#Bonreed Starbean

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Made a banner for my artfight profile :) Baby Floressa has the winning hand in case you were wondering.

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Big full render commission for @cheesesteakphil and their beloved Featherbean family sharing cringe baby stories and baking the good stuff!

Thank you again for commissioning me! This was such a blast to work on with how many types of materials there were for the scene. Always learning and picking up new stuff as I go!

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attack on @cheesesteakphil for artfight 2022

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FIRST ART DUMP OF THE YEAR YIPPEEE!!

A mix and mashup of doodles done on work break, or just hanging around, and a couple smorch requests (and one for me because of course) :)

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Seen a lot of folk posting their journalists/OC���s/Sonas and forgot that I totally re-vamped Orlifa’s reference a while back along with finally making ones for her parents so sure I’ll slap these onto the pile :) I’ve be expanding more on the Featherbean and I’ll have some more fun stuff to show at some point

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Oh look, an old family photo :) I’ve been working on expanding the Featherbean Family tree, so here’s some of that, starting with Bonreed’s side, the Starbeans. Funny info under the cut :) my god it is long I am so sorry asdjkhfk

First things first, the names, flip the photo and they all conveniently signed the back of it

In order we have:

Hekta (Father), Emilenne (Mother), Saphria (Eldest Daughter), Bonreed and Argnes (Middle sons, identical twins), and Olius (Youngest Child)

Hekta is a stoic, strong-willed grumps who runs a hospital in his hometown in North Grumpkota, the Starbean family lineage has surgeons and clinical doctors going back many generations, and so the name has a solid reputation in the state. Proudly led all his children along the same path to continue the family business and strengthen the Starbean name with their great minds.

Emilenne runs her household with as strict a code as she runs her surgical team, though her often cold and overcritical demeanor as chief of surgery is never seen outside of the hospital walls, as a mother she is possibly a bit too affectionate, as her children will often comment on her constant barrage of hugs and positive energy. (though, it’s never said in a complaining manner). Loves all of her children equally and makes sure she is a constant beacon of trust if any of them have issues.

Saphria is the eldest daughter, and though he denies it, Hekta’s definite favorite. She has always been independant and focused and met every expectation Hekta had for her both career and family-wise, marrying the son of a close co-worker of Hekta’s straight out of university, and eventually having two children of their own together. Saphria works under her mother in pediatric surgery. Her success became the bar of expecations for the following siblings.

Bonreed and Argnes, the two inseperable and identical twins, only share similarities in their physical appearance, and their compassionate nature, growing up in the shadow of their Sister meant they would always rely on each other for encouragement in their efforts for recognition from their parents. Argnes, the more reserved of the two, quickly showed an interest in Neurology, and from an early age had decided that was the field he would specialize in. 

Bonreed on the other hand had more difficulty deciding on what suited him. He made his way through to the early stages of university before realizing clinical medicine just wasn’t the direction he wanted to take. He instead wanted to split off into pharmeceutical medicine, researching and creating new medicines. Not long after this revelation, he was introduced to a grumpus through some mutual friends of the twins, and within a few days of meeting the two were already inseperable and head over heels for each other. The news of Bonreed’s career decision quickly made its way back to Hekta, who was outraged at his son’s decision to defer from the long-standing tradition of surgery. He saw it as a sleight against himself and the entire Starbean family lineage, and after learning of his new relationship, believed Elorana to be the fault, blaming her for leading Bonreed astray from the path he was destined to be on to work under him. The ensuing explosive argument between the two lasted an entire week, and led to Bonreed severing ties with his family to persue his career choice and marry the grumpus he loved. Argnes made sure to cover his brother’s tracks so it wouldn’t be known he had left until he was already half-way across the state and enrolled in a new university.

Olius would be the only other sibling that would rise to Saphria’s level. The youngest of the siblings, Olius took on their father’s personality. Possibly the brightest of the bunch, they became the child-prodigy, however being held to the constantly rising expectations set by their elder siblings, they quickly developed a horrid jealousy, more specifically over the twins. With the age-gap being closer between themself and the twins, they had more interaction with Olius, and quickly picked up on the egotistical mindset their father was happily encouraging within them. Usually a concequence of poor timing, most of Olius’ educational successes overlapped with Bonreed and Argnes’, and while Argnes was always quietly proud, Bonreed was more outward in his celebrations. Olius’s jealousy would then pinpoint onto Bonreed exclusively, in a need to uphold his status in the family as the best, and believed Bonreed was simply using his outgoing charismatic personality to get him through. They thought their time to shine would come after Bonreed’s sudden dissapearance, but it only ended up casting an even bigger shadow over them as Hekta’s expecations now fell on them to fill the gap Bonreed had left, though their attempts to catch up made them realize the gap was wider than they thought, and Hekta was never entirely satisfied with Olius’ attempts to surpass their brothers work. Though they currently work in the family hospital in cardiothorassic surgery, They decided to follow their sister’s footsteps, after coming across an unexpected grumpus during their university education, Olius also married and brought a third grandchild into the family.

