teku-a-fool's collection

[Bella]

Hell yeah, I love seeing (and picking) character themes! I'm actually not familiar with many of these but the inclusion of Glitch Mob, Submotion Orchestra & Marina makes me wanna check out the rest. ^^

[tekuafool He/Him]

I don't think I will draw full art of these ideas just yet as I want to focus on drawing other OS-tans (and need to slow down) but I wanted to scratch an itch and thought of some ideas for Linux Mint.
I've seen other artist's designs which I like a lot but I wanted to try for myself. What I usually see is that artist do a gijinka for the whole distro. Which makes sense I guess with the way distros releases work. There are often not many changes within versions to make them feel unique I suppose, too.

That said, I still tried to apply the same paradigm as with Windows versions:



Started with 22.3 Zena to give a face to the current-ish version and worked backwards. Nothing much besides that I'm using the Mint colors and trying to do something with the default wallpaper the OS comes with.

20.1 Ulyssa, a bit random tbh. She comes with Hypnotix, an app by the same team.

According to the Linux Mint's about page, they seem to consider 13 Lisa a regression (messy UI and stuff) which made me think of a familiar green-haired clumsy maid.

3.0 Cassandra, again, according to the site, is around the time when the distro started to have a stronger image of itself and while looking for inspiration I saw that image in the old image gallery.

1.0 Ada, the start. It was imperative for her to have cat ears.


Maybe a bad idea, considering the amount of distros that are out there (makes me shudder) but eh. whynot

[stewartsage]

Almost done with my designs for the remaining macOS friendos, only Sequoia and Tahoe to go.
It is really fun playing with the color palette already provided with each release. I'm mainly using them to style the hair of each design.

In the meantime, these are the ones I've completed:

Big Sur: I just wanted to draw a girl with the old anime nerdy glasses, no other reason lol. Her hair kinda worked out since it looks like an apple, imo. I like to think she is very chill and likes to nerd out about the Apple Silicon (that powers her?)

The California location naming scheme's fun for the more recent Apple OSes.  I like your designs.  Part of the process is just kinda flying off how it feels things should look (and what elements you wanna include).  I like Tahoe's big ass boots and power stance.

According to the Linux Mint's about page, they seem to consider 13 Lisa a regression (messy UI and stuff) which made me think of a familiar green-haired clumsy maid.

Maid!  Good inspiration!

3.0 Cassandra, again, according to the site, is around the time when the distro started to have a stronger image of itself and while looking for inspiration I saw that image in the old image gallery.

Oh I remember this version.

Maybe a bad idea, considering the amount of distros that are out there (makes me shudder) but eh. whynot

If you stick with the ones that interest you, hopefully it won't be too many!  Or some that have a stronger image over the arc of the distro.

[Bella]

I don't think I will draw full art of these ideas just yet as I want to focus on drawing other OS-tans (and need to slow down) but I wanted to scratch an itch and thought of some ideas for Linux Mint.
I've seen other artist's designs which I like a lot but I wanted to try for myself. What I usually see is that artist do a gijinka for the whole distro. Which makes sense I guess with the way distros releases work. There are often not many changes within versions to make them feel unique I suppose, too.

How fun! I'm not used to seeing designs for particular distro releases but I like how much flavor you were able to give each one. I think 20.1 is my favorite!