Hk Ocs - Blog Posts

[Start ID. Four drawings of Hollow Knight ocs, in a dull green tone on a small canvas. Taking up the right half is a render of Caramel, a bee wielding a mantis claw across her shoulder and donning a cape in the colors of the aromantic flag. On the left are three colored sketches: the first at the top shows Caramel with her trio of friends, green-mantled bug Hawksbeard talking with her and gray millipede Molini curled around them both. The caption to the right says "Friends who love her" in all caps. In the center-left is a drawing of a tan and brown slugcat with a vulture mask on her face and a spear on her back, captioned "caramel slugcat, what will she do". Last is a sketch of Caramel and the bee nosk Pollux, who's dressed in an asexual flag of their own, and who has taken Caramel's mask to hold it up to its face. Caramel looks at her cheerfully, arm around her back. End ID.]

[Start ID. A rough drawing of Caramel and Hawksbeard in Rain World. They're now a tan slugcat and green scavenger, respectively, seeming less familiar with each other in the image than they are in canon. Caramel now has two spears on her back, holding another spear in one hand and a pearl in the other. Hawksbeard wears a sash of pearls, and offers a lantern to Caramel, the only thing lighting up the drawing in the dim Shaded Citadel. End ID.]

[Start ID. Another drawing of Caramel and Hawksbeard together, sitting down on a blank, dull green background. A cropped tweet by Caramel's head reads "Why are girls allowed to say girlfriend to refer to a platonic friend, but I can't say 'this is my boytoy twink malewife Hawksbeard'", with a spur indicating she's saying it, and the Hawksbeard part being a write-over. Caramel gestures with one hand in a sort of wave and has her other arm around her friend, while Hawksbeard looks at her in slight concern, simply stating "what". End ID.]

Small doodles of Caramel to commemorate the first-ever aromantic visibility day :]

woe! first art post since a month ago be upon ye! take my gay bugs

[Start ID of the first image. A digital drawing of the five bugs forming Team Taranoake, drawn without anthropomorphized biology, short clips of text describing each one's name, pronouns, species, and size. The background is a solid-color pale orange, with the rest of the drawing being similarly flat-colored and golden-toned. The first shows Kritto, an azure damselfly, who stands on two legs with short stilts to counter the length of xer abdomen. She's light teal with black stripes, holding a brown scroll in one claw, the other pair of arms tucked between her two backpacks behind xer. Next is Lidii, a worker of the ant species Myrmecocystus mexicanus, yellow and orange. She's rambling about something excitedly, just barely propping up the thick wooden weapon beside her. Third is Rantan, an ox beetle, brown with yellow fur. He subjects himself to whatever Lidii's talking about, sitting with all six limbs on the ground and a mildly tired expression, resting their head on one claw. Gorge, a light purple coquina clam, is settled beneath two of Rantan's legs, his shell decorated with small notes and scribbles from work as an archivist. Last is the sea slug Ceras, a single-stalk aeolis, pink with bright stripes of yellow and white along their cerata. She's drawn further away from the rest, his head turned back towards the other four bugs. Like Kritto, they're marked as an honorary member of the team, lacking the seaglass bracelets shared by the three close-knit bugs from the center of the drawing. End ID.]

^ once again, these guys are from a universe I made with @froggoexists :]

[Start ID of the second image. A colored sketch of two humanized original characters, Ceras, a sea slug from the previous image, and Thorn, a Hollow Knight vessel. They're both drawn from the waist up, facing forward, close enough that Ceras's hand wraps around Thorn's shoulder. Ceras is shown as a young Black person, their cerata incorporated as long locs dyed pink, white and yellow, and piercings stud their ears and tongue. Thorn is paler-skinned, taller and thinner than Ceras, with pointed ears, and white hair styled at the top into two rows of spikes. Ceras is wearing a studded denim vest, thoroughly decorated with eclectic pins and patches, mostly of bands, bugs, games, and simple declarations of hope. Thorn wears instead a black leather jacket, with long studs at the shoulders and smaller ones along the sides and center. One sleeve is torn off, as they don't have a right arm, and the other is cuffed to display the adaptive device making up half their left. Ceras is sticking their tongue out and smiling, one eye shut and the other turned to Thorn, stimming with their free hand. Thorn's looking back at them with a smile.

The background is simple, a pink horizontal wave. There's a bright, pale halo behind Ceras' head, one which resembles a spoked wheel or a sun, seeming to cast light upon the two of them. A line at the bottom of the image reads "part-god mute disabled they/she/he bug punk BESTIES", and at the top of the image there's a small doodle of their original forms sitting together contentedly. End ID]

[Start ID. Two drawings of Hollow Knight OCs in the City of Tears. The first depicts Solper and Caramel, an owlfly and carpenter bee respectively, just before they duel in midair, from a vantage point behind Caramel's shoulder. They're a fair distance from the ground, which is composed of a scattering of large cobblestone islands, partially submerged by a dark sea. They both seem rather enthused, fighting for fun—Caramel has her mantis claw held out to the side and other fist raised, while Solper's sabre is poised beside his head, his other limbs akimbo. The entire drawing and particularly the background are indigo-toned, drenched and shining under perpetual rain.

