This is my third time trying to remake his sheet, but I think I’m finally happy with it. JP is the hardest person ever to figure out how to friggin’ draw. Frig. But I think my artblock has passed long enough for me to finally submit this. Also his personality is a ton different from when I first made him, so his whole sheet needed a redo. I’ll be re-posting Djuri soon too. Also I have no idea how to do the read more thing when I have my html enabled, it bugs the hell out of me when it’s not.
Full Name: Jean-Paul Riviere (JP)
Age: 29
Ruler: Trezubets
Species: Salamander(American alligator)
Gender: Male
Nationality: Cajun
Status: Single
Orientation: Straight
Height: 6’5"/11’(including tail)
Class: High
Personality:
-Strength Keywords: Disciplined, dependable, hard working, loyal, trustworthy, honest
-Weakness Keywords: Stubborn, jealous, ignorant, aggressive, resentful, inflexible
There is a lot more to Jean-Paul than meets the eye. He is a huge, intimidating alligator bodyguard (although much smaller than the average gator), but those few who do get to know him know that he is much more than that. Jean-Paul is the sort of man who is an excellent friend, but has few close friends as opposed to many acquaintances. The small amount he holds close to are always guarded and protected, and are treated like family. He is fiercely loyal and dependable, but can be quiet and very defensive around strangers.
History:
No one knows what happened to Jean-Paul’s parents; he doesn’t have any, and he is not set on finding out why. He was, and still is, very tiny for his species (regardless of how large he actually is), and was wandering the streets of Zemli for the first few years of his life. Jean-Paul lived off the small fish he could catch and anything that the richer folk would throw out or give to him. This forced him to mature quicker than he normally would have while he was trying to keep himself alive. When he was seven and making the rounds up and down the alleys of Zemli looking for some food he witnessed a small shark undine being picked on by a few older boys of the same species. Without pausing to think, Jean-Paul intervened and protected the smallest shark, getting a few bruises in the process. After he managed to chase them off, Jean-Paul helped the undine find his parents–which was none other than the king of Zemli, Trezubets. And as thanks for saving the prince, and learning the gator was all alone, Trezubets took him in and adopted him as his own.
Jean-Paul and Gavriil grew up extremely close. Both were homeschooled in the palace together by a private teacher, and they really looked out for each other while Trezubets was busy running the city. Gavriil was the more favoured of the pair, especially with the higher ups. This always bothered Jean-Paul, feeling like they did not see him as a son of Trezubets. Though he was liked by the staff of the castle, and he often spent what time he was away from the shark prince with them. He was particularly close with the head cook Gotovit, who taught him how to prepare all the palace cuisine. Jean-Paul was frequently poked fun at by younger members of the palace society for being too large. This made him look up to any adult figure who was not as lean and thin as most of the sharks in the city. Along with the steadily growing Trezubets, the larger puffer fish Gotovit gave him some confidence in being comfortable with his own size.
During his teen years, Jean-Paul began to lose a lot of his self confidence. While he and his brother were still very close, Gavriil was far more popular with kids their own age, and especially with the ladies. Jean-Paul on the other hand could not seem to get a date to save his life. At seventeen a pod of monk whales were passing by who Trezubets let stay in the palace over night. The gator immediately looked up to the larger men, asking them for advice and teachings. They did what they could, but the whales would not be staying long enough to help him really grow comfortable in his own scales. Looking for something to remember the men by, and having scales too thick to get tattoos like them, Jean-Paul instead got his earlobe pierced. The monks than gave him an earring meaning ‘good luck’ as a gift before leaving. Not long afterwards he attempted to give himself a second piercing, but ended up taking a chunk out of his ear instead. He was eventually successful, but never tried to get another one after that.
The alligator never had much luck for most of his life, but grew to be fairly content (or just used to) what he had.
Misc.:
-689lbs
-Prince Gavriil’s official bodyguard
-Slow runner, but good sprinter
-Hates crocodiles
-Has 75 teeth(4 stick out of his mouth)
-Lives in Trezubets palace 90% of the time
-Lives in his own riverside hut 10% of the time
-Very territorial
-Likes to cook
-Tail makes up 40% of his total weight
-Quick swimmer
-Likes time alone
-Enjoys dancing
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Art/Jean-Paul©Chickahdee
Skargarden
“Death is the Road to Awe” by Clint Mansell (This song sums up the comic perfectly)
Here’s my comic for the Fortune event in Org-Infinitus. I know it’s not my best work, but I’ve been going through an awful art block lately, and I just hate everything I’m doing. All of this was done on the spot, with almost no ideas, or sketching. Most of it was random freehand inking. Also no dialog, ‘cause, I’m deep like that (not really).
So we dive into Nel’s past a little. I really don’t want to give away much of when he was a somebody, so if you don’t get it, that’s the point. Nel hardly gets it. But his time in the Org is hinted too, like when he used to be a superior and failed. Poor kid hasn’t had the best life. Ohman. But yeah, I have a little figured out for Nel’s past as a somebody, but it’s all kind of up in the air still, and if he doesn’t remember most of it, I probably won’t reveal it. Just know it’s sad, and he lost people he tried to save.
