it’s one of those tats that makes it look like a hole in your chest, in this case revealing a mechanical heart (i gotta work on it, it’s not easy to draw)
Mikkel lives in a very busy little town with lots of street markets. since his synesthesia involves smells and sounds as colors, he is often overwhelmed by all the strong smells of perfume and spices, as their intense, vibrant color sometimes overloads his senses so much he feels as though he is literally walking through clouds of bright color, and it can cause him to not be able to see where he’s going.
So he keeps his scarf doused in a kind of fragrant oil that has a nice mild scent, in a light, clear blue color. it helps him block out all the more vibrant smells so he can focus on seeing what’s really around him, not the colors of everyone’s perfumes. unfortunately, there’s not much he can do about blocking out all the clashing colors of all the different sounds in such a busy town.
Mikkel has synesthesia. smells and sounds become associated with colors in his mind, so I tried to illustrate that concept here. the smells were easy enough, i just made clouds of color. But I had a harder time with the sounds; I wasn’t sure how to illustrate colored sounds without just doing colored music lines, and i kinda got lazy :/ i’m sure with a bit more practice i’ll figure this out :)
I don’t have any form of synesthesia, but I’m very interested in it. I’ve been doing some research so I can write this character accurately. maybe I should do a webcomic :O
unfortunately, he is one of my neglected characters; I don’t actually have a story for him yet.
i may actually have a form of synesthesia. it’s so normal to me i didn’t even notice it, but now that i have been learning more about synesthesia and paying more attention to my senses, i noticed that musical sounds are not colors for me, as is more common, but merely abstract shapes. it varies mostly by instrument, and the volume and pitch determine things like the size of the shape
raised almost entirely together in what is essentially India, they were always pretty close, but when they did have arguments it got pretty intense.
Suri’s mother is a native Indian woman, but her father is Russian. Mikkel’s parents are both Indian. However, he has bright green eyes. And synesthesia. For him, smells and sounds become strongly associated with colors.
due to some social superstition, everyone believes he has the green eyes and synesthesia because he was born during the festival of color, but it’s just a happy coincidence.
Suri spent several months studying dance in Russia, and then moved to America and married an ex soldier named Kel. Mikkel has never left his homeland.
still trying to figure out how to draw wheelchairs properly. i did get a lot of good looks at some wheelchairs in Utah this weekend; we visited my great grandpa and the veteran’s home he lives in had so many wheelchairs of all different sorts.
so i’ll hopefully be improving in that area a lot more now.
and here it is! at the moment, these are all my queer ocs. i put everyone in the colors of their respective pride flags. as you can see there is a few with both a sexuality flag and a gender flag. i tried to make their individual personalities stand out, because they’re all very unique people. i may make a few other posts that go a bit more in-depth with each character, but for now this is it.
this took me all week to make, and i’m very happy with it.
there’s a few others i could probably shoehorn into this group, but i’m still figuring them out so they’re not here.
