Pocket Drawings

Many years ago I had a lot of OCs that I loved very much, except they were all Sonic fan characters, and therefore, were creatively limited to what I could do with them. I made a decision to leave every one of them behind for my new fantasy based world.

A friend of mine never quite let them go and I admit I got nostalgic for them once in a while. I've actually repurposed a few of my old OCs before, one of them is even on this drawing ( that would be Lizzie ) but I've never revitalized so many at once before, and I've essentially hit all of my most important ones. I might do a second wave of these some time.

They probably are not going to have super important roles this time, just kind of background filler. So at the moment, there's not much of a reason to write bios for them. But I can still tell you a very short description of each one.

Asher - Half Demon Punk

Ivy - Plant loving Riushan

Bloodlust - Half Demon monster hater

Lizzie - Quirly reptillian from a race called Iguanobi

Luna - Fox folk archer and castle guard

Snipe - Luna's husband, castle guard, dead but still here

Starlight - Friendly Fairy

Nicole - Riushan child from Shino's village, fights other kids

Sugar - Hobgoblin and cooking enthusiast

Lando - Lesser Vampire castle researcher

I've been using a fairly old drawing of Sheila with sunglasses in some kind of Lisa Frank hellscape in the background as my avatar on various socials for a long time and I figure, now that Sheila has an official new design in 2026, it's time to make a new avatar, this one less Lisa Frank more 80's 90's Californian, because that's my jam.

The Newt siblings.

I've been tweaking Sheila's design endlessly since I created her. Getting close to a look i'm okay with.

My Mii version of Sheila in Tomodachi Life has convinced me that she looks good with nostrils, and I thought a lil nose bump would look cute. She was partially inspired by Wendy O Koopa and other Mario style characters, so having a little nose like Wendy kind of takes her back to her inspiration a bit more.

The only thing i'm really still struggling with is her body proportions. I never really stay satisfied with her body shape for too long.

Around February of last year I made a bunch of "fact" infographics about several of my OCs, but I never made one about my main guy, the apple of my eye, my fave, Shino. Well more than a year later, here it finally is.

His Species name is "Natran" which is just my stupid way of trying to make "Elf" more original.

When his kind dies without having children, a tree grows from their remains, and a child is usually inside that tree, waiting to be born. This is why he gets homesick when he's far from home for too long, the tree is quite literally his mother. He is unaware of this, and knows little about his own kind.

He was found in the woods as a feral child, foraging for berries, and adopted by the woman who found him. This is why he has a kinship with Eko, who herself was a feral child.

He hates haircuts and will let his hair grow until he cannot keep it out of his eyes any longer before cutting it, and will sulk for a few days after.

His ears are extremely sensitive to both loud sound and to touch.

His name was completely picked at random with no thought

I think the manga design was pretty good and could be a good source of inspiration, I liked the belt insignia and the frill, it reminded me of Pilaf.

The Valiant comics design wasn't bad either, especially with the black uniform. I doubt they'd do it, but I think it'd be funny if Tatanga appeared really tall and buff at first, but his large body was actually a mecha suit he was wearing and his real body was as tiny as it was in Mario Land II!

I think him being kind of plain looking is kind of the point, he's in this big imposing war machine but it's really just a little guy.

Then again, we only see him for a very brief second outside the machine in Super Mario Land 2, so it's not like his design outside of the machine is even solidified.

While he is rather plain, if he does get a redesign, I don't think it needs to be anything too drastic, there's plenty of Mario characters that are rather plain to look at and still manage to be charming.

Were I to redesign him, this is how I would do it.

Keeps the basic boots, green eyes and the red gem give him a splash of color, and I think the black cape that he had in a few manga looks nice.

I colored that sketch of Yoshi. I may end up doing that for some of the sketches I make... they won't always be colored that quickly after drawing it, this is just an example, and I felt like coloring it.

You may notice this is a redraw of one of Yoshi's 3D renders. But I used his 2D artwork for reference. That might be something I use as a running theme for these character sketches.

I famously hate Yoshi's 3D renders, but love how he looks in 2D. Yoshi was my favorite character back in the early 90's but I never really liked how he looked in 3D, outside of maybe Super Mario 64. He's gotten better in recent games, but he still needs work. Really hoping he gets the same treatment as Donkey Kong in the Switch 2 Mario Kart and gets an overhaul to look more like classic Yoshi.

New avatar, figured i've been using the official Digimon Logo long enough and I should make my own logo.

Feat Maskutchi from Tamagotchi, Betamon from Digimon, and the Pixel Puppy from GigaPets.

Thought process was "I'll start with Maskutchi because he's one of my faves... I didn't choose Mametchi, so I won't draw Agumon, i'll draw his overshadowed child stage counterpart... For Gigapetes, my fave is the Frog but Betamon looks like a frog. I like the T-Rex but people would mistake it for Agumon. Well, Dogs are pretty universal pets. More than 3 would be too cluttered for an avatar so that is all."

This should also better communicate that i'm not just a Digimon blog.