VulpineFlame - Art

Artfight this year was pretty successful for me artwise. I learned a lot!

Now, I normally don't do humans or human like characters but this one just got me and like… the mask is perfect to get around my problems with human chars so here we are. Inai is quite interesting.

Long time no see huh? Again I've been neglecting my Tumblr a little thanks to different circumstances and while I have been insanely creative in terms of plotting and drafting, nothing big was finished because I have close to zero free time atm thanks to work and health issues. Anyway I kinda miss rambling about my OCs and it's gotten awfully quiet here, so I thought I'd share a few things!

I already have a tonne of new OCs again that just jumped into existance, adopts but also a few inspired by @mollydastoertchen and also I'll do a revamp for one, two of my old babes so there's a lot to tell!

First of all I wanna show the very temp Ref of my latest hyperfocus Giacomo, or more Jack.

Temp Ref because its a base I used just so scribble down his markings as Molly was dying to draw tons of fanart for him, and since I am feral and I want to order commissions I quickly put this temp ref together until I get to draw him a proper one.

Jack already has a nicely worked out Toyhouse so feel free to visit and tell me what you think of him! (Like, please tell me what you think of him, he's my current hyperfixation)

In short, he's an Italian-American Casanova who happens to be the sweetheart of Mollys Atticus . Molly *loves* Noir like Detective stuff, we play so many detective games together, it's crazy we were this years old to finally have a couple of Noir Themed Characters! Of course they also have a nice detective story surrounding them, you can read a lot about Jacks Backstory on his Toyhouse, and his future story will involve him going missing, and Atticus and Rayner will have to find out what happened to him~

Next thing I'm (re-)working is my OC Miriam. Miriams concept came into life with a bunch of Twitter users where we were talking about sexy lizard OCs, everyone created one and I felt kinda pressued to do so as well, even though I actually don't like scalies that much. This is why it took me forever to come up with Miriams design, despite her *concept* being clear from a very early stage.

Thats her first draft:

She was supposed to become a three-horned chameleon and underwent tons of changes n stuff, because I simply never were happy with her. Her whole concept feld odd, turns out I really just don't like lizard OCs so much for myself.

So, since the main reason why I clinged to her having to be a lizard kinda fell silent now and I also started to feel rather icky about her original concept/character, I figured why still forcing myself to an OC that feels weird? So she received a redesign.

She's a Chinchilla now! I really wanted a Chinchilla for a while now, and their soft round weirdness perfectly fits her vibe. I'm already much, much happier with her whole character and concept and actually motivated to work on her, which is so refreshing! There will still be a few changes to her overall design (some stylisation, some more details to make her design pop more) but yeah I figured if were here rambling about OC concepts n stuff I can as well show what my first concepts look like.

Miriam is a pervy degenerate btw. She works in Butchs Saloon as a cook, but only hour-wise. Her Main job is being an artist, and with artist I mean the nasty kind drawing unhinged porn and writing super smutty fanfictions of questionable quality. She's the kind of person to sit in her room with closed curtains for 72 hours finishing a 20-page smut comic in a rush of hyperfocus and then emerges from her art cave unwashed and grumpy and with maximum social anxiety because she has to work a shift and hates everything and everyone in the room. Miriam is not really a friend of people, most people annoy the heck out of her and if it was forher, she'd never leave the house or has to deal with other people. She kinda hates loud and overconfident people and the world is full of them. That's why she is a very close friend of the calm, shy Dezel . They have the nastiest kind of friendship, they have a tonne of OCs they are shipping together, and Miriam draws a lot of smutty fanart for her bestie. They worked together on a bunch of super spicy Dating Sims, where she provided the artwork while Dezel did the programming.

She does the pervy steamy anime glasses thing btw, totally canon for her. You bet she just spotted a butt.

Another new Babe is my darling Alphonse.

I spotted this adopt and immediately fell in love! He's another of those "came to me through a bunch of nice coincidences" characters. @mollydastoertchenand I figured that her babe Quincy lacks some really close friends, and I was pondering a lot about this and then I saw those cute adopts with the blonde doggo and his fancy hat. I immediately fell in love and had to adopt him!

