Here are both my pieces for the @bdubszine !!!!!
Such a great opportunity to run with it and just have fun with detail work.
I am in love with sungod bdubs and very proud of this piece with the improv class^^
Down below is some in depth talk for the first piece with bdubs and all his clocks :D
The one on his chest is a regular minecraft clock - he always carries one in his offhand. In the background his his big tower from his "building with bdubs" series. He is wearing his moss cloak.
On his wirst:
A clock with a horse: he loves horses. also it actually is inspired by the horse-mountain he build in season 9 of hermitcraft
A purple clock with ears: a purple panda clock. He joined one mcc (minecraft championship) and one it first try on the team called purple pandas)
A tnt block-clock: Season 7 of hermitcraft he had, alongside impulse and tango, a company called "the boomers" who would explode stuff with tnt for diamonds - bdubs stick was he would die in every blow up they do (there are compilations)
in his jacket:
The clock looking like a ring: reference to double life. He was soul-bonded to impulse and they lowkey roleplayed as a married couple and impulse gifted him a clock as a sign or marriage. therefore it looks like a ring. it also has "i" pointers because impulse always puts "i"s on his stuff
A regular alarm clock: Basically that - maybe a reference for him always sleeping through the night.
The red glasses clock: reference to season 8. He, tango and keralis based together and called themself "big eyes crew" and they all wore red glasses
Emerald shaped clock: season 9 as the right hand to king rendog (theres also a crown inside the shape) emeralds because rendog and bdubs wanted to change currency to royal emeralds which started a war on the server and led to rendogs execution. bdubs stayed loyal till the end
"hep" clock: Season 7. He plays right hand man to mayor scar. There was a turfwar between two groups - one wanted their main island to be mycelium the other wanted it to be grass. HEP was the group who wanted grassblocks so its a grassblocked shaped clock. they lost the war
clock with a snake: 3rd life reference. Inside the clock theres a castle "the crastle" which was his and cleos base in 3rd life. The snake stands for cleo. the heart is part of the logo for the traffic series (same btw count for the heart in the impulse ring)
sundial: reference to the hermitcraftxempires smp crossover. bdubs came to empires smp and announced himself as "the sungod" and basically became a god and gem, oli, fwhip and sausage were his followers for the short time. the shape is after a build sausage made in his name
the "B" sign: reference to last life. He was part of team B.E.S.T. and they had shields with their initials aka Bdubs, Etho, Skizzlman and Tango. The four hearts are the lifes he was given at the start of the series
half tnt clock: reference to ethoslab who is his best friend on hermitcraft and they are just unnormal about each other
messed up steam punk clock: reference to the create series he did with keralis, tango, scar and zedaph who unfortunatly was short lived
mcc coin: the coin he got for winning mcc
broken heart monitor clock: limited life. there's a heart monitor and digital clock. the clock is broken because bdubs didnt uploaded his view for limited life (at the time of drawing this piece) so we never new how much time he had left (we know now)
small pocket watch with snake and wings: also limited life. he teamed up with scar (the wings) and cleo (the snake)
tree clock: the tree of whimsey. one of his first builds of season 9. he crowned tango as parkour king, cub as royal magican/dragonslayer and ren as king under it
rest of the smaller clocks are filler
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Me spending 41+ hours on all of my dr! Au designs??? More likely than you think (if this flops I’ll be deactivating I’m so tired)
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Before shit hits the fan I’m very quickly realizing that it might be hard to read some of the titles so here they all are; (not in order)
Jimmy- The Ultimate Zoologist
Tango- The Ultimate Gamemaster
Scott- The Ultimate Dexter
Martyn- The Ultimate Memorious
Ren- The Ultimate King
Bdubs- The Ultimate Talent Scout
Joel- The Ultimate Architect
Lizzie- The Ultimate Politician
Pearl- The Ultimate Farmer
Mumbo- The Ultimate Programmer
Grian- The Ultimate Gambler
Scar- The Ultimate Imagineer
Symmetry- The Ultimate ???
Shelby- The Ultimate Witch
Oli- The Ultimate Performer
Cub- The Ultimate Doctor
Joey- The Ultimate Adventurer
Gem- The Ultimate Larper
FWip- The Ultimate Mechanic
Katherine- The Ultimate Hunteress
Doc- The Ultimate Experimentalist
Sausage- The Ultimate Protector
Impulse- The Ultimate Redstoner
Pix- The Headmaster
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Hello hello !! This is my super long post explaining my Empires / Sun God Bdubs design !! :oD
Here’s the design broken down layer by layer to which I will now be breaking it down with notes on each of the main looks under the cut!
Staring off with his antenna, I made him based off of an Emperor Moth ! In most of my Bdubs designs I try to relate him to some kind of moth like for the design I have for his main hermitcraft season 9 being based off peppered moths and so on! The reason I chose an emperor moth specifically for this design was for 2 reasons: first one being is because he’s in empires smp and ya know… emperor… empires.. you get it. The second reason being the color pallet and wing pattern! The colors reminded me of the colors you’d see during a sunset or sunrise along with the eye-like dots on the wings reminding me of the sun symbol that’s shown on the left of the drawing in the notes.
