milkyfederation asked:
Love Valentin! What's the weirdest crime he' commited / been arrested for?
tis the season for art summaries! Was looking back on how characters changed and art improved over the years and its fun to have the 20 year span of characters I’ve had the whole time!
- 2005-2009 started drawing people for the first time in my life at the age of *checks watch* 12 on account of “baby’s first oc” which is a hell of a motivator. Bad at drawing something? Make up a character outside your current comfort zone you’re invested in.
- 2010-2014 I was in art school, so yeah learning how to draw again, how to animate and find my visual style and all that. Would count Gus/Hans as my first oc that had any real thought put into a story and a world (spoilers: a lot of it came from RP’s lol). Eric is a 20 year old oc but I think his visual/character journey hasn’t changed all that much in all this time.
- 2015-2019 I fully entered the work force as an animator, so I think I had a lot of pencil mileage and picked up style quirks from just working on tons of different projects both personally and as a professional. Tlakeln came into existence when I was introduced to D&D for the first time, so he is my “baby’s first d&d character” and I did not know how to draw beef back then lskjdflsd.
- 2020-2025 I started teaching while also working as an animator and I think teaching fundamentally changed how I approach design and charaters (see: needing to speedrun character design so I could effectively teach it to others), just in terms of being more deliberate with shape language, pose, expression, et al so going back to older character designs with fresh eyes and massive changes in how I choose to stylize.
If nothing else, keep on drawing your blorbos, something something its about the journey and the lessons you’ve learned along the way :>
just some guys on the job
hans wants to get the job done and go home cuz its cold out and posing for this group photo is a waste of time homie is on the clock and taking his job seriously
putting them in a perpetual state of things getting hot and heavy and then never fully committing to the relationship >:]c
a collection of scrappy rat man drawings, for your enjoyment
THANK YOU I’m glad you enjoy the gremlin >:]
I don’t have a SPECIFIC answer for you because the fun of Valentin for me is, his chaotic stupidity has so many possibilities for wack ass situations he could be in, so really, just think about the wildest shit you can and he’s probably done it haha.
The times he’s been arrested is because he’s picking fights with cops and/or the cops were able to catch him THAT time. Otherwise I don’t think he’s doing too many crimes that are unexpected for a mercenary, in a cyberpunk dystopia (that being said, in our TTRPG we did have to rescue another players dog who was stolen for underground dog fights and that’s probably about as “unusual” as it’s gotten so far in our game).
I DO think he gets himself into weird situations that possibly lead to arrest due to a series of unfortunate events or just being somewhere he doesn’t belong, not even TRYING to do crimes but if someone calls the cops on him… or if there’s just cops nearby… he’s going to fight those cops or find a way to cause a scene.
Something that absolutely makes ME laugh to think about is, he gets into a situation where he has to go to county or small claims court under threat of fines/arrest for something low stakes, like smoking in a no smoking zone. He wouldn’t know how to navigate that, probably doesn’t even know he has to show up in court until the law shows up to do something about it.
was thinking on Valentin’s life and how he got to be the hot mess he is currently, and this visual timeline is the result of brainrot getting the better of me.
- 7-13: a problem child, didn’t really learn how to process emotions in a healthy way as a result of troubles at home
- 18-21: lost right forearm and both legs (below the knee) at the same time, same accident resulted in the death of a parent and lasting psychological and physical trauma. He definitely spends this period of his life into his mid twenties in a dark mental place which leads to a sort of mild psychotic break.
- 25-35: change in attitude, bleached hair, tattoos, and fully committing to a life of crime which obviously leads to more trouble. Stays in the lunar colonies until the age of 35.
- 35-38: relocates to NYC, gets into mercenary work via smuggling rings and generally being muscle for hire. He’s living his best life??? Or just, living in the moment for the moment and in an environment that offers more experiences/cultures/etc.
HAPPY WEEN have valentin in an ill fitting spirit halloween costume
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