#OC:Teal Haden

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Last Sunday's doodles

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Kett’s 2022 Art Retrospective

I have definitely drawn things this year. I wanna show it to you!! Let’s take a look back together!

This is a long post! Separated month by month. If you wanna join me, just keep reading!

January

This January I have decided Kett should wear something, at least one time, just so they could feel it and gauge if they liked it or not.

They did not quite like it.

February

During the middle of January, I caught covid and felt miserable. So I wasn’t really feeling it in regards to drawing. I still did some experimentation, however and doodled up a little comic sort of thing

Abstrakett was initially developed as a form of representing myself even if I fell into a particularly bad slump. I was in a particularly bad slump in February, and I believe this was a form of rejecting it.

It didn’t quite work, because I hadn’t drawn much else for this month. And I didn’t draw the next month, either.

April

For April I decided to become bunny

I also took TWO commissions during this month, and worked on some personal projects, such as an alphabet for a language in my setting

Looks like I was back in full swing. Let’s not lose the momentum.

June

Looks like I lost the momentum. I may have not drawn in May.

For June, however, I put this out:

This is a drawing I’m still happy with. A little bit of playing around with perspective! I like this drawing so much in fact that I have made it the background for my website after I finally committed to redesigning it!

July

July is an important month for amateurish internet artists like myself, it’s the month during which Art Fight takes place. And this year I beat my record for submissions during the event, at an astounding... five.

And I believe this is my absolute fave submission for this year’s Art Fight, featuring @wytchwoods​‘ character, Maggie. It is certainly the most experimental, at least, and I’m happy with the result.

Of course, this was also the month I smooched @floralope​.

I also took a commission this month. So THAT was definitely one of my most productive months this year.

August

My month. I didn’t really do much, but I started drawing Kett with shinier eyes. I simply started to like the look.

September

Wasn’t a very good month for full colored drawings, but I did sketch a bunch, with a particular focus on Teal.

I love my little four-eared creature. I want to make a game that stars them. Hopefully I’ll be able to.

For now, they’re just a cute design.

October

🎃🎃🎃 SPOOKY MONTH 🎃🎃🎃

I am usually not passionate about Halloween at all, but I felt like I had to try something new this year. So I designed Ghost Kett!

I am REALLY happy with how they turned out, so much so I did PLENTY of doodles of them over October.

They do not care much about your privacy, but they’ll ask before possessing you.

November

Was a HUGE month for me

It’s when the Total Fluff Eclipse struck.

I also.

Cried like a little bitch soft boy.

It’s good for you!

December

Oh hey, it’s December right now. The year is almost over. I don’t know if I’ll still draw anything this year, but I know what I have already done.

And honestly? Pretty satisfied with it. I haven’t done such painterly work in a few years but this blows any such work I have done out of the water. Probably the best thing I put out this year.

Hopefully much more to come in 2023.

And that’s a wrap!

I’d like to believe my output has taken a hit ever since I started working. Taking a good look at it, however, it’s easy to see that’s not the case. I have drawn a lot and put out work I am satisfied with. I have been a little harder on myself than I should.

My mood has definitely skyrocketed over the end of the year for whatever reason, and it shows through with my latest piece. I tried to go past the comfort zone I dug myself into and got something I’m proud of off of it.

If you’re still reading through, thanks a bunch for sticking around! I hope you’ll continue checking in on whatever I put out over the coming year, and I hope I’ll continue drawing and sharing it for the foreseeable future.

It was definitely fun taking a brief look over some of what I’ve done, maybe you should do the same? ;)

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[...] Opening the door, they were briefly blinded by the sunlight outside, a stark contrast to the dark hall of the shrine, which let little light seep in. As Teal slowly accustomed themself to the light, they began to see the landscape of this world beyond Atrea. A deep blue sky, fluffy white clouds, rocky mountains, vast green fields, and a path extending from the door they'd just stepped out of.

Just looking outside made it hard to believe that the situation was as dire as the Atrean council suggested during the briefing that preceded the trip. Perhaps there may have been a mistake? The shrine’s surroundings seemed too quiet and peaceful, with no sign of strife for as far as they could see.

The beaten path seemed to Teal like the best route to take, it'd potentially lead to settlements, where locals could give them more information than what the Atrean council did when sending them away.

Before long, a strange beaked figure in a purple coat stopped them on their path. Carefully examining Teal through their mask's glassy spectacles, they soon exclaimed:

"An Atrean, I see! I knew things had gone out of control. You seem smaller than the legends suggest, though." [...]

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Sorry if I've asked you before I don't rember who I asked but

Thoughts on the letter H

I like the letter H, just not by itself. I don't have anything against it.

In my language it doesn't even have a sound by itself, if it leads it is completely silent, and with others it changes the sound of preceding letters. H can't do much alone, but it can help its friends achieve that which they wouldn't achieve alone.

Tangentially related OC stuff below:

Fun fact, for a long time I had three characters who had only been designed but hadn't had a name attached to them. These characters are Amber, Cotton and Teal. They were originally adoptables I was putting up on deviantART, I had made adoptables A through K.

D is now Amber, E is now Cotton, and Teal... was H.

Maybe Teal can't do much by themself, they were thrust into a world different from theirs which they can't understand. Cotton and Amber will be there to help them.

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little sketchies from a while ago that i think are cute

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Old art of Teal Haden floating in the void. They’re so cute...

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silly doodle pages

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Amber and Cotton are going for a walk, ‘cause Teal wants to show them something.