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Rough Draft of Crimson (Horrortale Neue)

He got a little hungry

Neue AU Headshot Rough Drafts: Crimson

Here are the rough draft headshots for Crimson: Horrortale Neue:

I may have overdone it the hair, but in my defense: he hasn’t had his character arc/development yet. The basic idea is that Crimson is super insecure & self-conscious about his appearance (especially his face), so his hair is super long & thick to cover a good majority of his face.

You can’t really tell due to how the headshot is cropped, but one of his horns completely broke off with the base barely sticking out from his hair.

Also he’s gonna be one of few that’ll still have the “goat” eyes because it just looks natural on him & ~aesthetic~.

For reference regarding the hair, horns & ears; he’s based of the Dutch Landrace Goat (Picture not mine, found on Google):

Here’s a line of the headshot rough drafts so far:

While working on the headshot rough drafts for the AU variants of Neue, I’m also brainstorming on some concepts for, I guess a reimagining of a few AUs. This is not me trying to “improve” the original AU, it’s just me wanting to have some fun & doing my take of other AUs.

This is gonna be a veeeeeerrry looooong post.

The main 2 I’ll be working on are Horrortale & Dusttale.

I wanted to get opinions & suggestions for these concepts before delving too deep into these ideas. Please tell your thoughts on this & if I need to change/improve on.

Horrortale will be more appearance-based, meaning that I won’t be doing a lot of story building & it’s more of just redesigning the characters to look more “monstrous”. Basically they’ll be more animalistic or feral & their bodies would have gone through heavy changes to “adapt”.

*This is literally an excuse to draw the characters as big & scary horror movie style “monsters”. I guess this would make it similar to the Underworld AU, but the story or origin for the change would be similar to Horrortale, but takes place even further after the Neutral Route*

For right now, I’ve been calling this AU of an AU: Feral!Horrortale. But a few others are Dwellertale/Underdwell, Undercave/Cavetale, Carnitale & or Undermaw.

I’ve written a few ideas for their overall appearance based on Nocturnal & Cave-Adapted animals. I won’t list all of them otherwise this post will be way too long, but here are a few:

Eyes

Will become bigger

Pupils will become extremely dilated

Will become blind, either with cloudy Pupils or losing their eyes completely

Mouth

Jaw becomes much stronger

Able to be unhinged

Senses

Becomes extremely sensitive to light

Scent of smell & hearing will become much more heightened

May develop echolocation due to loss of sight

General Appearance

Depending on location, those in colder areas will become bigger, while those living in hotter areas will become smaller

Aging will slow down, longer lifespan

Psychological Changes

Will become much more aggressive & animalistic/feral

Start to communicate through nonverbal communication: clicking, chirps, barks, croaks, etc.

These are just a few of concepts for this version of Horrortale.

For Dusttale, it’ll be more story-based, but will have some illustrations here & there. The main differences is that Vani would be from this version & would detail an alternate ending for Vani, also this version would include Sans being “hired” to work for Nightmare.

Now before I go on about the basic concept for this AU, I’ll need to explain a few things first:

Sans’s Killing Spree: I don’t know if in the original he killed all monsters (I kept getting mixed answers or no answers at all), but in this version he only killed most monsters. There were a few that were able to get away & hide before Sans could get them; Sans only wanted to get enough EXP to reach LV 19 or 20 (I can’t decide which one yet). Vani, & probably characters like Monster Kid, Napstablook & Mettaton (Ghost Form), would be one of these survivors.

*As a side note: Papyrus in this AU is an actual ghost & not a hallucination, but I’ll go over that in another post*

Frisk & Chara: In this AU, Frisk & Chara are basically “organic” A.I. attached to a “Real World Anchor” aka Frisk’s body/vessel. Chara was the original concept for the “Fallen Human”, but was scrapped due to them being too “independent & free-willed”. Frisk is the current concept prototype for the “Fallen Human”, made from original data & a blank template; however bits of Chara’s A.I. was used as filler for missing information within Frisk’s A.I., this causes Chara to appear as a glitched phantom (good example of this would be Glitchtrap from FNaF Help Wanted). Chara has little to no control over Frisk, instead they can only give “suggestions” to hopefully influence Frisk’s actions.

The Player: The Player is depicted/described as a higher entity or deity, they could be seen as the “Angel” sent to create peace between humans & monsters (this is based off the theory that the rune we see throughout the game is a depiction of 2 monsters, a human & an angel). The Player at the beginning of the route will have minimal control over Frisk, mainly able to give “directions or actions” that Frisk should follow. But the more EXP that is gained, the more control the Player will have over Frisk. This could cause a total takeover with the Player “ejecting” the A.I. from the anchor aka vessel.

