I met my partner because of these two characters way back in 2010. There was a group we were apart of where we made ocs based on colours. They’re still a lot of fun to draw and I’m really glad I made Bronze!
Have a Bronze sketchdump! I’ve aged Bronze up by almost 20 years and I’m really happy with this new look. I just couldn’t stop drawing him!
Some cute sketches of Bronze!
It took a long time to get him right. Pretty happy with the design. So I thought I’d show a bit of the process!
For a prompt: design a character based off a colour.
I’ve been working on a character for a while now and I can happily say I think I’m happy with this design!
Rust is a smart kid with a good business sense and a fine sense of responsibility but is really unsure of where his life is going. He’s a jack of all trades but doesn’t want to be. He’s worked at his family’s mom and pop shop, gone to school for architecture, took violin lessons. He’s trying to find himself. He does a lot of things because he feels he should, and he’s good at a lot but not enough to stand out. (Also he and I are unsure where his gender is going right now. He’s gonna be pretty fluid. Changing pronouns a bit I think! Going for he/him for now. He is AFAB.)
I really wanted to redesign this character for a long time, but wow it was hard. I’m not sure why I was so stumped on it. I filled like a whole sketchbook with concepts! I’ll post up some sketches later. I’ll also probably draw him and Bronze a bit too.
After drawing Bronze again I couldn’t help but look back on some fond memories from the DA group I was in, Bandiera, and I took to drawing some old friends!
Character design prompt:
Design a character, anything you can think of! Can be within any sort of time period, style, world. No limits other than using mostly that one colour that you picked.
There’s no limits on colours either. Multiple people can design characters for one colour. This is just a prompt to get your juices flowing.
Be sure to tag your post #swatchlife or submit it to this blog to be sure it shows up here, we want to show off everyone’s characters.
Feel free to connect with other artists as well! In the future we hope to have mini prompts for you like collabs and other fun things!
In the mean time, be creative and design some new characters!
More from 2010.
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