Left-Handed Catcher
casioblancas Asks:
1863-project Said:
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2. Do you have a personal favourite among your OCs?
Pretty sure everyone and their mother knows this by now, but I’ve played favorites with Dustin Thatcher (Londinium) since 2004.
10. Introduce an OC with a complicated design?
Hmm, I’m not sure too many of them are overly-complicated - they’re historically accurate, for the most part, so things don’t get too fancy except for when I’m drawing nobility. But these two ladies from a project set in the 1610s that I haven’t done much with yet definitely have pretty complicated outfits because 1610s nobility wore some really elaborate things…
12. Name an OC that isn’t yours but who you like a lot
Augh, there’s too many good ones! So many of my friends have OCs that I’m invested in seeing. A lot of them don’t really post much on Tumblr anymore, but some that do include @jessetay, @vkm11 (Gene is great), @kaiyves, @kaelang12, @aroyalpaininthecass - and you, of course! (I got to draw one of yours!)
37. Introduce an OC who is not quite human
This is difficult because, well, I generally write historical fiction, and everyone’s human with no supernatural elements because I like being intensely accurate. So I had to take a deep dive into my middle school days for this one: here’s Yumi, an elf, who I created in 2003 when I was in 8th grade.
OC-tober: Day 27
Steph Bases Some Of Her Characters On Double Acts: Lady Elizabeth Eaprick (nee Dyxsonne) and Lady Anne Dyxsonne (nee Eaprick), Unnamed 1610s Project
This is actually from a project that I haven’t quite gotten to yet, but it’s forthcoming once I get the other five thousand history projects out of the way, I swear. There have been occasional posts about this 1610s thing, but the fact is that it doesn’t even have a working title - here’s really all I know I want to do with it so far.
Except for one thing - I figured out the dynamic I wanted between these two, and it’s because of the sudden popularity of a baking show.
Before Bake-Off, Mel and Sue weren’t as well-known as a double act outside of their native UK as, say, French and Saunders were, although the latter actually had Mel and Sue on their show several times, which helped launch their careers. In the 2000s they would often be seen on their own on panel shows (especially Sue), but once Bake-Off launched in 2010 and became the global phenomenon that it is, they reached an international audience and are now utterly beloved for how they hosted the show and worked with the contestants (including swearing to ruin takes where contestants were crying so they couldn’t be used on TV). It was that overall kindness and love of double entendres that shaped this relationship here - these two are the ones who hatched the plan to ensure that everyone’s relationships would be safe and protected (see the second link above for more on that), and they also have a notable love of the current theatre trends and enjoy the way it’s written. When I have a more concrete idea of where this story is going to go, I know who’s going to be taking the lead on it.
I had this silly idea of characters from historical periods discussing the biggest events of their times to educate people but doing it in the format of a panel show and making dumb jokes and generally messing around the entire time and then I had to go and draw it.
Everyone here is from something I’m working on. (Londinium is the one everyone knows, and if you’re my friend you’ll probably recognize Dustin and Basil at the bottom representing the 1860s, but there’s a lot of writing I’m doing simultaneously.) You may notice some similarities to various comedians because it tends to be watching comedians that inspires my work in the first place and helps me develop interpersonal dynamics between characters. (Seriously, watch any two comedians interact on a panel show. Now imagine your OTP.)
Ironically despite my OTP comment just now, out of everyone here, only one pair is actually in a relationship, the two ladies representing the 1610s (whose brothers are also in a relationship, as is described here).
Anyway, yeah, this is what I do when I watch too many Big Fat Quiz reruns in a row, I guess. Enjoy.