“heck it. headshots”

It’s kind of funny to me that I started drawing this crew all like “hmm, what do I do about art style,” and now fast-forward over half a year later (?!!? wth, btw) and I think what it boils down to is

• basically just my normal style (whatever it is at this point), but
• marginally less detailed eye shapes (usually just the top line unless expression calls for lower creases,
• the filled-in-iris + white pupil thing, and
• simplified inner ear & nose lines.

I like the neck-shadow but don’t tend to fill it in lineart-wise, and RIP to the blush-lines but they never caught on with me :V

Anyway at some point I might put together some compilation of how I’ve drawn these six over time, both to see how much they’ve changed from early sketches and because I’ve probably experimented stylistically with them more than any characters before?? I think a big part of that is because, even though I am a stickler for not having sameface, the fact that the Omori kids are canonically pretty samey means I feel like I can take a lot more liberties with simplification, eliminating detail, etc.

That said, some character-specific notes because why not:

• Sunny and Mari have to be round to me. Theoretically they have the same eye and nose shapes, although I’m not sure how obvious that is when everything’s so simple. Also, Sunny deserves to have a lil hair scruff; it’s less pronounced on Omori, if existent at all.
• Theoretically Kel’s face shape is somewhere between a rectangle and an oval, but in practice it usually just looks round. Which I am a-OK with tbh; it wasn’t a striiictly intended similarity, but this way it kinda looks more like Mari, and something something he tried to take her role of looking on the bright side and all that. Mostly this is what happens when I have Very Particular Minute Differences in my head, but then the characters with those differences don’t get drawn together very much.
• Hero, meanwhile, I am still not sure whether to make sharp or not. The pointy chin is Important, though.
• Aubrey and Basil were also not strictly supposed to look similar, but I did coincidentally give them sharper features and relatively circular faces so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Basil has a more squarish jawline but it got covered by the hair-sideburn-things here.
• If you noticed the not-Headspace Mari is still not the “real” Mari (grayscale being the giveaway, but also in the prominent neck-shadow, blush lines, and (if you squint) the thicker/softer brush that the Headspace headshots use), GG! If Omori was adapted into some other medium and there was a marked stylistic difference between Headspace and the real world, I’d picture spirit-Mari as somewhere between: more real than the ballpoint purple friends, but not quite the “real” her, either….