#shellington redesign

[animalsalvationassociation]

Shellington Mellegan — Marine Bioligist

Illustration Time (Dashi/Shellington): 13hrs 8m

[ DO NOT REPOST, ALL ART & CONCEPTS WERE MADE BY ME ]

(I would’ve added more Vegimals but honestly there are way too many. So these will be the ones that I focus on in the future. I would love to redesign them at some point but for now I am still in the process of transferring my sketches of all the other Vegimals to my tablet, so that will come at a later date.)

I love all Vegimals equally . . . I don’t have favorites . . . Stop looking at me like that

Next Character on the Lineup: Kwazii

[ This is an Octonauts AU, in no way is this canon to the OG storyline. ]

[moussedoodles]

🐙‼️OCTO ALERT‼️🐙

After a long bit, I finally finished the rest of the Octonauts! Enjoy more of my interpretations of them, and if you haven't seen my previous post about them, click here for Peso, Kwazii and Captain Barnacles!

In a world where most of the population consists of animal shifters, the Octonauts are a group marine biologists and activists who help bring attention to both the curious beauty of the Earth's waters and the harms that threaten its incredible ecosystems.

Tweak is the Octonaut's engineer, and she was the only member apart from the Captain himself who had been a part of the Octopod's original, hired crew. She's seen members come and go and had gone through the worst alongside her captain, yet her loyalty hasn't wavered even in the years she had served by his side. In fact, her love for adventure and marine life only seemed to grow as time passes. Apart from Kwazii- who she didn't fully trust at first, and rightfully so at the time- Barnacles considers her as someone he can put 100% of his faith in, and even the rest of their crew knows that she's someone they can truly rely on with anything.

Shellington is the Octonaut's scientist and was hired as their marine specialist. His colleagues would consider him a considerate man who's knowledge is only second to their founder, which sometimes scares the crew with just how much information he knows of any given animal. As for the Vegimals... Well, Let's just say that Shellington wanted to produce some food for the crew to keep them from surfacing every few months, and so, decided to start a greenhouse within the Octopod. Disappointed at the rate of which their goods are growing, he decided to "lend them a little help", though he instead finds himself becoming a father of 5 the following morning. He is now a full carnivore. He can't look at certain vegetables the same way again.

Dashi is the Octonaut's IT specialist and photographer, and so, often works alongside Tweak and Shellington (who she had been hired alongside) both on-field and within the Octopod. Though her knowledge on marine life can't compare to some of the other members, as a photographer she documents their missions, the creatures they had helped and occasionally files or publishes any new findings or updates regarding certain species. Prior to her work as an Octonaut, she was actually a well-renowned journalist who had earned several awards.

And, of course, how could I forget

Professor Inkling is the Octonaut's renowned founder, and is one of the oldest shifters to date. He's a knowledeable octopus, and though most founders and CEOs would rather lounge comfortably for the remainder of their lives, Inkling enthusiastically works alongside his employees and even assists and advises them if ever needed.

Why is he the only member of the Octonauts who isn't part human? the artist thinks it was funny Well, some believe that he's from an older generation of shifters, raised in his animal form. It certainly has some merit to it, especially considering no one- not even the octonauts themselves- had even recognised his species.

Barnacles believes that Kwazii should show more respect towards Inkling and should stop muttering assumptions and theories with Dashi and Shellington.

[ajaxbleachishere]

Rough drafts of my human designs for the gang >:DD

Tweak and barnacles are my favourite ones I've done

If anyone wanna ask me about them I'll gladly talk 👀👀👀

[bowehbowah]

obligatory david tennant fancast

[buggaboizz]

✨🐀🏴‍☠️Art and an announcement✨🐀🏴‍☠️

First, little doodles of the Octonauts crew!!!

Second, announcement!!

On Tuesday I will be leaving for Washington DC!!! It's a school trip and I'll be gone the whole week, so I won't be able to respond and post, so make sure to behave!

[minkbearr]

Shellington Redesign!

I drew this last night and fell asleep immediately after. I just woke up like 3 minutes ago.

