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Been busy studying, but I've taken a bit of a break this morning to update this fellow. Hopefully it's a little clearer he's a sphynx!

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Old Error design

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The consensus seemed to be 'Red' over 'Fell', though people generally seemed to like both. Red it is!

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Green turtle Gerson! Green turtles have surprisingly little green on them, it seems. He ended up quite similar to his OG design but that's alright.

Don't ask how he's holding that magnifying glass. He's cagey; I don't think he'll answer.

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Gersford's name is based on the town of Gosford, just north of Sydney. A bit of a hole, honestly, but beautiful scenery.

(I get to call it that because my friends live up there and keep getting homophobic slurs thrown at them, with threats of violence. On the funny side, someone called my buddy a 'poof' a while ago, which is the most hilarious slur I've ever heard).

(Not trying to suggest anything about Gerson, there were just limited options in Aussie-fying his name lol).

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A lot of little Aussie-isms are in this one. Found some good references on Pinterest.

I don't normally design settings, but I had a bit of fun with this one! Down Under's 'Snowdin' is styled after some remote bush town. Because the populations are so small, usually people run multiple businesses - a pub, hotel and post office all in one, for example.

I haven't drawn him here because I haven't designed him, but Grillby would normally be working the floor here, as well as the Innkeeper's sister. Maybe the bilbies (normally) work at night, being nocturnal, and Grillby during the day (debating making the sister a bandicoot or a numbat or something).

Bilbiesville hotel is named/inspired by the famous Queensland pub in Birdsville. Never been myself but I'd love to go someday - it's just a bit remote!

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Down Under recently got it's first bit of fanart, and I am so honoured I can't begin to describe it. It's so adorable!!!

I've been working on a few things, and had this old set of sketches I've finally coloured in. Trying out a slightly altered design for Underyne. I'll probably continue to fiddle.

Got a few other things for this AU in various stages of sketches and linework, and I've finished writing 7 chapters of my next story. On top of that, I cut down my first woody weeds for my TAFE course yesterday - some senna and small-leaved privet I got to saw down and poison. It's super satisfying omg.

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HAD to draw the two funnel-web girlies together ^^

Jumped for joy when I found this really cool and totally serious au called Down Under :D Srsly tho, it's swag, love the designs and the effort put in <3

Down Under! Muffet belongs to @hstayafanart

Escha! Muffet belongs to me (and @eschatale too)

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Wasn't certain exactly how I wanted to do Sci, but I knew I wanted him to be grey and to look tired. I think I killed my wrist drawing those spots though haha

I think Red's up next. I'm never sure if I prefer "Red" or "Fell" as his name - any opinions? I like both.

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Hstaya MASTERPOST

Updated 14/9/24

A Masterpost of my stories and art under the cut!

Search on my blog by:

Catagory (see the following headers, especially under 'Art')

Character ('Dust sans', 'Dream sans', 'Nightmare gang')

Note, most group shots have either 'The Stars' or 'Nightmare Gang' tagged, but it's less consistent in images with a single character. It'll be better to search by that character's name in that case.

Writing

Next story update

28/8/24: Chapters 1-8 are in various stages of drafting!

AO3 Blue's Emotional Intelligence Toolkit fanfiction series (all)

Building your own Emotional Intelligence Toolkit with Blue

Having discovered Dream was emotionally manipulating him with his aura, Blue leaves the Stars and bunkers down with Nightmare and the gang.

Happiest Person in the Multiverse

Prequal scenes to Toolkit. Blue tries and fails to cope with Dream manipulating him.

Zombie

Cross joins the Gang. Set before Toolkit and Happiest Person.

Painkiller

Set before the truce, Horror gets injured in battle and Dream calms him down with his aura. Nightmare takes issue with this.

The Mortal Care Handbook

The truce Blue made between the Guardians of Feelings is so flimsy he feels it could collapse any moment. Blue, expert Outcode-wrangler that he is, needs to work hard against the Gang's hostility and the Stars' naivety to get these people, who've been fighting for so long, to sit down and talk.

Nightmare, meanwhile, is trying to make sure a certain Swap Sans isn't falling apart himself.

Error feels quite left out of the whole thing.

Art

Cat Sanses (all)

Blue

Ink

Dream

Nightmare

Dust

Horror

Killer

Cross

Error (old)

Error (new)

Sci

Red

Group images

The Gang

The Stars

Down Under AU (all)

Underyne, Underyne sketches

Ausphys

Lesser & Greater Dingoes

Muffet

Toowoobiel

Budgie That Carries You Over A Disproportionally Small Gap

Bilbiesville Inn & Hotel, and Innkeeper

Gersford

Fanart (all)

For the Forgotten Ones comic

Underverse 0.7 (2)

Horrortale

The Mortal Care Handbook art (all)

Nightmare and Horror

Blue's not a burden

Blue's Emotional Intelligence Toolkit art (all)

Suffer

Group Pic!

