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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · 5d

Okay, so it turns out I never shared Rocket's cowboy look here. Well, now that I've revisited that design, ya'll get to enjoy it. Out of the main trio, he's the one that has the most variety in terms of clothes. He's just the type of guy to try different styles.

#characterdesign #ocsky

Rocket, my animatronic OC, with cowboy-like clothes. He's wearing a dark brown cowboy hat with a low brim, black button up shirt with a purple stripe around the edge of the collar and two purple lightning bolts, white gloves, light blue cuffed jeans with a black leather belt and small dark brown boots. He still has his usual cosmetics, the warm beige latex mask, black hair, thick black eyebrows, darker plastic eyelids with long eyelashes and plastic cartoony eyes with cameras for pupils.

He's walking somewhere. No idea where. Your guess is as good as mine.

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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · 7d

The aforementioned “new” Cortex design. Even if it’s not fully colored, I’m still beyond happy to see some full body artwork. I am willing to bet that this exactly what his actual Colossal Pictures design looks like, since the style is extremely close.

Photo by bunny_wars

An official shirt depicting Captain Cortex with a baseball and glove, being lifted by a jet of water coming from a sunken ship. At the bottom there are two baseball bats, one says Typhoon and the other says Wonders. The lineart is dark blue while the parts with color are dark green.

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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · 7d

Some recent Captain Cortex fanart I’ve made, the official design of course, not my headcanon version. Now, why am I once again revamping the way I draw Cortex’s official design? Because we now have a full body drawing of him, the more Colossal Pictures style design, to be specific.

#craniumcommand

Captain Cortex, the main character from the Colossal Pictures version of Cranium Command. He is a short(?) brain pilot with pale peach skin, round face with big cheeks, long neck and a bottom heavy build. He wears a blue cap, red orange pilot jumpsuit, white undershirt, white gloves and black boots. He also has a black and silver headset with two long antennas.

He is drawn standing up with a happy expression and the art style is similar to that of older cartoons with flat art styles like Roger Ramjet.

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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · 8d

New month, new design for my mall rat sona. I've been meaning to do so for a while but kept getting distracted. Not much has changed apart from the color scheme, a slightly different way of stylizing the hair, overall art improvement and the addition of small whiskers.

#sona #characterdesign

2D artwork of my sona, an anthropomorphic rat with tan fur, short sark brown curly hair, pink ears, toes and tail, and a black turtleneck sweater. In terms of facial proportions, he has a large head with big ears, small dot eyes towards the bottom and a big button nose. As for the body, it's small and bottom heavy, kinda like Mickey Mouse, but with slightly shorter arms with tiny hands and long legs with big feet.

I drew him in a happy jumping pose.

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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · 10d

One of the more ambitious pieces I’ve made, a poster for “Soul in The Machine”. Idk, I like to pretend that my stories already exit. Plus I wanted to draw Vinyl, Rocket and R.J.

#poster #2drender #ocsky

A poster for one of my story ideas “Soul in The Machine”. It features the three main characters, Vinyl, a humanoid robot with long brown hair, peach latex mask, silver visor and red eyes, Rocket, an animatronic with short black hair, beige latex mask and cameras for eyes and RJ, a humanoid robot with a golden helmet, black screen and green eyes.

The background is a dry forest landscape with a dirt road, powerlines/telephone poles.

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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · 11d

I thought I'd design a chicken for my Cranium Command headcanon. Just a random hen though, so it's not a headcanon design for the chicken in the actual show.

#craniumcommand #headcanon

A sort of Disney style hen design. I went for a feral chicken look, with a reddish-brown coloration with a slim body.

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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · 12d

Me every day

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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · 13d

I felt like drawing a scene with a streetlamp in the middle of nowhere. I also felt like making something with a darker color palette with my Cranium Command headcanon, so here's a nighttime scene that takes place within that world.

#craniumcommand #fanart #headcanon

A nighttime scene of streetlamp in the middle of nowhere near a canyon. Technically speaking, it's underwater, so the colors are mostly blue, with some green hues around the light. Since this takes place in my Cranium Command headcanon, I added Buzzy and Captain Cortex, who are sort of lost. Buzzy's visibly nervous, while Cortex is still confident that a bus might stop by soon.

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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · 20d

Another landscape practice mixed with some cloud practice. Idk, I just felt like drawing a shelf cloud. I added Rocket and Vinyl in it, since it's a scene that takes place in their world.

