Dec 30, 2025
Rusty as a pump please
This was certainly a challenge, how to make a Rusty design that's noticeably not a steam train but still looks like our little engine that could?
I wanted him to look a little awkward and not fully confident in his body since, ya know, he's actually a steam train he just doesn't know it yet. So I went for this kinda clunky oversized kinda outfit that he doesn't really fit properly and might restrict his movement to try and represent that (you ever see videos of little kids in so many layers of snow coats they cant quite keep their balance properly?), and obviously he's got no wheels.
#I personally like Poppa/Momma being Rusty's bio-grandparent but be a pump has such delicious implications to ignore#my solution is that his dad was a pump but his mom was an engine so hes staying with his grandma after his daddy disowned him#my art#floating portraits#starlight express#stex#stex rusty#be a pump#requests#sketches
