02/16/2024

to commemorate (late) valentine's day, I decided to be cringe on main

anyway, to be clear, these are AU versions of junko and hecatia for a crossover RP setting called "taara". these variants originate from the setting itself.

I still have no idea how to draw hecatia.

these are also the precursors to my ocs yuanshu and trivia I'm still trying to work on fixing the taaran variants

here's a version with just junko cuz that's how it was originally gonna be. I also kinda dig how she looks here

Taara McLaren by Diego Lorenzo Jose for Grazia Malaysia Magazine March 2024

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This is Taara (Hindi for star):

We got her on a zoo trip a couple of years ago. She is a sweet girl who loves to stargaze. She is quite soft, even with her sparkly stripes. 10/10 cuddle buddy too.

sleeping cancel my aakh ka taara is here

something i would love to add regarding berserk tho, is that i’m absolutely in love with some of its imagery

(spoilers? you know the drill)

one of my favourite scenes both conceptually and visually was Casca’s dream (chapter 348):

i was stuck zooming in on this page for a while. i still can’t get enough of how its mood is cultivated! this beautiful point in which horror bleeds into despair and makes a point to stand there. in some ways this page hit me harder than the scenes of the eclipse

but as i was looking at it i remembered once more a book i had in my childhood. it was a retelling of our national epic, Kalevipoeg (Son of Kalev), illustrated by Jaan Tammsaar:

these illustrations used to scare me, but in a very sad way. a feeling i can now identify as that very despair. curiously, i feel like it’s in the proportions even more than the colours. something about that unreachable height, unbearable weight... constant sense of futility.

the punchline here is that it was a children's book. it was a retelling of Kalevipoeg for children. with pictures.

i’ve no idea what possessed them to believe this despair and hopelessness was ‘it’, but... well, i kept coming back. anyone’s guess whether this impacted me somehow, or if this longing for suffering is intrinsic. my favourite game is bloodborne, etc etc etc

posting a bunch of sketches of some minor OCs ive drawn up in the past year

ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE. For purposes of this ask referrin to Lancer Hassan!!!!!!

🍍: Where does your OC feel most comfortable?

i wanna say in his mech!! which makes sense cuz he lives in there, has been living in there ever since he's taken a break from cargodriving in order to get his mech license. realistically he has enough to buy an apartment somewhere, but he just don't really feel comfortable anywhere else besides the little housing arrangement he's ended up building inside his mech. it's basically a one-bed one-desk one-catbed set up not too far from his cockpit. its a little clustered, what with the bedframe that somehow got squeezed in there, and the heaps of cat toys strewn about, some of them all over his fuckin cockpit cuz his cat likes to rub her back into all the dials and buttons when hes not looking, but generally it's where he feels most himself. no prying eyes or nothin, he can just chill in there and read magazines or summat. nothing special.

🎂: Has your OC have any contradictory interests or traits to the first perception people have of them? How do they surprise people?

i guess hassan can be perceived as a very nervous guy. which he is, very much. not very talkative, and at times can seem a little rude since he tries to act real cool and aloof and not to let it be known that hassan hasn't talked to another human person like this in.......... 5 years now????????? but yea just kind of comes off awkward. he really don't mean to be, though. so comes to your surprise when the guy has a whole cowboy-themed mech and in the off chance you were ever to enter it - chances of that are close to IMPOSSIBLE - he's actually really sweet and easy to talk to. just needs to be the right topic with the right people, and he'll be fucking ecstatic. very hard to shut the fuck up..

🍓: Does your OC have any particular scents they like? Or hate?

ironically, hassan likes the smell of strawberry..... its so ougghh... that and honey. particularly when it's prepared in baklavas...... as for hatin, probably cigarette smoke. which makes sense because he's trying to quit smoking but isn't having a particularly good time. so the smell just makes him feel bad.

DEAR GOD, ANOTHER ONE

anyway, taaran reimu concept for my friend this time.  she’s not legitimately an oni, still human. buuut she was basically surrounded by them and the lycoli (lesser oni) in this setting. she’s still a shrine maiden I guess, just more brash than the actual reimu. we wound up making her an oni cuz of this image here https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/95471522

also the random ass cleaver below is cuz she fuckin stole it lmao

maskless version and the isolated drawings below

Taara McLaren by Diego Lorenzo Jose for Grazia Malaysia Magazine March 2024

Sometimes the eyes 👀 can speak more than the words...✨💫🪄

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I am suffering very heavily under two contradictory desires:

I wanna grow my hair out again because I never did get it very long after finding out that it's curly and makes those lovely ringlets when properly cared for and GOD in high school it used to be down to my lower back and if I'd known how to treat it I would've been That Bitch

If I am under stress I want to hack all my hair off or get a tattoo if I can do neither I will start foaming at the mouth