[mildy-vibing]

FINISHED THE REST OF THE TEAM

Alright! So, before anyone asks, no, I will not redesign the vegimals. I can't add upon perfection.

However the rest are free game.

Tweak gets a more mechanic and engineering appropriate attire. So of course she has oil stains on her overalls and more faded clothes. I also made her bulkier and a bit more on the muscular side as a side effect of working with metal and building ships.

Shellington is the absolute dad. He is tired and exhausted wearing the simple wool sweater and pants with muted colors. His satchel is used to carry books and such, but the badges on it are made by each of the vegimals. He also carries around some pictures they made for him.

I seen Dashi's hair clips and ran with it by keeping a softer pastel look with lots of stars. From the patterns on her skirt to her hair clips. I gave her longer fluffier hair and shoes vaguely bases odd some Doc Martens I used to have.

I didn't want to add too much to Inkling since I already loved the way he looked. So I kept him the way he is and just adapted him into my style.

Now, onto some side characters and head canon art >:]

[factual-fantasy]

🐙Octonauts Master post part 1🐙

⏺️= General Octonauts stuff

🟠= A post that has a part 2+ attached to it

👇👇Octonauts AUs👇👇

💀= Sea Dwellers AU 🤖 = Living Gups AU..? 👶= My little brother, Kwazii AU 🔀 = Swap AU

🔵= Octonauts asks

🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙

Hello! My name is Peso!

Ask post #1 (People want to see Octonauts..?)

Ask post #2 (Yall are great :}} )

The crew watches a horror movie

Ask post #3 (Horror movie post follow up)

Kwazii and Peso on the beach!

Captain giving Kwazii a hug..

Ask post #4

Kwazii swimming with Jellyfish!

Kwazii helping Captain battle his claustrophobia..

Screenshot redraw!

🤖Gup-A is mom

Ask post #5

"Sh-Shiver me whiskers.."

Peso is babey

IM OUT OF IDEAS (random text post)

Hugs all around!!

🎵Cuz yer hot then yer cold!🎵

Captain gives Peso a hug!

Captain protects his crew!

Captain and Kwazii hide from a blizzard

Captain got too hot.. :((

Peso and Captain play in the snow!

Captain misses Bianca..🥺

Captain and Peso in the shade at the beach

Octonauts memes part 1

Captain got too hot aftermath..

Ask post #6

Ask post #7 (talking about the Gup-D)

Bushy Barnacles :))

🤖Gup-D shenanigans

Shellington reading the Vegimals a bedtime story! :))

When Kwazii does the thing

Meet the Gups!

Kwazii eats ramen in a totally normal way

When Captain does the thing

Ask post #8

Ask post #9

He's dad shaped

Kwazii has a tendency to mimic the Captain

Weight difference

Kwazii doesn't like wearing suits <XD

Octonauts memes part 2

Kwazii gets a makeover!

Lonely Kwazii.. :((

What do you call a fish with no eyes?

What does claustrophobic mean?

Ask post #10

💀Kwazii's tall tales..

Comfort hug <:))

Ask post #11

Warning for the next comic

Crab comic part 1

This is a threat >:)

Captain visits Bianca!

🤖 Wake up Lieutenant, you're going to drown.

🤖Something's off about the Gup-A..

Crab comic part 2

Crab comic part 3

Crab comic part 4

💀The White Whale..

Ask post #12

If I had a dollar for every pixel in this image..

Ask post #13

Captain ‘bear’ing his teeth :)

🔀Captain Kwazii and Lieutenant Barnacles!

Octonauts AUs :00

That one spiderverse meme

Ask post #14

👶I've always wanted a baby brother!

👶Kwazii goes fishing!

Crab comic part 3.1/3 (sketch sneak peek)

Crab comic part 3.2/3 (Line art sneak peek)

Crab comic part 4

Ask post #15

Ask post #16

Tominnow admires Kwazii..

Ask post #17

I LIKE YOUR CUT G

Inkling doodle page!

Fatherly instinct XDD

Ask post #18

💀The Mermaid..

No matter what AU he's from, Barnacles always gives the best hugs!

