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Hello, I was wondering if I could ask more about the roman demigod with the label [Lifeguard] from your roman cohort post on the blog as well as the demigod on the fourth cohort page with the Camp Jupiter Confidential demigods on it, first in the second row with the brown shoulder length hair, green eyes and glasses? I love your art and your art style, its so beautiful. :) Sorry, if the ask to long.

Of course! [Post anon is referencing here]

These two are from my project to flesh out Camp Jupiter for my askblog, @deadangelos!

The lifeguard one is in 3rd cohort, and is referenced in Camp Jupiter Classified and I fleshed him out a bit - mainly giving him a design, name, and divine ancestor (Venilia - a nymph/goddess of winds and sea, which felt fitting for a lifeguard). His name comes from an Italian form of "Alexander," and is the name of the painter of The Birth Of Venus (There's actually a mountain on Venus named for Venilia, so that's one of the tie-ins there), and the name Morgan means "sea circle" essentially, so again lots of water themes for him for the lifeguard stuff. Cause giving demigod ocs referential names is fun.

Jenifer is a double-legacy in 4th cohort. Palatua is a goddess guardian of Palatine Hill, and Vacuna was a goddess prayed to in favor of absent or missing friends and family. She joined the legion basically right at the end or right after the Titan War. He looks all depressed cause I thought it'd be interesting if, because of the exact combo of his double-legacy, he feels a lot of responsibility for the safety and well-being of Camp Jupiter and the Romans who live there, and they just got out of the Titan War and are still reeling from that and the losses/destruction from that- and because he was either new during the end of the war or joined just after, he couldn't really do much to help. She's just got a lot on her mind.

Design-wise they're both mostly born out of me fiddling, as are most of the bg romans designs I make. I just kind of keep working at them until I like them and then flesh out a character around that - Jenifer was more that, and Sandro was more me trying to work out a design that I was more or less satisfied with that fit for the character briefly referenced in CJC and figuring out what he might be like in more than one sentence. Sometimes I'll have a particular design or concept I wanna mess with and I'll work around that, but usually it's just me messing around until I get something I like.

I have a lot of fun designing background riordanverse characters and fleshing them out like this, so always feel free to ask about them! I tend to talk a bit more about those concepts over on my main pjo sideblog @aroaceleovaldez, but I'll happily chat about the design aspects here as well!

#pjo #riordanverse #camp jupiter #pjo ocs #Anonymous #ask #yippee yahoo i love talking about my misc fleshing out worldbuilding n stuff #like all the romans in that post have notes along these lines for the record #you can ask about literally any of them i have at least something for them all #some have more stuff than others but they all have at least names/cohorts/divine ancestors

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Do u still have that height chart u made of all the characters? Im trying to find references, no prblem if u dont!!!

You might be referring to my old one, but this is my updated one! Forgive the hastily doodled on clothes - this is also my body type/scar/tattoo/etc/general ref sheet, and while I've posted it without the colors before, it feels weird posting it with colors cause for some reason then it looks like theyre all naked, lol. Ref sheets are funny that way. So doodled on clothes it is.

#reblog #character design #i. will tag this later... thats too many characters for rn

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i made a sequel doodle to my pjo alt fashion thing

#reblog #this technically counts as character design #tkc #the kane chronicles #piper mclean #anubis tkc #walt stone #sadie kane #character design

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thinking about Naomi Solace. its very important to me that she has a 70s perm.

#pjo #riordanverse #naomi solace #mortals #character design #will solace #its hard to see but i gave her a little sun tattoo on her hip #cause i feel like it'd be cute to imply Will got his sun tattoo inspired by his mom #so it not only honors his dad for both of them but also he matches his mom

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figured i'd share my WIP - yknow how I keep talking about "finding the limit of how many PJO ocs one person can have" and coming up with names/divine ancestors/etc? haha. yeah. behold my romans.

This is my project to create & make references for every Roman in the legion, including filling in blanks in the cohorts. For askblog purposes, because I like consistency. And I think it's fun and makes it more interesting. Yes there is a CHB counterpart to this that is done.

I still need to make more refs - all of the labeled chars here are canon. The rest I made up. This is 5th cohort (purposefully smaller than the other cohorts) through half of 3rd (both are about 30 each since the max per cohort is 40). I also have some misc romans not included here and still need to make references for the rest of the legion & messengers/healers which I have decided is a separate category.

These all will eventually be going on my wiki for my askblog, including the other cohorts once I finish those. Yes you may ask about any of these chars, they do all have names/divine ancestors/lore/etc. I'm having fun I promise.

#reblog #LOOK AT MY ROMANS BOY #pjo #camp jupiter #oh god do i have to tag all of these. HOLD ON #jason grace #reyna ramirez arellano #gwen pjo #dakota pjo #bobby pjo #jacob pjo #terrel pjo #thomas pjo #marilyn pjo #hazel levesque #frank zhang #lavinia asimov #leila pjo #nathan pjo #janice pjo #claudia pjo #hank pjo #marcus pjo #colum pjo #blaise pjo #julius pjo #5th cohort #4th cohort #3rd cohort

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Happy Halloween!

