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Tulio Took (Tookio? Tokyo? Rio, France, Meet Me in Mexico?)

May 10, 2014 by CallyAnn

Traced some Tulio faces, then modified them to get Took! Took differs from Tulio in his more angular jaw line, ridiculous (RIDICULOUS) hairstyle, bigger/taller ears, bags under the eyes, weird forked eyebrows, and upturned nose, so I worked those in to see what I’d get. Even though all those traits sound ugly/weird, all together on the “Tulio” base they actually look cute and funny! I learned a lot from doing this! I’m not sure yet if it’s quite perfect since it’s not truly my style, but it’s fun to look at. I need to do these more often. I particularly like the shape of the eyes–they’re way more expressive that the eyes I usually draw.

Spark’s Character Survey

May 5, 2014 by Evie

Evie: Spark! Come here! We’re going to talk about you.
Spark: Great! I love talking about me!
Evie: I know. Sit down.
Spark: Don’t tell me to sit down! How dare you! You just said that out of habit from being a teacher. *sticks out tongue*
Evie: *facepalm* You’re right. Sorry. Don’t sit down. Pace, dance, hover, do whatever you gotta do. BUT FOCUS.

1. People don’t behave the same way all the time. In fact, they generally have a mask for every social group — friends, family, business. Sometimes they have a different mask for different groups of friends. How does your character act around different people? How does their personality shift and change?
Spark generally conducts herself in a manner of two ways: infatuated and delighted or restless and mischievous (perhaps even menacing, though when she is made aware of how her actions are affecting others she will stop.) Generally she is VERY OBLIVIOUS of herself and how her actions come across to others. This is true for Krissy as well. For this reason, she doesn’t wear a lot of masks, so to speak. Krissy manages to find more middle ground emotions than Spark, but she doesn’t put on certain personas for different people. She tends to be a little more aloof and laidback with her friends from school, more childlike and innocent around her parents, and more dangerous and enthusiastic around Vahaadi, but those could all change depending on the circumstance.

2. Your character has been brought to a party and promptly ditched. They don’t have a ride back home. How does this work? How comfortable are they around all of these strangers? Do they interact?

Character Survey: Vahaadi

April 27, 2014 by CallyAnn

1. People don’t behave the same way all the time. In fact, they generally have a mask for every social group — friends, family, business. Sometimes they have a different mask for different groups of friends. How does your character act around different people? How does their personality shift and change?
Vahaadi acts very differently depending on who he’s around. To his friends, he’s playful and casual. He usually manages to maintain a suave, bad-boy air, but at the smallest show of affection he’ll melt. His gaze is warm, his touches are petting, and he tends to be more expressive in his body language. People he doesn’t like get treated with a passive-aggressive snarkiness and even cruelty. He uses touch to harass and subtly threaten. Around men he’s attracted to, he’s submissive, coaxing and serious. Smiles are rare and eye contact is carefully calculated. The worst state to see him in is when he’s strung out on aphrodisiacs, which is his go-to coping method for depression and loneliness. He becomes very sexually solicitous (though not aggressive, since he’s found he gets more attention from playing the lapcat), slinky and raunchy. He usually only lets himself be seen this way by whoremongers and clients. When caught in this state by people he knows, he’s deeply humiliated.

Freaking Took.

April 19, 2014 by CallyAnn

OK, I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again: Took is really easy to write, but really hard to draw. I thought I’d figured him out in these pics:

But I almost think he’s too cute??? I dunno. I was thinking a longer face might be better, since it would make him look more like Lanthriel, but Lanthriel gets his “longness” from his mom, so…uh. I’m not sure. I just don’t want him to be cute and generic looking. So here are some sketches and notes! Also, noses. The weird expression in the bottom right was me trying to explore how extreme his faces are. I think this might be a little too much but it’s funny. XD

I don’t know what’s happening in this picture but I think Took is at work? He must work with other sorcerers and engineers occasionally. I didn’t really care to figure out what he was doing so I just left the first one as body boxes. The dialogue came out of nowhere.

