thinking about weevil photonic crystal structures...
Weevils (such as Pachyrhynchus genera) have evolved epidermal cells that can produce colour through opal-like arrangements of packed spheres, forming a three-dimensional photonic crystalline structure.
I'm bored so I drew the beta designs of the weevils
Basically, I found the sketches I drew back at January 2023, the earliest idea of these guys.
they had no color on them so I just imagine what it would've been.
I found what type of weevils they could've been except for the very obvious ones. I honestly forgot about these designs until a few months back after I made the final designs for the characters.
Even forgot the names so basically I just started off a new leaf since these designs weren't going anywhere.
What I can remember with the early idea for the weevils was still a adventure story but it would've been more lore-focused. Like very story-focused. it would've like they were the only creatures around a human world rather than the bugworld in the final story.
It would've been like the-creature-of-the-week rather than the treasure, and heavy lore tying the whole story together. I forgot but like it didn't worked out like as intended. I only wrote 2 manuscripts before deciding to give up and go back to the idea 8 months later.
If this continued, yeah it would've been a massive lore dump and there would've a massive conflict somewhere in the lines.
Overall, I just lost interest with this version of the story
As for the characters, Rita (Vee's First Design) is the leader. There's her partner Kinsley, The bag guy. Literally just the guy who carries the stuff, I don't believe I actually considered his character. Madelyn (Liz's First Design) would've ended up being a antagonist and backstab them at some point. The Hudsons were step-siblings, I thought it would be fun to write siblings in the mix but I realized that I already am writing like a sibling type relationship with the characters.
Yeeeeah, I think it was best that I scrapped this idea. It wasn't structurally sound and when writing the two manuscripts. It didn't felt like this was it, yknow.
As of writing this, The first story for the weevils is finished however I'll release it at June since I have been given a shit-ton of schoolwork.
At least during the time of that, I've been writing the second story.
I wish I could publish it sooner but like there isn't alot of freetime for me to properly publish it.
I'll post mini-comics to my instagram, making them to build more character into these goobers
Like always, I'm just talking to myself. Nobody cares about this
Have great day, Adios