Jojo's Bizarre Ocs

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In response to my Valentine's blog, I'll tell you about Terence and I, and how were first started developing feeling for each other~

At first we never got along. He was completely anal about everything (giggity~). I know, I know, I'm a sloppy drunk and some times urinates in the sink... So what? His pompous ass always had something to say about everything I did like "Gypsy! Get up off the floor you stinking drunk! You slept there all night!" or that time I projectile vomited in front of everyone in the street, he'd retort with "Please remember to change your shirt this time!". I didn't even get vomit on myself!

Any little thing I did, he always had to give something back. So annoying, right? Either way...

One night, the Oingo Boingo's, Chaka and Anubis we're sent off on a mission without me. I had no one to do smexy fun time with! I mean, don't get me wrong, there's plenty of tail in the house, but I didn't want anyone there at the time. Men are like fine wines, all around the world you'll find a good brew, but they all have there own taste. I was craving something else entirely...

I talked to the boys in the house as we all turned up a pint together. If I'm remembering correctly it was Captain Tenille, Devo, Rubber Soul, and ZZ... I don't exactly know how we got on the topic, but they mentioned the feud between the D'Arby brothers. They told me how one day Daniel was trying to seduce his girlfriend and in return Terence kicked the bah-jesus outta him until he spat blood.

It was then I thought to myself... "Hmm... Maybe he isn't that bad of a guy...". I felt he had more depth to his soul and as soon as we were all done drunkenly chatting each other up and split ways, I wondered the mansion hallway deep in thought. The thought of his valiance protecting his woman's virtue was to hard to resist. Thank God, I rejected Daniels advances.

At some point I saw Nukeasu chilling outside someone's door. Walking closer I saw it was Terence's room. He was looking for a spare key to the cellar. It hit me who I wanted that night. I said to Nukeasu "Hey um... Vanilla Ice told me he had an extra key. You should go get it...". The little vampire started blankly at me, but had no reason to argue. After he left, I leaned myself on Terence's doorway eyeing him up and down. He turned around and asked me what I was doing there. I started to bite my nails, a little intimidated to ask. Terence raised a cocky brow "Well?...". I just spat it out.

"... Is there any possibility we could have sex?"

Terence stared at me, mouth agaped. His expression read "WTF?!!!".

He stood there slow blinking at me for several minutes. I continued to bite my nails, analyzing them for imperfections. Terence still couldn't answer. I looked down the hall to make sure no one else was around and then went back to biting my nails and giving them a good once over before returning my gaze back to the Tear Bear (as I lovingly dubbed him~) I shrugged at him, non verbally saying "...Well?"

Terence looked away from me for a moment before sighing, clicking his teeth with a knitted brow (as dat bitch always did!) he said "...shut the door....".

I clapped my hands together. "GAME ROOSTER!" I called him as we jumped into his bed together.

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We laid there in bed next to one another. I had my arms crossed behind my head in satisfaction, while Terence laid there under the covers with his hand over his face "... I can't believe I did that....".

I rolled over and ran a finger up his arm "Wow, I can't believe it's true... you're a bitch in the streets, but a Dom in the sheets~"

"Gypsy, get the fuck out of my room" Terence said grabbing a smoke from his top draw. I rolled my eyes and got out of his bed. While putting on my pants I gave him a wink "Fine, but I must say, you're one classy lady Mr. D'Arby~".

"OUT!!!" He screamed pointing to the door. I gathered the rest of my things and left. It was then Nukeasu was walking back to the room "Hey Gypsy, you said Vanilla Ice had an extra key? Well he didn't!".

I laughed "Haha! You just figured that shit out?!". I was continuing my way down the hallway when I caught a glance at what was happening behind me. Nukeasu peered into the room and saw Terence having a smoke naked under his sheet, pitching a tent, and completely disheveled. The little vampire whimpered "AAAWWWW!!! I'm I the only one not getting laid around here?!!". Terence winced at him "You sound so surprised..."

I couldn't help, but giggle to myself. It was quite humorous... But man, that was a wonderful night. Next time he'll have to let his hair down, literally. I have a kink for long hair and now I need to know exactly HOW long it is!... But that's a story for another day.

Finally after so long! Her profile might not be completely done yet, but I’m glad to finally show Courtney’s reference/new redesign! 

Her first outfit is when you first meet her in her own story which she later changes into the second and is seen wearing it turning the canon events of Part 3! Same goes with her expressions, however she quick changes from calm to ‘on edge’ as I’m going to call it around men. 

Just to not completely leave just her design and run here’s a quick snippet of her profile also! Thank you for being patient with me, this last year/couple months have been a little rough mentally for me but I’m doing so much better now and hope to be around more! :))

I think what makes a good character design, aside from the basics such as shapes and silhouettes, is having several core details that remain unchanged, while everything else can fluctuate.

If there's one part of a character's design that's immediately recognizable, then you're on a good way to making a good character design. A good way to know if you got there is to try to draw your character in the most minimal, simple style you can, and see if they are still recognizable. Look no further than Araki's quick character sketches to see what I mean.

For some examples with my OCs.. with Barbi, I think the specific messy spiky shape of her hair, the axes on her shirt and the white collar and sleeves of the crop top give her a pretty distinct look

King can wear a lot of different outfits but still remains recognizable because of his extremely distinct hairstyle. I also always have a specific aesthetic in mind when designing clothes for him, so every time I give him a new outfit it seems believable that it's something he would wear. (Pinning down your character's fashion sense is really helpful if you want to design more outfits for them and keep them unified across the board)

Luv has been drawn in many different ways, but because the core elements of his design (fire hair, heart mask & striped legs) always stick around, he stays recognizable in pretty much every style

Giving a character design some minor but distinct detail that goes beyond the predictable (shirt print or necklace would count as 'predictable') can quickly elevate it from 'normal' to a bit more 'out there', as you put it. Weird hairstyles, hair accessories, earrings, beads, brooches or badges in unusual places on clothes, patterns, stitches or rips, skin being shown in an interesting way, unusual materials (fur, see-through, fishnet..) in unusual places - just one or two of things like these can help a design to become really interesting!

You see a LOT of that sort of designing in jojo.

My favourite design in jojo is Giorno who's a perfect example of how what was initially a pretty boring suit was turned into a gorgeous design. A lot of what makes his design work so well is really just small and very simple details; the hair, the ladybugs, the heart chest opening. An aspect I personally also love very much is the checkerboard pattern on the back of his jacket, it adds a little extra flair for when the character is drawn from behind.

Jotaro is much the same, with the most iconic parts of his design being the hat-hair, the badges on his hat, the chain and the long flowing jacket. An interesting aspect of Jotaro is also how his silhouette remains the same across all of his appearances in other parts, keeping him immediately recognizable, because the core parts of his design always return.

I think that a few good interesting details make a much more interesting, memorable and striking design than a ton of super detailed parts.

This is my Vento Aureo based Jojo OC, Catalina!  More Information under the cut!