my GOD ok I didn’t expect to ramble on about the entire family history, and that’s actually the first time I’ve written down near anything about the Starbean’s and their relationships to each other, some of it might not make sense or the timeline might be too confusing idk idk I’ll get around to sorting it all out and writing it out clearer if u have any questions about them please ask me I want so badly to talk about these assholes. I’ll be working on Elorana’s side of the family next but that’s still a while off lol

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Dancing momence :)

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100% canon event that led to Bonreed and Elorana getting engaged. They agreed to wait until they were both done with university to actually get married but my god. He couldn't even wait until he took her on the dinner date.

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doodle time :) some bigsnax interactions, some Orlifa-centric snaktooth doodles, and funny post-game fun. 

I’m trying not to go too deep into explaining these doodles, I feel kind of bad for making these huge art dumps and then tagging on a giant wall of text explaining context you can probably get from just.. looking at the doodle lmao

Thank u bigsnax for giving me more content to be homosexual over :)

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Have another time lapse based off my latest commission for @cheesesteakphil

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WHOO OK Big one this week! Both a mix of stuff from this week and forgotten doodles I only ever posted in one discord server.

In other news. I started BIG animatic no.3 today. I started it today and I am nearly half way through. Keep in mind my record is 3 days from start to finish. So uhhh. Y’know. Keep ur eyes peeled for that.

image explanations in the read more! :)

1) An matching cover for a short thing I wrote (maybe one day I’ll post it) about how Orlifa deals with the aftermath of the bugsnax truth reveal, and the guilt she feels for feeding so many of them to her friends. I couldn’t portray it too well with the art so I wrote it out instead

2) Funny sketches from ANOTHER thing I wrote (same again, neither drabbles are clean so they stay tucked in my google docs for now) about Floofty meeting Orlifa’s parents properly for the first time (I’m sure some folk remember the comic I did a while back, that was technically their first meeting) lmao.

3) I am gay. I drew this last week but I’m still obsessed with it

4-5) Did these last night, some good good juicy angst. But I’ve been taking a deeper look into the development of Orlifa and Floofty’s relationship, and how they originally did NOT get on well, and Floofty makes a careless remark about Orlifa not being a scientist (she is) which causes a HUGE rift early on which takes the majority of the games events to resolve. here’s some extra convo about that 

literally all the rest of them are various gift arts and doodles I’ve sent to @thegalleonsnest​ because I love drawing my friends OC/Canon ships and his funky bird too :)

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WOO lots of images because I forgot to post one last week oops, finally giving some more attention to Elorana and Bonreed because I love them and they deserve it, some mushy shit I drew on valentines day, generic interactions and two of the MANY chaotic moments from the friend groups 6+ hour among us session this weekend. Once we found out that @thegalleonsnest​’s character looked like Gramble it was all over. The bit was cemented

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not much to post about this past week I’m afraid! Busy busy busy with my last week of work for the year, dealing with getting ready to move and zines and everything inbetween what not has been a lot to juggle!

I prommy I’ll get more content on Orlifa���s parents soon too, I really do have fun thinking about how they interact and I’ve been getting some good ideas for little interaction doodles :)

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Sunday means Sketch day! Only a small one, I have some bigger comics I want to post on their own later :)

Depending on how long you think the events of bugsnax take, I don’t think enough people consider grumpuses hair growing out (if it applies). But I think Orlifa’s hair would have definitely grown out some while she was on snaktooth and so, Much to her annoyance, her natural hair color would have started coming through (remember all that time ago when I said she’s not really blonde? I didn’t forget that, but I will keep the truth a secret here for a little longer). But I like the idea that she would have asked gramble to make her a hat to cover her roots for a little while longer. Funny Sherbie hat :)

In true dad fashion, Bonreed would absolutely buy the most rediculous clothes to put baby Orlifa in. He has an entire hidden photo album of his own of all the shit he know’s Elorana would NEVER have her grumpling in lmao. Orlifa constantly tried to find the album growing up to get rid of it but could never find it.

Stay FUCKING SAFE someone gave @thegalleonsnest a gun

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Family reunion aka ‘Orlifa was too busy post-snaktooth and forgot to tell her parents she wasn’t actually dead and runs into them at grump-mart.’

I really like the two parallels between each parent’s hug with Orlifa. Elorana has such a comforting and gentle embrace, her emotions probably just as fragile as Orlifa’s physical apperance. Bonreed the complete opposite, just saw his kid for the first time in over a year, very much alive and not dead like he was told and decided he can’t let her go again, even if it does accidentally pop a few of her vertabrae in the process (Orlifa doesn’t mind though, she loves her dad’s hugs just as much as her mom’s)

Don’t ever expect a detail comic from me again I hate drawing backgrounds BYE <3

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