my fighting game sona!!!! decided to go make little fighting idle animations with friends!!!!!
follow up from my last post, i started working on a little kick animation!
its based of mai-ling's sweep kick from warzard!
i loved seeing your character sheets for yuu and hayeli, especially hayeli’s!! it’s clear that a lot of thought went into them and i think his on/off mode is such an interesting concept (also a pomefiore student with blemishes?? yes please!!)
i’d be super curious what your creation process looked like, i.e if where there concepts you scrapped or how you went about choosing a name for them (it’s just a topic i love talking and hearing about but of course you don’t have to get into it if you don’t want to :])
not me also having ideas for an oc with mirror magic, but based on the mirror from the snow queen instead
First I'm so glad you like my characters! It seems Hayeli's bad skin is very popular and I love it! Give me more teenagers with bad skin and not making a huge deal out of it please!
As for my process... dear, that'll be a long post.
General process
Ok so my general character creation process starts with two ways:
1. I have a role to fill in a story that can't be fulfilled by a pre-existing character
2. I have a vibe and I need to turn it into a character
From those needs and/or wants, I'll go through several steps:
1. Age: surprisingly deciding on a character's age first unlocks at least half of its mental and physical design. Is it an adult who already has its shit together or a teen in the middle of a crisis?
2. Vague personality: is the character going to be introvert or extrovert? Shy or outgoing. Proud or self depreciating. Bubbly or quiet. Easy to anger or chill. It doesn't need to be its full personality yet, just guidelines.
3. Race: for fantasy and realism. A character's skin color and cultural background will shape how they view the world a lot!
4. Gender and sexual orientation: i usually decide on the gender based on how many characters I already have of each gender, or whether I want a character to be traditionally feminine/masculine or the total opposite of what's expected. Obviously the gender will affect the design, but the orientation will also affect how the character reacts to others.
5. Assets & weaknesses: for fantasy, it'd be their powers and their shortcomings, for action it'll be their strengths and the things they haven't mastered yet, for romance it'll be their best personality trait and their worst.
Once I have that base guideline, I can start working on a chara design. Age and race help with the body, personality and strengths/weaknesses help with how they dress and present themselves. (An outgoing person will have an easier time dressing in original ways while a shy person would be more traditional for example.)
Once I have a design, I draw shitty little doodles and meme redraws until I have a better sense of their personality. Slices of life and comedy and angst are great way for me to get to know my character. For writers, it'd be writing random scenes to test the characters' reactions.
Then, I double down on the strengths and weaknesses. Make them stand out. Make sure they are coherent to the characters. Make sure the weaknesses are as important as the strength. (For example, I have a character who has super speed. Arguably one of the most cheated powers in existence. I counterbalanced it by giving him poor stamina. In theory he is all powerful. In practice, not so much.)
Lastly, I chose a name. Sometimes it's just about how the name sounds. Sometimes I'm looking for names to mean something. If your character is POC, think about whether they'd have a common name or a name from their own culture. Both are valid but you need to think about it! (For example, I have two maohi characters in the same story. One is called Fray (common name), the other is called Tanemahuta (maohi name) because they and their families have different relationships with their own culture.)
Yuu
Well, that's a strange one since Yuu already does exist in the game, but it's a blank slate, a place holder. Let's make them something worth remembering, shall we.
First, I went with their gender. Most of my placeholders characters end up nonbinary because that's what I am and also I can't be bothered to role-playing gender when playing a simple game.
Then I went with a vibe and a bullet list of things I wanted to keep from the game and things I wanted to add.
To keep:
1. Not very proactive
2. Not very talkative
To add:
1. Raccoon
2. Clever/cunning
3. Physically rather weak
From there I made a design that gave "raccoon vibes". Semi long disheveled hair, lazy eyes, lazy dress up.
Now, what was important was to make up for their weakness: they don't have magic. The world around them is harsh and they get threatened by characters having breakdowns every two months. What is there strength? For Yuu, I wanted them to be clever and cunning. Have them actually outsmart our dear schemers. That's Yuu's one and only strength, they're a schemer themself. They see others as cards that make up their hands the same way Leona sees others as chess pieces. Once you have those big pieces from earlier plus the survival instinct, you get a character that is easy to handle. They don't talk much, keep everything to themselves, manipulate others from the shadows to defend themself.
But. Let's give them one more weakness, shall we? It's funnier that way. Let's make them yearn for connection. They are a teen who got kidnapped from their family. Let's give them a big family. But they are rather independent too, so let's find a way to remove the parents from the picture to explain why they are already able to fend for themself. Now make them yearn for real friendship. Make it obvious their manipulation comes from defensiveness. Have them slip up when they interact with people they genuinely end up caring about.
And there you have Yuu.
Hayeli
Now, for Hayeli, I started out with a vibe. He's actually pretty old, comes from before the game was even released when there were only countdown arts and some vague informations about the game. As I said in his description, he's based on the Evil Queen's mirror. I didn't know at the time there were already plenty of mirrors in the game haha
Contrary to my usual process, I started with his powers first. His Signature Spell had to be something about mirrors. The easy way out would be to have him shape-shifting. There are plenty of angst and fun opportunities from shape-shifting. But that was too simple, I didn't like it. Instead I went with the capacity to copy others' magic. In game there was already Azul being able to steal others' magic through a high requirement spell, so I went with this kind of power. High requirement high reward. I don't like for my characters to be overpowered and I wanted Hayeli to just be average in magic, so I doubled down on the requirements to make his magic near useless.
