This is a work in progress but it's supposed to be a collection of reference images for my sona :D my intention is to be able to link to someone this if we're doing an AT or something used to be called "cosmo" but that's kinda boring! And also I wasn't very connected to old cosmo; the colours weren't fitting together very well and I was leaning more towards bushy because I was sad about her being dead. I am still sad about her being dead, but I don't want to use a real life friend as a representation of myself. So I drew an inkling-ish me any time I needed a lil doodle where a sona would usually be. But I also kind of prefer referring to myself with a character that doesn't look like me/a character that's more colourful and interesting and not humanoid lol. So here's Cosmo but more interesting! I just call them "cos" (pronounced like the "cos" in "cosine) in my head, or "cozy". But I'll call her a lot of stuff below! There's some trig references, funny wordplay and stuff. 1. main ref: I wear glasses again, the hair looks like mine ish, I really liked the folded-ear-becomes-leaf part of the design, the other ear is not any specified creature, I love the whiskers even if the whiskers look clunky here I love doodling them on Cosi in my homework whiskers are so cool I dunno why a lot of cat artists ignore them. The bowtie is a reference to Bushy lol the chest fur emotion symbol thing is kind of complicated and I think the in-universe explanation for why cosec no longer displays emotions as much all over is kind of related to me maturing and being more isolated and more protective of how others see my emotions. Cozy has more control over the emotions that she displays on her whiskers, almost like me picking and choosing what to act like for the day! I have so many things to say about this design lol. She has those yellow circles on her knees because my knees are bad /hj and on her hair and cheeks as just kind of a recurring design thing I guess. The wings are just floating leaves, I don't think he could fly with them. More ways to express emotions though lol. I finally updated the colours a bit, specifically, I removed the pink (don't really like pink anyway) and changed the purple to be a purple I like more (honestly I was super tempted to make it this nice saturated blue-purple but decided in the end to use fore's purple for a bit of continuity in my character designs or something.) and the yellow and light aqua have very similar values but they're so iconic and don't meet much anyway except at the face and I can dismiss that as "her face is hard to decipher" trust. There's general usages for the colours as outlined in the purple box: the main colour is a new green-aqua, the mild cyan is for leaves as well as fur-shaped splotches on cosi, the lighter aqua is for curvy splotches, the yellow is for inner floof like the chest, tummy, inner ear floof, as well as an optional decoration for the tips of leaves, and as previously mentioned, yellow circles around the body. The purple is used like ornaments all over, as well as some parts of the body like the nose, mouth, inner ear, pawtips. Whoa I've yapped a lot 2. you don't have to draw her with glasses! I only recently began wearing glasses again lol. Feel free to simplify the design, on the left there's an example of my removal of a few details but she could be more simple hmmm. And on the right I tried to draw in a different style, but I kind of failed at the style part so it's moreso drawing in a different brush and eye style. 3. anthro notes! I know the ear looks weirdly long compared to the other one but think of it as a metaphor for when people talk to me! Because I'm only half listening!! I wear collared fleeces, hoodies, sweaters usually. Sweatpants, cargos, dress pants for work. Don't have a fashion sense lol. My wardrobe is indeed a lot of purple (the sweaters), yellow (at school my house's colour is yellow), black (for music performances and stage tech management we wear all black), white (socks and three shirts), green (a lot of socks, and some sweatpants and shirts from volunteering. Ranges from deep green to jade green to light green.) and I have some other colours! 4. the original meme that prompted this cosi redesign loll. Came from and and this doodle of cosmo is me making an upper-body design on the spot! on the right is the first ever cosmo design (questionable haha) uhhhhhh very much yapfest oh well if someone reads all that I'll be surprised drawn on Krita by me please don't run away with it :'D old refs: (look inside for more)
