Momencocious (Precomentum?) Attempt #1 (Patreon)

First, here's where I stand with my recovery: Botox began seeping into my system at the week mark, giving me a small, but noticeable burst in energy - which I abused by playing with the kitties for hours! As might be expected on a 2-week recovery, I promptly smashed HARD into the function ceiling, since I'm still badly bruised, and fell to earth in a smoldering heap. The last two days have sucked because of that, but the silver lining is I was so achy I broke down and took an extra dose of meds to halt the tailspin. This sketchbook page is what came out of that, before the activity overloaded me again. So, uh, enjoy this, cuz I *really* need to coma in bed for the next 4 days, and not risk any more blowback.

This is a pretty inevitable sketch batch, and one I clearly intend to revisit in healthier times: My Momentum OCs as Precocious kids! Oh yeah, this is an indulgent sweet spot!!!

Sketch notes:

- You can really see how Phoebe inspired Precocious designs with her 10yo version. Tiffany was given her hair, and, well, Phoebe's middle name is Dionne. (If you're wondering about Rhenna/Autumn, Rhenna was adapted as a fox first, but Autumn was never gonna be anything else, and her hair flare was there from day one! 1991 Autumn inspired 1995 Rhenna, who then inspired 2009 Autumn, who now has an influence on 2020 Rhenna...)

- Oh yeah, the context for the human v animal form stuff: Back in 2005, when I decided to try drawing in a cartoon style that was COMPLETELY unlike anything I had ever drawn, in a challenge that proved to be CONSEQUENTIAL to a mostly-furry-oblivious Chrispy,  the Momentum characters were my test case. So, while they've been humans in my head until I decided to dive into the Precocious adaptation, I did lock in a lot of their furry forms pretty early.

- While details and colors changed over time, naturally, I kept the initial animal attempts of six of them. Nate shifted from snow leopard to domestic longhair tabby at some point early on. Meret went from a mini husky (a klee kai??) to a Siamese last year, so Kaitlyn could cosplay as her alongside Quincy as Tijo. And then today happened, when I BETRAYED Quincy, by shifting clearly-Hispanic-when-human Tijo from German shepherd to Chilean terrier. I'm not sure which Tijo will win out. This new design is all of three days old, and no official adult sketch of terrier Tijo actually exists yet. (You will learn as I post more Momentum stuff that everything about it is in such flux that I consider a lot of their names to be placeholders. I have no problem shifting names/Precocious forms if I think of a better one.

- How do child Jerrod/Nula look far better than any attempt on adult versions of them? Tho I do confess they're pretty generic, as I don't know how to give them a unique design yet. Heck, all my boys, save Aaron, are stuck relying on accessories they wear to give them something unique. Sorry! It's a process to un-human them in my brain, and make the Precocized versions the properly-honed dominant forms!

- Again, I didn't let myself fret over shoddiness, as it was a race against time before I turned back into an achy pumpkin. This is a first pass, and bonus, because I absolutely shouldn't be drawing OR typing this much today. But I *will* apologize to Nate, cuz she was last, and got hosed by me running out of both page space and energy.

-If you need a reminder, when I'm playing in Momentum instead of Precocious, that's because it's my safe space. The Momentumverse has always been my scratch paper, where I can play around freely, without excessive guilt, as it's not a *real* story. It's world-building and character analysis that I can reset whenever I want, like shaking an Etch-a-Sketch. I'm still extremely broken, and totally unable to do anything beyond loose sketching. I can only work on stuff that doesn't really matter right now. And it's... so fun for me. I am having FUN revisiting Momentum! Trying and failing to draw Precocious would destroy me, while allowing myself to be entirely self-indulgent with this fresh take on Momentum keeps me out of despair. I can talk about my OCs! Precocious is a product. Momentum is FOR ME. And, with everything so broken, resurrecting the trash heap that it is allows me to take a fresh look and FIX THINGS. It is the only thing in my life I can currently make better. I need my therapy, and you'd better be OK with me using it to warm myself up. I hope to eventually return to being both a human and a cartoonist, but it'll be a while before I can get to the stuff YOU want. 

- And, I also can't emphasize this enough, I have very little control of what happens with what I produce right now. My brain is a broken mess, as I'm all ADD haze and meltdown due to stress and pain. Nothing is planned. It's almost all on impulse, and the results are a surprise. I mean, after writing that prior paragraph, for all I know, I may never post another Momentum sketch again after today, because I am incapable of planning and following through right now. Next time I find myself being creative, my brain might choose to draw Precocious, or tell me to paint sunflowers, instead of more Momentum indulgence. I zone out and, if lucky, I get surprise productivity! Also, whatever gets written in a post isn't planned! Again, I just zone out and sometimes I look back and find dozens of paragraphs - and a growing migraine, cuz I was hyperfocusing in order to get anything at all done, and kept going and going, which has a super painful aftermath these days.

So... stuff got written. And maybe it was informative. And I am not going back to re-read what it was.