Deer By Color [Ideas, Adopts] (Newest: Freedom of Movement)

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CHARACTERS WHO AREN'T
Idea-Doodles for Adoption


I like to play with color and character design and such things. On my computer I usually just doodle and my more serious arts are with inks, but recently I've been digging up old color palettes I made specifically for digital art and I've been turning them into doodle designs when inspiration strikes me. I've got waaay more color palettes from my colourlovers days that I'll hopefully do more doodles with. I'm not going to make any of these characters for me since I've already got La and don't need any more work. I hide my other art here.

Most of these ideas are up for adoption, I only ask that you do stuff with them. I like seeing things done with my ideas and if you take them and don't use them it bums me out a little. So I might be hesitant to give them out if I've never seen you around before. I'm reasonable though, and if you ask but I'm not certain I will hold them for you and wait until you become a more regular member. You can change stuff about my ideas and of course they can evolve just like real people over time.

Mouse over a palette to learn about the idea. If you want it, ask! (And if you ask and don't bother to take them after asking I'll just assume that you changed your mind, no biggie).

24 Freedom of Movement
Should have mentioned on this one that Freedom of Movement as a name comes from a DnD spell.


23. Proposed Set: Mallard
If I got to add a set to the game, it would be this in order to explain that duck quack that I hate so much. It combines the macho of mallard ducks with the macho of roman soldiers. Hopefully.
[MOUSE OVER]

22. Heartbreak
Not about angst so much as about the grace to handle sadness. Has no original palette but I left little color blobs on the image. I feel bad about using red and black together.
[MOUSE OVER]

21. Rock the Boat
With Staff; anchors aweigh! His name is Argus.


20. Understand [NOT TAKEN]
I suppose I would ask that anyone who likes this guy would know stuff about spiders.


19. Robot [NOT TAKEN]
Realize I made a typo and spelled his name Sochatoa instead of Sohcahtoa. Whoops.


18. Smoothe
Kikinkacze has adopted Smoothe.


17. As I Fell Asleep
This character is with Masego now. Here's her bio!


16. Nothing, Go Away [NOT TAKEN]
FairyClock and I discussed in the comments the texture of this character's growths. I imagine them as semi-firm and spongy with a velvety texture that isn't quite soft.


15. Going on an Adventure
Not really up for adoption, but I think that around rut time I may shove this character(s) awkwardly into as many open roleplays as I can.


14. Te Amo [NOT TAKEN]
Didn't realize until too late I should have cracked a "party animal" joke on the image. Oh well. Named the file that. This is one of my favorites so far. Tokata said they wanted this one, but that player has vanished so it's up for grabs still.


13. Dedicated
This character is now with Lambfleece. His name is Torst.


???. Mysterious Character/Shameless Tarzan Ripoff
[WHO IS THIS POOR MAN?]

12. All the Whispers
Whispers lives with Ebony3 now, listening intently.
I had an idea after I finished drawing this character that if he/she were in Jurassic Park, that scene where they hear the T. rex coming from far away would be way anticlimactic.


11. Whatcha Doin'?
Hoactzin adopted this design. He is now named Toir.


10. Mean Spirited
Helot has taken Mean Spirited, now a male character called Midnight Spitter.


9. A Different Path
Now named Ra and played by MagicHats.


8. Roll [NOT TAKEN]


7. Conlang
Toya has adopted this babbling oddball. I also noted in the comments and should have added here that after I finished the picture I realized that his mask bears slightly more than a passing resemblance to Onomatopoeia from Batman, though I wasn't thinking about Onomatopoeia when I was drawing Conlang. Still, I think there may have been something subconscious since they both have to do with words and I feel better noting it here the way I've noted other inspirations on images.


6. Demolitions Expert
Hanging out with Pelicann these days.


5. Man Overboard [NOT TAKEN]


4. Hoatzin
Hoatzin's design was finished by Jacklo so I'm saying its now mostly his baby instead of mine. Here's the awesome comment he made with his design.


3. [Name Unremembered]
He left with Night654, presumably to safety-proof their home. He's now named Eiji.


2. Irrigation [NOT TAKEN]


1. We Should Talk [NOT TAKEN]
Terraminator had this, but she vanished and never used it so it's up for grabs again.

Omg I adore these designs XD

Omg I adore these designs XD I can't take anymore characters tho agh.
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Bumping because I've added

Bumping because I've added three new doodles since this was first posted.
LambFleece's picture

These are all wonderful! I

These are all wonderful! I like how you kind of chiseled out a bit of a character with each design Smiling

I especially love "whistle", so cute! Tracking!

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FairyClock's picture

Man Overboard has got to be

Man Overboard has got to be my fav. lol
Jacklo's picture

Breathes heavily I love

Breathes heavily I love everything about Hoatzin

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@Lamb: Thank you. I can't

@Lamb: Thank you. I can't draw a thing without imagining some story or personality to it.

@FairyClock: I like that one too. I imagine him/her always talking to the fishies and wading around in the pond asking the fish if they're having a good time. I don't know.

