Maryne

Poll Reward: "Unnamed OCs from unnamed story" #1

Added 2024-01-24 16:19:50 +0000 UTC

(6 sketches)

Some random characters for a short story, about a vampire girl who has never seen her reflection, and that one human who wants to help her by picking up all kinds of new skills. Makeup, hairstyling, photography (hoping different lenses and tricks would generate a reflection? she's an optimist), physics/biology (to understand how vampires don't have a reflection); until finally learning how to sculpt, draw and paint; and painting her a portrait. Which would be the very first time vampire girl sees herself.

These sketches only touch on the makeup part, but the idea came to me specifically because of the portrait idea, and incorporating all kinds of other knowledge into how you draw and paint (learning photography helps with recognizing composition and colors, makeup with highlights and shadows, hairstyling with how hair works, physics/biology with anatomy, etc).

I want this story to be about the joys of learning anything remotly artistic. How to make art from the heart and enjoy the process, whether it is for yourself, someone else, or both.

For this story, art is about wanting so hard to express something to someone when words fail you that you pour your heart out into everything that art as a whole, in any medium, has to offer; and the joys of creating it from scratch and sharing it.

(yes, it might have been fuelled by a desire to put all my frustrations and feelings about AI "art" into a short story, while still keeping a hopeful message based around human connection and human artistic spirit)

Anyway i'm ranting but enjoy these sketches, and let me know if you'd like to see more! Whether this becomes a real polished story or not, i can always share parts of it in bits and pieces!

PS: about the actual sketches here... in France, bar bathrooms have both stalls and urinals in the same room and anybody of any gender uses them like that lmao. I JUST had a conversation with American friends about it yesterday, so now I know to explain that one panel w/ that guy just pissing in the corner 😂