#winging it basically

[sydney-carton-of-sour-milk]

The Many Illustrators of A Tale of Two Cities 2: Rowland Wheelwright

That's right, we're jumping centuries and mediums!

...specifically, from Phiz's engravings for the original 1859 monthly installments to Wheelwright's paintings for this 1925 edition! (warning: in the following, there is some violent imagery, and one image in the third grouping has blood)

As I'd mentioned in the announcement post, these illustrators will be highlighted completely out of chronological order to make it more organic when I continue to find more and more artists' work to add to the queue - so I wanted to start off with a particularly dramatic leap in time (and style!) to give a sense of the sheer variety of art we're going to be looking at here!

This also happens to be one of the sets that I scanned myself - most of these beautiful illustrations haven't anywhere on the internet (by my own intensive research at least!) until now. It's my joy to finally get to share them!

Overall, I want to give my own opinions and takes on the work of each illustrator as little as possible so that everyone can experience it in their own way, but the true beauty in his attention to detail in color, characterization, costuming, composition, and shadow calls for some comment.

This is the work of someone who loved and appreciated both the story itself and the act of illustrating it - I'm grateful to him for bringing these images into existence.

& the standard endnote for all posts in this series:

This post is intended to act as the start of a forum on the given illustrator, so if anyone has anything to add - requests to see certain drawings in higher definition (since Tumblr compresses images), corrections to factual errors, sources for better-quality versions of the illustrations, further reading, fun facts, any questions, or just general commentary - simply do so on this post, be it in a comment/tags or the replies!💫

#A Tale of Two Cities #AToTC #dickens #charlels dickens #classic literature #victorian literature #illustration #illustrators #Rowland Wheelwright #1920s #my scans #alright this is my first one queued! #having a lot of issues maintaining my focus while doing alt text so i'm kind of changing my approach to the broader project by like #winging it basically #gonna queue stuff out of order and do stuff like that #so it feels good to be really doing that! queuing this a week and a half before it's gonna be posted! #and i'm just so excited to be posting these in particular they are just so lovely #darnay's head held high as he holds his spouse and child tight...the stress on carton's face and the hand on darnay's shoulder... #the entire pross and defarge drawing! ugh! this man understood Story #even the simple detail of charles holding his hat to his head in the driving rain....it's almost always about the details man it really is

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i wanted to make an alternate more canon-compliant butterfly Howdy... similar but Different! the wings were a pain in my ass!

#tried to keep the basic vibes of the og look #incorporate the eyespots and all that #i just wanted to do this since the og look bothers me! #it was made for an au and so i leaned more towards a realistic butterfly look #this was a fun challenge! #i lied i hated it. coloring this made me want to toss my tablet in the trash #getting the wings to mesh.... Ugh.... #scribble salad #yassified howdy <3 #so much fluff to contain!!! #i imagine that he got sally to tailor his shirts and stuff so his fluff could Fit #i think his apron would be blue now??? #basically it and his blue striped shirt switch colors! #since he's already Very blue / cool colored #in my mind the spiral part of his wings is a little 3d and slightly Plush! #he's got some Texture to 'em! #as you all can see im a fan of gradients and Dots

[xynczachrome]

Elemental of Wind

#i was about to put wing instead of wind T^T #worro morro #ninjago #ninjago fandom #ninjago fanart #stained glass #ninjago stained glass series #elemental forms #basically them becoming their elements #elemental #made his shade leaning towards bluish since wind is usually depicted with blue #but kept his ghostly element (pun unintended) in #ninjago morro #morro

[kaiserouo]

modern au

#hey i also want a unlimited capacity bag of holding #okay i actually don't know the capacity of its wings #but since the game doesn't really have an upper bound of how many weapons it can release the capacity should be theoretically limitless #i haven't played ultrakill for some time #but i left some ideas which was basically abandoned for like 2 months #(this is actually not one of them idk when i'll draw them) #why do i always draw them peaceful #ultrakill #ultrakill v1 #v1 ultrakill #ultrakill gabriel #gabriel ultrakill #gabv1el #my art

[adharastarlight]

sirius, wearing eyeliner and just existing

someone: you know, that makeup is like... really aggressive

sirius: really? these two little lines of pigment... intimidated you?

