Mentor Character Appreciation (Or Depreciation?!) Show off your mentor OCS!

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Speaking of completely different stories, here's a mentor who sort of sucks at teaching but isn't actually a bad person??? So the reverse of Knight Geoffrey, who is good at teaching but a horrible person. But the not so horrible mentor is Sabah!! He's sort of like a goofy teacher, I think he has a hard time being serious so it can be hard to learn from him.

Here is Sabah with his equally goofy student, Nydia (I think Sabah is still more theatrical and she gets annoyed by him often). Although I guess at some point they get more serious about their psychic abilities to move the story along. I have a bit of the comic drawn but I just have the rough draft posted on tumblr lol. Maybe I'll make the pages final and start posting it to tapas? It feels weird not having it in ms paint though.

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@abigaillmartin Oh I've been there too, there's been many revised storylines over my years of writing. I hope you can find the right direction to breath some life into Omega City!

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Lmao, I posted those in my art book and I like to add my little ramblings about the characters as little notes. And yes, he's a handful as an adult, lol. His "husband" has to keep saving him and keeping him out of trouble.

Ethelred is definitely in the running for worst mentor of the year. But he might like that, actually I don't usually have mentors, but these are fantasy stories so mentors for everyone! Then Antemortem is about necromancers and death so it ended up pretty dark, lol.

ETA: Sabah sounds so real though, just an accidentally bad teacher. But like, at least he looks good while failing.

[abigaillmartin]

I already did a Houdini centered project (several) but this one is pretty close to what I would like to do with the “Backstage” one

Read Havoc In The Houdini Museum - By Abby Martin | Tapas Web Community

This is my Night At The Museum spoof. It’s not my best work but I really really enjoyed writing it.

This comic was actually a test for the new digital pen I was using. I switched from a map brush pen to a vector pen. I used this silly comic as practice.

I’m a security guard in this one. This one is a little trippy too. 🤣

[abigaillmartin]

Me too. I really like Taro and his gang. They remind me of The Goonies a little bit. They’re such cute kids. They’re like high schoolers but in the original draft they were middle schoolers.

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@vapidink Omg you have an artbook?! That's so cool honestly, I love seeing little notes from artists like that too. They can either be really insightful or super funny. Lol oh no Aster, honey, he's trying his best that's what counts I guess. As long as you don't die by necromancer I guess? Also does he have an actual husband or is it more like "and they were roommates" situation

I realize maybe I DO have a mentor that tries to kill his student now that I think of it...totally forgot that. But never Sabah, he's just a dream psychic trying to live his life ... with amazing hair He only has time for his hair care routine, sorry, teaching got put on the back burner lol

[ArtGremlin]

Axel is definitely a mentor character for Felix. I don’t remember what I’ve said about those two characters here, but Felix is a terrible person and Axel is an excellent role model for him (except when it comes to sanitation) so naturally when they get stuck together, Felix learns a lot from her. Survival skills, magic, and friendship​
Here’s a cool picture of Axel someone drew for me just now 🥺

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@abigaillmartin Oh this looks fun I just subscribed too! I think its okay for something to be a little rough around the edges, it can still be a fun story. Your self insert OC has a really cute design too! I like her little hairstyle, her design is very cutesy.

Me too. I really like Taro and his gang. They remind me of The Goonies a little bit.

They were giving off that vibe! Like a goofy pack of kids solving mysterious, or something weird going on they gotta figure it out? xD How many revisions has the story gone through? I feel like some of my stories have been thrown threw multiple whirls in the blender

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It was an Inksgiving prize! I just started it though because I was busy, lol. Most of my comments are about little details I might not mention in the story or about the characters. Aster's a dreamseer and his dreams showed him visions of the future, which was awful, and then they told him to marry this one guy. So he found the one guy and was like, "marry me for six months and I'll make you hella rich, be back in three days for your yes!" and then they got married.

Sabah sounds great, like maybe a teacher I'd love to have even if I didn't learn anything in the end, lol! But like, he does have great hair, so maybe he should be teaching hair care. He'd make a killing! His style is great too.

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@ArtGremlin WAIT Felix is a terrible person??!?!?! I'm so shook, he looks so deceivingly adorable and marshmallowy I thought he was a softie for sure. Well let's hope Axel can put him back on the right path. Although, she feels just a liiiitttle bit deranged BUT I totally love that for her honestly and I hope that same energy rubs off on Felix eventually too I do really like Axel's design though, that's a cute fanart of her. It must be the multiple eyes I'm drawn to!??!?

