Maria Ochoa

Transformers everywhere

I've been happily busy sketching so many transformers in the last few days. With permission, I redesigned my friends' OCs. We used to write RP chats with them as a squad and shenanigans abound! 😄💖

But I've been feeling so good being able to fill in more than a page a day. It definitely helps in these trying times!

I need a ship name

Don't mind me just hyperfixating on an old interest 🤣

I'm having fun exploring this dynamic and the fact that Im creating comics, as messy as they are. These spurts don't come often so Imma grab them quick!!

Thanks for checking things out regardless of what I draw! :3 💖

The game has changed

More indulging myself with Ridge x Longarm/Shockwave 👀👌 The dialog exchange in the first two pages came from a BG3 scene and I was like "IMMA USE IT", the third was my own addition.

I had a lot of fun with all the expressions :3 Enjoy!

Revisiting old characters

I've been diving back into Transformers, mainly Transformers Animated.

Ridge was an OC of mine and so I started to redesign her again for fun and also started playing with a crack ship I had. In her story she befriends and falls for a fellow autobot named Longarm who turns out to be a double agent for the Decepticons.

The dynamic and situation always fascinated me, so I said heck with it and played with the idea again!

Sketch goal failed

So I didn't finish my sketchbook within a month 😆 but I have been trying to fill a page a day. It's been slow going, half of October has been pretty busy and current events have made me just feel too BLEH to be active on any social media site.

Here are some of the sketches I personally enjoy. There was a point where I was focusing on my OC, Diana and her story. The sketches include her parents, growing up and overall silliness. Enjoy!

Didn't finish this by September...

Frisk

I heard it was Undertale's 5th anniversary so I wanted to draw some fanart! ❤️

Nice polygons

I've been replaying the original Final Fantasy VII and wanted to draw mt OCs in the polygon style of the game. The simplicity of it was relaxing to do 👍

A wild man in a loin cloth

Hello I was up late watching Tarzan

Is this Love

Quickly sketched this out on the back of the last page (hence the marker bleed) while listening to 80's rock love ballads 😍

New sketchbook, new sketches

I'm doing a challenge with some friends where we try and finish a sketchbook within the month. I dunno if I can but if it means pushing myself to keep drawing then I'm for it 👀👌 First pages have been of my saiyan gods, Fertility and Eat. I'm pushing to draw the rest!

Sketch dump part 2

A second batch of sketches from the last pages of my book. Enjoy!

August Sketch dump

August has been a busy month, and during that time I finished another sketchbook! I've had this one since November of last year and while I'm glad it's done I struggled a lot because the paper quality was kinda meh so that made it difficult to wanna draw on a daily basis. But I wanted to make a sketch dump of some of my fav pieces I've done.

Geist redesign

When Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron came out I was so in love with it. And it came to no ones surprise that I made an OC xD. Geist was my concept of Spirit and Rain's foal, with her name being a play on Spirit.

She had a weird history of being stolen by other artists and I also faced accusations of stealing from other artists because everyone and their mother made concepts where the offspring is a buckskin paint.

I was browsing through all of my old art and suddenly wanted to re...

Pride Unicorns

June was pride month and also Junicorn month so I wanted to combine them with a few doodles ❤️🌈

Lydia

A series of gesture drawings I did featuring my krogan lady, Lydia. It's really fun to draw her in poses you normally wouldn't see a krogan in. But it's also challenging too!

SHARKS!

Despite being quiet in the last couple of months I'm still doing the 100 days of drawing challenge. It will actually be ending in a few days. A lot of my stuff isn't post worthy but expect some uploads of what I did like, like these sharks! Which was inspired when I played the game Maneater 😆

July update

What a year 202 has been, right? With all thats been going on in the world it's a main reason why I haven't been active in June.

I can't give a solid promise for more art( in a consistent manner at least) but I wanted to say that I'm still alive and kicking. Desspite these quiet moments, thank you for your patronage. And I hope that everyone out there is staying safe and doing their best ❤️

Doodle dump!