#this happened to me the other day #like a lil pigment on my face was so scary you had to say something???? #i was wearing such subtle eyeliner too #like a basic cats eye wing #it wasnt even a lot??? #anyways #marauders as things I've said #marauders #dead gay wizards #sirius black #sirius orion black #sirius being sirius #sirius is iconic #regulus black #james potter #jegulus #james x regulus #remus lupin #starchaser #wolfstar

[humbuns]

dunmeshi print i did with beloved mutual @kamuyagi !!! get your serving of this print now available here!

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #laios touden #falin touden #marcille donato #chilchuck tims #senshi #izutsumi #winged lion #basically the whole gang is here and i can't tagged them all lmao #but i'm really proud of this one cause kamu killed it with their monster drawing skills and everything is so smooth #you guys should have seen my initial sketch for this one it was awful #art tag

[otiksimr]

Secretkeeper

#Me creating the single most basic dragon ever #my art #my design #wof #wings of fire #wof fanart #wof nightwing #nightwing #wof secretkeeper #secretkeeper #dragon #dragon art #art #artwork #digital art

[cyra-kingg]

(hits him with the bird beam) whoops

#basic au ““lore”” is i combined the trio w animals theyre associated with. #so like heron sasha frog anne moth marcy. why you may ask?? literally no reason other than fun to draw #i have the marcanne designs too i just havent drawn them beyond doodling. bird bias. sorry #i may just make a bird/wing au too and make them all birds. j gotta think of bird species for marcanne #LOL ANYWAYS #amphibia #sasha waybright #my art

[starrysharks]

hotel manager

#zeno's art #i'm not sure if i should tag the show itself as i'm not a fan but i guess its ���fan”art so i will #hazbin hotel #charlie hazbin hotel #vivziepop #i was bored and wanted to draw something #my main goal here was to create a design that looked distinct and could (potentially) be moderately easy to animate #of course based on charlie's character i added as many angel images as possible through the hair and bowtie #(i know white on white is a character design sin but i wanted to show the angel wing detail ;w;) #also to express the personality and juxtaposition of a sweet devil her horns are supposed to curve into a heart shape #of course the garterbelts are upside-down/st peters crosses because of her satanic themes #i also tried to go harder into the goat theme but its still subtle i think #i actually think the goat theme is really interesting because of the story of the sheep and the goats in the bible #but i cant remember if it was actually something intended in her original design #i'm not going to draw anyone else so dont even anticipate that #this was basically a cooldown? ok i think i'm rambling now #goodbye #ok edit to say it clearly: i am not a fan of vivziepop or her work. i just wanted to redesign charlie as a cooldown/exercise for fun #because i used to be a fan of the character before i wised up about what vivzie had and has done #and before i matured and noticed the cracks and fundamental flaws in her works #so yea i dont support her at all and this redesign is critical i guess #also the reason why the tag “vivziepop” is there in the first place is so that anyone who has that tag silenced can scroll past #without seeing anything related to her work. in case that clears anything up #its the same reason why i tag “long post” and “food” and the like

[killzilla]

you're telling me there's a dragon Jekyll and Hyde and no one is talking about it!?

i love Hailstorm, im only halfway through Book 7 but i would give everything for Hailstorm, the fact that he's such a....tragic character. like the torment of being an ENTIRELY different dragon. it would do numbers on her and i know it. this is existentialism incarnate. imagine being two people, but at the same time, only one. there are two sets of memories and feelings and.....man. i love you Hailstorm/Pyrite.

i was also thinking of Alex G's song Mary and how the lyrics are:

"i am real and you are not."

and i feel like that's how she feels about herself, but there's no bitterness despite how conflicted the feelings are because he doesn't hate himself. in fact i think she loves herself in both of its entireties.

so anyway Hailrite [Pyrstorm?] might be my new favorite character.

