Star vs Evil Main Roster Reference Sheet (Patreon)

tl;dr: I wanted to mess with aging up character models one more time and chose Star vs the Forces of Evil for the exercise. I didn't like the show after season 1 but I do like the characters and their goofy mannerisms. I may use these models in future works, but am only posting now as preliminary models like I did months before patrons voted for me to start Bawdy Falls.

Hey guys. I mentioned last weekend when I uploaded the Teen Titans references that I was planning to do another show and try to upload it with it, buuut I ran out of time and that didn't happen so I did it this weekend. I've been on a kick of trying to work on my character stylizing because I haven't been 100% satisfied with that aspect of my Patreon stuff at this point. I want to aim for characters looking more 18-20 than looking late 20s-30 by adding a few/several years to the original models, so that's what I aimed for here (34-36 in Marco's case). I feel working on the content will be more enjoyable to me if I can enjoy the final product more, so it's something I've been planning to work on.

This time I chose characters from the Disney series Star vs the Forces of Evil. Personally I've mostly disliked the show after season 1, and I've never shown any hesitation in mentioning this fact, so this may seem like an odd selection to some. The thing is that while I'm not a big fan of the show's writing once it started to abandon the plot and become a shipfest, I find that the random nature of the show with the goofy characters could make it fun to work with. Also, the fact that the characters do look somewhat pleasing, despite the goofy style that can look pretty bad from some angles, made them a good choice for this exercise.

As for the individual models, since I planned these models to look a few/several years after the show, like the Teen Titans models I obviously took some liberties. Marco I consider to do some sword training often, since his 16 years of experience in the Hekapoo timeline would likely start getting rusty as years passed by. There is also the fact that Marco wants to be a knight and became Star's squire, so I imagine he participates in some events/exercises related to that by this point. For these reasons I imagined a little bit of armor, gloves similar to his future form, and some leather boots/padded armor under his normal hoodie. Note that I would not draw the extra sword/shoulder pad/bracer all the time, but rather as an option any time it would be relevant to any short plot (that's assuming I use these models in the future for any comics).

For Star I of course just put her in a fancy skirt that maintained some vital elements of her canon outfits. I imagine her outfits would get a bit fancier as she has been staying in Mewni and is a princess and all, so pressure to do so would increase with early adulthood. Tom I felt the same way since he was also a prince. Tom also seemed to like dressing up any chance he got despite his otherwise grunge look so I felt he'd have no issue wearing more formal clothes regularly. Then I added Jackie and Janna simply because they were appealing side characters that fit with what I was doing, and all I did with them was slightly lewd their outfits because if I use these models they'd be used for porn and because of head canon reasons.

In the end of course there's no telling if or when I'd ever use these as I still have a bit to finish before I could, and I'd want patron input in making new decisions, but I like putting things like these on the table for when new decisions have to be made.