Astor’s Art(block)

Rufio from Hook my beloved

(Yes I know there’s absolutely no demand for this character but I just watched Hook for the first time in over a decade and a half and I’m enamored with his design)

(ID: two photos. In the first, a four panel meme, drawn in a semi-cartoon style.

Panel one: Atlas. Appearing as a young man with brown skin, blue eyes, and long, straight, dark brown hair walks towards the door to the outside, wearing a hoodie and jeans, with a brown messenger bag over his shoulder. He says “Bye, Mona, I’m leaving for the party!”

Panel two: a middle-aged Hispanic woman with caramel-colored skin and a mole on her cheek, Mona, as well as long, dark brown hair tied into a braid, and tossed over her shoulder. She’s wearing a light blue robe with white silk pajamas on underneath, and has crossed her arms over her chest, her well manicured nails tapping against her forearm. She narrows her eyes, sternly stating “not dressed like that you aren’t young lady!”

Panel three: Atlas has shape shifted into a girl with caramel skin, toned muscles, warm brown hair in small braids put up into pigtails high on her head, hot pink streaks, and a 2000s scene fringe for bangs. She’s wearing a hot pink bikini top with golden stars on it, and a black fishnet top, with a hot pink tutu. She also has big golden heart hoop earrings, and heart shaped sunglasses. She’s posing to show herself off, and says “better?”

Panel four: Mona now looks straight forward to the camera, smiling and exclaiming “yas bitch slay!”

[ID: A digital painting of Mona Ellín-Enrique, a middle-aged woman with light brown skin, sandy brown hair with blonde highlights braided over her shoulder, and gentle brown eyes. She lounges in a dark blue arm chair with a white mug smiling softly at somebody to the viewer’s right, wearing a cornflower blue bathrobe over a lighter blue set of pajamas with matching, baby blue slippers. End ID]

[ID: three images, each of the same page in a sketch book. On this page are two pencil sketches. The first one is in the top left of the page and is of the original poster’s original character, Buffy. She has black, curly hair buzz cut on the sides but kept long on the top of the head, and flipped over to the right side of her face, turning lighter towards the ends, cut shoulder length. We can see her face as she looks inquisitively left off-screen, making it to where we can see that her ears are pointed and pierced with stud earrings. She has a primarily black catsuit on, with a zipper in the front staring around the middle of her breasts and zipped up to the top of the high-neck. The suit has patches of white, with a white V shape reaching from the top of the neck to the base of the zipper, a big white patch around the belly and reaching down near the knees on the inside of the legs, and white sections covering the hands and reaching up almost to her elbows. She has a black leather belt, looping twice around her hips, with the lower loop having a holster attached to it, meant to hold a horseshoe. Buffy’s hands are twisted to the right, with the Miraculous sunglasses in her right hand and her horseshoe in the left. The sketch has the words “Fresia (FRĒ-ja) - Holder of the horse miraculous” to the right of the sketch.

The second sketch takes up the bottom right-hand corner of the page. It’s of Buffy again, this time facing the camera head on with her black, curly hair very long and full around her head, and down, falling behind her and dyed a lighter color at the ends. She wears a vertically striped, strapless v-neck dress with a peacock brooch in the center of her chest, above her breasts, and a slightly darker v-shaped belt around her waist. The dress splits down the middle just below her belt, and opens up, flowing at her sides, to reveal a pair of dark trousers and black, knee-high boots. She wears a pair of dark, elbow-length opera gloves, and spreads a peacock feather-themed fighting fan in each hand. Long, semi-transparent, chiffon sashes wrap twice loosely around each arm, with about two and a half feet of free-hanging fabric starting around Buffy’s wrists, twisting and flowing around Buffy as she holds both fans to the left of the viewer, looking in the same direction. The mask around her eyes is dark and mimics the shape of a beak over her nose, a short peacock feather extends from the top of the mask between her eyes. The sketch is labeled “Solace— Holder of the Peacock miraculous.” Both drawings are signed “Princeton D. Astor - 4/2/24.” End ID]

-also yeah I’m having Steven Universe brain rot rn what of it-

[ID: a pencil on paper sketch of two young women. One is tall and white with freckles and long, brown hair, and the other has blonde, curly hair, but you can’t see her face because her head is turned to the brunette. The brunette smiles down from a tree, her hair and dress flowing in the breeze, and the blonde looks up at the brunette from a swing hanging from a tree branch above]

I promise he’s not raising his bat at you,,, we both know he totally would if he knew you existed lol

Hope you like it!!! Congrats on hitting eighteen, my dear friend 💚💚💚💚

“She has a head of long, thick, flowing hair the color of a thrush’s gentle wings, and watches the world in wonder with eyes the color of a fir tree in the shadow of a midday thunderstorm.”

Hello, y’all!

I’ve had this one character for about four years now, and just like me, she’s dressed like Adam Sandler since her creation. Unfortunately, out of my cast of characters, this one is far from the only poor sweet creation of mine subjected to my tragic lack of style. So, I figured it was about time I at least attempt to fix that.

I figured I should start off this series(??) of Character Closet Makeovers with some rather casual outfits for my dear child Buffy Whinsnap.