also some doodles of the Jade winglet [except Moon bc i got tired im SORRY.]

the haters will get me for this but i kinda like Winter/Kinkajou. 🫶

#my art #wings of fire #wof #wof pyrite #wof hailstorm #wof turtle #wof winter #wof qibli #wof kinkajou #jade winglet #winter/kinkajou #jekyll and hyde #THIS IS BASICALLY DRAGON JEKYLL AND HYDE #gross sobbing

[animezinglife]

Mira: Stay away from Xaden Riorson, Violet. I mean it. Violet: Okay. I get it. I heard you. Stay away from Xaden. No Xaden. Xaden bad. Xaden: You need to learn to shield. Violet: I need to climb you like a tree.

#funny #violet sorrengail #xaden riorson #mira sorrengail #spoilers #fourth wing #the fact that this is an *almost* verbatim quote #and an absolutely verbatim implication #this is basically what happened #the empyrean #iron flame #riorgail

[bleeding-seraphic]

Okay I’m actually starting to really like winged!narinder

#cotl narinder #cult of the lamb narinder #the one who waits #hes my kitty… but evil #So basically just a kitty tbh #(His wings puff out whenever the lamb flusters him)

[pinkd3mon]

I just wanted an excuse to draw my Galacta with a cape propaganda

#kirby #kots #kirby of the stars #kirby fanart #taranza #galacta knight #i think galacta would look cool with a dimensional cape #and it would be fluffy because of their fluffy wings #i know they're supposed to be an angel but common you cant take galacta bird away from me #im just a lil guy its my birthday #i originally made this for galacta's birthday but i slowed down when it was obvious i was not gonna finish it anywhere near that #taranza is a close friend of galacta knight in my mind and you just have to deal with it #galacta asks taranza where did he get the cape and he's like 'i got it from meta knight!!!' #galacta just looks at him unimpressed #and taranza then admits that he actually asked dedede to secretly ask meta knight and that's basically the same thing #meta knight still isnt used to galacta being not murderous so he won't help them if he can help it #meta knight has trust issues #i promised myself i wouldn't mention meta knight if i didnt draw him but im an unreliable narrator #i think dedede and galacta would get weirdly along #ok im gonna stop bye this is really self indulgent

[starwrighter]

Dude, get a restraining order.

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(Part three baby!!)

“It would be easier if we went together,” Damian offered, saving him from a half hour of wandering through the halls like a bumbling idiot.

Danny beamed, “I think I’ll take you up on that offer,” 

“Likewise, administration is pitifully incompetent when it comes to keeping students informed,” He replied promptly.

Harsh but true. He’s ninety percent sure the map they gave him was for a different school, and the braille on his schedule was just a menu for a local fast food chain. If he’d been fully blind, this would’ve fucked him over. Lawsuit levels of fucked over. The lady at the front desk was either making a messed up joke or having a very bad day.

“Yeah… Incompetent is one word I’d use to describe it” He muttered. At least the written words on his schedule were correct. 

“…” His seatmate stares at him, piercing green eyes studying the paper in his hands.

“Your map is outdated,”

“Hhm?”

“That map’s fifty years outdated,” Of course it was, Fenton’s luck strikes again.

“I figured something was wrong with it,” He sighed, running his fingers through his hair.

“You don’t happen to have a spare map on you? This is the only one they gave me,” He chuckled awkwardly, ancients he must look like a moron. 

“You’re very calm for the situation you’ve been put in,” 

 “I’ve experienced worse than a faulty map, this is child’s play!” He reassured.

“I suppose you’re right, but a mistake like this shouldn’t have happened in the first place,” 

“Probably not, but at least you’re here so I’m not alone in my confusion,” He smiled, and Damian gave him a curt nod before glancing away. 

The two of them continued their walk to class in relative silence. Students passed them by in the hall, a shocked look on their faces as they stole a second glance at the two of them. He’s used to it, his face looks fucking awesome!

