#bc then he can have peppino there as inspiration all the time! and he knows this human lives in some rinky dink house; surely this would be-

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Absolutely adore your little comic with Pepperman. He's one of my favorite characters and I feel like people always characterize him as some intentionally hateful person. He just lacks a filter and comes across as annoying! He's so special to me as someone who struggles from the same unfiltered habit.

Fun fact: Mcpig mentioned a while back that the only reason Pepperman and Peppino aren't friends post-game is because Pepperman struggles to enter the pizzeria due to his massive size. Poor guy :')

This is 🥺💖 I think it is a very fitting personality trait. Its that thing about weaknesses in a character being seen as a strength and vice versa (when ur making ur own characters and getting stuck on fleshing them out). Like he is clearly shown as someone who is self absorbed; obsessed with his own appearance, and can easily be dispatched when seeing even a glimpse of his own visage.

But like on the flipside, that can be seen as a positive by deciding its Not him being obsessed with himself, but rather, him being obsessed w beautiful and wondrous things. Things that get his heart racing and make his artistic drive flare. Shamelessly in love with his own beauty is ALSO him being shamelessly in love with anything that is beautiful. No filter! He just says what he says! And like I do think he would be a bit of an ass and a bully bc I think of him and the noise as spoiledt brats who are just used to getting their way. But i like the idea of Pepperman knowing when hes met his match. Since he cant fight and pay his way to get Peppino to do what he wants, he will try more unorthodox methods. Like. Beg. He is just lucky Peppino is completely disarmed when being praised, bc otherwise baring his wants and still being rejected would probably obliterate his ego 😭

[smalltimidbean]

How did you find a design you liked for peppino/the clones that fit your style?

I'm not struggling to draw. Nope not me /j

Lots of screaming and crying (joking!!!)

Honestly, I am not really sure! I'd already draw a lot of cartoony things, so tweaking that to the Pizza Tower style (which is itself inspired by a lot of 90's cartoons) wasn't too hard for me personally, but I can see how one might have difficulties with it!

I did have some issues with Peppino tho! He's got a fuckin' weird head (affectionate), and he did change over the past few months as I drew him more and more! Same with Pep and all the other clones - sometimes it takes a while to settle into it!

Usually how I go about drawing a new character is lots of studying, and then redrawing what I see! I have a small sketch page of Peppinos and Peps I drew literally the day I started Pep's askblog, and then it spiralled from there jkfdkgf - if you go through the blog, you can literally see the characters change real time

But if you want a small timeline from March to now, here you go:

They're not extremely different (besides the one in my 'usual' style kgdk) but you can tell some things changed, like his arms got bigger and his hair slightly longer etc

I guess I do not really have any specific advice, beyond it takes time and practice! Remember, you can be as messy as you like, and you don't have to post it anywhere if you don't want to! (I also wouldn't post anything if it was directly traced, bc that's not cool!) Look at and redraw the official art! Take inspiration from others! You can even copy how I do my Peppino, bc I had drawn this and didn't know how to work it in organically!!!

See his weird long face uses two circles instead of one!!!

I hope this helps, even a little, bc I don't know how I got here!!!