[abigaillmartin]

Wax dummy Houdini is so goofy. Just wait and see what goofy things only wax dummies can do 🤣

[abigaillmartin]

If I ever star in a live action version of this…

️ I want my uniform to look cute.
Wonder who would play wax dummy Houdini? Hmm

[abigaillmartin]

I hate when that happens. When the character looks so sweet and you love them and then BAM! They turn out to be evil

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@vapidink Oh that's such a cute idea! An artbook does sound like a huge undertaking though, I hope you get some more time to work on it!! I love having little details like that in my sketchbooks too also, I think they're like funfacts but for your own OCs xD

ALSO Is it Aster that's deranged for asking some random guy to marry him or is it actually the husband that's deranged for saying yes to this deal I love it though, I wonder if there's potential for actual love though? Or is it strictly for business...

Lol yeah if anything Sabah is still really supportive, he does end up being helpful ///shocker/// but maybe he would do really well teaching his hair care secrets... (Thank you btw <3)

[abigaillmartin]

I literally have no idea how many revisions I went through with these guys.

The first one was more structured like a high school teen drama story
The second one (I can remember) is where they live in a post apocalyptic society and they are metal scavengers and getting paid with future currency
The third took place in a space station at a spaceship academy.

There were so many revisions. The main character was a character named Knox and he was a cyborg for most of the revisions. Basically a super solider kid who had to hide his cyborg identity.

But then I switched the main character to Taro because he was more likable I guess. Knox is now fully an android. The main dynamic between Taro and Knox is that they are best friends.

I think I remembered in the beta stages that I wrote in high school Taro was friends with an android so I guess it went back full circle.

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It's not that bad right now because I have a ton of concept art, lol. I also have a new tablet so I can draw faster now and it's fun sharing all the little bits of lore I never mention in the story!

Both! But I mean, six months for a ton of money and magic is a great deal. Mostly, he thought Aster looked like he needed the help and it wasn't like he was doing anything else. And this is them during the Valentine's day chapter I did so...

He sounds like a good character though, but I like flawed characters like that. They're fun to read about, especially if they're well meaning but still fail. Also I just dig his design, lol.

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@abigaillmartin Oh wow that is alot revisions, and pretty drastic ones too! I think my main plots have stayed pretty similar in the bones and only had like the meat of it changed up, little details. But there was one story where that happened to me too, it was just always evolving into something else.

RIP original Knox we hardly knew ye. Maybe he's moved onto to bigger and brighter reincarnations now it sounds like xD I also had a character that when through alot of major changes, so much so I sort of deleted he original because I didn't realize she looked exactly like Sakura from Naruto only I hadn't watched Naruto at the point so it was even more random She was pretty unlikable in her original state too like Knox, it wasn't until I completely redid her that she turned into a character I enjoy writing now.

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@vapidink Woo! Hooray for the new tablet, I know when I switched to my ipad I was able to draw digitally way more intuitively than when I had my cheapo wacom bamboo tablet It is fun to write those little details though, they're like easter eggs but for your own fiction, you know?

Omg they look cute together though?? Is Aster the guy with the long hair? He's so pretty??? Maybe I just like guys with long hair though But I love his design! I've seen him floating around he forums before hehe.

And Sabah is def a flawed character but maybe it only makes him more likable, and he is still trying to be a good person lol. My friends adore him, I think he's one of my most liked characters I've written? Maybe it's just because he's pretty tho kdsfkjdfkls

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My old one was huion hs64 that was like, $20, lol. I got a Kamvas pro 13 for like $50 on ebay because the old owners didn't know how to plug it in. Just needed a cheap adapter cable, so yay! Yes, I love that because there's so much I never get to mention in the story. And I also love reading those, like when manga have little notes at the end.

Yep, that's Aster, thank you! I doodle him a lot so I definitely post him here often, lol. I think I posted him a lot during OC-tober too.

Pretty points are so real for characters though. I feel so shallow, but when I see a trailer for something there's always a character I take one look at and I'm like, yes, that one. That's the one I will latch onto. Maybe Sabah's that kina character!

[ArtGremlin]

You didn’t know? My bad I have no idea whether that’s something I’ve mentioned on the forums or not. But yes, he is deceivingly adorable. I really just love his contrast of looking like an angel, but is actually a mob boss and committer of many crimes. Everyone in his city is terrified of him, because he can literally kill them on a whim with his magical luck when you’ve got the power to do anything you want, the chances of turning out to be a good person are pretty slim.