Ask post #19

Ask post #20

👶Blep!

Ask post #21

Tweak redesign!

Inkling and Codish read a book!

Ask post #22

🐙Link to part 2 of the master post! :) 🐙

(Link back to pinned post/FAQ/Master post page)

[batbitesthebat]

Hey bat!!!! :D it's been a whileeee.. So- here's my question!

Do you have any head canons for your octonauts- characters? (Regular au) if so. Can I know em? :0

Sorry this took me so long!! I'm a very busy Bat!!

I decided to share some headcanons for all of my octonauts for my normal BatBites AU.

Captain Barnacles:

He goes to sleep curfew on the DOT and wakes up at 7:00 am each morning, and will wake up the other Octonauts as well

He feels like the father of the crew, whether he likes to or not

He doesn't open up to anybody about his struggles or insecurities- ever! He's bad at that sort of thing...

During the summer he'll take extremely long cold baths that he'll literally dump ice in, and he sheds like crazy, he does NOT like the summer.

His suit has a cooler. Tweak built it for him!!

He is totally unaware of any feelings his CREwMAtes might have for him....

Lt Kwazii Cat:

He bat's other peoples tails instinctively...

He can bareeely taste sweet, so he'll usually add a shit ton of sugar to his desserts

Struggles with impulse control and social awareness, struggles to understand what can be talked about on the dinner table and what can't be

Quite ashamed honestly about his cat-like behavior, so he'll try to keep it to himself. He doesn't like to meow or purr around anyone but Shellington, but because he lacks impulse control, he'll end up doing it anyway. Dashi loves the meowing.

He's incredibly affectionate

His first thought when a sea creature gives them trouble is I'LL SHOW THEM WHO'S BOSS!!!

Medic Peso Penguin:

His urge to pick up rocks everytime he sees a pile of them goes strong, and he usually ends up doing just that

This is more of a redesign than a headcanon, but he has a full set of teeth in the og books and I thought that would be a good excuse to give him fangs in my AU just for added cuteness

He's a chronic apologizer

He gets picked on by the crew occasionally, he hates it

He looks up to Barnacles and Kwazii so much- he IS the youngest and the last one to join, after all.

He does really like taking care of his friends.

He's a bit of a crybaby. His sense of empathy is really big and strong, and he'll feel himself tear up if he sees something- or someone- suffering.

IT Officer Dashi Dog:

Because she's the IT officer, programmer & photographer, she's super busy all the time

And speaking of time, she always loses track of it..

If Kwazii and Barnacles were to be unavailable she would be in charge.

She likes to keep incredibly clean even if the DEMONS tell her to jump in the MUDD and have FUNN

She loves everything cute and collects chibi cat squishies. This is like, one of my first head canons ever.

She's in charge of the wifi, whenever it shuts down and the crew begins to bug her about it, she gets super fckin annoyed

She barks, because of course she barks, and her tail wags whenever she sees something she likes or is giving/receiving affection

Her tail ALSO wags when she's talking to Captain Barnacles, I wonder why THAT is!!!

Engineer Tweak Rabbit:

Gets 1 second of sleep every night

Taught the rest of the crew how to play her video games

She glows in the dark because she's literally radioactive, same with her dad

When she needs a break she goes to the garden to chill, and eat a few carrots on the way

Will wake up in a cold sweat to randomly build something in the middle of the night

She does not give a shit about how messy she gets

Dr. Shellington Sea Otter:

Spends so much of his alone time just grooming himself

Goes searching through the fridge for ice cubes during the summer. Loves his ice cubes

Was the most geekiest geek in high school, he had like 3 friends

He plays visual novels

He's really defensive, embarrassed, and shy about what he likes.

His sleep schedule is fcked up, he talks in his sleep as well. He'd much rather be spending his time researching so as he sleeps he'll usually dream about his research.

He cannOT take a compliment. Compliment him and he will curl up into a little ball out of shame.

