New Species Portraits! (Starks and Pennies)

 

After three thousand years, I've finally redone the species portraits! ...Or, well, most of them. Pennies and starks have some spiffy new pictures on the Platform website. They're also completely image-mapped, meaning that you can hover over each character in the images to see their names, and click on them to view their biography, if they have one. You can see them here! It was fun to get to draw Caeder's domum after all this time, and it's always a joy to draw baby Blik and Vera. Who doesn't want to see baby Blik and Vera? Humans, strelks, maskers, and kangies still need updated pictures, but that's for another day... Just these ones took way longer than they should've, ahah. 

(Also, dang these pictures are tiny -- clicking them is probably best if you want to actually read the text.)

In the meantime, I've also uploaded a new MAP part to my Youtube channel (which can be watched here), featuring Janus and their wife Solei! It has a more detailed explanation in the video description.

The reason that I've been so busy for a while (beyond school work and actual work) should soon become apparent... A new video should be out later this month! I hope you all like it. : )

The Bird in Good Humor

 

Toying around with some new art of Caeder! It's been a while since I've drawn an updated fullbody of this guy, and he's gotten significantly beefier since last time. I also got to show off the new leg and arm updates for pennies, which is exciting! I love that talon-y look they've got to them, and they're now the only major Platform species to be digitigrades, which sets them apart from the rest a little. Whatever my reasons for drawing him, though, it looks like he's enjoying himself.

A fun fact! I posed him to obviously be sitting on something... And then didn't draw any background at all. So it looked like he was just floating in a void on his rump, which was a little odd. Hence the oval thing in the background now -- at least it looks like there's some sort of ledge he's sitting on. Messy, but effective.

Also, I tried a new method of drawing peacock trains. And while I think it looks alright in the end, oh my gosh, it was incredibly hard to draw. I spent five hours just on his train. I know I'm a slow artist, but even for me... Dang. 

"Bottled Cider"

"Now if only his last name was "Apple".

This was a fun picture to draw (and not just because I could be lazy on the background). I like the way that his feathers look overall -- I tried a new way to draw them because drawing them hyper-realistically like I attempted to in the last picture of Cider ended up just looking sloppy. I'm much more fond of his simplified feathers. They also look greener, and I like the contrast. And now everyone can see my horrible handwriting, yaaay!

Cider has also changed a TON in the last two years. I mean, look at his face in this picture and the last one. Compare them. Seriously. In the first one, he's smug and obviously thinks he's superior to everyone on the Platform. And then look at him in this one! "Hey guys! I'm in a bottle! How cool is that?!""

 - 2016 Brennan


Back before I changed his name to Caeder! The joke was funnier then.

"The Male has the Plumage"

"This is Cider, the king of Rett. In Rett, the entire city is inhabited by pennies (not the coins), which are known for the males' stunning feathers.

In this drawing, I learned that I can't draw architecture."

 - 2014 Brennan


Oh my gosh. This is the first Platform post I ever made. And it's Caeder, looking completely unlike himself, born of the fact that I was annoyed that peacock-inspired characters were always women while the male birds have trains.

Things only got more involved from here.

(Oh, and no, I still can't draw architecture, by the way.)