When the two of them reached their math class Danny quickly took his spot at the front, Damian taking the seat beside him. The teacher had a lanyard hanging from his neck and a small badge with what he could only guess was the teacher’s name scrawled out on the front. Letters in a font far too small for him to read as the teacher paced back and forth through the classroom. 

Other students continued to file into the classroom, but the teacher's gaze lingered on him. Insuring his necklace was still hidden beneath his collar, Danny had a mental sigh of relief. It was, there’s no proof he was breaking any rule of any kind, no reason for a teacher to burn a hole into his skull with their stare. 

“Okay!” Their teacher started voice almost shouting as he smacked a ruler onto his desk. It hurt him to admit how hard he flinched at the loud “Thwack!” it made as it hit his desk, only a few inches away from his face. 

“As you can see,” He gestured to Danny. “We have a transfer student joining us this year,”

“You are to be kind and respectful to him,” 

Oh, Danny hated this already. This teacher wanted him dead. No, this teacher just dug him a grave. Not even a high-quality grave either, it's unmarked and two feet deep. The coffin was just a trash can taped shut.

 It may seem dramatic, but a teacher instructing a roomful of teenagers to be “nice and respectful,” to anyone was just begging them to do the opposite, especially if you said it with the same attitude you’d take when addressing a room full of toddlers. 

His fate was sealed; he would be single this entire trip.

The worst thing about it was the dude stared down Damian as he said it! The death glare his new friend was giving the adult could curdle milk instantly. 

“I wouldn’t blame you if you kicked my ass to spite him,” Danny whispered.

It’d be a necessary evil he’d accept with open arms.

“If I wanted to pursue revenge, I’d target him directly, not you,” Damien replied with a burning determination in his eyes.

“Metal,” Danny nodded.

A worksheet was placed on his desk, the teacher approached from his blind side. 

Oh, he was certain, this teacher already didn’t like him. It’s like he’s cursed or something. He’ll never be a straight-A student! Danny glanced over to his glaring seatmate. At least he’d have a witness for this bullcrap.

#dc x dp #dpxdc #dp x dc #dcxdp #deadserious #dead serious #deadseriousship #I don't have cannon names for any classmates or teachers #So i'm basically winging it

[jamskateable]

Gabriel flaunts his pretty body without realizing it. he doesn’t scold any wandering eyes, though. after all, is it such a shame to admire God’s greatest creation?

or he’s just THAT oblivious. no one knows, really.

either way, his charisma, his diligence, and his half-naked lounging have earned him the appreciative eyes and ears of every angel in Heaven.

#ultrakill #gabriel ultrakill #art #cw suggestive #I just wanted to practice posing #couldn’t hurt to draw some pretty legs right? #that and I love drawing wings in weird poses lol #that loincloth is the only thing granting him some semblance of modesty #he’s one gentle breeze away from flashing some poor defenseless virtue #he’s basically the dumb jock of heaven #heavenly himbo LMFAO #not really he’s smarter than that #but he IS oblivious to how pretty he is #he attracts a lot of wandering eyes #especially when he lounges about half naked in Heaven’s gardens #reclining on a chaise #plucking a harp #being the golden center of heaven’s lavish parties with his charm #you get the idea #anyway #he’s just pretty #I should lay him down more often ;)

[tendebill]

mlp mane six redesigns i did for fun recently :]

#drawing ponies to remember my roots #cuz i started drawing more regularly because of them basically #anyway i rly like how they came out #i made fluttershy an alpaca/earth pony hybrid #and i gave the wings to pinkie instead cuz i think they fit her #rarity looks kinda plain now #but she was the first one i drew and i kinda started going harder the further i went lmao #im not fully satisfied with pinkie cuz the only idea i had for her was to give her a lotta decorations and stuff #kinda decora kei inspired but i feel like i coulda gone harder and made it work? #or maybe i coulda made her more pastel-colored? #anyway #mlp #mane six #mlp g4 #my little pony #mlp redesigns #mlp fanart #fluttershy #pinkie pie #applejack #rainbow dash #twilight sparkle #rarity #tendebill art #mane 6 #mane 6 redesign