Chapter Headers

The Mortal Care Handbook:

Chapter One

Chapters Two and Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

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It's interesting that putting these guys together highlights some possible future changes that may be needed. Dust doesn't have any contrast on him if he has his head turned to the left, and he and Horror may be too similar in shade. They kind of morph together. Horror may need to become a little lighter in colour (Killer and Nightmare are already quite dark, so I don't want to make him darker). Cross is a well needed pop of brightness on the team. Same with Killer's harness.

Decided to have Nightmare as fairly small for a maine coon. He looked hilariously oversized when I made him bigger.

The Stars

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Last of the main group! I may keep going with other AUs, just because drawing kitties is fun and doesn't take a lot of brain power. (I'd like to update Error a bit, too. Not happy with his face markings still) I'm still working on my fics but TAFE is so intense, I don't have a lot of brain power left over to write: drawing's a lot easier. Anyway, I'm still hanging around, just vibing and having a good time!

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Killer

Nightmare

Ink

Dream

Blue

Cross

Error

Dust

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Taking a break from learning scientific plant names to draw the boy. His eyes aren't totally black, just a super dark brown so they look black. He also seems to have some kind of issue with his left eye that makes it droop. He's a happy little guy, always smiling. :)

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Horror

Nightmare

Ink

Dream

Blue

Cross

Error

Dust

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Alphys only asks for lifts when absolutely necessary.

Here's a super quick Bird That Carries You Over A Disproportionally Small Gap for my very serious Down Under AU. Getting the most important characters out of the way first, obviously. I kind of wanted to make her a water bird, because I'm basing Waterfall on the Great Barrier Reef, but also... budgies are my favourite animal, and they're classic Aussie. Couldn't go past it. The other cursed alternative I considered was a seagull.

I've gone back to TAFE (government-run collage or uni), and my course is only 4 months, meaning it's soooo intensive haha. I have no time to do much of anything except study plants! Really enjoying it though, I think regenerating forests is what I'm meant to be doing <3

Alphys

All my Down Under designs!

Undyne

Greater & Lesser Dog

Muffet

Toriel

Bird That Carries You

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Oh lawd

Maine coon Nightmare. Apparently a lot of maine coons have extra toes. Also, I know it's popular in fanon to make Horror the biggest, but a) I don't think that's canon and b) just look at maine coons. Nightmare HAD to be one. Not sure what I'm doing with Horror yet, not sure if I'll find a way to make him bigger (because I admit it is a fun headcanon) or if we'll have short king Horror.

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Horror

Killer

Ink

Dream

Blue

Cross

Error

Dust

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Star kitties!

Celebrating finishing four chapters of my next fic. One of them may be scrapped and just used as backstory, but we'll see.

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Ink

Blue

Dream

The Gang

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I didn't want to make anyone a calico. Trying to remember all those markings if I ever draw them again will literally kill me. And yet, here we are. He just... he just had to be splotchy, ok?

Ink's pupils blow out to give him his 'scary face' look.

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Horror

Killer

Nightmare

Dream

Blue

Cross

Error

Dust

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Ignore the mashed up perspective haha

I have a pinterest board for each of the gang's bedrooms. Horror's is full of plants, and I thought he might need some reference to his past as a scientist, so he got some planets hanging off his bedframe, too.

Finished another chapter of my next fic. Only about two chapters in, but I feel like I'm starting to get the ball rolling a bit. Writing the first draft's the hardest bit: editing is waaaayyy easier than creating something from a blank page.

I'm not sure how much of my brainstorming/outline will stay until the final product, but this is based on vague ideas I had for later in the fic. I don't know if the pacing will allow it but I thought it was a cute image, so I've been poking at this drawing for a month or so.

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Grey kangaroo Toriel! I considered making her albino, but there's quite a few white coloured characters in Undertale, and I'd like Down Under to be colourful. I tried working out how to make her tunic red, so it had been dyed with natural ochres, but no dice. I think I'll be reworking Muffet's design sometime, too.

I'm referencing Indigenous culture with the royal symbol's meaning, but I'm trying to be respectful and not appropriate any specific stories or symbols. I went to uni with a couple Aboriginal ladies and they would talk about their connection to land - they're as much a part of it as the animals and plants are. They had really interesting views about knowledge & it's pursuit, among other things. A lot of it's stuck with me.

(Also, Toriel's DU name is based on the town Toowoomba. I realised I didn't give a silly name to Muffet, so I'll have to think on that!)

All my Down Under designs!

Undyne

Alphys

Lesser & Greater Dog

Muffet

Bird That Carries You