the monster always escapes

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a Caleb study to go with the Essek study i posted a couple days ago!

just like with Essek, i tried to focus on the realism here 👀 it's easier with Caleb because he is a human and photo references are easier to come by for humans, but he is still not a real person i can observe so there is a fair bit of theatre of the mind modeling going on when i draw him 🤭

detail!

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p.s. also i'm aware that i'm posting art right after some exciting things have happened in c3, so just to make it clear: guys PLEASE do not spoil anything in the tags. thank you \o/

do you ever think about shadowhand essek thelyss at 1am and how the cast asked matt during the campaign 2 wrap up if he was supposed to be a major antagonist and matt said no because he was "meant to be an antagonistic force in the world" like he was never even meant to be an antagonist, just a force, because his actual personhood was so deeply unimportant from the very beginning, and that he was invented with the sole purpose of making the world a worse place and was never supposed to matter beyond the ways in which his actions harmed others and then he saved the world not because he was a good person but because the mighty nein loved him so much that they bent the narrative around him and he became a character whose personhood mattered because they decided that it mattered and it was their love and nothing else that not only changed him but made him a person that could be changed at all and more than just an antagonistic force in the world, but an antagonist, who could grow and ultimately come to love them back and—

superbloom, saguaro

ID. photos of rolling desert hills absolutely covered with bright orange California poppies. End ID.

top five most important things you can give a character. 1. bisexuality. 2. autism. 3. so much negative rizz it loops around into irresistibility. 4. so many bad events. 5. a coping mechanism that’s cute and silly provided you don’t think about it too hard

I was looking through some older CR art I've done, and was reminded of a jesties piece I did. I love it so very much and may as well put it here on Tumblr too for yall <3 Jester and Essek's friendship makes my heart mushy and means the world to me.

an encounter

ID from alt: [illustration of a whale shark in an aquarium tank meeting a black cat sitting on the bench. remoras are swimming around the shark. the art style is rendered similar to a risoprint or screenprint with overlapping colors] End

[ID: A tweet by @ lashon_hara which reads, "completed my final project of 2023: a very long mohair scarf featuring the full text of my favorite YouTube comment." The tweet includes two images; the first is a YouTube comment by Paul Jurgen-Romrig which reads, in all caps, "I want to dance! I want to play my drums! I want to plug my bass in, and lay a slap riff over this!...... But my wife is on the sofa with a migraine!............ She is my world!" The second image is of a gray scarf with the same text on it lengthwise in white, seen both from the front and the back. End ID]

[ID copied from Alt text: Two images. First, a pair of burgundy mittens with stripes of differently coloured text. The left mitten says “His wife has filled his house with chintz.” The right mitten says “To keep it real I fuck him on the floor.” The second image shows the same pair of burgundy mittens flipped over to show the palms, which have stripes of an abstractly floral pattern. End ID.]

— Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (via mashamorevna)

Caleb may be emotionally dead inside but his facial expressions sure ain’t!

((In other words Liam’s faces were so funny this whole segment I literally could not help myself.))

[ID: Three drawings of Caleb as Liam’s expressions. Liam is a white man with brown hair wearing a black coat and brown scarf with a single fingerless leather glove. Caleb is a pale-skinned man with freckles and red hair wearing a similar outfit. In the first image, Caleb holds out his hands in a questioning pose. The second is him slamming his fists down on the table in confused frustration. The third is him throwing up his hands in annoyance. The fourth is him leaning his head on his hand in annoyance.]

a little study i did to try to depict Essek looking as realistic (within my style) as possible. you can tell i was serious by the fact that i blacked out his clothes so as not to get distracted from the task at hand /j

i encounter a few persistent issues when i draw Essek; it's not only in him not being a real person that i can't look at to then draw accurately as far as his facial features are concerned, but also in the fact that purple people don't exist. i can't study, from pictures or real life, how skin of that color would behave in different lighting, how the blood vessels would appear from underneath it, what shade the sebum would highlight the nose and forehead with, and on and on and on. i can only make an educated guess, and it takes a lot of mental math each time 🤭 so here i tried paying special attention to the realism of it all, to see if i'll learn something! my art is somewhat (semi-)realistic as is, but there still is a fair amount of stylizing going on, and i wanted to have a bit of fun figuring out where it happens. so far noticed that i tend to exaggerate facial features and make them larger than they would probably be on a real person (noses and eyes in particular), and my art could benefit from more different hues when i'm doing skin, especially green.

very excited to try doing Caleb next \o/

detail!

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jonathan sims flop era

[ID: Magnus Archives fanart of Jon Sims shaded with bright yellow-green accents. Jon has one green eye and shoulder-length hair with hair clips in it. The first image is a collection of art with text at the top that says “season 3 Jon you will always be famous!!!”, followed by many italicized exclamation marks and surrounded by sparkles.

At the left is a full-body of Jon looking nervous. He is wearing hair clips, sweatpants, and a shirt that says “I killed a man under the Bean [image of the art installation “The Bean”] and all I got was this T-shirt,” and his right arm is bandaged.

At the top is a bust drawing of him from a high angle. He exclaims “Oh!” with a surprised frown as a burst goes off next to his head. One eye is shadowed. At the top left is a tiny drawing of him scowling at the mirror and pointing at his reflection while saying, “You do not have a crush on Martin.”

At the bottom is Jon laying down horizontally, smiling softly at the Admiral. The Admiral is fluffy and laying on his back, and he opens one eye to look back at Jon. The following images are close-ups of the more detailed drawings of Jon. End ID]

im relistening to cr2 in podcast form so idk what their faces were actually doing but this was the scene in my brain

In Ehren des Speak Your Language Days präsentiere ich das beste Wort der deutschen Sprache:

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They should make an alternate version of boba tea called kiki tea and its filled with spikes