a different webcomic I'm making sshhhhh

tfw you fuck up a halfway decent doodle because you forgot how fucking fishnets worked halfway through inking it... 😩

Well...I attempted to draw an OC at least. 🤷‍♀️

Doodles from the stream tonight!! I’m getting the hang of this graphics tablet and the new software programs just fine!!

And the last request from tonight’s stream was for another one of my OCs, so I drew another guy I’ve never drawn digitally before, which was Vihaan, aka “Vee” from my Oddballs webcomic (and I’m getting closer to actually posting it, too, yayyy)!

Something I did with ALL my characters in Oddballs was try to inject specific representation where there is practically none elsewhere (hence native american characters, non-binary and trans characters, asexual characters, fat characters, mixed race characters, physically- and mentally-disabled characters, and so on) and so Vee was very special for me because I’ve NEVER seen a character with a lazy eye.

I was born with two lazy eyes myself, and while my mom had the money to get one corrected surgically, I still struggled with bullying and a complete lack of representation regarding something I had absolutely no control over.

The amount of people I’ve met who also had a lazy eye can be counted on one hand, and that likely explains why the representation I had seen in movies, TV shows, and books for it was completely nonexistent. I think the CLOSEST I’ve ever seen was in Black Panther, the man who plays T'Challa’s father, T'Chakka, had one eye that didn’t always look the same direction as the other eye, but the camera angles always made it difficult to actually see for sure, so I couldn’t even tell you if that is legit representation or not.

And, since one of the main goals for this webcomic I’m working on was to add much-needed representation, I absolutely had to have a character with a lazy eye (originally, there were going to be 2 characters with lazy eyes!!). The vitiligo was added because I had a friend who said it’d be cool if a character’s natural design drew the reader’s eye to their characteristics and forced the reader to get used to it, whether they liked it or not. And then having the character be Indian came from having met so many people from India coming to America for college and loving it so much, they decided to stick around. I was able to culminate so many different things I wanted represented into a single character, and when I finally started drawing him, he looked so cool!

And now, here he is, in full color, and doing a blep with his tongue because he’s as happy as I am to finally let people see his awesome design!

To future orb: Ive decided Aaron fucks to survive

Its decidedd and you cant change it now no takebacks

Also dontdrink and then take your meds and then forget you took them and start drinking again you fucking moron

Here’s the pose reference

Anyway, I’ve been sucking at these art requests so I took a break and doodled my cutie trio because I haven’t drawn them all together yet~

And two more of my OCs from my webcomic Oddballs, this is Porter and Bevin~

Gosh, I love them a whole lot. I wrote a bunch about why I loved creating Bevin a while back, so I’ll just recap really quick! She is amazing and wonderful, and she happens to be intellectually-disabled. I’ve had soooooo many friends growing up that participated in sports, even when there was backlash because of a diagnosis they just happened to have, one that didn’t affect how they played much at all. And now that I’ve begun a career where I’m helping people like this every day just live their lives, just giving them the support they need to do whatever it is they want to do, it’s become so important to me that they get more representation. And that’s how Bevin came along~

And, of course, I wanted her to have the best boyfriend in the whole world, so I gave her Porter. Porter was VERY fun to write, as well, because I’ve met a whole number of deaf and nonverbal people in my life, but hardly ever saw them represented on TV or in books much. And when I did, they all seemed to be deaf/HOH for the same reasons, so I also wanted to delve into that, too! Most of the people I support at my current job are nonverbal, and some have hearing loss, too, but every single one of them has completely different circumstances that led to that. So that’s why I wanted Porter to have something a little different than expected, but still was familiar. I also wanted an autistic, fat, mexican person on my cast of characters, because I never get to see those much, either. Making him deaf and nonverbal was just the beginning! 

These two together are absolutely ADORABLE, too. I love writing how they interact, and I especially love their super-cute backstory of how they got together (you’ll see it in the webcomic so I won’t spoil, but it’s beautiful)! 

Two more OCs from my upcoming webcomic… I love writing all of my characters, but these two are lots of fun because they’re both very ‘positive’ in their outlooks on life.

River, my nonbinary fave, was one of the first characters I designed for The Oddballs, with an interesting twist on certain archetypes that made them VERY fun to write.

And, of course, Teanna, named after one of the strongest girls I know, is a very athletic girl with one fewer limb than her peers, and was an absolute delight to add to the big league of main characters that make up the cast~