(OC)TOBER, I GUESS?

So, as I'm still working on rendering a dozen (an actual dozen) pages of Bandit Revolver, I thought I'd get the ball rolling on bringing my original characters front and center, in hopes of shifting towards working on them over the next few months!

These ladies are the main characters of a comic I'm working on that is a love letter to fighting games, "Pretty Fierce" (working title)! I've been designing and working on this title for years now, but I want to get cracking on this as I feel like I've finally begun to round out the cast.

Our first two characters are as follows:

Aubree Stiles: every fighting game has to have a character who fights like Bruce Lee, and Aubree fills in that role! I wanted to make the trope a little unconventional by designing a gothic lolita who fights in such a manner. You may recognise her from my Patreon banner (which I should update...)! While she officially came to fruition in 2015, I had created artwork of a goth lolita who looked pretty similar to her. I'll go into this more in a future update!

Yukari Odachi: One of my oldest OCs--I created her back in 2004--Yukari was always the rep for the schoolgirl archetype seen in nearly every fighting game ever. She started off with a meaner attitude and carried a bokken, but I felt that wasn't suitable for the story as I developed it in later years, so I replaced her bokken with a steel pipe, and gave her a more grounded personality--a teenage girl who hits just as hard with her sarcasm as she does with her pipe! While her design hasn't changed much in the last few years, I did give her a slight update in that she now has slightly crooked teeth.

I hope you guys are excited to see some of my original characters--more will be on the way in the coming weeks, and I'll have colourised versions of these artworks by early November at the latest!