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My spatial unawareness was acting up when I drew this, so his proportions are a bit all over the place in a couple of these pictures. But I’m not redrawing it (because violins are hard.)

Anyway, Absolom is my third main character in Rent World: he’s the illegitimate son of the current king, and has a lot of conflict between himself and the other sons of the king. The throne is hereditary, but is passed on only to members of the king’s bloodline who inherited the royal gift of power that is capable of protecting the city from the toxic world outside. Absolom is the only son of the king that inherited this power, making him the rightful heir—a fact that the other princes resent. They do everything in their power to keep the king and the people from ever finding out the truth, as well as everything they can to ensure that Absolom “knows his place.”

Regardless of what his brothers want, Absolom knows he is the rightful heir to the throne, and will do whatever he has to to ensure he inherits it after his father passes on. He is intelligent, manipulative, calculating and cruel, but those who are loyal to him would follow him into hell itself.

Oh yeah, and he’s a really good violinist.

Look, I know it’s a month early and all that, but I’m impatient. Also it’s going to take a while to create referenceable art for all my OC’s that I want on Artfight this year. These two were high priority since I recently made a comic for them on Tumblr, and I’m working on another character interaction picture for them that I want to post here too. What can I say? These guys are my babies.

I’m working on my scene composition, so I decided to make this picture to help me practice. Plus I’ve wanted to draw White’s schizophrenia demons for a while now, and I thought it might make for a fun composition.

This one still looks a little Wierd to me… like I couldn’t quite get his face right. (He’s got a Wierd looking face, at least in terms of what I usually draw.) I’m telling you, though, I’m really proud of his prosthetic leg—it turned out great in all the pictures!

Anyway, this is Ripper, my one legged problem. He’s also from my mature story Rent World—the one that explores sexual trauma and abuse—and fills a pretty important role in the story. He’s supposed to sort of be a contrast for the way Rent handles her trauma. Where Rent tries to fight her problems and attacks them with a head on approach, Ripper tries to work his way around them. He responds to Trauma by making himself a smaller target, in direct contrast with Rent’s trauma induced aggression.

Ripper sits at the bottom of any hierarchy he’s a part of by choice, and gets shoved around and demeaned by others but mostly overlooked. He’s incredibly intelligent though, (he made his own prosthetic leg out of trash after self amputating his own shattered leg,) and is able to work his way in and out of any problem he likes.

He had a had time getting up if he falls over though.

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Yay!!! I finally have portraits for all my main characters from my epic fantasy story I’m working on! Don’t they all look so cool? (Individual images and descriptions under the cut)

This was a really fun picture to work on, but it took a really long time to make. I’m really happy with how it looks, though—I feel like I’ve really captured the essence of my character here.

Just a couple of friends talking about who they’re into—I think this is a pretty universal experience In Highschool, no matter what your sexuality is. I remember growing up people would always ask me who I had a crush on and I’d just sort of spin my wheels trying to come up with someone. Did Zoro from One Piece count? Anyways, I have a lot of LGBT friends, and I wrote this as a way to try and imagine what those kind of conversations might look like for someone who’s Gay or Asexual.

By the way, these are two of my OC’s from a story I’m working on. Hopefully I’ll turn it into a published novel one day, but for now it’s still sort of stuck in the concept stage, and I haven’t stated writing the book yet. I’m still feeling things out, so hopefully doing stuff like this helps me flesh out what I want.

The girl’s name is Clover, and the boy is Ivan—Ivan’s the MC of this particular story. (You know, whenever I actually get around to writing it.)

Oh, and here’s a transcript of the dialogue in case it’s confusing. (Hopefully the comic flows well, I’m still figuring out how to make these things.)

Clover: “It’s kinda wierd… but I’ve never really been, like, INTO guys.”

Ivan: “I mean, I’ve never really been into girls. (So it’s not that wierd.)”

Clover: “No, not like that. I mean, I’ve thought about dating before. Holding hands, kissing, all fine. It’s just…”

“I don’t think I want what my brother has. (Yuck.)”

Ivan: “Ah. Right” Guess that makes one of us.