Miscellaneous DR OC doodles of me basically trying to really make some sort of reference. Or get a feel for designs.
Some of them are familiar. …Two of them are familiar. The others are ones I haven’t shown before. One of these doodles is in the process of being coloured in although I also have two others on the back burner. Still, it’ll be fun to colour in once I finish the line art.
I’ve still wanted to work on redesigning OCs so here is an idea I had with Samson. I quite enjoy the idea that his DJ logo looks intimidating but he’s actually a nice guy.
I did give him more accessories but when I actually colour in a more proper reference (to include a full body view essentially), I’m going to remove the arm wrap thing on the right (too excessive) and the tattoo you can see peeking out (having a tattoo of the logo seems excessive but hey what do I know. If I don’t remove it, I’m likely just going to change it ‘cause a character with tattoos ain’t the worst idea)
Also he does have both hands. I just… didn’t feel like drawing the other hand. …hey at least these aren’t picture where I just drew the head and never finished the body. I can take solace in that. Trust me though, if it were intentional I’d be sure it’s known.
OC October (2016 Edition) Day 22 – Samson Zimmerman
Sorry for not posting yesterday. It’s easy to post on Instagram but for tumblr doodles, I have to save it into my Drafts so I’m able to format it. And yesterday, I felt very VERY tired and cold. Fortunately I’m not sick because after four hours of sleep, I felt just fine.
Anyways, I’ve been doing more minor changes with Samson’s design. I decided to make the shirt resemble more of a t-shirt as most musician shirts are t-shirts. I gave him a few more accessories and as you can see, I’m currently working on changing up the logo on his shirt. I’m still using the bear but I want to add more to it. It might take me a while though…
Now, since I have now disassociated certain OCs from a fandom, I am now calling them my NLDR OCs which a friend of mine helped me think of. With this, I can use a lot more ideas that felt I was restricted keeping me in the main universe. Though many of the ideas I have from that are staying because I still like them. … Basically all of them but they won’t be associated in that universe.
One of these ideas is with Samson since I thought it would be cool if he had coloured contacts. I imagine he has glasses starting from middle school but ended up getting hazel coloured contacts later because people have constantly told him that his natural eye colour looks “unnatural” due to how intense they look. He decided on them since some people felt intimidated by him with how tall he is. He doesn’t need something else to turn people away from him. He liked the hazel colour better since it looked softer. Though he can’t always wear his contacts and sometimes it’s more convenient to wear his glasses (in his point of view) so he takes them off when he’s at home usually.
The shade is called “electric blue” which fits him since he’s a DJ and uses electronics a lot to produce music.
So I managed to finish this! At long last! Even though some of them still look a little bit awkward for me, I am surprised by how good they all look overall! It was fun making these even though some of them were pretty annoying to work on (especially the mounted units. I’m looking at you Wyvern Riders).
In case you didn’t see the preview I posted a couple of weeks ago, I wanted to do pixel/sprite edits of Awakening classes with my DR OCs with whatever Awakening classes I thought they would be. I wanted to make a full sheet since posting them individually would be too small but I will include single transparent versions underneath the cut.
This was fun to do and a part of me is tempted to try and make a full sprite sheet for someone even though I don’t know how to make gifs. I don’t know who (probably Lavinia because hers was the easiest). We’ll see though I have exams coming up soon so I’m glad to get this done now.
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