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Sometimes you get the itch to draw something very specific. This time it was practicing human faces by drawing a bunch of my human(oid) ocs. I haven't drawn humans often, so most of these characters have either scarcely been drawn before or haven't been drawn in may years.

Moth, short for Behemoth, is a character I started developing for a would-have-been DnD campaign that never came to fruition. She was to be a centuries-old tree (specifically a Douglas Fir) that got permanently polymorphed into a wood elf and was still getting used to the whole being a sapient, mobile being thing. The residual energy from the spell gave her a knack for transmutation magic, and simply being an ancient tree made her a natural druid. I planned for wildshapes to reflect her tree-ish nature, with thicks coats of trees needles replacing fur and feather and bark replacing scales. I was still working out what her motivations and the motivations of whoever polymorphed her should be. Did they leave her like this because they couldn’t undo it or because they didn’t care? Giving her goals like ‘I want to be a tree again’ or ‘I want to explore the world’ seemed too obvious and unsatisfying for a primary goal.

Ami and Bygul are two of my shape-shifting spirits. Ami has already appeared in this tumblr, while Bygul’s older ref sheet is on my deviantart. I’ve never officially decided whether a human form is possible for Bygul—he’s a second-generation spirit and their forms are limited to specific groups of animals, in his case cats. That doesn’t stop me from imagining what a human form would be like, though. I picture him as a mischievous child that totally looks like trouble but is also surprisingly nice.

Zennith is the protagonist of OCTL, I’m not saying much about her in case I decide to stick pages up here. She’s also the only one that counts as a vanilla human, at least as far as the story arc I have written goes.

Faiyth and the last, currently unnamed character are from the same world as Meteor (I called it Tearings for years, but that’s neither a real word nor a great name). They were originally set up as major protagonists but got displaced a bit as the world grew and I ended up focusing mostly on the anars. In reworking them I still want them to be important, but not in the chosen one kind of way I made up as a kid. Rather, the world is full of weird and powerful things and they happen to be in the right places at the right times to get dragged into the major events other beings have started.

All of these characters belong to me. Please do not copy the character or design, trace the artwork, post the artwork elsewhere, or use the artwork as a reference image for roleplaying.

Description

Sometimes you get the itch to draw something very specific. This time it was practicing human faces by drawing a bunch of my human(oid) ocs. I haven't drawn humans often, so most of these characters have either scarcely been drawn before or haven't been drawn in may years.

Moth, short for Behemoth, is a character I started developing for a would-have-been DnD campaign that never came to fruition. She was to be a centuries-old tree (specifically a Douglas Fir) that got permanently polymorphed into a wood elf and was still getting used to the whole being a sapient, mobile being thing. The residual energy from the spell gave her a knack for transmutation magic, and simply being an ancient tree made her a natural druid. I planned for wildshapes to reflect her tree-ish nature, with thicks coats of trees needles replacing fur and feather and bark replacing scales. I was still working out what her motivations and the motivations of whoever polymorphed her should be. Did they leave her like this because they couldn’t undo it or because they didn’t care? Giving her goals like ‘I want to be a tree again’ or ‘I want to explore the world’ seemed too obvious and unsatisfying for a primary goal.

Ami and Bygul are two of my shape-shifting spirits. Ami has already appeared in this tumblr, while Bygul’s older ref sheet is on my deviantart. I’ve never officially decided whether a human form is possible for Bygul—he’s a second-generation spirit and their forms are limited to specific groups of animals, in his case cats. That doesn’t stop me from imagining what a human form would be like, though. I picture him as a mischievous child that totally looks like trouble but is also surprisingly nice.

Zennith is the protagonist of OCTL, I’m not saying much about her in case I decide to stick pages up here. She’s also the only one that counts as a vanilla human, at least as far as the story arc I have written goes.

Faiyth and the last, currently unnamed character are from the same world as Meteor (I called it Tearings for years, but that’s neither a real word nor a great name). They were originally set up as major protagonists but got displaced a bit as the world grew and I ended up focusing mostly on the anars. In reworking them I still want them to be important, but not in the chosen one kind of way I made up as a kid. Rather, the world is full of weird and powerful things and they happen to be in the right places at the right times to get dragged into the major events other beings have started.

All of these characters belong to me. Please do not copy the character or design, trace the artwork, post the artwork elsewhere, or use the artwork as a reference image for roleplaying.