How Did Vani Survive: In the most simplistic way of describing: she can’t die, her soul will automatically heal itself/her. Now in further details: Vani was born with (what I’ll be calling for now) a glitched soul; this causes the soul to look, well glitched out. However it has an ability to automatically heal itself & its body, but not through the usual way; via magic or healing items. Whenever Vani takes damage, the soul will “reload” her back to the point/time & placement right before she takes damage; however the world around her is not affected or altered by this ability, to everyone around her: she looks like she’s “lagging” or “glitching”. Fortunately, or more like unfortunately, this ability is automatically & Vani is unable to “deactivate” it; it use to be super over efficient (would activate if Vani took 1HP or less), but started to calm down has Vani got older (would activate if Vani loses half or more). Even if her HP reaches 0, the soul will activate its ability & essentially “resurrect” Vani; this is what happened when Sans was trying to kill her.

Ok now that that’s out of the way, the basic concept of this AU is…

BRINGING BACK THE DEAD!!!

Or Vani & the remaining monsters tried to improve on the artificial DETERMINATION to resurrect the fallen monsters. But it still causes them to melt, but can gain stability by “merging” with other monsters or inanimate objects (sticks, plants, sturdy clothing, etc.).

This obviously a huge info dump, but I’m super excited about this & I wanted to get everyone’s opinion or suggestion before I go too deep in.

Neue AU Headshot Rough Drafts: Albus

Albus is basically from Underswap: Blueberry Flavored, which is just a longer way of saying he’s from the “Fanon” Underswap (Blueberry) rather than the “Canon” Underswap (Blue or Swap).

Here are the rough draft headshots for Albus: Underswap/Blueberry Neue:

As I stated before, Albus is based off the beta design for Underswap Neue that I made back in late 2019/2020:

I obviously tried to update his design, but still keep that energetic & child-like excitement demeanor.

For reference regarding the hair, horns & ears; he’s based of the Jämtland Goat (Pictures not mine, found on Google):

Here’s a line of the headshot rough drafts so far:

On a side note, if y’all want to hear “headcanons” for Crimson(Horrortale Neue), Vani(Dusttale Neue), Sabon(Something New Neue), or Gisha(X-Tale); please leave a comment.

Neue AU Headshots Rough Draft: Merriweather

Here are the rough draft headshots for Merriweather: Underswap Neue:

So I mentioned in a previous post that I’ll be adding some “joke” AUs to story regarding the Star/Bad Sanses & Neues. The AUs im referring to are Fanon Underswap (the one with Blueberry or as I call him “Bluwubewwy”) & Yandere Underswap (the one with Yanberry). Which means that I’ll be make Neue variants for these AUs, I’m actually gonna use a beta design of Underswap Neue for one of these.

For reference regarding the hair, horns & ears; she’s based of the Finnish Landrace Goat (Pictures not mine, found on Google):

Here’s a line of the headshot rough drafts so far:

I didn’t like the original design that I had for her, so I’m gonna be making some changes. It’s kinda hard to see in the headshot, but her hair is now in a high ponytail & I want to change her dress into a more “adventure/knight” themed outfit, so she has armor & a cape.

I wanted her to have a more “Energetic & playful, but mature & serious” vibe, since she would be next in line to become Queen (I’m basing this after the Neutral Route) & she’s fighting along side her father against the Bad Sanses & Neues.

On a side note, if y’all want to hear “headcanons” for Crimson(Horrortale Neue), Vani(Dusttale Neue), Sabon(Something New Neue), or Gisha(X-Tale); please leave a comment.

Neue AUs Headshots Rough Draft: Neue

So I’m working on doing headshots for the different AU variants of Neue.

I’m mainly want to work on the head/facial areas of the characters, & figure out how I want their appearance (hair, eyes, horns, ears, etc.) to look like.

I’m going to do 2 headshot rough drafts each character: one with a simple hair/horn design & one with a more detailed hair/horn to match the goat breed they’re based on.

Here is the first rough drafts of Undertale Neue, the original:

For reference regarding the hair, horns & ears; he’s based of the Angora Goat (Picture not mine, found on Google):

I don’t know if it looks like it, but I was trying to give him curly hair since the wool coat looks curly to me (I also had to look up what mohair was).

I’m going to be changing the eyes to normal pupil lights instead of the goat pupil, since it looks more “natural”. However there will be a few characters that will still have it.

