Paragonrobit Draws

an OC i’ve been workshopping for a while now; this is Tia, a chimeric mutant of uncertain origin who wanders from place to place, causing trouble and so on

I’ve been reworking some OCs lately and one of them was an orc from my fanfic days i made as a part of a boisterous and benign orc horde.

this particular character is called Chopstop; not technically an orc, but reimagined as a goblin who was raised by orcs and where she lacks in physical size and power, she’s used her profeciency in gadgets to built a mech that lets her fight as an orc does, so here’s a rough draw of what this mech might look like?

experimenting with cartoony/more relaxed art style here; i’m trying to wean the realism out of my drawing (because omfg i am getting so goddamn sick of all the fine details) and im taking steps in that direction

some ideations for Volcanic Obsidian, exploring some ideas for her look

the idea is that the white patterns/spots on her body are fractures, similar to real obsidians, and that hair mirrors her state of enthusiasm; normally it is hardened igneous stone/cooled magma, but when she gets fired up, it transforms into lava-like hair. this also allows her to use her lava-based shapeshifting powers, but it is emotionally painful to maintain this level of energy for long

some EXTREMELY scribbly head ideations i have for an OC i’ve had for a while but have never drawn: Toast, a human-loathing robot whose big ambition is to either 1. burninate all the humans on the grounds of them being the Worst, or 2. stay the hell away from them forever because See Option 1

his character design is simple; he’s either maximum cranky or an absolute trolling gremlin whose default state is AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH all the time. sort of intended to look like a tiny metal kaiju or dinosaur, while having colors that reflect his theme of fire powers. working out a way to give a design that is cute, simplistic and has ways to emote more easily, but also doesn’t make him look like a metal Guilmon? Also ways tro draw him simpler but give the impression that he’s a robot a lot easier

primary a deep-ish red, with darker metal bits for detailed areas and yellow on the fin bits. Blue eyes, to indicate heat!

i was doodling to try to remember how to draw legs again and wound up with a cryptid-looking thingy!

so i really like the idea that troll skin becomes this sort of obsidian tone as adults but it becomes REALLY monochromatic using the canon dark clothes + dark hair trolls usually have, so i hit on an idea; inverting the color scheme to make it stand out more and pop a bit

I used Porrim as an example: brighter colored hair, with her tattoos a paler white, gray clothing for a contrast. also a bit of experimenting with an oval, snout-ish head shape for some xeno ideation

The Penitent Counselor, Sekhma Dionsi. My number one fantroll and a purpleblood, she is a follower of the Signless and may have even been around during his life. She sincerely believes that as a purpeblood, all the sins commited by purples are on her as well, and as that brand shows, she’s more than a little prone to performative gestures as acts of faith.

She works as a counselor by day, using chucklevoodoos to soothe people’s mind and help thme work through their troubles. At night she’s a wild party goer, rocking it out hardcore.

But inside, the thought of shame is never far from her, and the need to do something to atone.

hmmm. *chinscratch* i’m not extremely xeno that way. echolocating/electricity/psi-sensing horns, mostly, plus jaws that unhinge but they still can’t swallow anything their throat won’t fit over and they’re not as elastic as a snake there. they also don’t suck as much (when kissing or going down on someone or just at all) because they never nursed from their parent as a newborn so the reflex isn’t there, it’s more of a deliberate, learned-later gesture.

also all trolls have venom gland buds, just hormones make them develop or not. It’s actually not that rare for a female troll to be totally flat or for a male to have breasts, though most of the time they stay relatively small. “male” and “female” trolls actually function as what we’d see as breeding males biologically speaking, since they bring in the gametes, and the Mother Grub as female. (not quite the same tho, it doesn’t map exactly on our stuff.)

So first to answer your question, Asuka, separate throat/food tubes and trachea/breathing tubes is a really much more sensible way to design things because it makes it really difficult to choke. The reason we don’t have that set up you can blame on our evolutionary history; there is no good reason why trolls wouldn’t have a totally separate trachea that is not at all connected to the mouth.