Most of these outfits are meant to be relatively comfortable, warm (with the option to be less so), and easy enough to maneuver in while still looking cute and being something Buffy would enjoy. She takes a liking to many different clothing styles, but seems to like outfits from alternative-inspired styles, like goth, scene, and cottage/forestcore. Here we mostly see outfits inspired by gothic and scene-esq ideas, but Buffy likes to keep her number of clothing pieces relatively low, and also loves being able to show off the band tees and trinkets she’s collected. I hope to add more forest/cottagecore outfits in the more formal addition to her closet makeover.

I like adding little tags describing or giving insight on some objects/clothing pieces! Apologies if my handwriting is illegible :’)

I know this outfit isn’t technically true or traditional goth, but it’s as best as Buffy can really do right now with her income and allergy to plastics. Most of her clothes are cotton or some other natural fiber. The only time she can really afford to wear any sort of plastic is if it’s not going to touch her skin. Because of her having allergic reactions to coming into contact with plastic, she often wears long sleeves and sometimes even gloves in crowded public areas to avoid being hurt. Also yeah I was thinking of Winona Ryder in Beetlejuice whilst drawing this what of it sue me I can’t help the fact that she’s pretty and iconic and that I’m definitely attracted to women admit it you think she’s pretty too

Buffy loves her Our Chemistry’s Affair “Yayx3 Revenge” shirt almost as much as she loves not having to look people in the eye by just ✨having her hair cover her eyes✨ My girl’s like five feet tall, the only ones capable of looking her in the eye are toddlers, hyper elementary schoolers, and anxious insecure middle schoolers who are too busy or anxious to look her in the eyes anyway. The perks of Not Talking and having fluffy hair ig.

Her cardigan is cozy, but also slips off easily. This may sound annoying, but she actually appreciates it. If someone’s chasing her and grabs the tail of her cardigan, or it gets caught on something, she can just keep running and it won’t hold her back. Then she can go back later because who would let a good cardigan go to waste like that

This is one of her more generic outfits, yes, but there are several perks to it!

The long sleeves help keep her warm, which is good already (temperature regulation who?), but the sleeves are really long and can be unfolded to be used as grips or mitts to handle hot or rough things. Her corset may not seem super conventional, but it’s actually helpful in many ways. It can be used to hide thinner things (paper money, cards, small pouches of medicines, etc), and is made of quality leather and reinforced with interlocking wooden plates which can help protect against blunt force and stabbing attacks.

This outfit was really fun to design! I wanted to give her a brighter, more energetic, scene-inspired outfit. I would’ve given her the early 2000s knee-high Converse, or platform Converse, but let’s be honest: she’s not going to spend that long lacing up shoes, and there’s no way she’d be able to run and fight in five-inch platforms atm.

Buffy never goes anywhere without a long-sleeved shirt or jacket, and I’m well aware of this. Problem is, I REALLY wanted to give her those elbow-length, striped fingerless gloves. So I decided to commit a “fashion atrocity” (or so I’ve been told) and give her a sleeve-optional hoodie. To be honest, I think it looks okay. Something popular in the scene fashion is LAYERS. So many layers. Everywhere. So I figured a third and obvious layer could work with this outfit. What do you think? Buffy thinks it’s a good idea despite the potential judgement, because detachable sleeves have many uses. Hot? Take the sleeves off. Cold? Put the sleeves back on. In need of an emergency rope? Take a sleeve off and use it for that. Also in need of a makeshift tourniquet? Sleeve. Maybe we should all just start wearing detachable sleeves in case someone grabs/stabs at us?

I feel like Buffy would’ve loved wearing khandi jewelry, with all of their fun colors and patterns, and ability to easily cover scarring and stains, but khandi in the scene fashion is almost always made of plastic, and Buffy’s not going to subject herself to allergic reactions just for fashion and some nice clinking noises. So, she got some khandi bracelets made out of wooden beads! And the good news is that they can be used to start a fire in an emergency, so she feels carrying these random bracelets around is justified. I would’ve given her some coon tail hair extensions too, but I didn’t really know how to work those into her hair, since she tries to avoid using heat on her hair and therefore wouldn’t be straightening it, so the coon tails might look out of place.

Buffy usually tries to avoid wearing lighter colors due to stain risks (pasta sauce, dirt from falling off her horse, stab wounds, ink tears, etc.), but one of her few exceptions (“you are the only exception”) is her gray Nuclear Boii t-shirt (yes I will be drawing off-brand band tees until the day my soul passes on), and the light blue flannel she likes pairing with it. The good news is that this flannel is vintage and made of quality materials, which means that (despite the slashes and holes Buffy’s had to sew and patch up) it’s more durable and easier to use in situations that call for bindings and blankets. Her only real problem with this flannel though, is that it’s hard to add hidden pockets to it because you’d see the bulging. Good news is that bobby pins exist for the sake of her beanie. She can’t hide too much inside of the beanie itself, but her hair is thick and abundant, and could easily hypothetically stash money, meds, needles, thread, and/or a knife or two. Who knows what’s in there? Just don’t touch the hat. Or the hair. Or her, in general. She’s low-key germaphobic. There’s a reason she almost never leaves her house without a mask on.

Anyway, thank you for glancing in the direction of this post! And if you’ve gotten this far, then.. what are you doing? Go get some rest. You’ve come a long way through the seas of my endless rambling.

TL;DR: I like designing outfits every now and then, and apparently I like to rant?