Playing around with some new rough character designs!
(Please pardon the wooden poses.)
I'd like to figure out other outfits soon, but just starting with a single one each... Out-Around-Town sorta clothes. They're a farm family, homesteading on the fringes of a small melting-pot sort of urban area. Because I am a dweebus, historically their people were culturally genderless (clothes were just clothes, didn't have words for pronouns, etc), but urbanization and cultural mixing has started to change that. The parent (Octavo) was raised traditionally, but their kids (particularly Gazette in the middle) have been introduced to the idea of gender from foreign languages, shopping for clothes in town, and all that. Gaz in particular digs the idea of being a "she" instead of a "they", wearing dresses, and all that... though her parent and her more mainstream twin sibling suspect it's just a rebellious phase.
Also wrote a short looping Character Theme Song for them, to listen to while I figured out their designs. It ended up ever-so-slightly Reggae, so I kinda accidentally gave Octavo dreadlocks. Also yes, any excuse to use bad cat puns and Mario Paint meows is reason enough for me to make a song.
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/7isdj4tdzhduoc6/lazy_mornyan.ogg?raw=1)
P.S. I wish it'd been on purpose because it was too perfect... but the tune was accidentally based on a lietmotiff from this. It worked so well, I straight-up reused one of the melodies:
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https://solifuge.github.io/ashwoodcross/meowsong.html)