#oc: arion neptune

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Tfw you're working on your Star Wars Fanart only to get distracted by an Ever After High AU for a movie from 2012. Anyways here's my OCS in a Pitch Perfect AU! (Plus some canon Fanart aka scene redraws for movies 1 & 2.)

Closeups and Set List playlists plus more details under the cut, image id in the alt text!

Close Ups:

Notes:

In the AU, Arion takes the role of Beca (because they're basically the same character it's seriously uncanny whoops), while Rose and Anteros take the roles of Chloe and Jesse, respectively, with some minor alterations (they occasionally swap places as needed for the narrative cause Rose is much closer to Jesse personality-wise but I needed the final serenade to go like the original otherwise what even is the point so i couldn't just swap them permanently). Arion and Rose are in a mixed-gender group called the Fairy Tones, while Anteros ends up in an all-masc group called the Charming Chords. There's also a third rival group called the Twister Misters but they don't really do much. As for the drawings themselves, they're basically just redone scenes from the movies, like the aca-initiation featuring a Tempis cameo (it's fruit punch Rose swears), the scene from the radio station where Jesse (now Rose cause all three of them work there) uses the various album covers to try to make Beca laugh (and very nearly succeeds not that she'd ever admit it) (Anteros thinks it's funny but Arion thinks they've all gone absolutely batty), and of course the iconic Fist Pump from the end, featuring a bonus Kenni in the Benji role! (Tho actually I'm toying with Andre-as-Benji cause then he and Arion could be Besties™ and i could have an easy segue into an Andre and Rose B-plot. But I digress.)

As for the canon drawings, i just did some favorite scenes, like the picnic (he has juices pouches and Rocky! How could anyone not love him?!) And the audition (still one of the funniest scenes in the movie tbh as far as individual lines from characters go, excellent introduction of personalities). Also that part of the riff off from the sequel cause a) Anna Kendrick KILLED it with Before He Cheats, and b) i was mildly offended we didn't get a Live Slug Jesse Reaction shot because I'm absolutely certain his expression would've been hysterical (mostly in how... Not scared he'd look 😂)

Also also, i think these kids should meet; Beca and Arion could silently judge people together to their hearts content, while Jesse and Rose would immediately launch into French serenades with zero hesitation. (Also Beca is wearing a Trebles Hoodie cause i know what I'm about.)

The Set Lists:

The Group Solos (both groups individual + one bonus duet between both groups): Here

The Riff-Off, Category 1: Dance the Night Away

The Riff Off, Category 2: Heavy Hair Headbanging

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Check out this art my friend made of my kids!!!!!!!!!

addy is COTM for july on the wiki, so i drew her with the SOTM (sea glass: arion neptune and anteros princely, both by @rai-knightshade-art ) lads as a celebration!

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Crop tops are bomb af so I drew my 3 favorite OC's in them. Includes Rose "Thorny Bitch" de Beaute, Arion "Are you my Jolly Sailor Bold, then?" Neptune (btw I am never drawing a face from that angle again hOLY SHIT), and Anteros "Big Sword Energy™" Princely. Also I got toned paper and it's so fun! I can add highlights! Also included: different body types (more or less lol) including Rose being thicc, Anteros being short and Arion being muscly. Ish. I'm still not great at it but I'm pretty proud of how I drew Rose's body ngl.

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No thoughts, head memes x AoGG, featuring Anne and the John Mulaney college bit in which she was an English major and while she reads Jane Austen on her own I don't think she'd like Gatsby much; poor Gilbert crying in modern day med student, shit's rough buddy; then various Brooklyn 99 memes because the show is a comedy gold mine. The Gilbert from A Continuing Story has only had Dominic for like an hour and a half but he'd literally die for this kid; Rose and Arion's relationship is 1-1 Jake and Terry's in case anyone is wondering; and Maria, as my resident musician, is reliving the moment when Jake sat and strummed his guitar and screamed, except with her violin. (She's doing the thing where you move the bow back and forth rapidly on the same note.)

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"I like shiny things, but I'd marry you with Paper Rings! Uh-huh, that's right, darliiiin', you're the one I want!"

