Here’s an OC I’ve been working on for a while. Her name is Anise. She&rsqu
Here’s an OC I’ve been working on for a while. Her name is Anise. She’s a baku (also known as a “Dream Eater” because it’s easier to google) an auspicious monster from Japanese mythology that eats nightmares. Baku typically look like tapir-like creatures but Anise prefers her human friends not know that. Instead tells them she’s a magical girl from the Dream Kingdom. She doesn’t keep her monster status a secret because she has to, she does it because she’s embarrassed that her birth form looks so weird. Anise is always looking to use her magic to help people and cheer them up and gets very unsettled when she can’t. She also likes to think of herself as cool and mysterious but sometimes her attempts at coolness backfire horribly. For example, when she finds someone who needs her help she might try to impress them by using her telepathic/dream walking powers to tell them something she shouldn’t know expecting them to be like “Wuh-wuh-whaaat?? How did you know that??” thus giving her a chance to go into her “I’m a magical girl from the Dream Kingdom and I’m here to help you!” spiel. But instead of being impressed the person assumes she’s been spying or cyberstalking them and yells at her to back off. This OC was a challenge to design because she needed three versions- an elaborate magical girl style outfit, a tapir-like birth form, and street clothes- and they all needed to have subtle hints to show that these are all the same character. There were multiple times in the process that I’d be working on one form then have an idea for one of these hints and have to go back to her other form and redraw her to include that detail. Her dress alone took a long long time to put together. I went through tons of combinations before I could settle on something. The easiest thing was designing her street clothes because I knew exactly what I wanted… but even then I went through 12 different versions of her socks, 7 different versions of her shoes and 2 versions of her shorts. There’s still a lot I need to do for her. I need to design the giant spoon she uses as her magic weapon and her hamburger handbag. But for now I’m just posting her “final” design here and all her concept sketches on my personal website. Of course I say “final” in quotes because she’s probably going to keep changing as I keep drawing her. I’ve drawn a few thumbnails of her with her spoon and I think she’s already lost the frills on her skirt. Plus she has a brother that she needs to have a family resemblance to so I might need to come back and tweak her design as I solidify his design. Her brother’s name is Cardamon and I’ve had him for way way longer but he’s only recently truly started to take shape. He’s possibly going to need five forms. …HOOboy! For a better idea of just how much work I put into designing her magical girl outfit you can see all my concept art on my personal website Cattype.net! I also posted some of her concept art on my Patreon along with a draft of this post. You can see it and more for as little as a dollar! -- source link
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