Dragons of The Sky

Mikkel lives in a very busy little town with lots of street markets. since his synesthesia involves smells and sounds as colors, he is often overwhelmed by all the strong smells of perfume and spices, as their intense, vibrant color sometimes overloads his senses so much he feels as though he is literally walking through clouds of bright color, and it can cause him to not be able to see where he’s going. 

Mikkel has synesthesia. smells and sounds become associated with colors in his mind, so I tried to illustrate that concept here. the smells were easy enough, i just made clouds of color. But I had a harder time with the sounds; I wasn’t sure how to illustrate colored sounds without just doing colored music lines, and i kinda got lazy :/ i’m sure with a bit more practice i’ll figure this out :) 

I don’t have any form of synesthesia, but I’m very interested in it. I’ve been doing some research so I can write this character accurately. maybe I should do a webcomic :O

Suri and Mikkel are cousins. 

raised almost entirely together in what is essentially India, they were always pretty close, but when they did have arguments it got pretty intense. 

Suri’s mother is a native Indian woman, but her father is Russian. Mikkel’s parents are both Indian. However, he has bright green eyes. And synesthesia. For him, smells and sounds become strongly associated with colors. 

due to some social superstition, everyone believes he has the green eyes and synesthesia because he was born during the festival of color, but it’s just a happy coincidence.

Suri spent several months studying dance in Russia, and then moved to America and married an ex soldier named Kel. Mikkel has never left his homeland. 

still trying to figure out how to draw wheelchairs properly. i did get a lot of good looks at some wheelchairs in Utah this weekend; we visited my great grandpa and the veteran’s home he lives in had so many wheelchairs of all different sorts.

and here it is! at the moment, these are all my queer ocs. i put everyone in the colors of their respective pride flags. as you can see there is a few with both a sexuality flag and a gender flag. i tried to make their individual personalities stand out, because they’re all very unique people. i may make a few other posts that go a bit more in-depth with each character, but for now this is it.

this took me all week to make, and i’m very happy with it.

Look look, I finally managed to draw a guy that wasn’t all thin and athletic! Geez why are dudes so hard to draw in different body types?

an experiment in style. sort of.

these are the various art styles you might find in any of my sketchbooks. semi-realism for character portraits, a more stylized look for emotion practice and character development, a couple simpler styles for sketched comics/story visualizing. and a stylized stick figure because hey, it’s just really fun to draw stick figures ok?

this is one of my original four ocs. his name is Steroj, and he started out as a really bad “evil twin” trope antagonist in my first stories. he came some time after his twin brother, who was originally based on my middle school crush and only served as a really poorly written love interest. 

Mikkel and Suri are cousins, but they were raised together in the same household. Suri is a little older. Her mother is a native of the area, but her father comes from much farther north. He too was a vampire with purple eyes and red hair. Mikkel is just an elf, but he has synesthesia. His eyes are bright green due to an uncommon genetic mutation. 

Who’s Alex?