okay! as this is a huge amount of artwork (ranging from january to june), i have split this project up into two pieces. enjoy 1. these are the two main characters in a tv miniseries i'd like to make, called the heartlands! it stars kafka (left) and leonhardt (right) as they and their heartbeasts (animal personas of their subconscious) go on a journey through another realm on a quest to regain their names and thwart the villains rosie and toy, who are incarnations of their deepest desires. 2. this is anastasius! you may recognize him from the last art dump, or maybe not. he's a swanmay prince 3. elloëa! she's a doctor at sasha and leander's castle (long running story of mine, won't stop changing) and one of their closest companions. 4. oz and anastasius (in swan form). the main plot of the story these two are part of hinges on gathering ingredients to create a gender changing potion for oz, who is a trans guy 5. beatRIICCEEE! get ready for a lot of this gal and her best pal tova, because ten months into developing their story and i'm still hooked on these misfits! 6. tova! you may notice i can never decide how to draw her hair. this is not a deliberate choice i just can't be consistent (also notice how she doesn't have toes. this is important and will come into play later) 7. character from a dnd campaign which never took off! this is ollie, they're a nonbinary wood elf druid. still very proud of their design. 8. tova and bea! i was thinking i might print their book with pink inking, but that's silly, i'll probably just stick to black and white 9. okay, this is an early version of a character who's part of a universe which grew a lot larger than him as of late! at the time, the story was called "the young god" and was about kit, who fell to earth and was lovestruck by a mortal boy. 10. the mortal boy in question. his name is paris and i still can't figure out how to get his skin color to look natural (also he gets a lot edgier in later renditions of the story, just you wait) 11. THIS!! THIS IS THE GRIM REAPER!! also known as the saint of death! she's very important to the above story, and i think i'd like to mention that she didn't start out as the grim reaper. you see, she was born with the supernatural ability to never die and was inducted by the clean-up crew (basically the old gods, she and her friends [the other saints] ended up nicknaming them that) when she was banished to wander the ancient egyptian sands for all of eternity 12. lady loki. requires no explanation 13. a great drawing i did when i was questioning genderfluid! it basically represents how one person can read as many different genders without really changing themselves 14. mermaid i drew using a color palette made by yours truly! 15. in early conceptions of the young god, paris had a trans sister named mariposa who was abused by the villains (a group of religious zealots who were working to rehaul the afterlife into their christian conception of it) 16. lesbian wedding! i was bored and felt like drawing cute girls okay 17. picture of paris and kit! i was never very good at full bodies and am still working on it. (paris's legs look so weird in this...) 18. ALEX FIERRO! she's a genderfluid character from magnus chase (and i still have not read the heroes of olympus.... i really need to be working on that) and one of my favorites ever 19. tohru from dragon maid! my anime days are over, but i still like that show. i have no idea what i was going for with her chest here... 20. tova and bea again! you may have noticed i almost exclusively draw characters from three quarter angles. this is my fatal flaw actually 21. ama again! (also, i don't entirely remember when, but at some point i renamed her mert. this is because she's egyptian and ama is a ghanain name. for those of you who are wondering, mert is the name of an egyptian goddess of revelry. her name is also spelled meret but thats a german name as well and i want to make sure people know) 22. leander! i don't remember when but its a pretty ingrained part of leander's character at this point that he's a crossdresser. i remember making a comic with him in it for school and literally everyone thought he was a girl until i told them 23. oh, and did i mention kit can shapeshift? its kind of a thing he has. you see, he was struck from the ambrosian layer (basically sapience solidified, it can be used to do magic and things) with a rod of unlight (truth personified, it is unbreakable unless a saint is born [saints are humans whose very existence defies a pillar of unlight, each of which represent a truth of the universe]) by the paladins (aforementioned evil zealots). the rod was removed by mert, but some of the unlight managed to enter his blood stream, leaving him in a physical form, but a fluid one. 24. mert again! i'm having a ball drawing modern clothes, for a while everything i drew was sort of a ripoff of some vaguely historical outfits
25. funny story, but this is my dream girl. her name is margot and she's a force to be reckoned with. i've spent hours daydreaming about her, although she's not real and we'll never meet (which is a good thing. if we did meet it would probably mean a demon was trying to eat my guts or something) 26. character i briefly had named tony (short for antoinette)! she attended a boarding school for witches 27. self portrait i did! this is the outfit i wore to hamilton. i have more acne than pictured, by the way. also, this is the first instance of a filter you'll be seeing a lot of, so watch out! 28. FEET! i have never before this piece been able to draw feet, and i am so happy i learned! thank you, cute demon girl! 29. just a paris. all my full bodies are super wonky and will continue to be 30. first drawing of mert in one of her signature hawaiian shirts! 31. drawing of one of the antagonists from the heartlands, rosie! i never finished it, but basically he's this genderfluid demon who's a personification of everything leonhardt could ever want in a person. he's also a siren who is trying to leech off of leonhardt's emotions until he's nothing but a husk of a boy. multiple things can be true 32. brief period where i thought i might remake the beauty and the beast into a celebration of weirdness and deviancy. also it's gay. this is the beast in her human form, i named her persephone. 33. bea! was trying out a little something with the eyes 34. this is sora artemis loxley! they were from a little thought that came into my head about a human scientist who got trapped in the faerie world and started researching it 35. character part of the young god's universe! she was gifted with the power of dream surfing by the saints after giovanni, the saint of dreams, was woken up and needed to be put back to sleep before dream demons started overrunning the earth. didn't really have any idea for a plot beyond that but i thought it sounded cool 36. another mert! as the saint of death, she's responsible for files on every human being she's ever reaped. unfortunately, she's not very good at organization (thats more the saint of memory's thing), so this is her doing her best to get things back in order. 37. another kafka and leonhardt! i love this drawing and think it's great, but leonhardt's arms are waaaay too small 38. flag for a country i made up for school! the country is called eppledaught! it's a tiny socialist island in the baltic sea! 39. deer girl hhhhh 40. tova and bea!!!!!!!! again!!!! get used to them showing up!!!!!!! the second part: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/408577210/
