✦ outerbounds ✦

✦ Hello, I'm Outerbounds! I go by Bound. I'm an OC artist and that's what I mainly post!

✦ I'm also an adult, as of now my platforms are SFW and don't include sensitive content. Though I warn this content could be apparent in the future. My Carrd has information for my boundaries, and the sensitive content I may depict in the future as I don't like the idea of restricting myself.

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idk im lowk hyped. once i get the money (hopefully) i should be able to get a animation app and a better art program!! (though i'd have to learn both.. which will be a journey for me surely, I've been drawing on ibis paint for like 4 yrs on my phone ever since i lost my art tablet in 2023)

I've been wanting/trying to learn animation since I was a child so this is just, idk hype for me. I'll have to practice alot though before I go being more ambitious. I'll need alot of patience since animation can be tedious and stuff but I am hopeful. Maybe because I've been drawing since I was like 5-6 yrs old even though animation takes more skill than just art. (Idk?? maybe im just idealistic haha) idk feels good to at least be confident?

With animation I think I can learn better consistency with my art and style, so I'm looking forward to it tbh. I think it can teach me alot about how things should look and flow as I gain more experience? Like I could notice when things may look off the more I practice. I can get better at my anatomy and visualizing how to fix mistakes. Maybe I'm expecting too much out of this i'm unsure but I am hyped to see if my pipe dream becomes a reality finally !!

only drew this to compare (uh i wish traditional art had a copy paste feature so the heads were consistent lmao) quality is a bit blurry rip

basically thinking of bringing back the before, but i'm uncertain about it rn. I haven't drawn main story cerebrum much lately but i do know the times I have, in which I simplified (o no i spelt that word wrong on paper fuck-) the side bangs (if thats what they would be called?) i think. not a deliberate choice ngl as cerebrum's refs haven't changed but uhm yeah.

Won't be putting everything here, though I might share the lore/and or ideas as I have been doing. (I have no one to directly ramble to about Metamorphosis's story..) but been adding on to Valdis.

I have given the Nedrian people blood magic which I'll have to develop further. And the other protagonists though normal people do have important roles (i think) on Nedrian. (They just ain't the core of the story, Cerebrum and Valdis are.) One protagonist is the prince to the kingdom of Nedrian, the other is an astronomer (linking them to research of the void/The Aetherfold from afar) and the last protagonist is a apprentice still learning the culture and power of blood magic.

Spoilers: Valdis meets the prince first, than the others who are connected to the prince. I still got to develop and name the other protagonists themselves and Nedrian so it ain't just some random world that's going to die.

finished the wip!! now i can draw other things.. (aka more chibis and whatever else my mind thinks of)

managed to draw smthing!! i planned to draw chibis of Cerebrum and Kieran interacting (though it's non-canon, and stuff) this was harder than I'd thought it be, and I consider the pose random.. but no other poses with them were working and wanted them to actually face eachother.

also Kieran's face is blacked out on purpose!! basically, Cerebrum (if he could interact with Kieran) is unable to recognize Kieran. Hence the face not being visible.

I also plan to somhow (but idk what i'll do for it yet) draw Valdis ''interacting'' with Kieran. And also chibis of main story Valdis and Cerebrum in the same art!! which uh, also ain't planned yet.

and uh!! i need to figure out how i'd even include rune in the story again, I may have to scrap Rune's character returning and Cerebrum feeling unexplained guilt/unease around him.. This is simply because Rune ain't from Nedrian. (The world the main story takes focus on due to Valdis running away and finding themself on Nedrian) It sucks that I'll probably have to scrap the idea of Cerebrum and Rune meeting again but yeah uh.. Trying to place Rune in Nedrian would not work because Rune's world was getting consumed by The Aetherfold and attacked by Cerebrum.

ok so, since Kieran is based off a butterfly (simply no particular butterfly though) and the universe the story I've been working on ideas + lore for is called Metamorphosis (fancy word for change, ig? since the whole story with cerebrum + valdis and others is all about inevitable change + reincarnation and consumption idk) i was thinking i could also base the rest of metamorphosis's gods after insects?? with wings in particular maybe. but idk how many insects exist with wings and it'd be cool if the insects go through the lil butterfly thing where they go through metamorphosis.. but im uneducated and assume only moths and butterflies go through that

also i have the idea that Kieran's personality was much more positive until they unintentionally created The Aetherfold and got abandoned and outcasted by the other gods. However Kieran's original personality is fractured when they where prematurely reincarnated and became Cerebrum and Valdis. Bc Kieran mostly had good traits (i do wanna try giving them flaws bc i struggle with giving ocs with mostly good traits flaws..) Kieran was basically well-liked amongst the other gods till they ''ruined'' everything.

I say ruined in quotes because none of the gods, including Kieran knew The Aetherfold after consuming (and recycling) Metamorphosis would lead to basically a infinite life cycle. pretty much.. Also, Kieran didn't know their abilities (havent developed why they wouldnt, but i have a thought that the gods took turns creating a world and people to inhabit it. simply it wasnt Kieran's turn yet so Kieran did not use their powers.)

Kieran unknowingly ig is also the god of death and rebirth?? Since all the other gods only created, Metamorphosis needed a god of death basically for the most part. Something to destroy life but give way to new life technically? idk, the explanation may be a lil weird because The Aetherfold doesn't create new life, it recycles old life and gives it new bodies. (People particularly) and it's imperfect too, the past is not suddenly erased during the universe's ''rebirths'' so ruins still exist. Just no ''new''/reincarnated people will remember what in the world they meant due to being stripped of memory.

uhh, brain's going blank again.. OH WAIT i forgot to mention.

The other gods never get rebirthed because like in my other universe (Quidvispirat, completely unrelated to Metamorphosis but same rule applies in Metamorphosis pretty much) when gods die they have no ''afterlives''. Kieran's reincarnations technically not even a afterlife, just a result of letting themself get consumed and die by The Aetherfold then end up getting prematurely recycled due to The Aether.. Also it's still not developed yet, but the other gods died basicaly bc they ended up fighting eachother. (I tbh think that Kieran probably was the one that kept everyone together ironically?? bc Kieran was observant of the others emotions/things in general, a playful and confident person -maybe even charmastic unintentionally bc of it??- and empathetic) i havent developed why they basically went to war though soo.. But they don't exist anymore bc they didn't die in the manner Kieran did..

drew th thing!! im not good at horror and cerebrum's hostile form doesnt look particularly scary.. also the setting is so random bc I had trouble picturing it. but I didnt want it to be pure void so uhm yeah

also i tried looking for pose refs for this one but never found any, so uh.. idk i usually dont ref poses bc i never find the poses i wanna do that r in my head

likely not gonna finish this today so its a wip!! posting anyways bc i've posted wips before

AHEM. yknow who atp i keep drawing him and barely anybody else.. But maybe i'll learn the power of consistency if I draw him a million times (ok maybe not that many times, i will certainly not enjoy drawing him if i drew him a million times)

im tired but wanted to draw smthing