#put their refs on one sheet bc they are girlfriends and they are in love and shant be separated

[zemi-noelle-art]

Made a ref sheet for Valerie and Disco!

[that-one-hom0]

i have no internet and i want to rant abt my ocs!

so im starting with luke bc they are one my most important character bc hes esentially becoming a persona-

luke was my first oc in a story that i knew i wanted to take seriously. his story teenage dirtbag has been in the makes for about 3 years now (my oldest pic is from 2020 but lukes older that that)

luke started as a very angry teenager, i was really into dear evan hansen and i loved connor, now this is before i read the book or watched the musical(bootleg ofc) so i just thought connor was angry and mean and thats what luke was.

then i made their boy friend Milo. milo started off very stereotypicaly gay- i went through a faze where if it didnt have gay guys i didnt like it. and sadly it was only men-

now i mostly draw guys bc its what im most comfortable drawing, women are hard for me to draw so i stick to mostly guys.

anyway but after i made milo i didnt like how angry luke was, so i babied him. i made him soft like milo and then made milo super mad.

then i added camila, for a while she didnt have a name and just went by 'she' now Camila is actualy the oldest character in tdb. shes like 5 years old maybe older. camilas a character who still needs to be more developed, but they have always been lukes best friend.

well then it was the three of them. but i was bored with just three so i made a ghost character, his name is casper(real original i know) casper to put it simply was a twink- steriotypicaly flamboyant queer character now i think he has always been bi, but idk. but i did know is that he had a crush on luke-

an ongoing joke for these characters is that milo hates casper. now im not getting rid of it anytime soon bc its funny. 

luke and casper are best friends, luke and camila are best friends, and milo and luke are dating. well what do we do for milo? why doent he get a best friend?

that actualy doesnt get an answer until after my character Mey Lynn gets added. now mey was at the time my only poc character. and she was a psychopath-

now i changed her to be nicer and all that, but then i was listening to music and made one more character, dolly.

dolly has always been related to luke, but before she was 13 and lukes cousin. now shes 17 and lukes half sister. her age was the first to change and it wasnt until resently that she became lukes sister.

at this point i realized huh casper and dolly would be a cute couple. (this was after i made her 17 btw) 

this was back when i was the kind of person to call characters smol beans and baby boi- ew

and i clearly picked faves with dolly and luke- from then i honestly didnt pay much attention to them for building story much- except for weird music vids i will never make.

i just made more storys and left tdb in its sketch book-

now and the id add on to story but not really :/

it wasnt until my freshman year i started thinking abt the characters more so i got my brand new ipad and made ref sheets for the characters!

now you will see one addition, Lily. now lily is meys girlfriend! i love her so much and i should give more attention to my lesbians-

so these were consepts and the only one who got an official sheet was milo um and after that i stoped thinking of them again

until 4 months later, when i redid ref sheets again

now after this you will nwver gurss what i did next, i actually kept making art for them! little doodles and full blown peices! i was i. summer school at the time so i thought to just keep drawing them. and i have! still to this day i keep drawing them

luke and milo get the most attention now, but luke still remains my fave, im constantly giving them my personality traits, if i like something luke likes it now too. 

recently tho luke was skinny like he was always thin but i thought since they are becoming more and more like me why not make them chubby and i did that today, and im proud of that. i have bad body image issuse so making an oc that means so much to me and making him look like me makes ne so happy.