Bella's OS-tan Artwork Thread

[Nanami Madobe Fan]

*blows off 14 years of dust*

Figured I should take these out of the vault & put them someplace people might actually enjoy them. Trying to post these in chronological-ish order, but I make no guarantees. More to come. Enjoy!

AMIX-tan

COS/360-tan (x-posted from here)

CoCo & TRS-D0S-tan

Beehive SAGE-tan

SAGE, SABRE & BUIC-tan

Awesome long time no see, its finally good to see something cool happen. How are you?

[Bella]

Awesome long time no see, its finally good to see something cool happen. How are you?

Thank you for asking - I'm doing well enough. Returning to drawing OS-tans after some time away, so I want to get some of the backlog posted before I post new stuff. How are you?

I have done nothing but draw SAGE-tan for the last ? years...

Cheerleader . . .


More cheerleader!


Winter SAGE


FASTRAND-kun and IBM-728-kun speculate on what SAGE-tan is listening to at the gym...


SAGEwatch


A little spicier >.>


And a Lindows-tan pallet cleanser

[Goujer (she/her)]

Incredible work Bell.
Your anatomy is so good!

[stewartsage]

You're welcome for backing up like half of those. 

I have done nothing but draw SAGE-tan for the last ? years...

Good, keep doing this!  CoCo and TRS-DOS are also lovely.

[Bella]

You're welcome for backing up like half of those. 

Good, keep doing this!  CoCo and TRS-DOS are also lovely.

CoCo and TS-DOS is an oldie but a favorite of mine.

Ask and you shall receive ...

Hockey rivalry Unix and SAGE-sama


Live SAGE-tan reaction to Whirlwind-hime being brought back to life, also Multics and CTSS-tan being back too, and GENIAC-chan and Apple ///-tan being around despite everything. Ft. my realization that IAS-hime, WWMMCS-tan and ORDVAC-tan are Washingtonian, Virginian and Marylander respectively, and Whirlwind realizing her daughter is a bit of an (m)asshole.


Whirlwind-hime passing the baton light-gun to SAGE-chan


Very much a WIP, but some period-accurate OS-tan sketches I would like to render and turn into physical merch at some point.

1950s: Whirlwind and IAS-tan

(Might rework Whirlwind's face posing and hairstyle)

1960s: PDP-8 and LINC-tan


1970s: Multics and Unix-tan

(I'm trying to do a Gunne Sax/70s Victorian Revival look for Multics-sama. I'm not very happy with the periodicity of Unix-sama's attire and will probably be overhauling...)

Last but not least, a little story I wrote about Whirlwind & VMS-tan meeting in the present day:

Since coming back, Whirlwind-tan's days have been largely occupied by reading. She'd been gone for so long, and was voracious for the knowledge of everything she'd missed. The diaspora of computers from their institutional walled gardens into the fabric of human society; the rise and fall of her descendants' dynasty; the development of computers smaller, nimbler and more numerous than she could have envisioned. Each revelation made her head swim and heart ache with bittersweetness. Often, her caretakers had to remind her to take time to eat and drink and rest, her single minded attention to her task the same as it had been as a youngster. Other than the fifty year gap in her memory, only the creakiness in her limbs indicated anything had changed.

It was from one of these sessions that Whirlwind-tan was jarred to attention by a knock at the door. Setting her book aside, she rose from her wingback chair and sauntered to the entrance. Not a salesman, she thought, looking at the blue-and-gray haired woman on the other side, dressed all in black, sharp features prominent in the warp of the peephole.

She opened the door, and the blue-haired woman jumped ever so slightly.

"It's an honor to meet you," she said, bowing deeply. When she straightened, there was a flustered look on her face, a nervous quaver in her voice. "You don't know me, but my name is VMS. I represent the DEC clan."

Whirlwind's heart beat quicker when she said those words. She waved her forward. "By all means, come in!

" — Can I get yah anything? Tea? Caffee?"

"I wouldn't want to inconvenience you," VMS said, stiff-shouldered as she regarded the parlor.

"Please take a seat, deah," Whirlwind smiled, lifting the carafe off the warmer and two mugs from the counter. "I was refillin' my drink anyway, s'no trouble."

"I'm here because —" she cleared her throat. "I'm sorry, I'm not like this usually. This is just, kind of surreal for me."

"Us both," Whirlwind replied dryly. "I'm more suhprised than any to not be dead. Cream? Sugah?"

VMS-tan shook her head. "Black, please."

It wasn't hard to tell which drink belonged to whom, the ink-dark brew standing in contrast to the milky concoction on the coffee table. VMS picked hers up, and downed several large gulps. Stared at Whirlwind, and blinked, and gulped a few more.

Whirlwind picked hers up too. As amusing as she found the younger -tan's star-strickenness, a lump of emotion welled in her throat. One of her grandchildren, one she didn't even realize she had, sitting with her right now! Quietly she studied the lines of her face and her scars, and a flicker of recognition stirred inside her. She took a long sip.

"I have a delivery for you," VMS finally said, producing an envelope from her vest. Whirlwind placed her mug down and opened up the card, emblazoned with DEC FAMILY REUNION —

"All of us get together every year," VMS explained, "I know you haven't been able to before, but we would love it if you could join us from now on . . ."

"Oh — !" she smiled and dabbed at the corners of her eyes. "Of course! It would mean the world to me!"
 
"It would mean the world to us, too," VMS smiled. "Thank you, Whirlwind-sama."

[Goujer (she/her)]

Love the "Go, do a crime"

[Bella]

Love the "Go, do a crime"

It's a favorite of mine from this batch, too!

I forgot one. IAS-tan (cat mode) deciding that Whirlwind-chan is a part of the IAS litter... inspired by a comment about the Whirlwind computer being "kidnapped" into the IAS family (often named as such by computer historians despite there existing only a loose link between them)

[Bella]

I'll do a write up later but have an improved ENIAC-tan concept.

[stewartsage]

I forgot one. IAS-tan (cat mode) deciding that Whirlwind-chan is a part of the IAS litter... inspired by a comment about the Whirlwind computer being "kidnapped" into the IAS family (often named as such by computer historians despite there existing only a loose link between them)

Awwww, kitty IAS and the ladies~!  Is she wearing cat sized glasses or are they markings around her eyes?

I'll do a write up later but have an improved ENIAC-tan concept.

Mmmm, her as a doll is fitting what with the "primitive" nature of ENIAC as still being tube based and fairly simple.  Much larger scale than GENIAC though, fittingly.  The button panels are a fitting detail.  Invasive.

[Bella]

Awwww, kitty IAS and the ladies~!  Is she wearing cat sized glasses or are they markings around her eyes?

Cat sized glasses. Like SAGE-tan, the glasses are one of the two distinctive visual features by which I recognize Whirlwind-tan. (Like SAGE-tan, the other is the hair ribbon. ;3)

Mmmm, her as a doll is fitting what with the "primitive" nature of ENIAC as still being tube based and fairly simple.  Much larger scale than GENIAC though, fittingly.  The button panels are a fitting detail.  Invasive.

The doll-like nature of ENIAC-tan could - probably should - be an allusion to ENIAC's relative simplicity, but I also chose it (at Halian's suggestion) to hint at something otherworldly or transcendental about ENIAC-tan. A play both on the revolutionary and one-of-a-kind status of ENIAC, and the walled garden in which it resided (and the proprietary philosophy that it might have passed down if fate hadn't intervened).

[Nanami Madobe Fan]

I'll do a write up later but have an improved ENIAC-tan concept.

Cool this OS-Tan is doll-like could you explain why this OS-Tan is doll-like? I think this is awesome.