Name: Ike

After the last picture I drew, I wanted to draw that kind of eyes again and I think they look amazing 🤩 and it's actually quite simple to draw them like that (if you know what you are doing, of course 😂).

Motivation and an Idea

I am currently trying to draw my characters, but since I kind of struggle with that, I decided to take a break from that today and rather start figuring out how to write about them. Then I realized, it's probably best, if I first introduce the main idea that connects all (/most) of them.

As I started, I had two things: motivation and an idea.

After I played Undertale for the first time, I discovered the huge fandom behind it and realized that the world I loved so much had a whole other dimension to it (literally 😂). I saw the great content people made, like art or music. That made me plant the little seed of motivation into my head. I was thinking, maybe I could make something that great as well.

That was the moment I started to write a story. I didn't feel too confident to draw anything, so the best thing I could do was write. I was really proud of how it turned out. It was pretty basic and stuck to the normal game. I also had this idea (not the one I was talking about up there, but it's important for where I am now) that I was suppressing, since I wanted to focus on my AU.

One evening, I decided to give that idea a chance and after I kept dreaming the entire night about it, I spent the entire morning putting it into words. The phase after that, I call the downfall. My problem is that I am a perfectionist. So I kept rewriting the chapters until I finally managed to break the story for myself. After ten attempts, an almost finished first chapter with thirty pages, almost a year time spent running in circles and a couple other reasons I finally managed to kind of let go. (I still think there could maybe the possibility that I might be able to tell that story, but for now it's best to leave it behind. I also kind of can't let entirely go. For example: I use the main character in my profile pic 😊)

After realizing that I needed to stop since it lead nowhere, I needed something new to be obsessed with. While writing, I also wrote down a couple of ideas for potential later characters. And as I reviewed what I had collected, I realized that two of them would fit quite well as a duo. First, I still wanted to include my old character as well, but I let go of that after another month.

Now, that I've explained my motivation, it's time to present my idea! (... why is this becoming so long? 😅)

I wanted to take the concept of the genocide run in another light. I mean sure, there were so many worlds out there, where people just killed for fun or they didn't have another choice. My first characters lean more into the category of it being an accident. Since this was the main concept I was going by, I called my AU 'Club of Genociders' (by now, I don't really like that name but it still fits and I have currently no better idea how to name it.)

After FINALLY having explained my main concept (and rambling too much 😂) I can tell that this little idea snowballed into such a huge story. I am still struggling to put it all into words, so I figured it's best to share what I have to avoid making the same mistakes again. but what's most important, I love the way everything is evolving. From the characters, over the storyline to major plot twists. I also realized that I keep adding new possible characters to the story (not sure if I'll include them all though. That really depends on how the story turns out.)

If you made it this far, thanks for reading 😊 (I really didn't want to make it that long 😅)

I'm getting distracted...

I am sorry. I just have too many projects running simultaneously and I did NOT forget that I wanted to do a couple of Error-comics, but I've been lately distracted first with life and secondly with another project that has been sitting in my head for about a year.

I already tried a couple times creating my own AU only ending in not being satisfied with my results. That led me to entirely take a break from the Undertale fandom, trying to create something else (which also failed of course).

But lately, I read through my older attempts and looked at older concepts I did some time ago and since I really love the idea of that AU and my OCs, I wanted to give it another shot. I feel more prepared than ever to finally turn that beautiful story into a form I can share it with others. I learned from my mistakes and finally got a structure from start to (almost) finish.

And since this is for me a new start of this story, I want to give it a new name (since I don't think the old one fits anymore). And I want to give it the name of another story that never made it and that (for now...) will probably never make it into reality. To honour the first bigger idea I came up with and my first Undertale OC, I will name my AU Desolatetale.

I'm not sure how consistent I will be with updates but I'm giving my best. If you have any kind of questions, always feel free to ask.

(I already posted character sheets here on this blog, but I want to make new 'spoiler-free' ones. If you want to see them anyway, they're here, here and here. I'm not sure if the information about these characters are still correct as I am currently rewriting the story but the designs will stay the same! ... I guess.)

And yes, this piece ... I still love it even if it was one of my earliest ones ... and I think there's barely something I could improve on this (except the background ... and challanging myself with perspective)

I was looking through my devianart and found this picture I did about a year ago. Didn't post this here yet.

I still remember how proud I was as I finished that ...

Dream and Nightmare by @jokublog

Since I forgot to post a picture of the sketch before erasing, I thought: maybe I'll just post my coloring process instead. But guess who forgot to take a picture again.

Jupp. So moving past the first stage to the second. First off, I layed out the base colors but only with minimal pressure. Now I drew in the shadows with a darker pencil and also minimal pressure. Next, it's about to slowly make the colors more vibrant and mix differnt layers of colors to get the exact one I need.

And yes, I did forget about the scar again but added it just after this post.

And if anyone needs a tip on how to get vibrant colors with pencils, start with minimal pressure and keep layering more and more. In the end you can go over the color with more pressure.

Okay, I stopped working on the previous sketch since something about it was not right. I'm not sure what but it felt weird and I didn't like it.

Instead I moved on to the next one. Sadly, I forgot to make a picture of the sketch before slightly erasing but I wanted to show it nethertheless. So, here's Eijiro in his hero costume

Can't wait to line and color it 😀

Sooo, I was watching a video on art styles... and I thought, hey why not draw my fav OC Yishu in mha-art-style.

(just got lazy with the colours and didn't want to use another brush for the lineart, please forgive me)

Also, another challenge I did: normal, gender-bend, child and villain.

WHY IS SHE LOOKING SO CUTE AS A CHILD?!

And I like the guy version of her.

currently doodling a lot. I have trouble drawing my own OCs the way I want, so I distract myself by setting a city on fire 😊

Now I'm looking through old pictures and thinking like: aww that looks so cute. I should totally take some of the old designs and integrate them into the new ones.

like, here what I'm talking about (old one above, new one below):

I really like the eyes of the old one, the loose hairstrains and the staff. THAT STAFF IS SO COOL!!! Imagine her pulling out a giant ink pen out of it.

In the new design, I merged the eye colours (might undo that, I think I like the separate colours. I also did that originally to set her colour-sceme, since the cloak was ... all colours.) I replaced the staff with a scroll because she wouldn't be fighting, but currently I'm like, I don't care, I want staff, gimme staff o.o

Maybe I'll merge what I listed above from the old design with the hairstyle and outfit from the lower one. (If I make that staff a giant ink pen, that vial of ink will clearly need to be bigger. Or could it be, that she just spills the ink over the tip of the pen and then starts to draw?)

Edit: Oh and in terms of creativity and the creative way I decided their names (it was simply their profession. I was lazy 😅) I decided to put a little more effort in and rename them. So er name is not Creativity or Crea anymore, her new name is Yishu.

Yishu, the guardian of creativity

I'm currently having same character syndrome, wooooo!

Or maybe it's a lack of inspiration.

But at least I got back to drawing and liking my current style again.

Just got another idea. What if I morph that onto the OC I wanted to draw originally?

Giving him some pretty wings ...

and maybe I'll change his hair as well

I just realised I have way too much reference material collected over the last year but still not enough ...

I'm doing an art challange this month with the theme:

Future Fantasy

Figured I could draw one of my OCs again, was looking through old stuff for a specific reference but couldn't find it ... instead found something else and I have another idea. I'm simply going to recycle one of my Undertale OCs who never made it.

And I kinda came up with this:

Here the pic I found of that unused OC:

God, my artstyle back then was something else 😂