-Taylor Swift, Paper Rings

(or, random little sketches that were stuck in my head as I listened to Lover on repeat a few days ago)

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I actually don't have much to say about this one, the sketches are pretty self explanatory I think. But if you're curious:

1) in the secret good third sequel (a "threequel" if you will) to the 80's Anne of Green Gables movie verse that lives in my head and my wip folder, Anne and Gilbert have many baby Blythes--8, in fact, including Dominic and, notably, little Joyce, their firstborn daughter, who in this version lives because I couldn't bear to either leave her out entirely or have her die in infancy. So she grows up with her siblings! And I Headcanon her to be a lover of all things musical; her main talents are singing, the piano and the violin, but she also loves to dance--and to pull her parents in to dance with her! Which they usually do with good humor, even Susan can be persuaded to do a little Charleston gig where little Joy is concerned.

(also we never learn Joy's hair color as she had none the day she was born and lost, but we know she had the eyes and nose of her mother, so I decided she mostly looks like Anne, save for brown-black hair courtesy of Gilbert. She is the little Lady Cordelia Anne always wished to be.)

2) I hadn't drawn Sea Glass in a while and London Boy called to me, but of course it's not technically accurate-Arion is Kiwi! And Māori! But hey, it's in the commonwealth, so for the purposes of this reference it's close enough 😅 (disclaimer: New Zealand and the UK/england specifically are not the same don't "Coolsville sucks" my ass here)

3) was thinkin' about dodgeball, and the Brady Bunch, and the Brady Bunch playing dodgeball, and somehow that morphed into a Phoenix Family Dodgeball Tournament with Mac, Jack, Riley, Brady, Arista and Eli on one team, and Bozer, Desi, Russ, Sam, Matty, and Jill on the other. Riley, of course, is a veteran at Dodgeball, specifically playing dodgeball while being the "scrappy" or "scrawny" member of the team, so she's imparting some wisdom on the kiddos: stay back and let the adults handle the front line--instead, you wanna hang back and grab all the balls that get past said front line, and feed them to your heavy hitters. Cause a heavy hitter is nothing if they've got no ammo. This strategy is pretty much foolproof btw if your dodgeball tourney is based on attrition rules AND you're less likely to get a ball to the face this way. Everybody wins! (Except the other team. usually.)

Close ups:

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I finally got around to completing this prompt! I saw this drawing prompt and IMMEDIATELY thought of one of my OC’s, a merman named Arion who I created for Ever After High. He’s a salty ball of angst and unhappiness--perfect for a dark and bitter mermaid prompt! His colors and overall look are pretty much the same as his normal form, but I made his actual design into more of a creepy, battered, deep-sea fish design complete with jagged teeth, eerie blue bioluminescence, and blood spatters going down his arm from a barely-visible fish carcass in the background. I also included his love interest as a separate picture, staring at him with barely comprehending horror and grief, blood streaked across his face and floating in the water behind him. Because, ya know, maximum angst. 

The first two pictures are the atmosphere-adjusted versions and are made to look really dark and gory and stuff. The second two pictures are non-adjusted versions to show the colors (I used this colorizer to do the colors because I don’t really have the time to make a fully colored digital picture out of these right now :( colorizer: https://paintschainer.preferred.tech/index_en.html ). The last pair are the original sketches that I scanned into the computer to do this (there’s a lot more detail to them but with the drawback of them being in vague grayscale and the love interest--Anteros--looking... well. Let’s just say there are some Unfortunate Implications™ here).

Anyways here, have some art! ALL ART SHOWN HERE IS MINE. REBLOG DON’T REPOST. IF YOU STEAL THIS ART I WILL PERSONALLY COME AFTER YOU WITH ALL THE FURY OF A GAL WHO’S GOT NOTHING TO LOSE. Ever After High belongs to Mattel (not that they’re doing anything with it).

Draw a mermaid but instead of them being mythical and dreamy and sparkly, make them dark and bloody and brooding

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I'm feeling Somft™ so I drew some oc's cuddling together in their sleep in Christmas Gear™. Top picture is the Lichtensons, featuring little Erik on the floor in a Christmas hat, and Aleks and Raina tangled up and dead asleep on the couch. Then in the second picture I drew Arion Neptune's first Christmas on land, where he's fallen asleep next to Rose de Beauté. I hope y'all enjoy!!!

