bbar_art - COMMS OPEN

If you saw the original sketch commissions post, no you didn't

Hi everyone! I am opening up commissions for both sketches and my finished style!

Please DM me if you wish to make a digital art commission. I am able to main do OCs and fictional characters from any of your favorite media, but I am willing to do other subjects. Please be prepared with reference photos of the subject and even any poses, clothing, and so on that you want included. I will also require 25% of the payment to be made before I can begin and send you any updates, which I will provide my payment details when we discuss the commission. Pricing, extra info, and more examples shown below...

Glad I saw this when I was in an OC rambling mood lol.

I just want to talk about my wonderful boy Vivian. I was literally just talking about him to someone (mainly about his terrible fate at the end of a comic that I keep saying I want to make but keep putting it off, but that’s for another time).

Anyways, Vivian is a character I made a couple years ago just to be the childhood best friend of a side character from a show that I was trying to make a backstory for. The backstory was going to be separated into 3 « books » about all the characters being samurai/soldiers, and Vivian only was going to featured in the first book as the friend who ends up sacrificing his life for the one he loved (although he would never get the same love back), only to not get mentioned again.

As I thought more about his character and his dynamic with the other characters, I realized I wanted more of him. Then there was a spark. He originally had a secret crush on the main character, but accepted the role of wingman only to block an arrow to save his crush. Why not develop that crush further? Why not let Vivian get together with his crush? Why not let Vivian live longer? Why not let Vivian become a main character?

Then came Vivian Anand, a 21-25 year man who had the dream of performing on stage, but mainly stuck around his friends and family to help them (either with taking care of the house for his family or going on slightly dangerous vigilante missions with his future fiancé). He went from a flat character who really had no discernible personality and was made to die to a (hopefully) dynamic character that is more than just an outgoing wingman (but was also still made to die *cough cough*). Now, I plan to explore his life more with his friends and family, see him fall in love, see him follow his dreams, and then see everything come crashing down around him.

But yeah, just the whole development of Vivian 1.0 to current Vivian is so interesting to me since it changed everything about the story I wanted to write. Really the development of most of my ocs is crazy to think about. For example, I have this oc named Luna who originally could’ve been classified as a Wattpad protagonist. Now, she starts off being a knock off Robin Hood, gets hunted down, and then instead of getting arrested or killed, she becomes part of a found family made up by two people who were hunting her down (one of them being Viv), a cop, and a man who used to be part of a cult but is now everyone’s uncle.

Anyways, if you want to know more about current Vivian (or any other oc), here’s an unfinished doc with some information.

OC Bios

Also here’s some drawings I’ve done. My oc art can be found on @nerdwaifuu-art . Hopefully I’ll post more art on there (I do have a drawing of Vivian in the works rn).

Thanks for the ask!

I guess the 5 things that make me happy are:

Drawing

Spending time with my friends

Listening to music

Working on anything related to my new OCs and a Ninjago related comic/story I want to make in the future

What does your character most value in a friendship (loyalty, honesty, adventure, etc.)? Why do they value this? Which of your character's friends have this value?

Hello! Thank for the ask. I have a couple ocs to run through, so this might get long-

This is my first time talking my new ninjago ocs on this account, but there’s like a post about them on my art account @nerdwaifuu-art . For context, they’re all characters in a backstory comic I want to make for Ronin. Anyways, onto the characters.

Vivian:

I guess trust. He’s very friendly with many people, but trust between him and the other person is what really bonds him with them. Plus he’s surrounded by kind of untrustworthy people who also have major trust issues, so he knows something’s working if he trusts them and they trust him. This can be seen within his friend group of Emon, Luna, Aries, and Ronin. He trusts Emon like a father figure and gets trust back. Luna is very trusting of people (a little too trusting). Aries is just very trustworthy, so there’s always been a mutual trust between the two. Then with Ronin (ah, someone is not very trustworthy in canon), Vivian is one of the few people he trusts, so Vivian is happy whenever he displays that trust.

Luna:

I guess she values freedom/independence in a friendship. When she was growing up, her family was very controlling of her future and wanted to mold her into the “perfect daughter.” Then her (ex)fiancé was super controlling of her to keep up a good image of himself. She gets this independence with Vivian, Ronin, and Emon. For once a supposed friend or loved one isn’t bossing her around, trying to make her match a certain image.

Emon:

I guess communication. He started valuing it after too many instances of there being a lack of communication that led to horrible results (I mean, there’s going to be trouble if your best friend didn’t mention that he started working for a totally new gang and then you never mention to your good guy fiancé that you’re the criminal he’s been hunting down, except you were unaware that he was the one hunting you down in the first place-). The only person he knows who has consistently good communication is Vivian (although he’s a little too open sometimes).

Jiro/Rin/Nobu/Evil Dad (I haven’t picked a name, but my friends and I just call him Evil Dad):

Extreme loyalty. Having it led to his prosperity; losing it led to his downfall. Emon was the first to show this trait to him, and Evil Dad used this to his advantage and was able to increase in power with Emon’s help. He continued to use it to his advantage until Emon betrayed him in order to protect the one he loved (who just happened to be Evil Dad’s brother).

Hisashi (technically he doesn’t even show up in the comic unless there’s flashbacks because my boy is dead, but I still wanna talk about him):

I guess support and good listening. Similar to Luna, his family was very controlling, but he didn’t have the issue of having no freedom or independence as he got that from being a samurai/soldier, also he wasn’t really the type to make friends, so he didn’t feel trapped in any relationships. Instead, he just never had a say in what he wanted. It wasn’t until he met Emon that he had someone who wasn’t trying to push him onto a certain path and was willing to listen to and support what he wanted to do.

I have more characters, but these are most of the characters who are major characters and who actually have their friendships explored.