Then I went on to his gimmick. He still didn't have a personality or body at the time, I really went full mirror first. Hayeli is a mirror. He copies others' magic. What if I double down and make him copy everything as a by-product of his Signature Spell? Ok, now, since I still don't like overpowered characters, how do I make it ruin his life?
And so we come to the problem of his personality: he doesn't have one. He's a blank slate. A mirror. He reproduces others' behaviors and mannerisms and personalities and he has no control over it. He has no idea who he is himself. The angst creates itself.
Once there, it was easy process for the rest. Make him a body. Average size since he's just a copy of others. Pomefiore attitude and presentation since he's in Pomefiore. I like curly hair and there aren't enough of them in Twisted Wonderland so I went with that, but they couldn't be long since Yuu already has semi long curly hair.
I still needed one way to recognize him. Make him pop amongst the other characters. What makes Hayeli physically Hayeli?
1. Moles. So many moles.
2. Bad skin. He's in Pomefiore? Do the contrary of what's expected there. Give him a malleable standard face and add bad skin to it.
3. Strange eyes. He's a mirror who can reproduce everything he sees. His eyes are important. Make them pale like mirrors, make his pupils white to reflect others, make the shape a bit blurry as if the mirror isn't perfect.
And there you have Hayeli's body!
Oh. A name? Google translate, please tell me how to say mirror in different languages please. Mirror in Armenian is "Hayeli", I like the sound of it. Sold. So Hayeli shall be Armenian irl, that'd probably be on the frontiers of the Scalding Sands (thanks a friend for helping me with that part), so maybe I should make his skin darker. Besides, dark skins in a dorm that values beauty is also not the first idea people get. Sold!
(Somewhere during the process, I actually had an objective with Hayeli. "Make him represent Teenagehood itself". Teenagehood is a particularly difficult period, teenagers try to become their own person independently from their parents. They copy each other and all the people they look up to to find what suits them best, but they also hate not being able to tell who they are as a person. Hayeli represents that struggle, and that's also why I gave him a heavy bout of acne and red cheeks and baby fat but a lean body. Teenagehood isn't pretty, and it shouldn't be. Hayeli is awkward, his body is morphing a lot, he has no idea who he is or who he wants to become, he copies others without realizing. But he also has a lot of fun. He cheats at tests, he bothers his classmates and dormmates, he has fun with makeup, he tries a lot of new things. While Yuu was meant to represent survival, Hayeli is meant to represent teenagehood, for better and for worse.)
There you have all of Hayeli's creation process.
TLDR: Mostly I just... don't go with the very first thought I get. Do you know that Pixar or maybe Disney process where they give up on the first dozen ideas they get because it's too "normal" and easy to guess? It has its flaws but I think it's not that bad. I go with the contrary of what's expected (dark bad skin for a dorm that represents beauty) or I push the concept further if I can (copying magic instead of shapeshifting). And most importantly, I give my characters flaws and weaknesses. That's the most important part of the creation to me. What can I give him that'll make him struggle? The scenario writes itself as soon as you give your characters challenges to overcome within themselves.
Guys I love fairytales so damn much so I decided to draw one of my favorites which is Snow-White and Red-Rose, a Grimm Tale I grew up with 🥰 and it's not Snow-White from their other tale Snow-White, it's another Snow-White 🤓☝🏾 The story is different (and I love it 😍), it's about two sisters named after their mom's favorite flowers (red roses and white roses she's growing in her yard) and their mom leaving in a poor cottage in the middle of the forest. One cold winter night, a talking bear comes to their house and they befriend him ! I won't say more in case you want to read it 😘
For now they look like this
Aren't they cute ? ❤️😍 It's just a first color design tentative but I think they are adorable for now
Also I had fun with drawing them with my sanguine crayon 🤷🏾♀️ you can't erase with that sh*t, it's a constant trust the process 🥲
I used to dream about an actual movie made by Disney 🧍🏾♀️ But I'll just have fun on my own >ww<
- Chenille Man -
Carter Pillar is a young 22 yo street dancer.
He is cheerfull, energetic aaand kinda clumsy sometimes.
He was living a normal life till the day he found a strange caterpillar, touched it, and became... Chenille Man ✨🐛
Drawing researches :
human bill redesign wip (this was my first attempt⤵️ i like it but it wasn't too accurate)
some human bill sketches (re designed it again but 3rd time is a charm)
Pour un premier réel post sur ce compte datant de… 2013 ?!!! Ha ouais.. quand même 😅 Je vais commencer par un petit artworks de mon dernier OC en date.
Grande fan des Tortue Ninja depuis ..Bein 2013 au moins, on en reviens toujours au même. J’ai redécouvert récemment la série Rise of TMNT sortie en 2018 que j’avais juste snober à sa sortie par arrogance nostalgique … … … QUEL GRANDE ET STUPIDE ERREUR !😳
Bref du coup voici Ashton Di Vino tout fraîchement arriver dans ma très grande liste d’OC ✍️
I had imagine how Pomni can be in real life ❤️
I Hope you enjoy it (for the pronouns I write it in French inadvertently🥲, but I’m too lazy for found the same police, do the same manipulation etc… Sorry for that)
Obviously this is only my head cannons 😊
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Even if I don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day, I can share some of my sketch of my MHA OC and Tomura Shigaraki
The one in green it’s juste a « Very Happy Ending Universe » when they can be together X’)
So, Have a great Valentine’s Day everyone’s ❤️❤️❤️