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I got a lot of pictures to just dump here, so without further ado (and excessive amounts of rambling from me, because lord knows I’ll probably do enough of that as I explain each picture), let’s get this art dump started!
First up is something easy to cover. It’s Kitsiyuna and Sabrina in I guess what is considered summer wear (I say guess because I don’t really know much about “seasonal” fashion, much less women’s, because I’m a guy who wears the same s**t pretty much year round). I drew this mostly because I just wanted to draw some cute girls (a running theme you will find with me) in a style of dress I don’t usually draw. I picked Kitsi and Sabrina, because I just like drawing Kitsi and because for how prominent she’s been in the comic lately, I like never draw Sabrina OUTSIDE of it, so I felt like using this as a chance to rectify that just a little bit.
Next up, we have Alex, Kaz, and Alexis from when they were back in 2nd grade, plus Alexis’s mom because she was their teacher back then. Mostly used this as a chance to practice drawing kids which I still kind of need to get a hang of, in addition to kind of serving as an easy design reference should I NEED to draw these 3 as kids again in the comic. And if you want to get technical, this is me actually settling on a kid design for Kaz considering this would be the first time I’ve drawn him as such. Plus, it was also a chance for me to draw one of the more minor characters in the comic in the form of Shelly (I’m writing that name down here specifically because I know there’s a chance I’ll forget what I had named her) here, which is something I feel I should do more of in the future.
Here we have part of what will be a 4 panel mini comic I have planned to do later featuring characters from Meldworld (use the tags if you don’t know what that is) featuring Dannie, Doc, and Stiletta (in an outfit that is far less cumbersome for me to draw mind you). In my efforts to better characterize the Meldworld cast should I ever get around to doing something actually substantial with them in the future, I ended up giving a certain “trait” to Dannie. From the very beginning, I always decided he was going to be a kind of pervert. Though, what I ended up giving him is that he is a pervert with very specific tastes, of which the stupid mini comic would go into. (SPOILER ALERT: He likes dem legs. I mean, as do I, but not to the level I would depict him as). Of all the sketches I’ll be posting today, I actually like how this one in particular turned out the best.
And here we have the main trio for that sci-fi story idea I have (considering I still haven’t come up with a better name for it yet, I’m gonna stick to calling it Omni Quest, which at this point, I’m just gonna throw into the tags as well). Their names, in case you didn’t know, are Ace, Astria, and Self-Insert, aka Sean. (Go to this post here if you want to know why I’m okay with having a self-insert in this comic idea.) I mostly wanted to draw these 3 because it’s been a while since I drew them last, and I just wanted a group shot of the three of them together. Plus, they sort of tie into the next two pictures I’m about to show you…
Here’s Queen Theraikka (or Space Milf as what I ended up jokingly calling her while I was sketching her out) from the same series idea. I meant to do a drawing of her SO MUCH EARLIER than I did considering how relatively important she is to the story as well, but I always had the hardest time of figuring out just how exactly I wanted her design to look. It wasn’t enough that I had to figure out how her physiology would look like, considering she’s supposed to be an alien. I also had to figure out what kind of outfit she would be wearing as an alien monarch. Two things I’m not super great at considering my forte is mostly humans (or things that are practically indistinguishable from humans like in Kitsiyuna’s case) in relatively normal outfits. So yeah, she was a bit of a challenge that took a while for me to actually step up and take. You could say, were it not for me feeling super motivated to do all of these other sketches relatively close to one another (most of these were all done in the same fairly productive week), I might not have been willing to even try drawing her. But I did, and I’m pretty happy with how she turned out. Sure, maybe her outfit could look a little bit more opulent considering she is ROYALTY, but from what I have decided of her character, she probably intentionally dresses far more modestly.
And you know what? Because for the past 4 Omni Quest related posts I’ve done, I included some form of world building along with whatever picture I posted, why not do some more here? Let’s cover Theraikka and the relationship she has with the rest of her people, the Thebeopodians.
The Thebeopodians for thousands of years had something of a rigid and dogmatic tradition. They worshiped an entity they believed to be their race’s creator (whose name I haven’t decided on quite yet, but for the time being I’m going to say they are essentially Cthulhu) who they revered as a kind of god. For countless generations, the Thebeopods pushed for many advancements in science and technology all in the pursuit of achieving what they perceived to be their race’s purpose: to reach apotheosis, and obtain a form identical to that of their creator. Using their prophets’ psychic visions (as some Thebeopodians possess some degree of psionic abilities) of what they believed their god to look like, they went to work altering their DNA through genetic modification in order to best achieve their creator’s form. Schisms existed among their population however, as not all were in agreement as to the true form of their creator due to the visions the prophets had were usually rather hazy and unclear. It didn’t take long for different conflicting belief systems to take root among the Thebeopodians that lead to much infighting.
