just a facade (oc) i’m pretty sure even you can see where my heart is _____ do not repost outside of scratch without permission. art by @-707 zoom in code by @colorsnatch music (fukujusou) is a gunyo cover by dazbee characters (coco & cherie) belong to @Ikigai__ and @-707 drawn on procreate _____ here’s a series of pieces i drew way back in october!! they were made over the course of just one week for coco’s (character belongs to @Ikigai__) birthday, it was hard work churning out seven fully fledged pieces AND a short pv but it was well worth it! if you’re interested in the pv here it is! https://youtu.be/07p8tRUn5sk?si=HYLhJOTvPH1HsZ8q a lot of you don’t know this but these two are my roman empire…… i think about them a whole lot lots of you may recognize the girl with turquoise and magenta hair if you’ve been around since 2020-2021, but if you have not let me formally introduce you to the one and only coco! her gf (black hair girl) has been around for a significantly shorter time and she’s never gotten a formal introduction but this is cherie! they are wives! hooray for yuri!! the lore was written by my dear friend yumi so y’all get to be in the dark about what their story is like >:3c but i hope you guys enjoy the art anyhow! arrow buttons/arrow keys/space to scroll, click and drag to zoom in! i’ll explain what i did all week and the prompts i got to doodle: 1. day one - modern! i wanted to go for a retropop band spread, i gave coco a bass because i play bass and i think it’s cool and i gave cherie a keytar because.. i also play piano and i think its cool HAHA. the background was lots of fun because i really like working with more abstract spreads and bright colors, and it was cool giving them alternate hairstyles and clothing outside of what they’re usually drawn in! it was a super fun way to get creative and kick off the week :D 2. day two - princess and knight! according to canon cherie is coco’s right hand knight, so i played on this dynamic a little, but i wanted to lean a little more into traditional fantasy romance subtexts. i did a little experimenting with the style here to try and get a webtoon sort of vibe going?? hope i succeeded teehee :3 designing their outfits here was also really fun, playing with textures on cherie’s jacket was a blast and i generally adore designing princess gowns so that made me happy!! i gave them matching roses too and i think it turned out real cute hehe 3. day three - my melody and kuromi! it’s sory of a redesign from a piece i made for artfight last year, which was super last minute and i really like the my melody/kuromi design subtype so i felt i didn’t do them justice lol. i really got to sit down and make sure i got the vision right here, which made me happy! tried to go for a ryousangata/jirai kei sort of fashion type here; i handmake my own jirai/ryousangata pieces so i generally really love designing pieces like these! i really like how this one turned out and its one of my favorites from the whole week (hence why its the thumbnail) 3.5. said piece from artfight 2024! it was made just an hour or two before the site closed for the year, so again it was very rushed, but this is what sparked the vision! 4. day four - tarot card! this was directly inspired by the marigold tarot print of the card “the lovers,” it was really fun to go for a different sort of vibe with this one—especially since i was restricted to just a few colors! one of the biggest challenges was making sure the characters looked like them even without their signature colorations, hope i nailed it! 4.5. next two slides are the individual cards! it was fun doodling them in such a cute pose ^-^ why did i draw them as skeletons you may ask? hehe.. thats a lore secret ;) 5. day five - genderswap! i was lowk the most excited for this day but it actually turned out to be pretty challenging.. still not a huge fan of this piece but oh well :"D one of the biggest challenges here was adapting their designs to fit a more masc vibe. neither of them have the most feminine designs known to man, so adapting them wasn’t the hardest thing ever, but boy did it take a few tries to make it look good! i think it turned out kinda cute, though i couldn’t seem to get cherie’s expression quite right.. i was runnin out of time though so i had to stick with this LOL _____
_____ (cont… i yap too much and the desc got too long LOL) 6. day six - sea and stars! i tried to go for a storybook vibe here and i tried to sell it using the torn page borders but there’s just something about it that i can’t really put my finger on.. i’m not the biggest fan of this one and it’s probably my weakest one of the seven, but hey i got it done on time at least LMAO. i want to revisit this again because it’s a prompt with a ton of potential.. maybe that’s next year’s cococherie week’s problem :3 7. day seven - free day! i picked vintage for this prompt, and so this is a redraw of an emma and aleksander image! it’s pretty popular so i’m sure a lot of you have seen it before, and some of you have probably done redraws yourselves! i went for a more realistic sort of vibe here, which is most notable in coco’s face :D it was actually really fun and i kinda like how it came out! definitely inspired me to think about doing semirealism a bit more hehe, also this piece let me work with textures a lot which was fun! scratch really tore the quality apart of course, but i used a pencil brush to really give a charcoal kind of look to cherie’s coat and coco’s hat, which was sort of worth it? idk i was scribbling away at my tablet for a good hour just trying to get the lines to look cohesive haha if you wanna see the images in better quality or if you wanna take a look at other images that have been made of them, you can check out their toyhouse links! you might be able to get a few lore snippets too if you’re interested :) https://toyhou.se/11953536.coco https://toyhou.se/21157580.fish/23563402.cherie anywho if you read all that thanks for being interested in the process and in my silly little hyperfixation that i’ve had for nearly two years now!!! yall are the best love yall thanks for stoppin by :D join my server if u read all that _____