On a side note, if y’all want to hear “headcanons” for Crimson(Horrortale Neue), Vani(Dusttale Neue), Sabon(Something New Neue), or Gisha(X-Tale); please leave a comment.

Update & Upcoming Artwork

Sorry I haven’t posted anything Undertale related for a month, I was taking a break then got super into another fandom so started to work on art for that, then I took another break and then I got sick for almost 2 weeks.

So for a long story short: I basically took a long break to rethink some things.

I think I got a bit overwhelmed with the amount of characters/AU variations that I ended up burning out.

But now, I’m gonna start on a project revolving around Neue AU Variants based on the Star Sanses and Bad Sanses. This will include the following:

-Eras (“Son”/Student of Dream)

-Lucida (“Daughter”/Student of Nightmare)

-Merriweather (Daughter of Underswap Sans)

-Crimson (Son of Horrortale Sans)

-Gisha (Child of Cross Sans)

-Vani (Daughter of Dust Sans)

-Sabon (Son of Killer Sans)

-Canvas (Student of Ink Sans)

Along with a few more.

Obviously for a few of these I haven’t completed their rough drafts yet, but for the ones I did, I’ll be redrawing/redesigning their appearances.

If anyone has any suggestions/questions for these characters, please feel free to comment down below.

Finished/Colored Lineart: Crimson

Here is the finished final draft for Crimson:

I really like how he turned out, which is good cause he’s one of my favorites of the variants; gentle giant or big baby, probably both.

Also here’s the lineart for just the body as well:

Neue & AU Variants Heights

So while waiting for the rest of the clothing drafts, and eventually the colored drafts, I’ll list below what Neue and his AU variants height are.

For reference, I made Sans 4ft 10in/147cm.

Neue: 5ft 8in/173cm

Roman: 5ft 0in/152cm

Merriweather: 5ft 5in/165cm

Miriam: 4ft 7in/139cm

Avenir: 6ft 3in/190cm

Crimson: 7ft 2in/218cm

Nova: 5ft 8in/173cm

Bernard: 5ft 8.5in/174cm

Carter: 5ft 1.5in/156cm

Century: 6ft 3.5in/191cm

Vani: 5ft 7.5in/171cm

Sabon: 4ft 10in/147cm

Quire: 6ft 1.5in/186cm

Gisha(Mono): 5ft 9in/175cm

Styx: 5ft 9.5in/176cm

Mairanda: 6ft 2.5in/189cm

Eras: 5ft 8in/173cm

Lucida: 5ft 5in/165cm

Neue & AU Variants: Clothing Rough Draft Pt.2/6

Here are of the clothing rough drafts for Miriam, Avenir, & Crimson.

Miriam

Avenir

Crimson

Avenir gave me the most trouble when creating his outfit, but Crimson was nostalgic since I based his coat off the one my great grandpa gave me.

Neue & AU Variants: Body/Hair/Eye Colors 6/18

I’m working on the colors for the body, hair, horns, and eyes.

I’m gonna work on their clothes eventually, I have some ideas for a few of them, but I still have hard time drawing clothes.

Anyway, here are colored line arts of Neue, Roman, Merriweather, Miriam, Avenir, and Crimson.

Neue

Roman

Merriweather

Miriam

Avenir

Crimson

Lineart of Neue & AU Variants Pt. 1

What Kind Of Clothing Should Neue & AU Variants Wear?

So I’m working on the final body lineart of each variant, mainly figure out their body types and totally not procrastinating on drawing their clothes cause I suck at drawing clothes.

Anyway, while I do have some ideas regarding clothing, I’m still having some trouble for most of them.

Basically as the title states, what kind of clothing should Neue and AU variants wear?

Neue AUs Height

Left->Right: Neue, Roman, Merriweather, Miriam, Avenir, Crimson

Left->Right: Nova, Bernard, Carter, Century, Vani, Sabon

Left->Right: Quire, Mono, Styx, Mairanda, Eras, Lucida

Horrortale Neue Rough Draft

Horrortale Neue’s name is “Crimson”.

Here is the rough draft:

He is based off the Dutch Landrace Goat.

He is the 2nd tallest, with the 1st being Reapertale, and is taller than Avenir.

His portions are a bit funky, but I’ll fix that in his reference sheet.

*Note: I forgot to explain that these are just rough bases for the body, which will be used as reference for creating their character sheets.*

me losing my shit over lucid, specifically a horrortale variation of him

Oh.

Well, I think this is not so bad. This is the first time I drew a Horror Sans. His face got a little screwed up, but other looks normal.

Horror!Sans { @sour-apple-studios }