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So... I wrote an Ever After High fanfic

It centers on my OC's with little mention of the canon characters just fyi but if you wanna read about kids dealing with grief and bonding together, here ya go

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I was trying to get back into the swing of digital art a while back so I did some headshots of my kids! From left to right, top to bottom, we have: Venetia and Arion (first row), Rose and Anteros (second row), and Andre and Fossegrim!Rai (third row). (Rai's dressed up in her halloween costume, in which she dressed up as a Fossegrim, a water spirit from Norway known for sitting in lakes/waterfalls and playing the fiddle; the Fossegrim specifically, according to my book of Scandinavian folk beliefs and legends, will teach you to play the fiddle so beautifully the trees dance and the rivers stop flowing to listen, but only if you provide the right offering. Usually they're regarded as masculine but she's a more androgynous take.)

[[Image ID: 6 square images of just the heads and shoulders of 6 different characters, one for each picture. They are done in a sketchy style, with backgrounds imitating traditional watercolor splotches in various colors, while the character outlines are in either black or white. Five of the characters wear no noticeable clothing, other than a beret on one girl with beige skin and purple eyes; the sixth appears to be wearing a collared shirt, and holds a violin at the ready. Each character has been shaded with their skin color but little else, only splotches of color in the eyes and in special features to distinguish them from the background. Each character is shown smiling aside from one, who is turned away from the viewer; he has brown skin, freckles, and a splotch of teal at his ear where it turns into a fin.

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I think I'm starting a new drawing series where I draw water spirits from around the world that specifically fall under "pretty but dangerous and likely to drown you". So far, from back in 2019 I drew Arion as a (masc) Rusalka, and this week I've drawn a Nøkken/Fossegrim/Neck/they're common throughout northern Europe so they've got a lot of names. Lyrics on the Nøkken piece come from Fairytale by Alexander Rybak cause it just seemed fitting.

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Let's play a game! It's called "Rai found a shit ton of old art and now wants to find out how many pictures you can successfully add to a Tumblr post!" This may call for multiple reblogs, so. Let's get into it! I wanna put all this old art somewhere so that I don't lose it, hence the Tumblr post cause most of this ain't Instagram ready. Mostly Ever After High, but there's also a pony, some original characters from a roleplay group about superheroes, and a pair of Descendents/Disney fankids!

Round 1: That time that I got Inspired™ by the Olympics and drew my kids as Winter Olympians

Above: 4 drawings of characters performing for various winter sports, namely snowboarding, curling, and two figure skaters; a fifth picture details the performance outfit of one of the skaters, based on Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka outfit from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

Olympians create some of the coolest poses completely by accident, so you Know I had to draw them! Specific mentions of the two figure skaters, Anteros and Tempis, who were taken pretty much wholesale from pictures of actual figure skaters like these:

(Yulia Lipnitskaya was a direct reference, while the man is a likely reference but the actual original pose reference has been lost due to tech changes.)

Next reblog: Darren Criss as Hedwig, and other Inspirations

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My kids got SOTM on the Ever After High Fandom Wiki, so I drew some celebratory fanart! Arion, Anteros and @talearts 's Addy Light (who received COTM) are all ready for their red-carpet debut! And on the right, Arion and Anteros share a quiet moment together in front of a big ol' heart for maximum sweetness!

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Did someone say.... FLUFFY ART?!?!?!!!! No? Well you get some anyways!

I was testing a new sketchbook for the first picture so I drew some Macgyver: Next Generation versions of the Bradyverse mains. Then as one of the last drawings in my previous book, I drew some soft ships! Macdalton, plus two Ever After High OC ships!

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Happy Valentine's day from my Ever After High oc's! (And Cupid but she's basically my character at this point cause it's not like Mattel is using her.)

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Did someone say... FLUFFY DRAWINGS NEEDED?!?! No? Well I made some anyways so there!!! Have some sketches of older!Bradyverse characters from the later Macgyver: Next Generation timeline, then some soft fluffy ship art for Macdalton and two of my OC ships from Ever After High!

Hopefully this tides y'all over for a bit, cause any future art I make is going towards Cairo Week! (Well. Unless I draw just straight Ever After High fanart. That'll get posted.)

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It's Ever After High fanart time! Featuring Venetia Soulsong as a badass warrior heading down to the underworld on behalf of her lady love Cupid, and some corny Valentine's from Arion Neptune and Rose de Beauté