It's been a busy month but I've been trying to keep up with drawing each day as part of a challenge called 100 days of drawing. Even if its just a random doodle, all it takes is 6 minutes! I figured I could do that 👍

This batch is my continued FF7 OC spree

Nemo Denison

I keep telling myself I should go in order when it comes to my OCs story but all Ive been doing is drawing what comes to mind!

This is one of Diana's sons, Nemo :3 who Ive had since 1998. Way back when he was Cloud and Diana's kid in my happy family stories. And now he's still their biological kid except it's because he was a Shinra experiment grown in a lab, and Diana stole him away!

She does her best to give him a happy childhood but by the time Advent Children rolls around he...

Humble Beginnings

I've been doing warm up sketches so I could attempt another OC showcase withe my FF7 characters. I figured this piece would be a good way to start it off before I procrastinate any further.

I became obsessed with Final Fantasy 7 when I was 12/13, and I mentioned elsewhere that I made two friends who played the game. And we would spend our lunch hour every day at school writing stories and making our first OCs for the game way before we even knew they were called that. But I still have o...

Diana chibis!

So I've been struggling lately with drawing this OC because I'm too tired to sketch rows of figures as I work out some designs. I started going back to a chibi style which honestly has helped TONS! It's simplified, quick, and has allowed me to draw more than one figure. All I wanna do is get these ideas on paper and it feels good when it actually happens!

I want to color these and get some story points written out but for now enjoy all these little Diana's!

Challenge completed!

My first set is done! Had a lot of fun with this cutting out and gluing portraits, very arts and crafty 😆 also in person it looks nice with a pop up looking effect! I definitely want to do another one with the second bat h of suggestions given but it might be slow going because I'll soon be busy with the FF7 Remake 👀👌

Six fanarts wip

A quick progress update on the six fanart challenge! If I get three more suggestions Ill do a second one :3

Coming up for air

Lately I've been spending my time in keeping my mom grounded as we stay indoors (she's a woman who's always on the move so this stay at home order is getting to her) Unfortunately that has left me too drained to work on art :C

I have been trying to doodle. I would like to do another OC showcase with my FFVII characters since the Remake will be coming soon.

Also there is an art meme going around I would like to participate in called Six Fanarts! If you have any suggestions for char...

An update

Hello my lovelies, I wanted to make a small update! Things are a little tense here, as cases of Covid have shown up in the county I live in. Havent had much time to doodle but I wanted to keep uploading when I have the chance. Gotta do what we can to remain positive! I hope everyone is keeping safe and doing well. Sending all my love and hugs to you all ❤️

Xander and Famke doodles

Sorry for the recent silence! With current events what they are I have been stressing over a lot of personal issues, and had to make some decisions for the sake of my mebtal health. It's been rough and the week isnt over yet, good grief!

I did manage to scribble in some moments inbetween all the work and fuss over here. I could beat myself up over how unrefined these pieces are but I've actually had a lot of fun creating loose and messy work.

So what I was concentrating on lately ...

Xander doodles

Some stuff I did as a warm up a few days ago. I want to apologize for not churning these out as fast as I hoped. In my head Im like "yeah I can do a piece a day!" and then all sorts of stuff keeps you from doing that xD oh well! Thanks for sticking around C:

Pirates ahoy!

I yanked this off my old DevArt account hence the watermark. I drew this one year for international speak like a pirate day XD The top group are canon characters in FF12 and the bottom were all the oc’s belonging to some friends and I.

A few of the characters below will be appearing in future pieces as I upload more of Xander himself!

Xander Rador: The Basics

It's been so long since I roleplayed this character I was looking for old logs about his story ❤️

Starting with some basics!

Name: Xander Rador

Alias: The Black Shark of The Naldoan Sea (black shark for short)

Height: 6'4

Age: 35

Occupation: Pirate Lord of Balfonheim

Race: Hume (Rozarrian/Archadian)

Zodiac sign: Aries

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Character Showcase: Xander Rador

So I wrote out the names of the various OCs I created from different fandoms and then drew a name from a bag. The chosen name was Xander! My pirate Oc created during my Final Fantasy XII craze 😄

I'll be doing my best to make some posts through the week sharing his personality, story and all the fun tidbits! To start I figure it would be a fun exercise to draw him again. I created him back in 2008-09 so BIG CHANGE IN STYLE XD