studying rizzographs

Finally I can make some proper bios for Saima and Echo!

Their team name would be Team Selene, and there's an upcoming third member lol.

Apogee Saima (アポジー・サイマ) 🌙

End Closer type

Based on the Finnhorse/Finnish Coldblood

Flaxen chestnut coat (blonde hair)

Race engineer and former harness racer, got scouted through Tracen's exchange program

Grew up in the countryside, has a resourceful, stoic mindset

Prefers thrifted goods over new stuff, her outfit was repurposed from her parents' clothes

Her name is derived from apogee (moon's farthest distance from earth), and Saima is a Finnish/Estonian name derived from Lake Saimaa

Umbra Echo (ウンブラ・エコー) ⛓️

Front Runner type

Based on the Czech Warmblood

Blood bay coat (deep red hair)

City dweller, grew up among marionette theaters and craftspeople

Show jumper, sells her crafts/marionettes on the side

Fashion conscious, and holds pride in her looks and works. Would correct anyone who tried to stereotype her lol

But who cares, she's a fictional horse girl and I don't think most Finnhorse diehards would recognize what Uma Musume is lol

A few weeks ago I feel very irritable and not wanting to draw anything. I decided to take a few days off, thinking it's just some artist block...yet things still not change.

Well, I think I really have a creative burnout.

And the current life situation in my uni didn't help too.

I love researching for my OCs obviously, though I believe that not everything has to be 100% accurate to reality. It's fiction after all.

My Uma Musume OCs (most of them) are deliberately not based on real-life individual racehorses because it gave me more freedom to portray them without being constrained to real statistics or history. (Even Valotar is based on an obscure Finnhorse, not a Thoroughbred)

Though of course creating Uma OCs based on real horses has its advantages and pre-existing info, and there is nothing wrong with it, as long as seeking accuracy and realism is what the creator wanted, not forced by others.