#ocs fun

Sketch + most of the lineart

Hot mess of refs and half-done flats + flats with draft bg (that made it to the final cut as I had no time to work on it rip)

This is probably my most ambitious piece yet that I felt I have nowhere near enough skills/experience. Dreaded drawing legs the most, especially regarding Holly. Helicopters have their smaller rotor on a super thin tail and I had to figure out how to turn it into two nicely balanced legs. Made this doodles to practice:

Cutest ray of sunshine with a spark of gold <3

And now a fun fact regarding looking for refs. Apparently it's much easier to find nice pics of the horizon from a copter's pov (20k feet altitude) than from a jet plane's pov (50k in case of a B2).

For now his story is kinda backwards - I know that eventually he ends up in a dance group Neon Shadows (based on groups like MPLUSPLUS or Light Balance, more on NS hopefully later) but before that happens I need to marinate him in some good 'ol character developing angst.

Ghost, shadow, phantom, cryptid, camo... many terms for just one guy with one neat outlier ability - super stealth. Combine it with being a massive fraggin liar and you get Starshade.

Idk yet who found and onlined him, what they needed him for and how he was trained. But I do know he lies amazingly and casually so much that not even a lie detector can get him. Because of that he gets tied up in the war as a spy. Doesn't matter for which side 'cuz then he becomes a double spy. Then triple and quadruple and and and in the end you don't know who's side he's really on.

He doesn't know either, nor does he care. All he cares about is himself and to steer all trouble away, to confuse others and manipulate the situation in such way that he's never the suspect.

At first he doesn't care how much chaos he causes as long as the consequences don't reach him. But after some decisions that fucked over some peeps he didn't want to get fucked over he does some thinking and decides to de-escalate conflicts instead of escalating them. Basically he figures he just wants the war to end now more than ever.

Because of his job he's a loner, which is a shame 'cuz he's very sociable and loves hanging out with others. And dancing. He loves music and dance. Sadly he can never be completely honest with others and never feels like he truly belongs to any group.

Eventually I want him to have a stealth car bf and also get him adopted by a flock of stealth seekers. And then join the Neon Shadows. Surely they won't regret taking in an ex-spy-but-acc-just-a-liar-coward-traitor. What can possibly go wrong? You can't tell me those golden eyes can lie. Surely his past won't come to bite him in the aft.

Ahem anyway...

His super stealth includes:

engine and ventilation are very quiet

colors can go from mostly gold/magenta to dark mode (pic above) and he prefers it that way

hard to detect by both cameras and radars

can be taken for freshly deceased even by a medic as his spark is harder to detect as well

naturally moves very quietly without even trying, may spook others by accident by just walking into a room without announcement

For now that's all, have a meme now:

Striker may not be an excellent flier but he's agile and runs very fast. Somehow managed to finish Abyss' flying lessons. Ninja birb. Feet based on casur- cassova- casewa- KAZUAR. That small black emu that can fuck you up. The rest of Striker is based on a feathered dino birb with extra spikes on wings. Dinos' extinct? don't care. As a transformer he's an autobot special agent and a... uhh... the uhh...

THIS. Can't remeber the name of this car for the life of me but it starts with k. Desigh attempt unfinished 'cuz the file got corrupted and I have only this sceenshot left ;w;

I feel like on the sketch Abyss is even cuter 🥺 Since he's a stealth plane, a B-2 Spirit, I feel like he'd be a very stealthy owl with broad wings. What kind? A cute one with fuzzy feet, next question. What am I, an ornitologist? Also the markings on his face is the traditional makeup of his flock, here worn off from all the crying ;-; As a young adult he'll be still a bit shorter than Striker but would seem much bigger due to his enormous wide wings :D

Ok so here's the sketches and lineart alone:

The idea was to make a mini-comic with Bas in the pose he is saying his thing, and then when Val kisses him Bassie gets all flustered 'cuz he's still not used to affection, esp from the royal he has a crush on. But eh, let's say it's after the character development!

Also in here Valerian is not blind, at some point the partial cure is found and him gaining vision is the main plot point of their stories. Because he didn't know Bas is a beast. And Bas panicked and tried to run away. But Val always loved him the way he is, even after Bas admitted how he got the curse.