NostoNeo

NostoNeo: Urban legends

So, in developing my city I decided to add some new characters. In NostoNeo, the citizens (mostly young people) have to be in a building by night time . It's okay if you walking to a destination but you can't just be wandering around. If you wonder around you may end up running into one of three ..

Missy

Missy is one of the three glitch girls (at least that's what I'm calling them at the moment). From the she looks mostly normal, but as you can see she isnt. She can't really talk that well when she tries it's sounds like grabledg mess. She uses her phone to text what she's saying (although most people run away before she can get the chance). She can also kind of sorta distorted the environment around but only when she touches something (and it's usually by accident) but the environment turns back to normal once she leaves. she can also tamper with electronics by messing with the frequencies and such

    Although she is one of the most normal looking out of the group she's the most shy. Sometimes she can be found with  her eyes  pitch black and she standing there like a discharge robot, but one she rests up her eyes go back to red.

Bianca

Bianca is similar to Missy, but she a little  more outgoing despite the fact she doesn't look too human. She can be seen wandering around the trendy shops and the mall (usually when it's empty at night) trying on all the trendy clothes. She also likes to spy on teenagers (usually fashion forward girls and good looking boys). While she doesn't have human skin she can camouflage into any background when needed. People at night can often hear her laughing to herself. Sometimes she likes to spook people just for the fun of it. 

  Telly

Telly, as you can see she has a tv for a head. Most of the time she has a static screen and can be found slumping just standing there, if Telly see someone worrying about something she'll try to project what they're worried about on her screen, even if it doesn't make any sense at the time. Telly tries her best not to slump or sulk around creepily but she can't help it. She usually puts all her energy in her headset that there's not much left to use for walking or running normally. She can crawl out her screen but that also takes loads of energy and she can only walk so far away from her tv set before she completely passes out.

Like Missy, and Bianca she also has a love for fashion and wanting to just fit in. While they tend to scare off people when they try to talk to them, but  they still have each other. When the Candy-Gore Fest (Halloween) rolls around they are free to walk around, go to parties, participate in the activities, and talk to people without worrying about scaring people away.   

I still don't have the actual stories on how they end up this way, or if they just straight up ghost, but I still have time. I just want to share what I made so far.


NostoNeo Idea

I've been listening to lo-if and vaporwave for at least a year now, not ironcally but like for background noise while I draw, and stuff. I just would listen to it background, sometimes I would ask myself why I liked this type of music so much. I even like watching the "music video" people put together for music like Saint Pepsi's Private Caller, and Cherry Pepsi and other songs like Groove City. It wasn't until recently when I decided to go back to a more pastel color scheme, it hit me. I looked up "Pastel Aesthetic" out curiosity what I would come up, and I instantly fell in love. I mean, I know the pastel aesthetic is linked to websites like tumblr (which I don't like ), but despite that I really do love this aesthetic. I love how everything looks so dreamy, soft and cute, and I also looked up Vaporware Pastel Aesthetic.

What came up was pastel-colored old technology which I found pretty interesting, and  these things called png packs, I didn't really know what they were at first, then came figure out they were for decoration Tumblr blogs and Photoshop. I decided download some packs and see if could make something cool, I could feel an idea in my head brewing. As  I looked through more packs putting together this collage thing, (I even downloaded a crock board for added effect)I started visualizing a place inspired by the pastel/neon colored cityscapes, imaging what kind of people live there, what technology this people used, and how these people lived. I started to ask these questions more and more until I had a complete vision of a city, it took me a while to come up with an actual name though, but I finally settled on NostoNeo.

Nosto coming from the word nostalgia and Neo for new. I wasn't too happy with it at first but then the more looked at it on the board I grew to like it. NostoNeo is a city where all the resident use old technology, all the resident are creative and city holds a art showcase every weekend, so people can share their best work with one another. Smartphones don't work in city as soon as someone arrives pass the welcome sign the phone turn off and don't come back on until the person is out of city limits. The city also has a mysterious , dream like atmosphere to it, due to it's pastel, and neon-ish color. The city has a bunch of vintage video stores, arcades, movie theaters,  etc. The city also has a abundance of cool vending machines, while town is cool and vintage, many wonder what keeps the city so retro, but still working. Some residence also report seeing strange creatures at night, but other say it's their imagination.... 

I want the NostoNeo comic to focus on 5 (or maybe soon 6) main characters, just living in the city doing cool stuff, and then they notice strange things happening and decide to do something about it. I don't know that's all I have for now. I'll make another page for the whole comic info and characters. I decided I'll  use this blog to keep info about my comics and such, and then post the pages on Tapas.

That's all I got for now. Later days~