#environmentart #digitalpainting

A digital painting of a shelf cloud at a beach. The cloud itself has a lot of scuds that further emphasize its wave-like appearance. Since the piece takes place within the world of "Soul in The Machine", I added Rocket and Vinyl to it, as sort of spectators to the oncoming storm. Rocket's somewhat curious of the thing, though that's interrupted by Vinyl's anxious reaction to it.

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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · 23d

Surprisingly, I never shared the original version of this piece here. I did share one of Buzzy and Captain Cortex in a similar environment though. Nothing much to say here. It's just a chill scene with Buzzy in it.

#craniumcommand #fanart #headcanon

My headcanon version of Buzzy from Cranium Command talking to someone offscreen while sitting on a rock in a field full of pink grass and fuchsia coral-like trees. I like to imagine the world of Cranium Commandos as being submerged in cerebrospinal fluid and similar to many underwater environments and that the Cranium Command's various bases are located in more natural areas, so there's a lot of fields where brain pilots can just relax during their time off.

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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · 24d

I went ahead and drew Koharu again. Pseudorcas are still pretty challenging to draw, but that won't stop me from drawing my OCs.

#characterdesign #dolphin

Another one of my cetacean OCs, Koharu an adult female false killer whale. She has a long slender body with an oval shaped head, dark grey coloration with a darker dorsal cape and light grey underside markings, and blueish grey eyes.

Since she's just a normal whale, she's not as expressive as Seymour, though she's quite outgoing in terms of personality.

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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · 25d

It was raining yesterday, so I decided to practice another landscape, specifically a lake in a mountainous area. I added Rocket in to make it more interesting and because this is a landscape within the setting of "Soul in The Machine".

#environment #lake #digitalpainting

A digital painting of a cloudy day at a lake in a mountainous region. Standing on top of a rock is Rocket, who's looking at someone offscreen. He's not exactly happy to see Vinyl and R.J. were already walking away without telling him.

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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · 27d

Trying something else with my cetacean illustrations. I've done illustrations like this before, but this time I wanted to see just how realistic I can go in terms of lighting and shading with on airbrushes. I drew a Norwegian killer whale, because yes.

#orca #dolphin #whale

An illustration of an adult male Norwegian killer whale. These animals are your "stereotypical" killer whale, mostly black and white in color with a bright grey saddlepatch behind their dorsal fin. Like other North Atlantic orcas, they tend to be stubbier with slightly rounded dorsal fins, pectoral flippers and tail flukes. As mentioned before, this individual is an adult male, so he has massive pectoral flippers, a tall dorsal fin and curled tail flukes.

This particular piece has a background with deep blue water, and it's made to look as if the whale is popping out of it.

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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · 27d

A fun piece I did a while ago. Apart from wanting to show the comparison between a typical grey alien and Pearl, I thought it would be cool to show what people think they see when they encounter her, since it often happens at night in low visibility.

#alien #ocsky #scifi

A sketch of stereotypical grey alien next to my alien OC, Pearl. Though she’s a cat-like alien with a similar body type to a penguin, such details may not be seen clearly in certain lighting conditions. That combined with the pop culture image of what an alien would look like often causes people to interpret her and other individuals of her species as something far more humanoid.

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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · 29d

Yet another Seymour drawing. I wasn’t too happy with the previous one, since it didn’t really show his personality. I tend to imagine him as the type of guy who’s still in the mischievous risk taking phase.

#orca #characterdesign #ocsky

Seymour, formerly known as Guillaume, one of my orca OCs. He is an 18-year-old male, so he is bulky with large pectoral flippers, tall dorsal fin and curled flukes, though still not fully developed. He has rounded diamond shaped eye patches and a bright saddle patch with a heart shaped stripe. Additionally, his dorsal fin leans a bit towards the left side.

Since he was human, he tends to sit still in a vertical position. Overall, he’s not good at being a whale.

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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · Sep 9

Here’s the original version. This was done long before I updated Pearl’s color scheme and design. Also, I reused the background in the new one, but added stuff to make it consistent with my current pieces.

An older version of the piece I shared in this post. It lacks the greenish hue of the new one.

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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · Sep 9

A remake of a piece I never posted here. It was raining a lot yesterday, so I was in the mood for a night time piece and I had wanted to revisit a painting of Pearl for a long time.