This comic is really blah. I don’t like much about it, and inverting it was actually a mistake, but I liked how it looked, so it stuck. Also drawing the creepy ass dinosaurs… ohman, fuckin’ creepy. But I think it works, since Nel’s power is to control them, and no one should be able to in the first place, so there is worry in the back of his mind all the time, that it might backfire and he could just be swarmed and eaten. Why is this so much darker than I intented it to be? I don’t know. Well, I’m done. And I’ll try and move on to fix my art block (if anyone has any tips, feel free to help).
Nelujix/Dean/Art©Chickah-dee
Burrower©Pitafish
Organization Infinitus
Art Trade with Onone-chan. The characters of her comic ZAP!, Lottie, Norma, and Nick. Go check it out!
Don’t ask me why I HAD to do a polaroid-esk drawing, it was literally stuck in my mind ever since we agreed to the trade. Seriously. I have no idea. But, hope you like it, duude~
It really reminds me, I need to work on my own comics….
Art©Chickahdee
ZAP!/Lottie/Norma/Nick©onone-chan and onone-san
Pokemon sketch requests for ichitan makochan89 pitafish winterbolt octokracken red-says somepunnyusername
I might still take more.
Art©Chickahdee
Pokemon©Nintendo
A small, super quick doodle that I did while trying to redesign Mars, my charmander, for my redo of my nuzlocke comic. I’ve always been inspired by Bechno, I think ever since I joined DA like fifty million years ago, and I wanted to try my hand at doing a quick doodle of her Snivy, Leonard.
Mars/Art©Chickahdee
Leonard©Bechnokid
Pokemon©Nintendo
Character redesign for Michelle. From the thing I reblogged here, check it out. I’d like more experience with this kind of thing, especially since I didn’t change too much for this one out of two that I actually got.
This is a redesign of her character Tan. He really needed some new colours, that and she aged him up to be like 40 something.
I always pictured Tan as, the nerdy looking man, who wasn’t the sort of… fanboy nerd, like with video games or whatever. But like, book smart, and math, and that kind of nerd. Someone who’d actually excel at school, who had braces, and flood pants, and was that loner kid. That’s how I see it. And as a middle-aged man, I don’t think it’d change. He dresses like how his father would, maybe. That though, and we have this joke where: when he takes off his glasses, he de-ages twenty or so years, and actually has nice eyes. I can’t bring myself to draw them though. No one should know what his eyes actually look like. Kind of like the Professor from Futurama. Anywho, so that’s Tan’s redesign.
I’m still down for doing more of these btw~
Art©ChickahDee
Tan©Octokracken
My two contest pieces for a Perfect World Character contest
The rules stated that I needed to have a screenshot included in the artwork, which is kind of lame, but whatever. I’m too lazy to make two seperate versions of this, it took me long enough already.
So my two characters respectfully, TressieBelle, and ChickahDee. I only just started Tressie, so she’s super n00b, but still has a nice looking outfit.
ChickahDee/Tressie/Art©Chickahdee
Perfect World International©PWE
A commission for Yepa for a birthday present. It isn’t as lovey as I hoped, but I just couldn’t redo Korra’s pose here, it worked too well. Also Tahno is hard to draw.
Art©Chickahdee
Legend of Korra©Bryan Konietzko and Mike Dante DiMartino
Character redesign for cm8x-insanity. From the thing I reblogged here, check it out. I’d like more experience with this kind of thing, especially since I didn’t change too much for this one out of two that I actually got.
Sorry it took a while, I had it done pretty quickly, but I was working on my new art blog and watermark. So yeah, here we go. Hope it’s good. I really just put in how I personally would remake the character, so if you don’t care for it, that’s cool too~
Art©Chickahdee
Clara©cm8x-insanity
Happy Birthday to LadyFrog!
Married Life – Pixar’s UpCongratulations on getting old, Jenny!
I really wanted to draw something nice for her, as in not just a doodle. So I’ve been having lots of feelings about Gav and Djuri when they’re much older… or just them in general. And I’ve doodled Djuri as an old lady already, but I haven’t coloured anything yet. That and, me, Michelle, and Morgan, watched “Up” recently, and… Djuri would be Carl. I don’t even care.
Anywho, so yes, Gav would be as handsome as his dad when he grows old. I assume they’re actually pretty old here, over a hundred for sure (since in my mind dragons live pretty long), and Trez lives well over a hundred, so would Gav. It makes sense, I swear. Also, not going to spoil much, but something big/horrible happens to Djuri, in which she stops wearing her hat and outs that she’s a girl finally. I’m really loving the poofy clothes on her though, she’d be so layered, ohman. Also in which, Gav sports a massive braid, ‘cause he’d hang out with the vikings too much. And his hair just… grows. Damnit Gav.
Well, yeah, so hope you like it Jen. I did a background and everything! OKAY?! Though the ocean is super easy to draw… shhhhh.
Djuri/Art©ChickahDee
Gavrill©Ladyfrog
Reblogging from my personal.