Some thought pursuing more squid-like features among their population would help them better pursue their goal. Some thought octopus features were the way to go. Others wanted cuttlefish. And still others wanted to pursue even more alien forms. And that was just in regards to how they handled the genetic modification and careful selective breeding their race had been doing for centuries. There were also conflicts in regards to how devoted to their creator they should’ve been. Did they worship them enough? Too much? They believed their creator gifted them with their great intelligence. Was using that intelligence and focusing on just scientific advancements all their creator wanted? Many Thebeopodians didn’t possess any kind of psychic power. Did their god want them to spread that power to all Thebeopodians? Some even thought that their current forms were a precious gift from their creator, and that to try to alter it in an attempt to create a flimsy imitation of their creator’s form would be seen as the ultimate insult to them. With so many avenues for disagreement, it was no surprise that countless religious wars broke out among the Thebeopodians during their race’s very long history.
It was only when the Celestarians began occupying their planets in order to experiment on them did the Thebeopodians finally find a more civil way to get through their disagreements. They realized they needed to unify and restructure their entire civilization in order to repel their Celestarian occupiers. 18 distinct clans (though most likely I will come up with a different term to describe these 18 groups in the future) were eventually founded that, though each followed a different set of religious beliefs, were all unified in chasing the Celestarians off of their planets. Once they succeeded in liberating themselves from the Celestarians, they joined the other races of the Imperium Swarm to both prevent future Celestarian meddling, as well as to try to wipe all traces of Celestarian from the galaxy. The Thebeopodians ended up completely overhauling their entire race’s system of governance using the new 18 clans as its basis. Each clan was allowed to choose 6 senators to represent them in the new Grand Senate, and the more people in a clan, the more power that clan had when it came to voting in and proposing new laws and dogma that would affect the entire race.
Concurrent with the senators, each clan also had their own kings, queens, and lords who would be the responsible for governing their own clan’s territory. The laws they would enact would usually only apply to their own clan, but that didn’t stop some clan monarchs in the past from trying to override laws passed by the Grand Senate with their own. Usually at the ire of the other clans and at the cost of their own clan’s influence. While each clan handles their monarchs in a slightly different way from one another, they are pretty much always seen as having higher authority then their clan’s own senators outside of the Grand Senate and are responsible to their clan for how their senators do act in the Grand Senate. Depending on the clans, sometimes the general populace has no say in how their kings and queens are chosen, leading to some particularly unpopular monarchs. And if you didn’t like it, you either joined a different clan, or tried to take more drastic measures if you weren’t willing to put up with that. So political assassinations became all too common among the more corrupt clans. And when a clan DOES become more corrupt, its population tends to move to other clans. This allowed for power disparities to grow, allowing some clans to gain massive amounts of power over others by simply not appearing as openly corrupt. They would then use that power to prevent any kind of universal anti-corruption laws from getting passed so as to continue enabling such power imbalances to grow.
And here is where Theraikka comes in. She came from one of the smallest, most dogmatic, and corrupt clans. Originally a bastard child of their sole, selfish and corrupt king, she was not anticipated to gain any kind of power. Due to many factors, and a LOT of luck, she somehow ended up in her father’s position as monarch when he got himself exiled by his own clan. She was now their queen, but unfortunately, she was almost as hated as her father even though she tried her best to be an actual decent ruler. Her clan’s senators hated her because any monarch in the clan was a threat to their power. And a lot of the population hated her simply because of her appearance. They wanted their monarchs to appear more in line with their god’s appearance as was their clan’s dogma, and Theraikka was FAR off the mark in that regard. It was even rumored that she had Celestarian DNA in her, which very few Thebeopodians at that point could ever consider abiding, further cementing her clan’s hatred of her.
