Yakumono

Yakumono is my Original Character (OC). It's not like, meant for any game or anything, just an OC to represent me on the Internet.

Just to say, I'm not really that good at drawing, so a lot of my work involves more like sprite editing instead. So if something looks more like something else, that's normal. I mostly took more time trying to do the character design.

It's a Mage Robot because it doesn't have to make sense, it's not meant to be a serious thing, and since it's a mashup of Magolor, a mage from the Kirby series that I find very cute, and Roll.EXE, from Mega Man Battle Network, who is not really a robot but it's close enough, hence the whole Mage Robot thing.
There's no lore about this character, because I don't really want to make a canon. I do have ideas, but none of these ideas are meant to be anything big. Basically, since the character is supposed to be a mood, it feels best not to commit to anything definitive beyond what it looks like.

The entire point was to make a character with a bodysuit (because I like that lol), and it had to be something I like, and something I wouldn't mind other people to see me as. After many attempts, in around March 2021, I opted for a mashup of character designs, with some little changes done purely to fit my own tastes even more. The first version was purely using Roll.EXE bodysuit initially. But I couldn't shake off the feeling that it needed to be different, which also took several attempts at making a suit design that worked for me. I finalized the character design in late October 2021, with a "mostly" copyright free design.

The scarf is like an equivalent of hair because I felt it was cuter, and the cloak added a wizard feel that I liked, though the design was a process that took a while to make sense of it in an attempt to make it cute and cool at the same time, while avoiding to look sexy or suggestive which in all fairness, for a character with a bodysuit that leaves its body silhouette quite clear, it is pretty hard to do that...

But I enjoy what I got so far, and many other people also enjoy it, so I'm very happy about it.

Artwork

Commissions

I do commission Yakumono artwork because it's worth doing it. Artists are way more talented than me. :)

(2022-11-24) @MadelynHimegami
(2024-11-30) @magolor

Main Art

Alternate Designs

The point of Yakumono is that I like not being stuck to a single design scheme and want to change completely based on mood.
Some of these are made completely on a whim just on a random idea I had sometimes based on other designs or my inspirations, or obsessions of the moment.
That said, the main Pink Heart suit design and color scheme seen above is the main one, and still my favorite design so far.
But I really like some of them like the Mismagius Design and Casual Design.

Reference Sheet

Concepts & Experiments