design credits:
dust by @safwunsies
nightmare by @justanidiotartist
horror by @westaysilly
killer by @zucchiyeni
timelapse & ramblings under the cut
i tried to put this in the tags but it was way too long
so here are my.... ramblings? design notes? process? watever it is it's here now
killer is the one i changed the least, even the pose is pretty much the same
i kept the asymetrical design from the dtiys (w/ one sleeve rolled up & only one shoulder w/ spikes)
for the shoes i kinda went watever & put the spikes in the middle (i bet you it caused some of the holes in his jeans)
i like to think he chose blue soles bc he did a collab w/ nightmare so that he's not the only one w/ cool colors
his main color is still red, but i made the leather, t-shirt, metal & jeans blue-ish as a complementary color
for nightmare, i don't even know if his design is canon, but when i saw that the murder time trio did collabs w/ him i knew i had to draw it
i didn't touch the base design itself but i switched the colors around a lot bc i really didn't know how to make it work w/ the rest of the characters
i kept the base palette (blue/cyan, purple & pink) but had purple as a main & cyan as an accent color (pink itself is only there in the glitter)
also yeah i put the glitter on his coat instead of his tentacles cuz i wanted to show his bones & tentacles are made/covered in the same goopy stuff, and the glitter kinda went in the way of that
i like that his colors are really different from the other & you can tell he goes solo while they're in a band, but i think it's not too distracting
horror is my favorite, like he's just enjoying himself in the back
its kinda sad i had to hide him behing both his drums & killer, i might post a version w/out it to show it off
the drums were a pain in the ass ngl, i've never played them so i had to look at a lot of references
in the end i just drew a basic drum set w/ the colors on the ref (red & gold), i added silver for the metal bits bc it's everywhere in the other's designs
his design itself is unchanged, i just thought having him in red only felt boring so i added orange to his fur & shirt
i realized too late i couldn't show dust's head w/ the pose i drew T-T
also drew his entire outfit then had to hide half of it because of his guitare
this is why planning is important people
his guitare rocks tho (pun intended)
i tried to make him red & purple to match his eyes, but currently it's more of an orange salmon color w/ a dark grey pink
eeeh the intent is there i guess
i made his gloves fingerless cuz you can't tell me this dude plays guitare w/ full on gloves
like i know they're skeletons but that's physically impossible
i also added a strap to his guitare cuz unless he's using blue magic, he probably can't keep it up w/ only his right hand
I’m actually saving up and planning on getting a computer, at which point I would be able to get this game, but it looks like it might be a while til then, so here’s another Pen thing in the meantime.
(ID in alt and under cut)
[ID:
A digital drawing of Pen from My Time at Sandrock. It shows him from the front, visible from the chest and up. He’s leaning to the side slightly, grinning at something off screen, he’s shaded in orange and highlighted in light blue, with a light blue grainy rim light around him. Behind him are a few dark brown smudges against a greyish green background. The image is framed in smudgy shadows. In the lower left corner is a signature reading “Cookieek”.
the fact that i become extremely low-energy in the afternoons and can barely keep my focus up on work surely doesn't have to do with the fact that I've been getting like 5 hours of sleep every night. nope no way, couldn't be that
I like doing comparisons for myself sometimes of my first drawing vs a more recent one (vs their in-game appearance) so. might as well put one here :] Plus bdays for all the kids, based on the earliest save files i could find <3
want to get nerdy really fast about all the cool little concepts and ideas that went into hallowed bodies because I fell into the trap of Hating It Until It Was Over & nowwww I remember that I specifically chose to write 90% of it in vignettes to capture a feeling of stunted listlessness in the narrative, that I literallyyyyy kept a character unnamed as a way to thematically emphasize the omnipresent anonymity of men in Lonan’s life (his father, god, Harrison), that I leapt off the ending of BODY BACK that ends in a church (HB starts in a church), that both first chapters in BB and HB have the protagonist yearning for someone to lead VS someone to follow, that similarly, both books delve into the same premise but with vastly different circumstances, that the ending was designed to also be a foil of the end of BB (Harrison walks INTO a church, Lonan walks OUT) & yeahhhh it’s pretty cool lol
are u fucking kidding me WHY do they put it on the driver side window these stickers are always so impossible to get off and not at all safe to drive with to go to the dmv to get my stupid registration renewed
normal people will ask me why I go so hard for AGT and then I have to explain that sometimes, if you are very lucky, you can turn on that show and see a hot magician
i don't feel like copying what i wrote, so take some screenshots of me having brainworms for the JDK villains again. primarily spurred by me going "hey wouldn't Nisha and Artemis and Apollo make cool rockstars instead"