#starbot

Eggtober 26 Century Egg or “Beyond Reach”, A Starbot Fanart. Clip Studio Paint and Pixel It (Not to diminish the talent of pixel art artists, but I’m not doing this by hand, dot by dot, like pointillism. Sorry. XD) Gouache Brush and Gouache Blender with a new tool! Cloud Brush for that nebula. (Also I “Cheated” a little bit by using a 3D model to get little Starbot’s pose correct because I have not practiced enough anatomy to attempt that on my own yet.) Countless colors and hours because this was a labor of love. General estimate is 20-ish colors and 1.5 hours? Starbot is a game about what it means to be human and, to paraphrase from Johanna Warren’s song “Your Glow” it’s about the harrowing ordeal of having to feel love and pain and fear and sorrow. The game is loosely based on “The Little Prince” and is open about this fact. That should give you some idea of how this game will wreck you if you’ve ever read the book. The game also relies heavily on Eggs as a motif. Rich with metaphor, eggs are. And the century egg here is a metaphor on my part. I’ll leave the interpretation up to y’all. I just knew that one of these had to be a Starbot piece, and when I remembered century eggs, I knew it had to be the motif for the Starbot art. Releasing this on the 26th in honor of the game’s birthday. Starbot was released on itch.io on December 26th 2014. I don’t think I played it the year it came out, but I did play it a while back. I knew what was coming when I played. It still turned my guts inside out and wrung the existentialism from all my tender meaty bits. The game improves on the inspiration’s themes, in my opinion. Also, since I’m scheduling this post, I think this makes the 25th the only day I’ve done 3 Eggs back to back. Couldn’t help it. The ADHD hyperfocus hit just right and I had to make all the eggs. Big thanks as always to @quezify​ for being the impetus to all this. Enjoy the non-pixelated version under this Read More cut.

Chris!!!

Anshine+Mino and Yawgate+Signol fusions, requested by @duckolium ! Since they were in a large list, I’m gonna try and hunt down all the links with all the requested fusions and share them all!

Starbot is an enthusiastic pal! A lot of people usually unintentionally call them Starboy, but they don’t mind at all! Anshine usually lets Mino front, but Mino always offers him to front any time. They’re a pretty stable fusion and they really like sky aesthetics!