Then she had her chance meeting with Ace that I mentioned back when I posted my first picture of him, causing everything to change for her. She started pushing for the Thebeopodians to make peace with the Human Alliance, a sentiment that was surprisingly popular with the less dogmatic and extremist parts of the Thebeopodian populace, which was growing larger and larger with each generation. With Ace and Mithra’s help as bodyguards, she was able to survive a dangerous period of political upheaval among her entire race. Her ability to survive all of the attempts on her life seemed almost something of a miracle to her people brought about by their creator. Her policies turned out to be incredibly popular with most of the Thebeopodians. And once Ace started pushing her to make more public appearances in a show of defiance to her opposition, people started falling in love with her incredibly humble, caring, and down to earth personality. She had won the hearts of the majority of the Thebeopodian populace in all 18 clans (about 60% of all Thebeopodians supported her, though she had very little support in the 3 largest clans for various reasons). It was only the political class of senators and monarchs, as well as the fringe dogmatic extremists among the remaining 40% who still hated her.
It didn’t take long for the general population to push for a reform that would put her in a position of power above even the Grand Senate to enable the peace she was pushing for. The senators had no choice but to abide, as they named her Grand Monarch of the Thebeopodians. A position the Grand Senate will do everything in their power to insure stays as a mere figurehead meant to placate the ignorant masses. And if she tries to overstep what THEY believe her position should be? Let’s just say they would be willing to risk 60% of the Thebeopodian population absolutely despising them so long as they got to remain the true ones in power…
Okay, that little bit of world building there actually took me almost like 3 hours to come up with and type up. So, I’m just going to leave it there and just move onto the next picture…
Oh my f***ing god, one that’s actually finished. So you know how I mentioned last post that I had a drawing ready for almost an entire year, but never got around to posting because I’m a lazy dumbass? This is the one I was talking about. Anyways, this is another character from Omni Quest, named Millsauron Scale, though he just goes by Miles. A member of the Terraptor race, which are a kind of turtle, raptor hybrid. They were an incredibly primitive race of tribal warrior people that had barely made it to stone age technologically before they got taken over by the Imperium Swarm during their conquest of all old Celestarian territory. Their race owes a great debt to humanity for helping liberate them from the Swarm and advancing their stone age technology to space faring levels in a matter of years. That being said, they still value their warrior tradition greatly and would rather their people focus on fighting than doing any kind of studying, leaving the other races they allied with in the Human Alliance to pick up there slack technology wise.
Miles is a big outlier in that regard. He was born as the runt of his village, with his community seeing him as nothing more than a small and weak coward who would amount to nothing. They didn’t value the one gift that he did have though: that he was really f***ing smart. Given the Terraptor’s focus on physical prowess, they looked down on his intellect, causing him to grow frustrated and disillusioned with his own people, even his own family. So he left to join the Human Alliance military as an engineer to prove them wrong. Things didn’t quite go his way at first though, as he ended up having to fight on the front lines as a combat engineer, as being good at fighting was what the Alliance expected of their Terraptor recruits. He actually ended up in Ace’s squad back when he was an infantryman, being the youngest, smallest, and weakest member of his squad. Miles was determined to prove his worth however, as he did his best to keep up with Ace and his other squad mates. Sticking around with Ace turned out to be the best thing for him, as Ace’s success in ending the war greatly raised up Miles’s own station with in the military, landing him the position of chief engineer for an experimental new Alliance flagship called the Valkarian. A ship that Ace ends up essentially taking command of after he recruits Sean and Astria due to some unforeseen circumstances on Ace’s part, dragging Miles right back into Ace’s crew.
His time spent fighting in Ace’s squad caused him to develop a bit of a jaded and overly sarcastic personality, so he’s not always the friendliest of people to hang around, though that wasn’t always the case. He used to be quite the wide-eyed optimist, but the constant teasing he got from his squad mates and just the general nature of the war he ended up fighting in turned him into the cynical asshole he is now. Ace in particular loved to rib on him, and still does to an extent, causing the two of them to have almost a kind of rivalry form between the two of them. Essentially, Miles wasn’t exactly thrilled with the idea of having to serve under Ace again, but decided to stick around to see if the pressure from being the “hero of the galaxy” would get to him. He doesn’t want to see Ace fail per say, but he does want to see him at least struggle to deal with stuff like he used to.