Professor Inkling Octopus:

He'll put on classical music in the library and vibe to it with whoever's with him

He hosts story nights occasionally

He's really good at giving romantic advice

He refuses to drink coffee

He needs to be constantly MOIST

his chair is super high tech and comes with a heater and cooler

May or may not be the group therapist

He's INKredibly humble

Tunip Vegimal:

Like 4 years old

Gets excited over literally anything

Gets the cutest puppy dog eyes when he wants something

Defaults to running around with the other vegimals when there's nothing to do

His fave thing in the world is watching the crews face light up when they eat his food

Vegimal food just hits different

Tunip sees Shellington as his dad, and sees Tweak as his mama. Kwazii's the gay aunt

*flies away*

[nerdylittleguy]

OCTONAUTS AND STAR TREK AU

okay so before i go crazy and completely into what now consumes my life (transformers) i would like to show anyone who's out there something i mentioned - my octonauts and star trek crossover! it's basically a story where the crew of the octopod are actually star fleet officers who get stranded, due to some unknown stellar phenomenon, in the gamma quadrant, and very similarly to voyager, they have to make their own way back - it's a much shorter route, but they also end up running into the dominion, have lots of first contacts etc etc. i didn't think up much of the story part - yet?, only some of the beginning, perhaps up to being stranded in the gamma quadrant.

however, i did make some designs for characters etc using picrews! i couldn't be asked to draw much in those days. the maker is https://picrew.me/image_maker/608028 btw :)

i will write more ideas i have about the characters later in this post :)

first, barnacles!

kwazii!

peso: now, i had two designs - my first one ended up looking like a vulcan, but i wanted him to be a human character, so i redesigned it. then i realised that i hadn't designed any non-human characters, and started thinking about which characters could be vulcans, klingons etc, but then transformers snuck up on me... i think.

shellington:

dashi:

tweak: (not particularly fond of this design)

and inkling! he also got two designs.

huh. looks like he was an ex borg at some point... ugh, i do not remember :(

and here are my octonauts style drawings of them :)

but no matter how i reshuffled the crew, i'd always be one man short or in the wrong place! i couldn't have the vegimals running the security department??? they'd probably set the whole ship on fire!

enter my OC, Lotus! head of security :) she's very tired, her job is very demanding, especially when you're stuck in the gamma quadrant, but she loves the crew. my favourite animal is a fennec fox, so she's based off of those!

and now, for a little bit of context! what was going through my head??

there's a page from my diary/ notebook, detailing some of my ideas if you can read my handwriting... the idea was that their ship would still be called 'the explorer', formally, but is known to its crew as the octopod due to the large domes on the saucer section of the ship. as a matter of fact, i'd always plan to say this was the second octopod - the first looked like the iconic one from the series and was a mobile base for scouting aquatic worlds. both were designed by tweak.

and now, a transcript of that page! if you can understand my writing, i'm glad, i struggle to read it sometimes!

the USS Explorer is a vessel designed specifically for exploration and firsts contact situations. nicknamed the Octopod for the additional domes on the saucer section, it was designed by tweak.

the domes (pods) of the USS explorer are; 1 airponics bay (note: as in, what kes had in voyager. basically a garden), 1 extra science lab/ observatory, 2 advanced sensor arrays, 2 extra weapon emplacements, 1 reinforced conference room, 1 reinforced 'bar' area (10 forward) (note: like the one from picard's enterprise)

still from that page:

who the octonauts characters are in the star trek universe:

barnacles - basically picard, a model captain

kwazii - very similar to tom paris. after he and his grandfather adventured around a bit, he joined SF (note: my abbreviation for star fleet) and is well-known as a pilot

peso - always wanted to help people and see new things, so SF was an obvious choice.

tweak - always outdoorsy/ adventurous and had a love for inventing; wanted to explore and work with machines at the same time and loved the idea of joining SF. served with B(arnacles) when they were both ensigns on their first assignments

dashi - loved different communication methods as a child, from sign languages to images to verbal languages. at school, her teachers mentioned she might enjoy she might enjoy working in SF with communications. though it was difficult, dashi stuck with it and became an expert, sent into unknown territories to assist with first contact situations

shellington - always loved exploring and learning about different creatures, phenomenons etc. as he'd consumed much of terran knowledge, he decided to expand his knowledge and join SF

inkling - bit mysterious (note; translation, i had no idea what to do!). he joined SF possibly out of boredom, but is now committed to exploration and helping people.

