Oh this is actually genuinely terrifying, but in a way that I really love wow. This is such a neat idea!!

Also matte rubber helps. It's so therapeutic to draw and guarians are therapeutic to draw so its a win-win

Quick bonus; I have to canonize a winter version of snowluar at some point because I also really super love how the all-white version turned out slkdjfhlsdjhkfsd

suddenly obsessed with the idea of a protoguarian,
the soul of a dinosaur who revived itself to make a friend

Oh god DAMN THIS IS SO QUAINT and sooo clever wow. I was thinking small trying to think of medieval guarians and you're coming up with PALEO tar guarians, that's so smart.

THE PETROGLYPHS TOO, THIS IS SO CUTE

402,000 years later, I wonder where that guarian is now. I hope they have a buddy :)

I like the implication here that snowluar is a primordial being who's existed for hundreds if not thousands of years, which I honestly can't refute either. I have to wonder what sort of materials and textures the guarians would manifest as before the invention of modern rubber.

AAAAAAH THIS IS SO CUTE LOL THANK YOU

THE DRAWN ON TEARS AND SAD FACE AW

don't worry wereguar i will protect you from electric wind god fist

THAT'S CUTE this is exactly the sort of thing I mean too! They're definitely recognizable across the different designs! Very fun too :)

The thing I found really funny is how fluffiness is apparently not core to any of my designs at all, but rubber/inflatable-ness absolutely is, so a whopping 21/25 of the designs are squeaky textures LOL

I immediately discovered that my sona has to be eyeless no matter what, but wereguar has to have some abstract representation of eyes, even if the species is eyeless. Also, becoming an exkin makes instantly makes you an extremely excitable rubber bird regardless of what your personality was before

Very astute! I actually did end up developing a whole tragic backstory to the exkin, but it's like.. goofy tragic if that makes sense; not entirely serious. Also, everything I draw with them is them having escaped their tragic backstory, so they're happy now at least :)

SHH LOL

Sadly, the guarians are the only ones I've made a full ref of! All the other ones are just characters/species I have fun drawing every so often.

The closest I have is a ref for my sona, a lineup of elementals and a VERY OLD vex ref. The alteias unfortunately have no ref at all 😔

Inspired by this design challenge that Squidinu did a while back! I saw it a few weeks ago and knew that I HAD to give it a try HEHEHE

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The product of about a week and a half of work (not counting a few lazy days)! I'm honestly so happy I was able to finish this, especially because I am actually in love with a few of these designs and I absolutely want to doodle some of them when my hands aren't dead (too much drawing lol)

I don't even have to look to know the image scaling is going to completely scrunch this to oblivion, so here it is again split apart!