#oc: rimeru xariel

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(L to R: Atax, Potchly, Rimeru, Sisyphus, Alice, Basilisk) I plan on adding the fellas as I draw more of them but! I did figure I should do a lineup of the crew I've drawn so far, since a couple have been finished since last time. I am gunna have to do a piece with them all chillin to show them off better (ya know, not posing for the camera n stuff)

I thought I finished more, but I misremembered me finishing a bunch of sketches as I usually finish rendering before moving to the next one but for the Xariel picrew I needed to finish the non-combatant uniforms, so I did the crew first then took their uniform sketch for the picrew, meaning I really only did 2 renders since last time but did an additional 3 sketches. I only got another 1-2 sketches to do, but it's 7 crew that still need to be drawn. (or redrawn in most of their cases)

crew left to be drawn: Tes the Engineer, Talis the Botanist, Apogee the Logistics Officer (and Bas's sibling), Avarian the Hunter, Mortis a Soldier (the last soldier to draw), Leandre a Doctor, and Cobber a Commando (they are shadowing Atax as they're pretty new to space-faring). The last 2 are the ones not being redrawn, just drawn for the first time.

I'm also planning on reworking how I'm doing their refs cuz trying to draw 2 full bodies per ref is making it hard to do (and not get burnt out). I also stopped drawing the helmet cuz the lineup pose is more of their posing for the camera for their military professional pic kinda thing and the helmet is additional work for no reason as theres rarely a difference between em and theyre still a work in progress.

I will say watching Starfishface's stuff about webcomics has been a catalyst to keep working on these guys cuz I was taking a break after feeling a lil burnt out and their stuff has had my brain goin

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Fancier sneak peek! (Left to right: Atax, Potchly, Rimeru, and Basilisk)

yoinked the finished uniform drawings from their individual refs and pasted them onto one canvas to give a nicer-looking sneak peek. Which, I mean, *does* show the armor fully and this kinda shows 90% of the outfit stuff I made up for the Xariels. Oh yeah, if anyone's seen the OG 7, 2 of 'em are new characters. The new total crew is 13. Technically gunna be making more cuz story stuff (the lil event that gave Atax his tail scar, Potchly and Rimeru were also there).

and yeah I'm really making sure to make a story with these guys and been working on them for multiple days alongside comms - I think this is the most art I've made in several days w/o getting massive burnout.