A day of ghouls and specters, there isn't a better time to be a chthonic demigod - aka a demigod of the Underworld! So let's check in on some of our favorite chthonic kids and see how they spent their holiday:

Nico di Angelo

"I'm not exactly the most popular kid in Camp Half-Blood most days, but Halloween is different. We didn't really celebrate it back in my day in Italy, but I almost feel obligated now. I mean, I'm king of ghosts, I think that means I win Halloween, right? Anyways, I turned Cabin 13 into a haunted house for the other campers this evening. I've even got skeletons roaming around, and Jules-Albert is giving out candy. Usually people would be screaming about that, but the other campers love it. It's nice to be seen as cool for a change."

Hazel Levesque

"Camp Jupiter is busy during the holidays! Everybody's going trick-or-treating around New Rome. In the legion the cohorts are giving out candy to each other and holding a competition to see who can get the biggest haul. Even the lares are getting in on the fun trying to prank campers. Frank and I are on duty in the praetors' offices for any trick-or-treaters who come by. Usually some of the houses in New Rome stay open a little bit later though for the centurions once they get off of door duty, so we'll still have time to go wandering later. Plus, we get all the leftovers anyways, so we'll have plenty of treats regardless!"

Clovis

"Oh, Lou Ellen and I made a deal for tonight - she's going as Kiki from Kiki's Delivery Service, and she said if she can turn me into a cat for the evening she'll split her candy with me 50/50. And I get to nap the whole time. Not too bad of a deal for me, honestly. If I want I could honestly probably make the rounds again for seconds, since nobody would know I was already there. Total win-win."

Lou Ellen Blackstone

"Clovis probably already told you about my costume, but what he doesn't know is that my cabin is going all out. We're not gonna let Cabin 13 win spookiest haunted house, at least not without a fight! Sure he has skeletons and ghosts, but like, c'mon! That's gotta be cheating, right? Us Hecate kids take Halloween very seriously, of course. Especially trick-or-treat. Let's just say we tend to prefer the trick half a little bit more. We'll see how many campers get turned into animals by the end of the night. Unfortunately, Clovis doesn't count towards that."

Alabaster Torrington

"Well, normally I would be spending Halloween with my family, but seeing as the gods exiled me, I can't. That's alright though - I have a plan. You see, me and Dr. Claymore are gonna go scam campers out of their candy. I may be exiled, but as long as I stay outside the borders of Camp Half-Blood, I'm not breaking the rules, and they never said anything about Mistforms. And I might be able to say hi to my half-siblings while I'm there. Just as long as nobody rats me out to Chiron we're good. I'm sure I can convince them to keep quiet in exchange for king-sized candy bars. Oh, someone's coming - gotta go!"

What a spooky bunch! We hope you all had a happy and safe Halloween with plenty of treats.

#reblog #alabaster torrington #lou ellen blackstone #clovis pjo #hazel levesque #nico di angelo #reblogging this here cause i did some slightly tweaked-from-usual designs on this one #clovis got an undercut and alabaster doesn't have the streaks in his hair mostly #anyways. my 30 blogs be upon ye.

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Figured i should start posting some of my deadangelos ref designs, so here's Camp Dads Trio

#pjo #riordanverse #dionysus pjo #chiron pjo #argus pjo #chb #character design #scopophobia #< for argus </3 #i know Argus' description in the books is that he's blond but mythologically he's pretty consistently a redhead #and we have like no male redheads in the series let alone adults SO redhead Argus rick can fight me #he's very lumberjack which entertains me. im v pleased with how his design turned out #friendly camp security lumberjack guy covered in eyes

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Revisited my old vld au (i blame @jankwritten) and remade my old character sheets about it. tweaked some things, struggled to remember what the hell all my notes were about from like 5 years ago, etc etc. Much happier with the set-up now honestly.

Stars vs circles indicate designated paladin/main pilot of that lion. Or castle in the castle's case.

feel free to ask about it cause I have a lot of random notes jotted down.

#reblog #au #[DEEP BREATH FOR CHARACTER TAGS] #jason grace #nico di angelo #percy jackson #annabeth chase #piper mclean #leo valdez #hazel levesque #frank zhang #reyna ramirez-arellano #this also goes here cause it is technically character design #its au character design it counts #also yknow nice look at some of my usual key character traits per design and them next to each other #these were quick rough sketches though focusing more on outfits

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the temptation to change my Annabeth design after learning that Athena has the epithet "Athena Alektor" meaning "rooster" because i'm very fascinated by it, upon further research it apparently specifically relates to Athena as a protector and war goddess, AND it creates a very perfect pun about Annabeth's fatal flaw (roosters. hubris. she's too cocky)

also one of the sketches i did musing over this actually turned out super cute and in doodling the design more it's just very fun to draw

#reblog #annabeth chase #more design musings from the other blog #will probably elaborate more here at some point once i polish this design more