The second shows Molini, Hawksbeard and Dandy, a millipede, grasshopper and a moth. Molini contentedly sits as the other two use her as a bench, circled around a fire as they've just finished boiling tea, the kettle is propped up on Dandy's nail and settled between two poles taken from Solper and Caramel's battleground. The background is dark enough to appear fully blank, though a handful of lumaflies and the light of a hidden central fire shine upon the three bugs. Hawksbeard is chatting, the others listen, all three holding cups from which pale steam rises in clouds. While the firelight is particularly bright, the tone of the drawing is warm, in both color and feeling. End ID]

March 30 was the first time I'd interacted with @hollypies (feat. their Dandy), and April 5th my earliest memory of @original-character-chaos (feat. his Solper). So I offer a two-weeks-late first-anniversary drawing to my mutuals :]

They seem like a trustworthy bunch.

From L-R; Pollux belongs to @peridots-pixiwolf, Nyxley belongs to me, Saccharin belongs to @mimicspider, and Candy belongs to @flame-shadow. See if you can't spot the thread!

Updated Thorn's refsheet, as the old one quickly became obsolete and I needed a new one for Art Fight purposes!

Once again Mimic and Briar belong to @hollypies and @original-character-chaos ! Also one version without the cloak and one with the hex codes listed for eyedropping.

I couldn't finish the drawing I had of these guys that I started in May, so I made a simpler one!

Feat. vessels Mimic, Thorn, and Briar (left to right)! Thorn is mine and the other two belong to @hollypies and @original-character-chaos respectively!

Double posting! Here are the attacks I made for artfight (click for better quality)

Song belongs to @/EbonyRunic on Twitter

Kai belongs to @/_deminu on Twitter and Instagram

Caramel belongs to @peridots-pixiwolf

been slow on the draw for artfight so ive been putting off posting, but heres the first 10!!

char credits: strangelet on af, xylaria on af, shirojackote on af, @stoatsharvest, @broken-femur, @peridots-pixiwolf, @snarklyn, @lackluster-draws, @phoenixflame127-art, shamir on af

Message: Hey, really love your OC’s! They were very fun to draw and make a scene out of, they’re hanging out in Queens Garden with some good food and a Lifeblood who decided to hang out :)

From: @logicalbreak

To: @peridots-pixiwolf

the bugs are goin to pride :D

i caved

A Vessel who managed to survive the initial fall into the Abyss, escaping into and wandering around Deepnest where they eventually reached the Queen's Gardens via a Stag tunnel, stealing from the corpses of traitor Mantises.

Born partially armless, though a pre-Gardens accident fractured their mask and shell, causing the void-weeping shown in their later form. On how they lived long enough to reach said form, I'm not sure if vessels actually need to eat--if they do at all it would probably be something like consuming soul or possibly void, rather than solid living material, and either way there's enough food in Hallownest if you're willing to kill for it.

if you still have time and want to draw more ocs uh! I only have three and you can draw any of them, these dudes are also tagged as "hk ocs" on my page if you need more references!!

I would like to hug him 👀

Recent post made me think about giving my three HK dudes some new icons

nerds. what are they talking about

Attempted to draw some Nosks, but ended up getting sidetracked drawing Caramel's sisters instead so that's the post now

Gave my somewhat-old Hollow Knight OCs a new ref

Since all the text on that is annoying to list in alt text, or if my handwriting is too hard to read, here it is below instead (paraphrased/edited a bit):

To the right of Hawksbeard reads “Hawksbeard, he/him, Grasshopper, Mosskin”, text to the right of Molini is “Molini, she/her, Millipede”, and to the left of Caramel reads “Caramel, she/her, Carpenter Bee”. Hawksbeard’s section notes that both his fluff and mask are removable though he never takes off his mask, he can jump absurdly high (around eight times his height), he always spends his time alone by experimenting, recording, or collecting, and he lives in Kingdom’s Edge. Molini’s section notes that her face is in fact an actual face and not a mask, her eyes glow, she lost the left arm on her third non-head segment down, and she lives in the Ancient Basin. Caramel’s section notes that her wings are frayed, she can take her mask off but also usually doesn’t, she earned the mantis claw from a Traitor Hunt with her sisters and has been fighting with it since, and she lives in the Queen’s Gardens.

my longtime hollow knight oc, Kaori! (as a human)

Cher - The Wanderer Seamstress Another fan character of HK because why not?

-Cher is a passive bug and won’t attack you unless you strike her. -She’s always traveling through realms to sell her clothes and learn new techniques from other dressmakers and then apply them into her new designs -Her clothes have two gaps for her arms to pass through for now, that’s it~

LOOK AT @cherri-picked‘S BABY

GLUE AND LIBBY ARE SO PRECIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, so... I posted about it at Instagram, but I haven’t talked about that here so here we go

I have already showed this oc here, but never talked about her (yes, I changed her clothes) so here we go

This is Lis,

She grew up being forced by her mom to train and become a royal knight of the highest class of Hallownest. She never pondered doing anything else or had her own dreams because this has always been her life.

Well, at least it WAS her life. It used to be like this until the kingdom went into decline due to the infectious disease that was only spreading across the region and her mother became just another unit in the death count that only grew in the realm.

After the kingdom succumbed, she wandered around Hallownest without purpose, since everything that was hers was drained away (and with that I talk about the various personal ideals that her mother placed on her back), just like the waters of the everlasting rain of the City of Tears. Now, Lis must learn to find a purpose for her own life, something she had never been allowed to do before. That's basically it, Well, at least at the moment. I've been working on some comics and other characters too, so soon there'll be more to show to you all <33

Everything have a reason to be like that Her change of clothes, her "change" of nail, EVERYTHING! Oh, I'd like to explain her two clothes too: first one: post-decline kingdom (when she's already alone) second one: This one's from when Hallownest still had its shine and charm

I drew this character of @stupid-hk-fanart bc I love her OCs SOOO MUCH

Led needs to be protected and loved, I’m gonna put him in a jar >:((