One final thing before I move onto the next picture. Miles here is actually the first OC I ever came up with, all the way back when I was 4 years old. Obviously, I have adapted him A LOT since his original iteration, but the general idea behind him of being a smart anthropomorphic turtle has stayed the same these 22 years. You could say he holds a very special place in my heart and how I like to hold onto the ideas I come up with for a REALLY long time. (You wanna know something real weird? The reason Miles is a turtle is because when I was a kid, turtles were me favorite animal, and still kind of are to an extent, though me doing Night Fox has caused foxes to edge them out just a tad. And yet, despite that fact, I never saw a SINGLE episode of Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles when I was a kid, and still really haven’t as an adult. I always found that to be just the strangest thing considering what I know about myself and how I like to “borrow” ideas from media I consume… )
And here we’ve got someone from yet another new comic idea I’ve had floatin’ around in the old noggin. It’s about classic comic book styled super heroes and junk, and it would be named after the main hero here, Vic Vector. If I had to say what particularly spurred me on into coming up with my own “standard” superheroes despite for the longest time thinking they were kind of “meh”… it would have to be due to the popularity of the MCU and My Hero Academia that really turned me around on them and inspired me to come up with some of my own. Vic here has the ability to alter the direction of which gravity acts on him, enabling him to do stuff like walk on walls, slide across any kind of surface like they were on an incline, and straight up fly… by essentially falling UP into free fall. He can also do this to some extent to things he touches, meaning he can deliver a light punch to a bad guy and still send them flying a completely different direction for a few seconds. Personality wise, he’s kind of standard hero fare I guess, though he would definitely encounter villains who would really push his hero code to the test. For the time being, I don’t have too much I want to say about him right now… I mean, he does have a civilian persona, but I don’t know if I should just GIVE AWAY a hero’s secret identity just like that…
This would be another hero from the same comic idea. Her name is Miss Mirage, and she would be a part of Vic Vector’s little squad of heroes he ends up forming. Or rather, he is a part of HER squad, as she is actually something of a mentor to him, having been a hero a few years longer than he has (though not by very many). The comic would actually start off before Vic Vector even knew he had powers learning the ropes from her (and a few other heroes), before he ends up taking up the mantle of Vic Vector. Anyways, Miss Mirage’s power is to create multiple illusions of herself that she can partially control the “tangibility” of. Effectively, she makes clones of herself that can pass through people like they’re ghosts, or interact with them physically like they’re regular flesh and blood, depending on what she needs for any given situation. Because she can effectively clone herself, she’s really good at saving lots of people at once. Though, because she has to rely on mostly punches and kicks, she’s not very good at actually neutralizing large threats, which would cause issues for her dealing with certain villains. Just like Vic Vector, she too has a civilian persona, but do you HONESTLY think I’m just going to go and blab about who she REALLY is right here? That would just be bad form…
And for these final two pictures, I actually have them finished and colored… for some reason. I can’t imagine why, these last two are just completely boring characters that I honestly don’t know why I even came up with them. First up, we have Victor Abbott. He’s a senior in high school, he’s not a particularly brilliant or motivated student, and he kinda likes… comic books I guess? Bet when he graduates, he doesn’t end up amounting to much because he’s just so PLAN and AVERAGE and there’s NOTHING REALLY INTERESTING ABOUT HIM AT ALL. But I guess not everyone can be interesting… Sometimes you just gotta come up with some boring milquetoast characters every once in a while. Ehhhh… moving on to the last one…
This is Cassandra Divine, a brand new high school teacher who ends up getting Victor during his final semester as a part of her first ever semester teaching. Given that she is a kind of naive, new teacher, she takes something of a special interest in Vic. She tries to get him to become more motivated into figuring out just what he wants to do after graduation by offering to help tutor him so he can improve his sub-par grades in an attempt to open up new avenues for him in the future. How successful will she be with all that? Eh, who cares? She’s pretty dang boring too. I mean come on. Who would seriously want to read a comic where a young teacher tries to inspire their bored and jaded pupil into doing something more with their life. I mean, maybe if they were both like superheroes or something like that… but eh… I don’t really know what I was thinking when it came to her and Victor. They’re both just so… unassuming…
*COUGH COUGH HAVE YOU GOTTEN THE HINT YET COUGH*
Sorry. Don’t know why I had to… cough… right there. I guess the internet does that to you? *GASP* WHAT IF IT’S BECAUSE I HAVE THE CORONA VIRUS!? DAMN YOU INTERNET! STOP TRYING TO INFECT ME WITH YOUR DEADLY PATHOGENS!
…Anyways… I think that’s pretty much going to be it for me for this little art dump. As to when I’ll get the rest of these finished. Not sure. It is me after all. It could take a few weeks for me to finish them all. Though there is always that possibility that if I DO finish them, I wait till posting the finished ones well into next year for some f***ing dumbass reason. I guess I’ll just keep you posted in the actual comic posts. So until then, I’ll just see you all next post.
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