#alien #ocsky

Pearl, one of my alien OCs, from a top down perspective looking up at a light. It is made to look as if it’s a beam of light coming from a spacecraft, when in reality it is coming from a street lamp. The light has a greenish hue.

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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · Sep 7

Here's a bit of a headcanon I actually never shared here. Though cranium commandos are probably just tiny humans in the actual show, I like to think they're just anthropomorphic single celled organisms.

#craniumcommand #fanart #headcanon

A body diagram, except that instead of being a normal human with organs, the insides consist of various organelles arranged based on their function, so for example, the nucleus is where the brain is.

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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · Sep 6

More plant design work. I wanna draw more landscapes but first I have to draw the plants to know exactly what I’m doing.

#propdesign #digitalart #design

Another illustration of the different types of plants found in the dry forest regions within the setting of “Soul in The Machine”. The first plant is a cat’s claw tree which is a thorny plant with red seed pods. The second is a cactus similar to an Opuntia found here in Puerto Rico, with thin paddle-like branches and yellow flowers. The third is a turk’s head cactus, which has a large barrel-like structure with a “head” that has reddish colored thorns. The last is a light grey agave plant with a tall stem that has golden yellow flowers. Like the previous dry forest plant illustration, it features the three main robot characters for size comparison, showing that the plants aren’t exactly massive.

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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · Sep 5

Another pose sheet, for Captain Cortex this time. I'm already starting to love making these.

#posesheet #characterdesign #craniumcommand

A pose sheet for my headcanon design of Captain Cortex from the Colossal Pictures version of Cranium Command. There are five drawings of him in this piece: one of him leaning on a wall with a confident expression the top left corner, another of him greeting someone by taking of his hat on the bottom right corner, looking shocked on the top right corner, one of him taking a nap on the bottom right corner, and a full render of him pointing to himself with a cocky expression.

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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · Sep 3

Yet another one of Pearl's friends, Spinel. I thought it would be cool if there was one that looked more like a black cat.

#alien #creaturedesign #characterdesign

A 50s sci-fi poster style render of one of my alien OCs, Spinel looking at someone offscreen. The background is designed to look like a mix between outer space and the sky during twilight hours, using a color scheme that consists of bluish black, wine, teal and light green.

She's another alien with a cat-like face and penguin-like body, of the same exact species as Pearl and Jasper, but she lacks the usual markings, with her entire body being a dark purple. Her eyes are also more of a light mint green color. In terms of facial proportions, she has a bigger head with smaller eyes.

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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · Sep 2

I wish I could give a specific answer, but I don't keep track of time lol. I do know that I started this piece yesterday and finished it today.

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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · Sep 2

I decided to practice painting a landscape again. It's the same kind of environment as a previous landscape painting, though with more of the vibe of looking out from a car during a road trip.

#painting #digitalart #krita

An image of a dry forest valley during a mostly sunny day, with rain clouds in the background.

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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · Sep 1

I finally made a pose sheet, of course, starting with headcanon Buzzy. He's just fun to draw.

#craniumcommand #fanart #characterdesign

A pose sheet for my headcanon design of Buzzy from Cranium Command. There are five drawings of him in this piece: one of him looking at something with a focused expression on the top left corner, another with a sort of delighted look on the bottom right corner, him looking either shocked or surprised on the top right corner, one sitting looking confused on the bottom right corner, and a full render of him with his hands on his hips with a friendly expression.

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Soul (He/They) 🇵🇷 🍉 @artofsoul.bsky.social · Aug 29

Designing some stuff for my Cranium Command headcanon. Since a lot of it focuses on the lives of the brain pilots, that means I have to design the world around them.

#propdesign #craniumcommand

Plant designs for my Cranium Command headcanon. While the canon show doesn't reveal what the world looks like outside of the Cranium Command, I thought it would be interesting to explore that. I like to imagine the plant life being coral-like and mostly pink in color, with a few exceptions. In this illustration I've featured four plants. The first is a fuchsia tree with a structure similar to elkhorn coral. The second is a teal bush, that looks a bit like prickly pear cactus but without spines. The third is a pink tree which bears a resemblance to broccoli coral. The last are pink flowers that come from buds that are bubble-like in appearance. Next to these I added Buzzy and Captain Cortex for scale. They are 3ft 1 and 3ft 10 respectively, and the plants aren't exactly very tall, at least not much taller than an average sized adult.

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