Thankfully I managed to finish what I wanted in one day, although I hoped to finish two works instead of one but it always takes more time than I expected. So, it's time to introduce you my new OCs! Yeah, my brain still can't stop occasionally brewing up more and more characters for my universe. I actually came up with their concepts three months ago and even made some drafts but they were too raw to share, materials for the second OC still feel too raw so I'm sharing it here only because I did a proper sheet for the first one.Now Zed has another brother besides Astro! Rick is pretty much an embodiment of my edgy rock loving boy obsession, in a contrast to his other brothers and simply most of my OCs he is one of the chillest characters comparable to Jack Tallhead and Vincent Frame but unlike them as more intelligent and composed characters Rick remains very sexually charged and rebellious on top of his chill personality. I gave him a pretty simple set of likes and dislikes, maybe I should've also clarified that by liking heavy metal I mean that he also has a guitar playing hobby. And yeah, by liking his brothers I mean it in a gay way and he also doesn't mind banging Mark together with his boyfriend Zed. And yes, one of his most prominent features is his dick, similar to his brothers Zed and Mark he has a pretty weird shaped one with very tight phimosis. I think you already know it by my occasional edits that I'm obsessed with absurdly large cock heads covered entirely with tight foreskin and I thought I need a character who has it canonically. Zed already had a pretty large and round cock head but its size is overshadowed by a very fat wide shaft while I wanted some more ridiculous contrast to play with.
This is actually how the very first Rick draft from three months ago looked like. I made it just with a mouse without any pencil sketches and the head turned out perfect but I couldn't make a natural pose without pencil so I left it without limbs and abandoned for quite a while until recently.
Another concept I did at the same time is a small NES sprite made in the same proportions as Zed sprite from Tricky Dicky Adventures project. It turned out cute but I couldn't post it here because I wanted to give this character a proper introduction with a proper concept art. And yeah, he wears a black shirt with a skull, it's a part of his edgy personality and I wanted it to be his canon clothes. The half finished second piece I mentioned in the beginning is actually one showing Rick in his classic clothes.
Second OC I made is named Ekzo, I didn't come up with any backstory or detailed personality traits for him but I really like him. What I can already tell for sure is that Ekzo is more of a really weird and unreal character similar to Vincent Frame. If all my more "Earthly" OCs at least have a somewhat more real body color pattern and anatomy (I mean, they have all their limbs connected together with very few parts floating, mostly facial features) then Ekzo is all made of separate floating parts, again, similar to Vincent Frame. The first concept of him just standing looks nice but idk, I wanted something bigger for his first public introduction, a proper concept art similar to what I did for Rick, so maybe he needs to wait a little while, for now everything I shared here will stay just here. And yeah, he is my second OC whom I can easily use for feet art.
However, I already had some fun playing with his shapes. I was just curious to depict such an abstract character in a kinkier way, all round and stuff, also I was revisiting Yoshi's Island at that time and got inspired to emulate its crayon style, that's how this bouncy Ekzo animation was made. Honestly, it actually started with a pixel animation because it's always easier for me to polish animations when they're fully digital, I never did pencil animation before so I didn't feel ready, then I traced all 4 frames on separate sheets with pencil and then I just colored them with crayons, scanned and combined together thus recreating the initial animation but with pencil scans. Maybe it's not my best and smoothest animation but it's still cute for a quick test.
One fun fact: I swear it wasn't intentional, I came up with Ekzo's name just because he looks exotic even compared to my other OCs and only several minutes later I realized that Ekzo is actually a successful Russian brand of ice cream established in 1994, it's mainly known for, obviously, exotic flavors with mangro-raspberry being their most known classic one. But, well, I decided to just embrace it, I guess there's nothing wrong in naming your character after a good Russian ice cream which nobody in the world but Russians themselves know about anyway?That's all for now, I'm glad I finally managed to share all these old ideas here. I want to finish this mentioned second piece with Rick and after that I'll go back to finishing McCloud sequence. There's also one big thing for my NES project that I was working on a lot in June, the final boss which you might like a lot, sadly I didn't have time to finish him before July but there's very little left.