Now onto his outfit! With his base layers I wanted to keep it simple while also still looking kinda fancy by implementing gold on the vest, shoes, belt, and even in his hair. For his shirt, I wanted it to be kinda plain mimicking his Minecraft skins having rather simple shirts but still keeping it fun and incorporating the sun motif. As the notes say, the cuffs and collar are supposed to resemble cartoon sun shapes which is a reoccurring shape I use throughout the design. With his boots I wanted to also keep them somewhat simple like the shirt but adding a bit of flare with the gold detailing. Derailing from the clothing to quickly point out his hand on the left that’s resting on his hip. I added that symbol to the back of his hands mainly to kind of give him a bit more interest to his hands but unfortunately it’s not clear on either of his hands since I drew both of em in a way where you can’t really see the back of his palms so now it’s just kinda a little small detail my apologies T-T
Before heading into the accessories, let’s take a quick close up of the clock and his face:
For the clock I wanted it to mimic what the actual Minecraft clock looks like but obviously with some changes! I made the part that’s usually blue into what’s supposed to be glass like a little window to the actual clock. (think of a pocket watch) I made it into a moon like shape with a sun engraving implemented alongside it since you can’t really have the sun without the moon
For his face I actually took a lot of inspiration from my Double Life Pearl design with them having similar eyes as well as also having that little crescent moon shape implemented in their hair. For Bdubs eye color, I was trying to hint at the markings on the wings from the emperor moths more so kind of as an easter egg. Another resemblance to Pearl is the poncho ! Like my Pearl design, Bdubs also gets a poncho !! Instead of the moon symbol like the end of Pearl’s, Bdubs has a star like shape like the buckles on his vest but that will be seen more up close in later pictures
Now onto the start of the accessories !
Lets start off with the belts first. I knew immediately the second I started coming up with this design that I for sure wanted Bdubs to have a sun-chain belt PFFF Like most of his accessories, it’s gold and shiny ! I added a lot of gold to his designs since I was inspired by the glowstone Minecraft skin he has but didn’t know how I wanted to implement that glowing/ shining element into my design so I resorted to adding lots of gold. His second “belt” is actually kind of a reference to my Empires season 2 Joel design. I want all of the ‘gods’ of the server to be kinda connected somehow so I like to think they have lil matching green sashes. I also made it green since I also wanted a bit of a pop of color to kinda break away from the yellows oranges and browns of the design as well as bringing backing some green from his mossy cloak Minecraft skin
Here’s a quick close up before I head into talking about the necklace:
For the necklace, I had a rosary in mind when designing it since Bdubs and Gem often refer to it as a religion’. I added a few beads due to the inspiration of a rosary while still making it look like a somewhat normal necklace. Like his hair and clock, I brought back in the crescent moon shape but as tiny beads in his necklace. The subtle/ tiny moon symbols are further implanted in the drawing to kinda further insinuate how the sun and moon really can’t exist without the other or ever truly separate from one another.
Now onto the start of the outer fabrics first starting off with the green poncho:
As I said earlier, the poncho was directly inspired by my Double Life Pearl design but with some obvious changes. For the end of the hood, I added the star-like shape from his vest as the charm at the end contrasting the moon one thats at the end of Pearl’s. For the loose part of the poncho I was trying to go for the shapes that are on his shirt cuffs ya know that subtle sun-ray kinda shape. I have it green to match the green belt/sash thing to call back to his little mossy cloak/hoodie.
Now onto the ‘cloak’:
With his ‘cloak’ I actually just kinda wanted to be this big blanket he uses as a cloak. Since Bdubs is almost always the first one to sleep, I’d like to think he’s always prepared to sleep with his big cozy blanket. I thought to add a more magical kind of feel to his design that I’d have the cloak be kinda whimsical since in movies big cloaks are kinda seen as mysterious and magical. His blanket has 2 sides with one being a reflection of the bright blue sky during the day while the opposite side being a mirror of the night sky where you can see all the stars and constellations. (Also before anyone asks, I bs like,, a few of the constellations on the cloak LMAOO some of them are real though I just absolutely butchered them when drawing them out T-T) For the clasp that’s holding the blanket secure, I brought back that sun symbol from earlier.
Now onto the final stretch !! The second poncho and the sunglasses:
I choose red as the color since I wanted another pop of color but something that was already in the color pallet I had. In the wings there’s a slight tint of red near the tip of them so I incorporated that color into some of the beads on his necklace and in his eyes as well as using it as the color for the final poncho since it wasn’t really used all that much in other parts of the drawing
Here’s a close up of the sunglasses before I dive into discussing them:
I wanted the sunglasses to be fun and loud like the rest of his outfit so I decided “eh why not” and incorporated that cartoon sun shape I was talking about earlier as the actual shape of the lenses. I also like to think he keeps them on his person at all times so he keeps them on a chain at all times to never lose them. Like the necklace, I added little moon beads onto the chain of his sunglasses. One of the decisions I made about the glasses was having them being only half of a sun rather than big circle sun glasses. I choose this design instead since I kinda wanted to emphasize his big eyes along with how in empires the glasses he wears don’t really fully cover his eyes so this was kind of a reference to that.
Alrighty and with that we’re done !!! If you’ve read this far you’re a champ holy crap man PFF Anyways hope you all enjoyed this and hopefully more in-depth designs like this to come since i absolutely LOVE character designing and this project was so much fun to work on!! Let me know what you all thought and if there’s any questions please feel free to send them my way :o]
(Also p.s. shoutout to the person who wrote a whole PARAGRAPH in the tags of the original post from yesterday who literally got EVERYTHING RIGHT ABOUT MY DESIGN AAAAAA if that was you and you’re reading this then you absolutely RULE !!! That made my day !!! <3 )
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