Nicole

What if I told you about Nicole and Lydia ?

For the moment you only see Nicole and I'm sorry, but my financial possibilities have not allowed me to introduce Nicole's sister, Lydia.

As a reminder, they are twins. Of course, as the years go by, they have become different but it's just to tell you that both will have the same skin color, the same stripes and the same eyes. The rest... Surprise! We'll have to wait and see.

Let's go back to Nicole since it's the story of the day.

At the time of creating Nicole, I saw a lot of land type characters passed on FA. Very few marine characters. I first wanted to make an Orc, my favorite marine animal of all, really. And then, as luck would have it, I watched a movie about a shark, I think it was The Meg, but I can't say for sure, but 80% sure.

I thought a little bit about what I would want my Orca to be like, and... I really couldn't imagine it. It's strange I know, a character I want to make, that I already like in the idea, not being able to imagine it ? So I didn't want to force myself. First of all, because if I had asked for a commission on a character that I couldn't imagine, either the designer wouldn't know what it was either, or the result wouldn't have pleased me. In both cases, it's a lot of work and money lost, and I didn't want to inflict that on the designer or on my wallet.

So I went to FA and there, surprise, few Shark. Well, the idea of making a character came to me right away, out of the blue. Then the idea came very quickly to a Tiger Shark, my favorite species of shark, but... No... All the points there... It's nice on the animal, but as a character, mh mh. No thanks. So I went through the species but in my head an alarm was telling me "white shark" ... Only, in truth, I found it too easy. So I ignored the little voice in my head and continued my research: FA, rule34, and another site whose name escapes me.

In the end, the more I thought about it, the more images I saw, the more the white shark imposed itself to me. So I started to write the description, which I did 5 times... I was never satisfied. Then at a certain point, I liked all my ideas so much that I stopped on one of them, and that was it.
Nicole was born. Great white shark, mercenary, sexual predator, and wild.
The proposal for Nicole was unfortunately not done in a very joyful setting as I had just learned that the man I considered my father, who wasn't at all eh, just my best friend's father, might not be spending the Summer...

However, in spite of my confused ideas and my not very stable emotional state, I managed to provide  lazydez with a huge explanatory paving stone of how I saw Nicole. Which was not easy I must admit. Too many things were going around in my head, it was a mess. But... Nicole was born^^

My "little" Nicole... And... During the creation, even as I was telling Dez what I wanted, I saw something on the Great White Sharks Wikipedia page that I didn't expect at all. Two females had managed the feat of circling the globe safely: Nicole and Lydia.
A character from Dez's comic (Kiwi Punch which I'll put the link right here to go check KiwiPunch ) which is the origin of all my characters, of the universe in which they evolve (but which I haven't talked about yet because it's still in a vegetative state as all my protagonists are not created yet), made me create Nicole's twin sister, Lydia. Both names refer to the two beautiful, and dangerous, animals that roamed the globe. I decided on a whim to make them twin sisters. Just like that, let's go! Why simplify my life? It took me days to create Nicole, so come on, one more idea on the fly! I like things to be simple, don't you ?

Anyway, Nicole's first pose and commission was born. And then another one came, a week ago. And the next one was done a few hours ago... And a ref sheet is coming very quickly too because Nicole deserves it. Actually... Nicole's 3 images have more Favorites than all the rest of my commissions so I had to thank Nicole's fans with a ref sheet right ?

So much for Nicole's creation anecdote !
I hope it wasn't too tedious to read, and rather fun to follow.
I of course thank my Oni-chan Dez for creating my Nicole, and I would also ask him to create Lydia if he has the desire and time (he's so busy, poor ♥).

Thank you all for reading, and next time it will hopefully be on Lydia !

Kisses ! =^.^=