vegimals - some eggs were discovered by shellington on and unexplored planet in an incubator. shellington, believing them to be normal eggs, hatched them. imagine his shock at them being flora/ fauna hybrids...

end of transcript.

now, i did have many more ideas, but i only remember them vaguely, and this is just about all i wrote down! there is another part of my notebook where i write a start to the story, where the octopod sets out to the gamma quadrant from ds9 - it seems sisko and barnacles used to be friends at SF academy :)

hey, if you like this idea, take it and run! write something, fill in the gaps, go crazy! credit me if you want, but i'm not particularly fussed. and if you've read to here, whether you wanna do something with these little ideas or not, hoped you enjoyed the read :))

live long an prosper!

[animalsalvationassociation]

[ DO NOT REPOST, ALL ART & CONCEPTS WERE MADE BY ME ]

Illustration time . . . How should I know??? Maybe like 30min???

I figured I should feed my followers some content because I had a few mental breakdowns as soon as I said I was coming back to—y’know—actually making the content. It’s been a long few weeks I just wanna lay down and watch Moomin . . . maybe have a cry-sesh . . . maybe both . . .

Will I do this digitally . . . yes . . . right now? No. Why? Because I started it and yes I hate it and yes I had a mental breakdown. THEY DON’T LOOK AS SQUISHY AS THEY SHOULD DIGITALLY AND IT UPSETS MEEEEEEE!!!!! 😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔

[ This is a Octonauts AU, in no way is this canon to the OG storyline. ]

[i-wanna-eat-a-loaf-of-bread]

me?? late for day 3??? impossible

Day 3 - Favorite relationship!!!

i was having a hard time deciding what relationship to do, there were so many options!! but then operation cooperation came on the tv so i took that as a sign to draw kwazton

i also redesigned kwazii a slight bit

im just now looking over the whole thing and im realizing that i made shellington tiny!!!!! im very sorry about that

[ajaxbleachishere]

Octoweek day 3: Human

I started the sketch for this one a while ago so I thought i’d use today’s prompt to finish it up lol

He can’t tie his tie properly 😔

Also here’s a close up version with ears

Headcannon that their ears show up with they get really expressive

Day 1 || Day 2 || Day 4 || Day 5 || Day 6 || Day 7

[mariusroyale]

You better give us some headcanons on the crew /j

Unless-

uh hah ha-

LESSS GOOOO

Kwazii:

- what’s the bet he watches and rewatches pirates of the Caribbean

- he’s littered with scars! battle scars he calls em and it stresses out peso bc he doesn’t WANT MORE SCARS ON HIM

- i hc him as bi! he just radiates bi energy to me-

- he blinks slow around peso :>>

- has used his claws to pick locks before!

- kwaso bc duh- he loves rubbing his face against pesos like he can’t help it he jus HAS to bc he loves him sm

- this is sort of canon already but he can’t go a minute without jumping or doing front flips anywhere like he GAHTTA MOVE

- when he’s thoroughly spooked he’ll jump extra high and cling onto the ceiling like in those cartoons akdjdkdh

Peso:

- often studies when he’s not busy!! gotta know more abt how to help sea creatures he hasn’t encountered yet after all

- sings/chirps when he’s v v happy

- FLAPS when he’s happy too hahdkfjd

- i think he’d like watching medical dramas! probably me projecting but i like them

- WHAT IF HES INTO KDRAMAS (ive only gotten into one but that hc is cute ahehsj)

- loves listening to kwazii’s stories!! (this is already canon basically (cough cough, that snail ep in season 5))

- I’d like to think he preens sometimes! just sorta fixing up his feathers and some (kwazii) of the crew are like ‘why are u stabbing urself’

- is a super fast swimmer! this is already confirmed p much but like HELLA FAST

Barnacles:

- enjoys listening to classical music

- also SOME HARD ROCK IF HES FEELING IT

- is BEEG LIKE 🅱️EEG 🅱️EEFY 🅱️OLAR 🅱️EAR

- could sometimes act like captain holt in my version of the crew!

