Urbandragondice

Sooooo uh this all started because I saw @picopepin's mettaton fanart, one thing led to another, and now I'm playing too. Main inspiration for the design was Mettaton, of course, but specfically @paintedhen's design of an older version of him that I just could not get out of my head for the life of me. Literally thought about him for a whole day or two, lol. So I decided to channel that energy into a new oc, and Stygians happened to be the outlet. But anyways! The other source of inspiration for him was the most terrifying nightmare I've had, detailed here:

"Without going into the traumatic aspects of it, it started with me waking up in a dark, almost empty room save for a bed, a closet, and a drawer. Right next to the bed was a huge window with a beautiful sunset over a parking lot surrounded by a forest. I would get out of bed, maybe fiddle with some things in the room, and then head downstairs where there was another huge window like the one before, and then explore the rest of the house before I woke back up in the bed upstairs. It happened like 20ish times before I realized that something was terribly, horribly wrong."

Obviously, he's not supposed to be terrifying like the dream, no-- rather I'm turning something that shook me to my core into something I can love and adore.

With step 1 of the figment quest, I wanted to get down both the Mettaton aspects and those of a bird known as a resplendent quetzal. Whenever I base coat patterns off of an existing animal, I will always start out with the colors of said animal, just to make sure I have the pattern down alright, hence the drastically different colors I went with in the next steps.

Step 2, I established a color palette, and since I nailed it pretty much on the first try, I didn't have to do much fiddling and tweaking with it. Step 3, I just really wanted to draw him as the subspecies that really caught my eye rather than just whatever I would actually want to change him to later down the line. I'm a sucker for lindworm-y creatures. Step 4, as mentioned before, was based off of paintedhen's older mettaton, though I tried to give him his own sense of style different than the original. I gave Marceau back some similar clothing in his official avatar form, cause I figured I could give it his own flair to make it distinct enough for comfort.

5 was definitely the most difficult of all. I couldn't figure out the perspective or the lighting myself, so I turn to blender to recreate the scene in my dream for his kingdom. I had to take a break on it for a day before finishing it cause it was causing me so many issues, but it was well worth it.

Sooooo uh this all started because I saw @picopepin's mettaton fanart, one thing led to another, and now I'm playing too. Main inspiration for the design was Mettaton, of course, but specfically @paintedhen's design of an older version of him that I just could not get out of my head for the life of me. Literally thought about him for a whole day or two, lol. So I decided to channel that energy into a new oc, and Stygians happened to be the outlet. But anyways! The other source of inspiration for him was the most terrifying nightmare I've had, detailed here:

"Without going into the traumatic aspects of it, it started with me waking up in a dark, almost empty room save for a bed, a closet, and a drawer. Right next to the bed was a huge window with a beautiful sunset over a parking lot surrounded by a forest. I would get out of bed, maybe fiddle with some things in the room, and then head downstairs where there was another huge window like the one before, and then explore the rest of the house before I woke back up in the bed upstairs. It happened like 20ish times before I realized that something was terribly, horribly wrong."

Obviously, he's not supposed to be terrifying like the dream, no-- rather I'm turning something that shook me to my core into something I can love and adore.

With step 1 of the figment quest, I wanted to get down both the Mettaton aspects and those of a bird known as a resplendent quetzal. Whenever I base coat patterns off of an existing animal, I will always start out with the colors of said animal, just to make sure I have the pattern down alright, hence the drastically different colors I went with in the next steps.

Step 2, I established a color palette, and since I nailed it pretty much on the first try, I didn't have to do much fiddling and tweaking with it. Step 3, I just really wanted to draw him as the subspecies that really caught my eye rather than just whatever I would actually want to change him to later down the line. I'm a sucker for lindworm-y creatures. Step 4, as mentioned before, was based off of paintedhen's older mettaton, though I tried to give him his own sense of style different than the original. I gave Marceau back some similar clothing in his official avatar form, cause I figured I could give it his own flair to make it distinct enough for comfort.

5 was definitely the most difficult of all. I couldn't figure out the perspective or the lighting myself, so I turn to blender to recreate the scene in my dream for his kingdom. I had to take a break on it for a day before finishing it cause it was causing me so many issues, but it was well worth it.