P.S. The Took drawing for your birthday is still in the works! Right now your birthday Took has the long face look pictured above. It’s not quite as angular-cutesy as the face I gave him in the traditional study and the 2011 expression study, but he does look a little more…suave, with the long face? For what that’s worth? It used to be important to me that he looked like a teenager, but that’s not a priority to me, anymore…especially now that I’m much closer to his age (AHAHAHAHA weird thought).

I think I’d like him to have a sort of Disney villain look to him, where he’s not generically attractive but his design *works.* My problem now is that I don’t know how to incorporate the elements I’ve noticed Disney uses to “uglify” their villains (extreme cheek bones, long chins, bags under the eyes, long upper lips) without him looking WAY too old. Quandary >/

Andrayia’s Crush

April 19, 2014 by CallyAnn

Evie | My characters rarely surprise me much anymore, but Andrayia definitely got an eyebrow raised when she confessed to me she’s got a crush on Vahaadi but she doesn’t want anyone to know. She’s never met him but she’s seen drawings of him and knows about Loose Canon and she’s glad that he’s going to belong to Spark. She thinks he’s so handsome and best of all he knows how to have a good time, something the people in her world are seriously lacking. I told her LOTS of girls have crushes on Vahaadi as soon as they see him and he’s not interested. She said she knows, but she just had to tell somebody. So. There you have it.

CallyAnn | Aw. Awwwwww. D: I am surprised, too! But maybe kinda not? I guess my level of surprise varies depending on her level of crush. XD

I drew a reaction thing but the art isn’t great and I know she doesn’t want anyone to know, but would you be interested in seeing it?

Evie | of course! I think she doesn’t want anyone to know because she thinks Van would be angry and Spark would be jealous, but it’s actually sweet, I think, and I think both Van and Spark would be understanding. But for her sake I haven’t told them. I think it’s okay if you and your characters know, but she wants me to keep it from mine. She figures she will never meet Vahaadi anyway, so it doesn’t matter if he knows. She doesn’t think Took has his heart set on her affections so she doesn’t think it’ll matter to him and she barely knows about Lanthriel and Kala so it’s not really an issue. I think in her mind she kinda believes all of Vahaadi’s far off tales and put together with what I said about lots of girls having crushes on him she thinks she is just one among many (like a belieber– ugh, I just typed that. horrible.)

she thinks Vahaadi looks extremely handsome and she’s never seen anyone so striking that has such a short stature and “I bet he never scowls” and he looks like he knows how to take a compliment and give them too. He also looks like he’s not afraid of anything and …he’s just dreamy. (I’m laughing? But that’s rude to her, I know. She feels so self conscious.) I’d say her level of crush is “twitterpated.”

CallyAnn |

. . .

(Like this is somehow Vahaadi’s fault XD but Vahaadi wouldn’t put it past Van to blame him for stealing the heart of a girl he’s never met)

(Vahaadi has a knee-jerk reaction to apologize when Took yells [reminiscent of his Sahin days D: ] but these apologies tend to be less than sincere and a little backhanded hahaha )

Evie | AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS ART IS FANTASTIC

hahahahahahahahah

AHHHHHHHHHH

I JUST LOVE EVERYTHING

I haven’t even shown Andrayia I just love it for me

haha I hope that isn’t bad

I think she’d be very apologetic too

now I will have to draw something in return

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGRAHIGHSABIGOU(UWNHHHHHHHHHHHHH i just love this

I love the little !!! lines in front of vahaadi

if this is what happens when you watch a lot of anime I approve

CallyAnn | Of course if Van did find out about Andrayia’s crush and confronted Vahaadi about it, his (bad) response would be,

Evie | hahahahahahahaewwwwwwwwwwwwwww

And Van will be like “WHY DID I EVER COME HERE”

((WEIRD REACTION FACE GO HAHAHAHAHAHA sorry this is so ugly I just couldn’t help it. Van, why are you always the butt of the joke. ))