Stex Rusty - Blog Posts

Okay guys, hear me out…

It’s been a long day, he deserves some rest)

You know what? We need more content with Poppa!

This man in his age still totally able to kick the ass of national champions - only for help his son to get the girl to win the race - isn't that badass?

Also, I love his interaction with freights and how he encouraging Rusty during the whole plot - this is absolutely adorable)))

(Aaaaaaand I also kinda believe that Poppa really might pretended to be a voice of Starlight Express for Rusty)

OOOOHHHHHH

They are sooooo pretty ❤️❤️❤️

I love how you draw their expressions! This is fantastic!

Especially Rusty's face

My poor boy 🥺

Something really bad happened to him 🥺🥺🥺

Trying to figure out hair cus I wasn't happy with how I was doing it before

CB!

My beloved lil criminal!

I like that CB canonically shares a bunch of features with Rusty - like hats or facial patterns (they have a kinda bros vibe to me)

Just one of them is sweet young man, and other one is sociopath in disguise 🤣

I also love the fact, that cabooses can whistle

Their whistle usually very high and loud and used as a warning signal. So I hadcanon that CB could use that type of "taxi whistle", to warn people who get in the way (except the times when he just ignored them😈)

Omg, what is that? A new hyperfixation???

I absolutely in love with this silly train musical now, and I adore Rusty so much! He is my sweet sunny boy!

Honestly I wanted to draw just a couple of sketches, but now it’s looks like another character reference, ooops

Ohhhhhhh🥰, I can’t… he is so adorable)

And i love the idea that he literally have a steam breath (already imagine how he exhale a big cloud of steam in Greaseball’s face as an insult 😂)

I remembered that StEx began as a Thomas the Tank Engine fanfic and then I remembered that one meme of Thomas and thought "hey, you wanna know what'd be fucking hilarious?"

Big arms have a ton of uses, but the best one is hugging all of your friends at once :)

This is what the whole Rusty vs. Greaseball thing feels like to me.

I started this as an excuse to draw large train tits, but tbh it goes kinda hard, so here it is :)

I love drawing caboose (except for his hat) so enjoy this thing I made. I think I'll be drawing starlight express stuff for a while, I have so many characters I haven't gotten to yet.

The cat of the railway train is here to make sure nothing goes wrong! (And to accept scritches.)

WOAHHH BANGER ALERT BANGER BANGER

@ch3micalburn60

FULLY COLORED RUSTY FOR YOU!!

SILLY

Prusty 💜🧡

I love them I love them I love them I love them THEYRE SUCH CUTIESSS

I wanted to try a new artstyle, I wanted to fiddle with the design of Momma and the freight, I did both. Notes under the cut.

Notes:

• The Rockies aren't here cus I ran out of motivation but I imagine them being younger than Rusty.

• Ages listed are mental ages not physical, we are talking about robot trains brought to life by star magic and childrens dreams here.

• In my mind they are all teens or college kids and that's why they're all like that tm. Getting really life or death over a sport? Being immediately ready to ditch said sport cus a girl rejected you? Accidentally snaking your best friend by racing with her man? Being really cruel to your annoying little brother to impress two cool bad boys? These are all reasonable responses to being 16 to 20.

• The fact that Control is an actual child probably does not help.

• I like giving Dustin and CB matching design elements as the true and fake final race partner for Rusty. So they both have red cheeks, a bandana, and Dustin gets plus symbols where CB gets crosses.

• I couldn't decide if I wanted Momma to have a skirt or trousers so I gave her a split riding skirt, like a cowgirl.

• Flat Top is hard to draw.

Some doodles of moments from chapter 1 of Keeping Stock :)

Rusty and his older sisters who don’t want him to race because he’s just a baby guys.

Finchstex Belle and Ashley reveal!

So I made Starlight express buttons

Could you draw Rusty getting in a fight with Hydrogen in court over custody of their newborn child named Lucy Stardust?

I almost drew Joule eating a taco watching this, but I forgot lol

So I did a stex art collab with @marshcan

In my half I drew Old Man Electra (what I affectionally call the old Electra) and C.B the Red Caboose

PLEASE GO CHECK OUT THE OTHER HALF HERE

Rusty my Beloved

My Greaseball and Dinah drawings