#because again. extremely not polished. and i'm probably not going to redraw it any time soon

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Got really bored at work the other week and I ended up making a comic about this idea that was eating at my brain. It was basically me trying to answer, "WTF is going on with the soup" but base it in a "in-character" scene. Or what I think feels like an in-character scene

I'll put a transcript under the cut just in case 'cause I know this is way less polished than what I would normally post on here

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*(Chase is drinking his L.ao M.ang L.on soup. Clare stares at the bowl. When Chase eyes her looking, she darts her eyes away nervously.)*

Chase: Something troubling you?

Clare: W-Well… It's kinda dumb—

Chase: I'm listening.

Clare: …I was just thinking… If we were just enemies and not… *(She points between Chase and herself a few times.)* Whatever you wanna call this. Would you have captured me like you captured Dojo?

[An image of Clare in her dragon form trapped in a cage]

Chase: *(He looks down to his bowl.)* You think I would've turned you into L.ao M.ang L.on soup?

Clare: *(She grins nervously.)* Well… yeah… With me being half-dragon—

Chase: Answer me this Clare. Would you cook a common chicken like a holiday turkey?

Clare: Like a Thanksgiving turkey? No, I don't think you can—

Chase: Precisely. You are something fundamentally different. Perhaps you look similar at first glance, but closer inspection reveals the many glaring differences.

[A chicken head and a turkey head are juxtaposed by Clare's head and a dragon head. Similar, but definitely not the same.]

Chase: L.ao M.ang L.on requires a full dragon. I highly doubt you would fit the bill. Besides… *(He pats Clare on the head like he would one of his cats.)* You're much more valuable to me like this than as a soup ingredient.

Clare: Wow… that's the nicest thing I've ever heard you say, I think. *(under her breath)* And it still sounds super ominous.

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I wonder if you have a favorite Eg, Egg, and Eggy Eggtoberpost

Honestly, a style study of "Ed, Edd, n Eddy" for Eggtober would be interesting. (I did get your previous ask and am hanging onto it for ideas.) That said, if we're talking Eggtober from this year (2024) exclusively, I'd say anything by user @alkaline-noodles hit it out of the park. Their dedication and extremely photogenic egg dishes were really inspiring this year. There are still several beautifully photographed egg dishes that I want to immortalize in my own style. If it can be any year, user @cubicsoup did this amazing drawing of a raw egg in Eggtober 2022, and I still admire every bit of it! If we're talking overall, then anything by @quezify. As the Egg King and host of the event, Ruben just doesn't miss! Top of all time for me would be the Heart-Shaped Egg for World Egg Day. I just really enjoy how softly it's rendered. For this year only, it would probably be these fried eggs on green. Very classic and you can see that shift in style really exaggerating some of the choices that really make Ruben's style unique: that solid ring around the yolk, the rough pencil texture, and the organic shapes along with a common yellow and lavender contrast in the shading. The collection of some of their best eggs for this year's World Egg Day post are stellar though, and I love them a lot, but I'd never be able to pick just one of the bunch. The few egg on burger ones have been great too.

