Rinainu's OCs

Hey, it's @rinainufanart and usually I draw fanarts and fandom stuff but this side blog is dedicated to my original stories and characters.

Some basic info about me:

- name's rina or rinainu

- any/her

- not a minor

- this blog will be primarily in English (but it's my second language so I apologize in advance about any mistakes and misunderstandings)

- I think I draw better than write so I will probably show a lot of drawing process and illustrations and very rarely story snippets

I show every stage of character development and designing process, so if you're an artist I think you will find this blog rather useful. I am by no means a professional character designer but I just love showing how I do things and I find constructive criticism very useful! I love hearing other people's thoughts about my babies and negative feedback is even more exciting than a praise for me. Especially from people who are not artists themselves so don't think you should be qualified to express your opinion here. Also I wanted to warn y'all that English is not my first language so I'm deeply sorry for any mistakes I make or if some explanations will be confusing.

You can also ask questions about my characters or to my characters here or in my straw page! I will doodle something for the answer :) also requests are okay.

For now I have two main stories with completely different set of characters. Unfortunately I don't have names for them cus they're still in development. So for now I'm going to call them very vaguely as:

Main set of stories- I believe that some people's stories can be super unique and interesting without any fantastic elements. So in this compilation I decided to ditch the concept of "secondary characters" and was just basically coming up with different OCs and stories for them and intertwining them together. There is like...the main event but I'm not sure about this decade old story so I will be rewriting it soon. Some of the characters are Lucius, Clementine and more. (Links are going to be updated) (Tags (wip): #Lucius Loud ;

Minecraft lore story (which I'm developing with my friend reed). Just a silly Minecraft roleplay that we started sometime ago. Some of the characters include: Blaze, Roz, Arne, Seamus and Eustace, etc. (Tags (wip): #rozart #rinainuminecraftlore)

Also I will have a lot of small projects and other one-off characters but I'm not sure what to do with them but I will show them here too, I think.

!BUT before interacting please read this!

I am okay with you asking about my characters, your OCs interacting with them and I'm generally okay with other people engaging with my babies. But it is pretty obvious that it should have boundaries so remember to keep it safe, respectful and kind. And ofc basic DNI list. Just be respectful and responsible with your actions on social media.

New pfp brainstorm with my sona

A lot of Blaze sketches because I was making his reference sheet so I was thinking about him A LOT

Finally made something interesting with Roz. It's his first ref sheet for now. My goal is to make as many cute outfits for him as possible in the future and I will probably draw my own collection of fabric patterns to use. I'm finally satisfied with Roz's face and body proportions and I'm duper happy that I can finally use a proper ref sheet. To be fair, I should've added some accessories like his travel sawing kit and journals but I just realized I could do that. Well I can do it some time later. That's it for now :)

Previous posts with Roz: Doodle dump | Everyday outfit concepts

Made a lil mood board for Roz's outfits and I wanted to make something casual but interesting. And I thought about fabric patches and samples he could carry around and got funny idea of patchy pants. Isn't having the most popular fabric samples on you kinda neat? That was the main idea) I wanted this outfit to be comfy for traveling cus Roz can't sit in one place and he is always on foot. I can't imagine him wearing smelly home shirt even when no one watches him.

I don't have a specific reason for his design to be simple but I don't want to overcomplicate my OCs either. I chose the only version without a corset to be his main outfit. I know beauty is pain but this elf has been living on this earth for centuries and I'm 100% sure he won't sacrifice his comfort for a pretty corset) Roz knows he can make comfy and beautiful pieces of clothing.

Never thought redesigning really simple character would be so hard.

Couple of months ago I decided to play Fields of Mistria and accidentally created one of my favorite OCs)

I started developing a story for him and after some time, Roz moved to the Minecraft world my bestie and I are developing rn. He is an elf who discovers human culture through fashion and dressmaking. And because he is an eternal being, he has been in this world for centuries and have seen lots of significant parts of human history. Even though he sometimes mixes up dates.. probably even decades of his life) he still remembers everything and everyone he met through out his life journey. I still don't have a stable design or even backstory for him but I'm in the process of figuring it out.

Arne (Roz's Partner) and Roz (full body sketch)

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