Alphonse is a Saluki (dog), and he works as a model because he's just this long, graceful, beautiful and kinda androgyne beauty. He met Quincy during a Model fotoshooting where, not surprising, Al did the modeling and Quincy was hired as a photographer. The modelling business is not always easy and Alphonses' manager was quite the asshole towards him and the other models, and it ended up with him holding back his tears while he posed for the camera. Quincy offered his support and thats how they started talking. Alphonse is, despite his beautiful appearance, a very insecure and timid person who definitely lacks the confidence he needed to *not* let his manager pick on him and exploit him. He's basically convinced that he has no worth despite looking pretty (which is not true, as he is interested in fashion and sews his own clothes, which brought him into the modelling business int he first place). Quincy will help him out of his toxic work situation and teach him the confidence he needs, and in response, Alphonse might be the most loyal, most wholesome and forever grateful puppy there is.

His design and story is pretty obviously inspired by the adopt, but a little funfact, Alphonse has no 'hair' besides his ears, a thing he is very insecure about. This is why he almost always wears hats, he hates his 'bald head'.

Next one, @lioninthesewer supported my addiction to horse characters, and I adopted a new horse. I'm not surprised this happened, but I am madly in love with the design and the concept around it. The character is still pretty young, so I cant tell a lot about him just yet, but have a sneak peak:

Just. Look at him. <3

His name will be Castor. Since in my Fantasy Universe I dont seem to have enough equine characters yet I decided to add him there, so he's a Fantasy babe! He will be the big brother of the second main protagonist of the Shattered World/Askeron Storyline I linked up there, and as his name implies he has a connection to Astrology and will be a rather whymsical boy. Anthro, of course. Castor is some sort of Kelpie and connected to a very strong artifact, which happened to give him the awful ability to have future visions. But, since he's a mortal, the visions are shitty, broken, and unclear as can be. He sees things that happened, things that are about to happen, and even things that would only happen in other timelines or other circumstances. He has no idea when or where, and his visions leave things mysterious and unclear - especially ever since he started to become very anxious and nervous about it. Imagine you see gruesome, worrying things in a vision, but you dont know whether they already happed or WILL happen, and if its in the future, WHEN will it happen and under which circumstances? Is there anything he can do to prevent chaos? Or will it not happen at all? Or did the fact that he saw it, and looks for signs, will CAUSE the catastrophe?

Castor feels quite burdened by those powers, and still he feels responsible to take notes of everything he dreams and sees of (fun fact, maybe some of his visions are just whacky dreams and not a vision at all, it kinda all mixed into one feeling by now). One thing he found out, since his visions feel kind of like lucid dreaming, he realized he can look up into the stars and they will tell him when or where the situation happens; which is why he became kinda obsessed with astrology, and kinda learned most constellations n stuff so whenever he dreams he writes down what he saw in the sky at first, in hopes he can pinpoint *when* it will happen. He's also an Alchemyst and a very, very amateur mage, theres only one spell he really can cast.

So, and last but not least, I decided to revive one of my older characters!

(the second pic was done with a base done by @demireality )

This is Rover! he used to be a very, *very* old OC of mine and he's a Tamaskan Wolfdog. Rover will probably become his last name but I still have to come up with a fitting first name yet, but I like the idea that everyone just calls him 'Rover' anyway cuz they call him by his last name. I reworked him several times over the course of the last years, trying to fit him into any storyline, without much success, but now his time has come! He'll be in my Slice of Life Universe, and working for the police. H is the partner of @mollydastoertchen s baby Rayner (as in, police partner and working buddies lmao). I'll still yet have to rework his new story, but he has a military backgorund, probably served in the army for a few years. He's a tough no-bullshit kind of dude. Brutally honest, a bit violent probably, or at least not afraid to *get* violent. Definitely the "bad cop" part of the Duo with Rayner. But I dont have many details yet, I literally developed the idea yesterday so yeah :')

Still, thinking that I might revive another old OC alongside with Rover, since they were meant to have a shared story back then in one of my countless attempts to give them both a story:

Rashkar! I'm not 100% sure about him, though. I used to love him a lot as a character, but he's super bland marking-wise and I could never quite figure out where I wanna go with him personality wise, so this one is still on the line. What do you think? Want me to give him a revival as well and connect him to Rovers backstory? Rashkar (he'll need a rename as well then) was once supposed to be in a civil war kind of thing, where he would be the counterpart to Rover, until they figure out they have a lot of common goals and views, and just happen to stand on different sides for no reason at all. Rashkar was a grumpy, rough buddy but actually quite the Dad(tm), with a rough kind of humour. Huh. I mean, with a proper rework he *might* become interesting after all...