Some Honorable mentions from this year are users @arithetonberry and their squiggly eggs, @fivevotesdown and this gorgeous soft-boiled egg, @doradeluna's beautifully rendered, smeared over easy fried eggs, @kaehunterart's amazing rainbow-y fried egg in a very shiny pan, @quezify's redraw section from this year, @tiredyeehaw's crocheted egg throw blanket, and all of @nekko-took-egg-photos work this year, but especially this fried egg on noodles. We had lots of amazing participants this year. I wasn't able to finish all the art I wanted to in time this year, but I plan on finishing 31 egg arts this year. I just have a lot going on in real life and the world has been an ass this year. But I am trying to slot in art time when I can! As for favorites of my own, for this year it would have to be the bloody egg. Getting the hang of Krita has been a challenge, but it's nice to know I'm not tied to Clip Studio Paint to render art the way I want to. I think the bloody egg is the first freehand study I did this year on Krita where I've liked the end result and thought the process and result were a good analogue to working with the gouache brush on CSP as I had been doing in previous years. Favorite of all time is still probably Eggtober 11th of 2022. I started Eggtober in 2022 as a low-pressure way to get back into art after years of not being able to find time for it. I figured eggs were simple enough and I liked drawing them, so I might as well give it a go since I was trying to polish up my skills again for personal projects. The ramen piece for Eggtober 11, 2022 was the first piece where I really felt like I hit my stride and was able to put my ideas on paper more or less exactly how I wanted them. All art is a process of experimentation and discovery, but the way the noodles and mushrooms and egg and pork all came together in that piece just... really made me take a step back like "I'm not 100% where I want to be, and have a long way to go, but I finally remember what making art is supposed to feel like. I like this again." And I think my favorite for 2023 has to be the Pavlova. Another time where the process and product all felt smooth, like they came out how I wanted with minimal fuss, maximum learning, maximum flow state. I hope to keep seeing improvement in years to come. Eggtober has just been really great for keeping my artistic self-esteem up. Because even when I can't quite get the result I'm looking for, the community is supportive, and even when I struggle, at the end of the day, there is always egg. And Egg is pretty dang good, I think. 10/10 would recommend the chillest Drawtober challenge. 3 years strong! may this event persist for another 330 years at least!

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1. Who was your first ever OC? Do you still “use” them? How have they evolved over time?

God, this is gonna majorly out the edgy teen i used to be, but my first OC was from fullmetal alchemist (the OG anime, I didn't have access to the manga back then and brotherhood didn't exist yet). Of course she was a homunculus, and her name was Hatred (because I had and still have a lot of rage in me), but she went by Scythe for... obvious reasons. Her power was basically metal bending, and she'd make various weapons from the jewelry and other metal parts she carried.

Here's some art of her. Left is the first one i ever made of her, from 2010 (give or take, idk), and the right is a redraw from 2017.

5. What are some of your OCs biggest fears?

I'm gonna answer this for Humbert, because he's my ""current"" OC, and Scythe was a total mary sue, so i can't for the life of me think of any fears i gave her. But Humbert's biggest fear is very complicated. He's afraid of never being able to go back to the vampire homeworld, but he's also afraid of being able to go back. He's afraid of being stuck AND going home, because he knows that even if he could go home, nothing would be as it used to be because so much time has passed. And he's also afraid of forgetting, but at the same time he's afraid of remembering, because the memories hurt so much. He clings to the memories of his homeworld that slowly slip away, but he also shuts himself away from them because of the pain they cause. His character plays a lot with duality.

8. Do you have any OC family trees?

Fuck no 😂

16. What was you first major project? How far along is it?

My first one? Well, that would be a fantasy novel called "Die Geflügelten" (the winged ones in english) that I started writing almost a decade ago. It's in german, about 100k, and I polished it all the way to sending out queries for publishing, but no one wanted it lol, so now it collects dust. But looking back, it's probably for the better that it never saw the light of day. It's very... "debut fantasy novel" if you catch my drift.

19. What are some things that inspired your stories? Real events? Maybe a dream?

Hmm, i don't know, really. i write fanfic, so canon definitely inspires me. and more specific, things canon lacks. Generally, I'm inspired by the things i want to see in the world. Fanfics i want to read but don't exist. aspects of characters i want to explore.

29. What was your first fandom you were in? Did you make any art/fanfic for it?

God, technically that would be Pokemon, which I was extremely hyperfixated on as a kid, and yes i did make art and write fic for it, but I never interacted with an actual fandom or post anything. So i guess that doesn't really count. The first fandom I was active in was fullmetal alchemist (again, the OG anime). I made art that I posted on deviantart and wrote german fanfic that i posted on a german fanfic site. I think I was about 13 at the time, but that phase stretched all the way til about 16.

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