A Principal Wardwell I sketched on International Smirkers’ Workers' Day, 2023.
This outfit will be burnt into my mind forever. I added the bead choker from later in 2.1. that she wears with the black blazer, because I like neck decoration. But boy was it a struggle to decide which Principal outfit to draw. In the end, I went with the autumn print dress, for the sake of an overall natural palette, and because the gathered fabric is fun to draw. Sketched on pape, inked with ballpoint, then shaded with graphite (HB, 2B and 6B) before scanning into PS.
Your Soundwave art is absolutely gorgeous and Megatron’s crooked nose is fantastic I wanna bash my head against it and crook it harder if that makes sense
She’ll take any chance to dent the shit out of him
I will print it and put it on my room ✨ for now I really love how I did it! 🔥 Maybe the colors...
The movie? Was awesome for no tmnt fans but for fans was FRICKING SUPER AWESOME! Was so full of Easter egg from comic, from old versions, nice adaptation, was super cool! Can't wait to have it streaming and re-watch it over and over!!!
been thinking about an iwtv au set in republic era shanghai since i watched the series a year ago, WenzhouSpookyBingo finally made me do smth w/ it (i def won’t get bingo but whatev)
One from the vaults! [April 2021]
Mary and her light-sensitive spectacles, which were a real life-changer for her when they became publically available. She'll still frown a bit when it's very bright out, though, just out of habit.
Here it is! My personal designs of the (mostly) full TYK cast!
What I mainly learned from this: TYK has a lot more characters than expected, haha.
My idea was mainly to get a clearer image, for myself, of all the people appearing or being mentioned in the book (and btw, a big chunk of the characters above died before the story even started and don't even get a line, but, you know...). One of my guidelines was, everyone has to look interesting, has to look like the main character of their own story. TYK is pretty much a story about side characters... so if noone is a main character, everyone is, no? (...does that even work? lol)
Some of these designs were inspired by SHL, because it being the first one I saw, it of course left an impression in my mind. The rest is essentially taken from the few descriptions we get in the book, and my own imagination (plus some help from pinterest for the clothing).
Rong Changqing is 100% inspired from @tbgkaru-woh depiction of him.
One noteworthy thing: the giant dog is too big. I thought it was supposed to be the size of a big horse, but it's actually the size of a pony... woops.
Now, additionally:
The protags families! Wen Ruyu and Gu Miaomiao had to look heroic because that's pretty much what their characters are about. The traditional Wuxia story heroes that marked the legend.
Conversely, the Zhou family has to be as plain and normal as possible, haha. ZZS says, in QY, that he's often called "Zhou San" (=Zhou three), which means he's the third child in his family. Since I like the idea of him being the youngest, I only gave him an older brother (who will inherit the position of head of the family and thus justify ZZS being able to leave for a shady remote sect) and an older sister.
And as another bonus:
Hehehe. So these are... let's say, the men in ZZS' life, before WKX.
- Jiuxiao, of course, because I'm convinced ZZS had feelings for him
- Huang Xu, an OC developed with Bichen (son of a HLZ supporter, whose family ZZS infiltrated for a while --as Su Yan-- to try and sway them towards HLY's cause ((Su Yan's "Yan" is the same "Yan" as in Zhen Yan, just as a little nod to SHL)))
- Zhu Ai, a magistrate OC, developed with Moose and Bichen, who's deeply infatuated with ZZS --only knowing him as that one guy who handles imperial guard watch tours and trains guards--
-and one guard I just like to imagine having a crush on him too.
I started working on some guy from WKX's childhood too, but I feel like WKX's past is such a huge can of worms, I'll save all of that for later, haha.