@Jacklo: You wouldn't like the smell! Hoatzins aren't called stinkbirds for nothing. But feel free to steal him away any time you want and then he can smell like whatever you want.
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SPASES man overboard is

SPASES

man overboard is adorable I ADORE fishies
“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”


-Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

hng lol Conlang is so cute

hng lol Conlang is so cute with all the babbling.

Thank you, Tuo and Kohva!

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Conlang is absolutely

Conlang is absolutely gorgeous. That doodle is something special. I would use that art on a bio. I think many of your deer here could be used as bio art in fact! Theres just something about Conlang though that speaks, though I dont understand a word of it, its lovely. well done.
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@mkeene123 Thank you. I've

@mkeene123 Thank you. I've got other colors that I made based on fish, I might try some more fishy deer.

@Niriya Haha thank you. It's good that you like it because I can only imagine that the chatter would drive anyone else absolutely insane. I think I would genuinely go crazy enough that I would have to sit Conlang down and start decoding his language until I could speak it back to him.

@Toya I appreciate it. I tend to slam these doodles out really fast--digital art is really fun hyper fast impulse art for me. I'm glad you enjoy them as more than just ideas that came out of my arm.
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Bump because three new

Bump because three new designs have been added since this was on the front page. Up to ten characters who don't exist now, this is fun.
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Tracking! These are really

Tracking! These are really interesting C8
~Poppy~
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Loving these ;w; omigosh the

Loving these ;w; omigosh the newest one is so interesting!
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Just popping in to say

Just popping in to say "heeyyyy hoatzin. yeh."
I like them too. The design also works really well, what with the antlers and ears matching the way they do.

has "a different path" been

has "a different path" been taken? He looks like a very interesting character and I love the concept.
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@Poppy, Faina: Thanks to you

@Poppy, Faina: Thanks to you both. Smiling

@Hoactzin: Aww yeah, more love for stinkbirds is always necessary. It's nice to know that other people even know they exist.

@MagicHats: Nope, you're more than welcome to take him away and use him for whatever. I'd just ask that you keep him peaceful and chill and make some note about me having the idea. But you're more than welcome to make changes to his design and such.
Toya's picture

Pfffft. Im so in love with

Pfffft. Im so in love with Conlang Im back to stare at him. I dont know what I would -=do=- with him though, other than revel in the irony of his character and the inventive ways people find to communicate in game, not to mention our pictographs and the meanings we all derive from them!! Which is to say... would you be horribly offended if I attempted to claim him, but fell through on making him an entirely active character? I just... I really love him and his concept and his color scheme and everything about him. Its entirely possible all I would do with him is haunt La with babble.
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You're more than welcome to

You're more than welcome to take him and make whatever you want of him even if he's not to be an active character. No matter what you do with him it will be more than what I do with him.

He strikes me as more of an NPC type anyway... a recurring character to haunt main characters with his unintelligible charisma. Like if TEF was a TV show he would just occasionally walk by in the background and draw something weird on the wall and leave, or approach and say something cryptic and then run off and everyone would be a little confused.

I also realized some time after I drew him that his mask bears slightly more than a passing resemblance to Onomatopoeia from Batman, though I wasn't thinking about Onomatopoeia when I was drawing Conlang. Still, I think there may have been something subconscious since they both have to do with words.
Toya's picture

*laughs* You are right on

*laughs* You are right on all accounts! Thank you! I will link at you when I have made some sort of something for the good fellow. <3
Jacklo's picture

He wouldn't leave me alone.



He wouldn't leave me alone.
I hope this is okay, I just wanted to design something ahah >>"

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LambFleece's picture

"Whatcha Doin' " is really

"Whatcha Doin' " is really cute and I pretty much have that personality haha!, which may be why I like it so much! Smiling Great work on all the new designs, by the way!!

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ooohh my... I need "Whatcha

ooohh my... I need "Whatcha Doin," need.

must have

oh please let me love him forever.
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@Jacklo He's a handsome,

@Jacklo He's a handsome, handsome fellow there. I really adore the blue highlights on the hooves and the shoulder feathers. You did so much better with this design than I would have, I love it. He's your babby now more than mine. I'm really glad that you were inspired by the thing I made that was inspired by a bird. Laughing out loud

@Lamb Thank you! We are all "Whatcha Doin'", watching all the fascinating stuff from the internet... I'm definitely guilty of it too.

@Hoactzin: He's yours if you want him! Have fun with him!
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Ohhh yes yes thank you very

Ohhh yes yes thank you very very much I will take good care of him. Do you mind if I snatch the picture you drew for a reference for now?
littlesinner's picture

Hmmmm... I really like a

Hmmmm... I really like a different path but I dunno if I could have him as a character... ahh inner turmoil.
FairyClock's picture

Yaaaaaaaaaay d20!

Yaaaaaaaaaay d20!
Unplugged's picture

oh man, i gotta keep track of

oh man, i gotta keep track of this. these are so lovely. i'm absolutely in love with Conlang.
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@Hoactzin the art here is up

@Hoactzin the art here is up for grabs since you adopted him. I'll check my other computer and see if I saved a transparent version of him for later. I also think that the other pictures you have done of him are so adorable. I also just noticed that you train pinnipeds (awesome) and looked back at my first doodle and I think with his legs folded he looks a little bit like a seal with a face and ears. Coincidence?

