1+ YEAR OF AQUAMARINE
As you may or may not know, I have an OC universe named 'Aquamarine'. On October 8th, it was a year since I started thinking reaaally hard about my OCs, so I've marked it as the project's birthday.
I only really share Aquamarine in detail privately because they're such personal OCs that talking about them publicly makes me really nervous lol. Plus I feel like I don't actually have much to show anyway... I don't finish a lot of drawings and most of my writing is self indulgent crap lmao. Regardless, they mean a lot to me.
Aquamarine is undeniably a huge part of my life now, it's half of what I draw nowadays and it's ever-evolving. I've never had an OC project like this before, but it's really rewarding and I wish I had done something like this sooner. I have college to thank for Aquamarine even existing because it was actually my final major project. It was a mock-up for a game and I did two character designs to fill the brief, the two designs being Atlas and Dolly.
I am not sharing the original concept art because... because it's ugly.. sorry... But I will share the fake poster I made for it!
I started with just Atlas and Dolly, but in about Nov 2024, I started making new characters. I made Nina (who was still just called 'Boss') and then made Lou, her younger twin sister. Then in Dec 2024, I made Alba. I haven't added a new character officially yet because I'm still working on the 5 existing characters, but I've made just a teensy bit of progress on worldbuilding. It's a very slow thing for me, but thats ok! It's not something I want to push out immediately. I have thought about a few new characters though...
I've been slowly chipping away at a blog for my ocs where I just post anything relating to them on there. I don't have particularly grand plans for my characters, I definitely do want to write actual plotlines and stories but right now I'm just having fun with them and doing what I want. This isn't something very serious, just something I use as an outlet I suppose. I have concepts for a short VN about my OCs that works as an introduction to them all but it's just a concept right now :P
This is usually the part where I show you nice drawings I've made but frankly I don't really finish oc drawings LOL. It's mostly just sketches because I'm pretty lazy/slow at drawing plus I wanna make new reference pics for them all.
When I made this updated reference for everyone, I decided to hold a poll for which design was everyone's favourite. I counted multiple votes too iirc, here are the results:
I've already posted this on the blog but it makes me laugh that Alba had zero votes... LOOOOOOOOOL. Anyway I'm planning to hold a second vote whenever I make new refs for everyone.. I'm just painfully slow at drawing and as of late I find it harder to focus. Not really sure why, but I'm pushing thru. I hope Alba gets maybe 1 vote.. but don't pity vote him.. Follow your heart...
I've also been back into DRA again (it faded for like a month but now it's back at full force) so I haven't been investing any time into aquamarines at all T__T)... LOL
No lie I started writing this blog post 2 weeks ago but I literally forgot. I was probably going to put more thoughts but I forgot.. So I'm sending it out to the world.. Thanks for reading if you did! >_o)*
I hope I can update the blog again next year and maybe I'll have more to show :P