17/05-2023 - Wednesday
I got a fun ask on tumblr today and wanted to share the response here too!
The ask:
”Who’s you’re oldest oc and has their design changed much between when you first created them and now?”
My reply:
So out of my current OCs (because I've made OCs since my early teens, but they have long since been sent to the cringe grave of forgotten lore), Fortuna is probably my oldest "active" OC!
She was first created back in 2015, together with Mara, when I came up with the idea about a clumsy witch who only wanted to cast a love spell. Since she's not a very skilled witch, she happened to summon an imp binding her to killing someone. It sounds very serious, but it was all in a lighthearted manner.
Here's a character sheet I never even bothered to finish:
The entire point was to make something incredibly simple, spend no time at it what so ever and still tell a story. So the art style is even rougher compared to where I was actually at skill-wise (even though I was not very good over all back then.)
Years later, I recreated this page when I sat down to actually make Witchcraft a reality - as a webcomic (ca.2018)
And then redrew it again a year later, because it turns out you get a lot better very fast when you draw comics every day. Who knew!? (ca.2019)
Through creating this comic, her design has changed as I have improved and gotten more comfortable with stylization and more familiar with her as a character. Her entire personality has changed quite a bit too.
Fortuna at the very beginning of Witchcraft (ca 2017)
vs her at the end of Witchcraft (2020)
Today she looks like this:
I've softened down the edges a little bit, but I am hellbent on keeping her pointy nose because I adore it. And I am currently redrawing an old piece, which I tried to redraw a couple of years back as well, but never finished. So consider it a redraw of a redraw! Here's a progress gif:
And that's the journey of Fortuna! She means the world to me and I've grown so much through her. Thank you for asking and if you read all the way to the end, thank you for that as well <3