Spooky's History

What started as just a design for a group avatar, had turned into a whole ass character with its own personality and story.

Originally, Spooky was created just as some design for me to wear around at this group's events.
However, over the course of FIVE YEARS, this design became her own thing with a personality, a vibe and a story.

We start with the sketchpads!
The many many manymanymanyMANY sketchpads!!!
Spooky started off with a simple hairstyle like the style seen in her design premiere and thin simple lines over her eyes and thick trangles on her tail.
I used watercolour pencils and basic UniPin fine lines, and what surprises people the most is that she used to be a medic!

We continue on with the sketchpads, the development being the new addition of adding the cat eyes into my art and her eye lines starting to become more triangular.
Also, at the time of these drawings creations, the iconic short spiking up hairdo!
Her art had more life, she became more expressive, starting to come into her own as i was starting to better my art skills, especially with expressions

Then comes along Christmas 2019, Babies first drawing tablet.
I was given a Veikk S640, a small A5 size pad, I would draw on it but be looking up at my screen.
I had no idea what I was doing, Outlines were jagged and colours were bold with blurry shading or no shading at all, as i drew more and more over the course of 2020, Spooky really started to develop, gaining an attitude and her own Wednesday Adams inspired outfit

When I had left said group in 2020, I tried to change Spooky into something else, And so-- Came "BEE"
However, Bee never felt right, She didn't have the same comfortable feeling that Spooky had given me, Even though I had kept the tiger species and kept the eye lines, I just could not seem to attach myself to her as closely as I had attached myself to Spooky, and so, her existence was short and she was put aside before the end of 2020

THEN WOAH!! SHE CAME BACK! AND I CAME BACK! I went back to the group at the start of 2022, I had spent 2 years drawing consistently and I felt I had really grown with digital art.
Spooky made a come back during my 3rd year of college and I had used her for a "Chinese New Year" project in my graphic design course, the final piece can be seen below, the one with the red outfit.
I had the idea to make Spooky a Snow Leopard upon my return, however-- I felt I could not betray those ear and tail stripes that had made her so beautiful to begin with. She had kept her spiked up hair for a short period of time, until I had become heavily attached to Arcane and Jinx

This was her 2nd avatar appearance.
Her eyes were blue, the eye lines were thicker while the ear and tail stripes were thinner and nicer on the eyes.
She had cloud tattoos on her thighs, meaning to be a nudge towards Jinx, and mixed in were grey diamonds, meaning to represent her old designs eyes [GREY EYES WITH DIAMOND PUPILS]
I had also given her this Pink/Blue paint obsession

And this was it! I had found her vibe, her personality, her STORY
The long hair split into two braids developed, Along with a poofed up fringe and a new iconic brown streak taken from her father.
She was a chaotic gremlin who vibed with grunge/punk aesthetics.
A whole backstory had been made for her this time around, and now she is here to stay, this is how I represent myself.
Spooky IS me.

SO....What started as just a design for a group avatar, had now turned into a whole character. The course of five years, three of which containing digital art and years at college had helped me turn this simple avatar design into her own thing with a personality, a vibe and a story.
Now she has so much art that I don't even know what to do with!
Each one more unique than the last, easily capturing her special and unique personality which has helped me get by all this time.