- and by that i mean he sees kwazii as a son and would die for him (not if i die for u first captain!)

- when really really tired (as in u can’t save him with coffee) he’ll just blabber abt how much he treasures the crew and how much he’ll do for them

- sometimes he doesn’t get enough sleep! (like tweak-) and peso as his doctor has to keep him in check cos like yeah captain ur strong as shit but ur still old!!!

- his teefs are super fuckin S H A R P like sometimes when he needs a knife or maybe scissors he’ll just *SLICE*

- he’s obviously a huge softie but man this guy is SUCH a cutie patootie id imagine if he was in a relationship he’d be nonstop affection and all that

- speaking OF affection, he’ll pull kwazii into these big ass BEAR HUGS bc augwh he loves this cat so much “my SO N” “CAP LOOSEN IT A LITTLE IM A BIT SQUISHED-“

- bad at cooking but delights in watching cooking shows from time to time

- probably watches bob ross

- ohhhhh my god he could totally be an artist n stuff

Shellington:

- this one’s so stupid but, tweak and kwazii keep giggling whenever they make him say ‘LAWRENCE CHANEY’ KAHAKAHDS

- I’d like to think he tries to learn new languages too!

- falls asleep at his desk sometimes and one of the crew either carries him to bed or puts a blanket over him

- tries his hand at cooking with his children the vegimals! does not work out well he’s a disaster

- enjoys watching stuff on YouTube! u decide what youtubers he watches

- could hc him as ace!

- does that thing and eats ice

- he’s a lanky guy but almost reaches the captains height in my version

Dashi:

- sometimes when she’s really really frustrated she’ll just accidentally bark and she’ll just be like “😳 my bad-“

- when she’s particularly delirious (exhaustion, probably) she’ll chase her tail

- when she gets really excited her tail will wag really really fast

- adjdk sometimes when she’s super hungry she’ll skip chewing food and just I N H A L E (re: does not bode well when it’s noodles)

- sometimes she’ll just sleep in weird ass positions, neck tilted n all that

- loves dressing up tweak sometimes when she’s comfy with it (gives her her own stylish tomboy fits and stuff)

- LOOOOVES the barbie movies god she grew up on them and sometimes she’ll just watch fashion fairytale or princess charm school

- forces koshi to watch them too (she also loves them)

- visibly winces when kwazii tries mimicking her Aussie (tho it sounds p kiwi to me) accent

- probably watches drag race

Tweak:

- watches game grumps ajdjd

- sometimes gets too loud in her room when playing games cos she’ll get mad n shit

- “GODDDDAAMMIT I WAS SO CLOSE TO COMPLETING IT”

“TWEAK PLEASE ITS 2 AM GO TO SLEEP”

- sometimes she’ll just. eat leaves (even when they’re just on land in the wild if she knows it’s safe she’ll just. *nom*)

- goes NUTS whenever she makes blueprints that are like, detachable parts of a gup that are also modes of transport like she loves that the gup k and gup q

- like making it she’s like “HOHOHOJOUO WE GETTIN FUNKY WITH IT TONIGHT BOIZ” and it’s midnight and ‘bois’ is herself

- wants to redesign the gup f! ofc it was dodgy and is now a teeny artificial reef but she wants to make a new one that looks like the design she wanted initially !! (clownfish im p sure at least)

- her and kwazii get up to stupid shit in my version, assuming it doesn’t harm her gups or other creations

- when she’s pissed off/frustrated, she’ll tap her foot really quick repeatedly

- and while her ears twirl around each other when she’s scared, her nose also twitches!

[buggaboizz]

Yesterday was the birthday of an irl friend of mine @ivanthornes !

She's always loved my art since I was a little youtube animator, she's been there for me since day one! She's a great friend and I hope she had a very happy birthday ✧⁠◝⁠(⁠⁰⁠▿⁠⁰⁠)⁠◜⁠✧

[littlesapphicraccoonguy]

YES🗣️💯🔥‼️

obligatory david tennant fancast