Another thing that will be great news surrounds my Plague Pelt Characters. But I won't elaborate here yet! Let's just say, the whole storyline will receive a huge rework and if I can actually pull through, something really great might rise! But I'll keep quite until I have actual results with those XD

I didn’t know Jack was hiding these cute speckles of red fur beneath his pants! I love this detail! Overall a beautiful design with many little details :3 Can’t wait for his final Refsheet.

Went on his toyhouse, but I must admit I didn’t have the energy to read it completely. But what I already know about his backstory and how he came to Atticus (plus how it ended), made me want to know whether the two will come together again or not! What I like on the toyhouse especially are the many trivia about him. I wouldn’t have imagined he was a good gardner. Plus it’s nice that there are so many bulletpoints and a short description about him right at the start so just by reading them one can already get a good idea about his character. Having his avatar there in black and white really fits the overall design of the page, too.

I already want to know why he is going missing! D: Please let Atticus find him (and maybe finally make up with him).

Miriam looks so much better as a chinchilla. One can totally see that this is way more your thing than scalies (which is totally fine). And chinchillas are so cute x3 I kinda like her being this smutty artist. I can really imagine her darkened, messy room full of drawing utensils, maybe posters, cushions with anime-boys and girls on them. The dynamic between her and her best friend sounds very interesting aswell. I see why they work well together. ‘:D One can draw the other can program and together they can bring all their nasty ideas to life.

Alphonse! He looks so beautiful with those ears. When I saw him I thought he’d give really good fashion advice. And of course he is a model and also a sews his own clothes! The background story of his and Quincys friendship is beautiful (in a sad way). I hope Al will see that there is more to him than his looks. Plus its such a nice detail that Al is basically “bald” but one doesn’t notice due to the ears.

Uuuuuh! I’m already looking forward to the first drawing of Castor as an anthro in your style! I can see why you couldn’t resist adopting him. His visions sound terrible D: But I like the idea of a character with a seemingly great power that almost breaks down under it. I would not want to swap places with him. It’s cool how you made his connect to the stars through this power aswell and I’m glad that with this he has some kind of relieve and an idea how to better understand his visions.

It’s cool when an old OC finally fits somewhere. I hope the same for some of my old ones that I have discarded when reworking stuff. Rover being a policemen definitely has a lot of potential for interesting storylines! While reading his description I already though “Bad cop” before I saw that you wrote that aswell ‘xD

Rashkar seems to be a character with a lot of potential! His design is kinda cool with those big scars. I think you shouldn’t force yourself to rework him, if it doesn’t feel right. Just to share my thoughts: When I saw his design and read that he was somehow connected to Rover, I imagined him being a former comrade of Rover in the military. A soldier who was ment to be exactly that but after being injured he had to retire and start a civil life. And while Rover (who probably left the military voluntary and not due to injury as far as I understand) has managed to become a policemen, Rashkar is rather struggling (maybe due to PTSD). And though he is strong and independent there might be moments where he starts a fight and stuff and Rover might sometimes be exactly the policeman that is called to the scene and has to bail him out. But those were just my first thoughts on him by looking at his pictures. If you’ll revive him, I’m quite sure it will be with a well-fitting background story. I already like your idea of him being rough but also kind of a dad.

The more @zelendur and I talk about them, the more I adore them. Atticus and Jack are such sweethearts who absolutely deserve each other and only the best.

HNNNGH I want them so badly to be happy. And while Jack wants the same, Atticus is having problems with believing Jacks true intentions.

But when they dance? Then everything is alright for a moment. Just like all those years ago when they were so madly in love. When nothing mattered but their time together. Then, when he can feel him close, holding him and guiding him through the dance, then everything is alright.