Bella's OS-tan Artwork Thread

[Bella]

That's such a cute card, it looks great for the era.  Like a Lincoln Labs Christmas card.

Thanks! But now that you mention it, missed opportunity to throw a Lissajous Curve into the design somewhere...

Since PDP-tan (re)designs came up in the other thread, color concept sketches I did of them. Minus VAX-tan. [nudges]. The original and a sliiiiiiiightly updated version since I'd like to incorporate more white into their clothing. (Running with an idea I have about white accents/trim being a good way to unify different color schemes.)






A few other notes about design language:

• Gave the 18-bit branch buns, blonde hair and blue eyes both to tie them to their eldest sister, PDP-1-tan, and visually tie them to their relatives (Whirlwind & MTC, and SAGE by association). PDP-9-tan got color-flipped between her mom(s) (?) hair/eye colors.
• The 12-bit line is meant to look rounder, curlier and generally approachable owing their friendly reputation as the earliest home computers (LINC was the first computer in a home). Unfortunately PDP-8-tan's hair color is recessive so it doesn't show up in any of hers' and LINC-tan's kids. (Pending some wizardry with LINC/8-tan's design.)
• The 36-bit line are much taller than the others as mainframes, but also nimble and lanky as more scientific/networking/timesharing-oriented machines vs. their muscular batch processing cousins.
• PDP-11-tan is flippier and angular looking, and more of a traditional office lady type than her PDP-8 cousins. But still pretty approachable (influenced home computers).

Feeling masochistic, might try to redesign all the PDP-based OS-tans next.