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decided to make a rough eye headcanons ref sheet based off the different colors of Percy's eyes chart i made

just rough musings so not necessarily my solid hcs but ones i like to play with

#pjo #riordanverse #percy jackson #annabeth chase #grover underwood #juniper pjo #nico di angelo #jason grace #piper mclean #leo valdez #frank zhang #hazel levesque #thalia grace #reyna ramirez-arellano #will solace #calypso pjo #drew tanaka #PHEW thats a lot #character design #scopophobia #fun notes: Piper's got hazel eyes and sectoral heterochromia #Calypso's also somewhat got sectoral heterochromia but hers is more unnatural cause titaness #Nico's got a very subtle shattered glass thing going on. and also hazel eyes #if their eye color is vague or undetermined theyre getting hazel thats just how it goes #jason's got different sized pupils cause that hc lives rent free in my head and grover's of course got goat pupils #dont look too closely at Thalia and Drew's makeup i dont know how makeup works #also. most of the scars are random but a couple are specific hcs of mine like the one on Reyna's nose

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Jason with a wolfhawk. you agree.

#pjo #riordanverse #jason grace #camp jupiter #cabin 1 #cabin one #zeus kids #jupiter kids #character design

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Could you do a Percy design? I like seeing fanart of him. I know he’s the main character and all, and maybe overrated cuz of that, but he’s MY fave character. :)

Percy! A boy for his birthday month <3 I was hoping to get a Percy request! I've really gotta make a hc scar map for him at some point cause I always just kind of give him whatever, minus the pit scorpion scar on his hand.

One of the fun things I like to do with Percy is mess with how his eyes might look in different environments! I just think it's a fun and cool trait to give him.

Btw as a reminder if I get multiple requests for the same character I'll do multiple designs for them! Just for funsies and cause I like fiddling with character designs.

#pjo #percy jackson #riordanverse #chb #cabin 3 #cabin three #poseidon kids #character design #ask #Anonymous #scopophobia

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New York’s local superhero

#reblog #percy jackson #yknow what this counts as a character design

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was musing over babby Will Solace thoughts

#pjo #will solace #riordanverse #chb #cabin 7 #cabin seven #apollo kids #character design #those are his emotional support pink cowboy boots #he gives me the vibes of one of those kids who wore specific things absolutely everywhere #for him i think it'd be hat + flannel stolen from his mom and for awhile the tacky as hell pink cowboy boots #also i usually draw him as having longer hair pre-HoO and HoO/post-HoO he gets an undercut

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can i suggest thalia? 👉👈

Canon descriptions that have always stuck with me most about Thalia: consistently described as tan with "sharp features," that one line comparing her in her big fluffy coat to a raven in TTC, and in TLT her eyes are "storm-green." I refuse to accept her eyes as blue, I do not care what the retcons say.

For her body type I generally figure that she'd be similar to Jason, obviously, except on the slightly leaner side probably since Jason had a better upbringing than her so she never got the opportunity to bulk up as much. Hard to gain muscle as a tree. She did get the height though cause pines are tall, man.

Fun note with the hair dye, I believe I first saw a Thalia design with a blue streak from Indignoite? Pretty sure it was Indigonite, but anyways it's stuck with me even like 7 years later. It's just so perfect for her. I don't usually draw it when I'm doing just b/w lines though cause then she ends up looking too much like Percy with his grey streak but hey, matching Big 3 kids.

#pjo #riordanverse #thalia grace #chb #cabin 1 #cabin one #cabin 8 #cabin eight #rogues #hunters of artemis #zeus kids #almond-1223 #character design #its hard to see here but i did give her a shaved eyebrow and also she has an ace ring and an industrial piercing #similarly i do believe Jason would also dye his hair #insert ye olde hc jokes that he bleaches his hair etc etc #i just think he'd totally be down to dye his hair funky colors. i have a scene!Jason design somewhere relating to that #also also also I do love the hc that Thalia taught Nico about makeup/eyeliner before she left on the TTC quest #and that's part of why Nico went emo. cause he thought Thalia was cool and wanted to be like her #i think she'd do the same after she reunites with Jason and he dyes his hair to match hers or something #so those are my misc ''Thalia influencing other characters' styles'' hc tag ramblings

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What drawing software & brushes do you use?

I use Clip Studio Paint, and I usually use the default pencil tool or SU-Cream Pencil (content ID: 1761353).

#ask #Anonymous

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I say you did Alabaster, perhaps the other TA doods like Ethan or Chris?

Chris! One of my favorite underappreciated guys. I like to think about his design in terms of complimenting/contrasting Clarisse since she's the main character he interacts with, so I lean into him being generally softer shapes than her but a similar sort of build/haircut/also having notable scars. His scars also kinda parallel Luke's, so that's fun.

#pjo #riordanverse #chris rodriguez #chb #cabin 11 #cabin eleven #hermes kids #titan army #rogues #character design #Anonymous #i imagine after the Maze he's just kind of a chill quiet guy. like a mellowness that contrasts Clarisse's brashness #so that's also part of why i lean into round shapes for him #he canonically brings out her soft side and i find that adorable #underappreciated canon couple i love 'em #*and* he's a titan army guy what can't Chris do #for camp beads i usually make the two unknown ones on Annabeth's necklace represent Silena and Clarisse for like their first years #so here I put essentially Chris having joined camp around the same time as Silena