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The title says it all! This weekend, I am beginning concept art for characters on the Babysitting story idea. For characters, we'll have a babysitter, a mom, and two kids (possibly twins?) Feel free to offer any input or suggestions- I've got the most work to do on developing the babysitter character

Babysitter description- short height, long hair, early 20's. What style does she have in the fashion department? Something modern. Does she have a strong personality? Here's my actress suggestion for reference:

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The twin girls? ...

And the Mom? Something needs to feel odd or "off" about the family. Enough to raise concern in your gut, but not so much that it can't be shrugged off or easily explained away. Visually, I'm thinking they are unusually dressed- like they have fashion and style from a different era. -Very styled/ unnatural hair/ strong lipstick/ stiff posing/ limited expressions or emotional range. Mom gives off an air of "captivity". Subliminally, we will pick up that she is institutionalized- a happy captive who will keep the system going with no concern for consciousness.

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Swifty D

Sounds awesome!!

Kuro7

Here's a few ideas. The Babysitter has a strong and disciplinary mind towards babysitting kids. She's been around all kinds of wild and crazy kids, but has never dealt with creepy kids before. As for how dresses, she dresses modern, maybe likes to show off her skin and wear tight fitting clothes, she's sexy and she knows it. An idea for the twins is one's a boy and one's a girl, the dress in a similar fashion, like school girl and school boy uniforms and talk and act eerily the same way, like they can read each other's minds and finish each other's sentences. Maybe both of them have a lollipop and are constantly licking them, and the Babysitter doesn't want them to spoil their appetite? The mom? I think she should dress like a 1950's housewife and constantly has a desperate smile on her face and her eyes are constantly twitching, as if trying to watch for something bad, and acting like she's being watched. That's all I could come up with on the fly, I hope this is helpful to you.

Jeff

It’d be pretty fun to use one of your original characters from Wonka comics (a blonde like your reference). Before they meet wonka and inflate (sort of ties tour universe together and people like continuity). MCU, Star Wars Universe, DCU etc. Unless something is going to happen to the babysitter and if that’s the case, it probably wouldn’t work👎

blueberrycowz

If you would like my thoughts here are the following: The Babysitter: I think you go more for the modern trend of the sitter in terms of her approach to babysitting. The millennial approach of thinking they know everything from their studies and modern times being a point she brings up about how school has prepared her for it. She's nice, but has the stern approach when they misbehave only to find out she is powerless. It will show sort of how the new age is not quite as strong or supeieror to the old ways in some regards as whatever happens happens. For the look in which she wears, it depends on how you have her hair up in a ponytail i would go the sporty look a sports top that allows flexibility and a pair of work out/yoga pants. If you go more the preppy look, i'd say maybe a flowery, blouse or something open that has some pleats to it with maybe a pair of jeans or khakis that would go with it. If you want serious look for professional, i would say blouse with a skirt of some sort with maybe some boots. For the twins: I'd say in terms of looks you would have them either very strictly disciplined and serious to which the babysitter tries to loosen them up, or they are quite domineering in their personas and try to act up all the time to which she tries to inject morals. What will feel off is how adult they seem to her, almost as if they have some connection to someone older. Either way, the candy licking thing is not a bad idea, but rather than going down the juvenile pathway (depending on the age) i would have some look they give showing that side. the Mom: this is tricky but here we go: The outfitP I kind of like the 50s house wife look sort of a contradicts the strong persona she may have if you go that route. I think the top three women in the first picture is the way to go with it. Those are the outfits i think match the persona quite well for what you described. In regards, to the air, i would say one sort of traditional and stern like what you see with Carol Brady from brady bunch or june cleaver from leave it o Beaver. Both of those have different approaches you can take to help with making an odd character. Go the disciplinarian route and you will get a nice way of having control, but go the fun parent desperate to serve and remain controlled and I think you have someone who is desperate to have the attention and will keep the system going no matter what or who it takes. Again you want the dress or maybe a business model if you are looking for a modern time to help create the illusion and then she changes to her true form with what happens at the end of the chapter. in regards to the shared universe, could be fun, but i don't think the two need to be mixed unnecessarily. As usually the tales of this end up in a bizarre ending, taking your characters into this mix only potentially leads to a convoluted inclusion that is rushed and lacking the storytelling you do so well. I worry that like some works i've seen, the fact of just including haphazardly makes for a random story that is cheesy rather than masterful like your comics usually are. Keep the universes tdifferent for now. Let me know what you think