#SurpriseOCDrawing

[michellerakar]

Zakeno's brushwork and character paintings have always been something I admire about their work. Their portfolio has a wide variety of characters and I love the layouts of those pages that really showcase these characters' personalities. #SurpriseOCDrawing 23: Eliot designed by @ zakeno on Instagram! (aka @zakeno here on Tumblr)

[michellerakar]

Dream-Piper’s characters from Project Chimera have so much personality and I really love how she draws character sheets. Glow is one of my favorites; her colors work so well together.

#SurpriseOCDrawing 09: Glow designed by @Dream-Piper on deviantART! (aka @dream-piper here on Tumblr)

[michellerakar]

ActionKiddy has a lot of expressive drawings of her characters that really showcase their personality. I love all of the sketch dumps that she posts on dA!

#SurpriseOCDrawing 15: Jackie designed by @ActionKiddy on deviantART! (aka @actionkiddy here on Tumblr)

[michellerakar]

Laura creates a lot of animations of her characters and has a pretty diverse cast. This one stood out to me most! 

 #SurpriseOCDrawing 31 designed by @mauesartetc https://www.instagram.com/maui_with_an_e/

[michellerakar]

Dani has always been my favorite of Laura's characters ever since the first drawing Laura showed me of her. I remember the drawing had so much energy, and her design has only improved since then! I love how her hair and facial features really represent her personality.

#SurpriseOCDrawing 03: Dani designed by @HAHAimLAURA on Twitter! (aka @hahalauramansfield here on Tumblr)

[michellerakar]

Meg has designed a lot of characters from different stories and I really liked the design of this one! #SurpriseOCDrawing 29: Itzal designed by @ megmahoneyart on Instagram! (aka @megmahoneyart here on Tumblr)

[michellerakar]

Eiliakins makes a lot of Pokemon and Gijinka characters. We were paired up in an art trade on dA awhile back. 

 #SurpriseOCDrawing 27: Serenade designed by @eiliakins-art

[michellerakar]

I found this cool character that Kate made and really liked her facial features.

#SurpriseOCDrawing 16: Iomi designed by @AnimatorRader on Twitter! (aka @animatorrader here on Tumblr)

[michellerakar]

The-Ez puts so much personality and life into her sketches, so I wanted to draw her character Abi. I really love her character sheets!

#SurpriseOCDrawing 13: Abi designed by The-Ez on deviantART! (aka @artoftheez here on Tumblr)

[michellerakar]

Eli held a lot of OC Art Trades on deviantART that I ended up discovering a bunch of cool characters through. She has a lot of fantasy-themed characters as well. 

 #SurpriseOCDrawing 25: Magali Arana designed by @elithianart

[michellerakar]

It's Jinny's birthday so I drew her favorite character, Emily! #SurpriseOCDrawing 19: Emily designed by @ jinnyhinkle on Twitter! (aka @jinn-y here on Tumblr)

[michellerakar]

I love Lophii's design and found a drawing Allie did of her for the #drawthisinyourstyle challenge, so I did this doodle to contribute! Allie's story sketches always have me interested in learning more about these characters and their stories.

#SurpriseOCDrawing 08: Lophii designed by @vanamation on Instagram! (aka @vanamation here on Tumblr) 

[michellerakar]

Gwinny's round shape design has always stood out to me, and she's always felt the most iconic of Anna's characters.

#SurpriseOCDrawing 05: Gwinny designed by @vigoburrito here on Tumblr!

[michellerakar]

Over the past 40+ days I've been drawing OCs designed by people I follow or know from various places! This was a really fun project, so maybe I'll do something like this again some time in the future. For now I'm going to take a break from it and start drawing my own characters again, but here are all of the ones I drew throughout the past few months. You can see all of the individual drawings with links to the original designers under the #SurpriseOCDrawing hashtag (or in this folder). Thanks everyone for letting me draw your characters!

[michellerakar]

Mercedes designs a lot of magical characters, and I really liked this one that she made awhile ago. Her characters always have such appealing silhouettes! #SurpriseOCDrawing 40 designed by @mercedesschott!

[michellerakar]

Kayden was a character that I remember Kaylee drawing a lot in college, and I love his hair, I had a lot of fun with it! #SurpriseOCDrawing 37: Kayden designed by Shmiley on deviantART!