@Littlesinner Someone else expressed interest too but they haven't gotten back to me so you might just have to live with that inner turmoil while he stays available for grabs. I'm glad you like him.

@Fairyclock The d20 system as a whole was like my boyfriend until I got an actual one of those. I know it too well that I've been detoxing with other systems lately.

@Unplugged Thanks man, I'm glad you like them. You do school/work with graphic design and stuff too, don't you? So you digging them means a lot. Smiling
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Ah! Maybe that's why he

Ah! Maybe that's why he jumped out at me! I put your doodle on his bio because I love it.
Thank you again for letting me have him!!

Edit: Just incase you were curious, toir means shrubs in the Irish language. (:
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Oh goodness that is the

Oh goodness that is the perfect name for the little guy. If he lets his hair grow out and then trims it he could look like any topiary he wanted.
FairyClock's picture

ROFL *bumps this for All the

ROFL
*bumps this for All the Whispers awesome pose*
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(double post, oops. This is

(double post, oops. This is what I get for posting from the WiiU)
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Thanks. I originally did it

Thanks. I originally did it on a napkin. I'm not even sure if deer could pose like that though.

I kind of just like the butt being up in the air all the time.
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I've been wanting to do one

I've been wanting to do one with Tan having her tushie up like she's in "play" mode.
It's just too cute. xD

Fff, I really love Hoatzin's

Fff, I really love Hoatzin's colors and the little background you wrote about his personality. Beautiful!
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I adore your designs for "all

I adore your designs for "all the whispers" <3 so cute.
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@Fairyclock, that would be

@Fairyclock, that would be adorable. It's usually a puppy thing so I bet she learned it from Dhanya!

@Caeleste that's how I feel about Poe. So pretty. :3

@Cloud thank you. Even though he's up at the top of the page and this is way at the bottom he can still probably hear you say it and I bet he appreciates it too.
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Ahahaha xD I'd be glad if he

Ahahaha xD I'd be glad if he could. I really love the idea of his design reacting to sound. Perhaps he even has a form of echo location at night Laughing out loud
Sabel, Sam

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Quite possible. But his butt

Quite possible. But his butt is still superbright and even at night I imagine him as hilariously overvisible.

In general I like the ideas of pelts that react and change with the environment--it would be impractical to implement them in the game but purely for the sake of argument and art I don't see why the magic of the forest couldn't give a deer an "animated" pelt to help them react to their surroundings. In the case of Whispers I think it would make him look interesting in motion--every step accompanied by a little sound spike, and whenever he speaks the sounds would flow along the lines. If I could animate better than stick figures in a flip book I would give it a try to see how it looked.
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Ahhh, I;ve attempted to code

Ahhh, I;ve attempted to code animated pelts in feral heart before. Didn't go well, but successful players can make lava and neon and rainbow pelts that actually move Laughing out loud I'm pretty sure if I was able to code for this game I would make a mod that could do that *o*
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Aw! Thank you so much. I've

Aw! Thank you so much. I've been admiring La from afar for a while!
Really have to get over my timidness of interacting, haha. I really appreciate your thoughts on Poe! Maybe we could meet up in the forest one day.
aaaand I am really interested in adopting Hoatzin, both with Jacklo and your permission of course. c:
e: I just thought of the fact that maybe he is already actually taken from Jacklo?? but if not I'll scoop him up!
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@Cloud I totally lack the

@Cloud I totally lack the know-how to do anything involving three dimensions. That's the point at which my brain breaks and everything is just done.

@Caeleste You totally have my go on that if Jacklo's fine with it. Would love for the grumpy stinkbird to make it to the forest.

I have been keeping eyes out for Poe and Hamartia already (even though I think La would probably be timid around the latter just on instinct) but due to it being the last week of the quarter for me my forest time has been limited to finding a sunny place to sleep.

I'd be happy to settle him in

I'd be happy to settle him in the forest for some grumpy whines! Sounds just like me after work |D
And speaking of that, that is what is taking up most of my time as well. I haven't really had the chance to get Hamartia in the forest seeing as how my time is always stopped short by work. But tomorrow I have the day off, so we might stumble upon each other! I'll likely be on Poe for the most part though to enjoy my one day off, but Hami will make an appearance! I assume most would be weary/fearful of her at first glance, so she had better get use to it. I do need some more interactions for each though, so La is welcome anytime to come by! :3
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I will definitely keep that

I will definitely keep that in mind. :3 Sounds like good fun.
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Bumping with three new

Bumping with three new characters. Well, four if you count both the wizards.
FairyClock's picture

Rofl Adventure wizards yes

Rofl Adventure wizards yes
Personified's picture

We have come to say you have

We have come to say you have very lovely design ideas and color palettes.
We'd like to watch.
AlisonRobin's picture

Thanks for the kind words

Thanks for the kind words y'all. :3
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New design today for the

New design today for the first time in a while. Making La and The Glitch Skull part one kept me distracted but I still have tons of ideas to spread around.
FairyClock's picture

Nothing's butt makes me

Nothing's butt makes me giggle.
So it's soft and fluffy?