#Critique welcome

[aediondraws]

tmagp comic bc I'm not normal about them!!

ep 12

[jonkleringjerster]

this is what i was doing all week :)) my shading style looks rough animated so i’ll reblog w the wip version without colour so the movement can be seen better

[zionmantis]

sneaky peek

sneaky peek

i started this project weeks ago as a collage (only showing this part) to get out some of my random sketches without taking so long to render (ha)

you can see how well that went.

experimenting with a lot of more traditional-style digital brushes like watercolors and whatnot (clip studio)

[bi-the-wei]

So just have a very base layer of shading on Lan Wangji's skin, but Wei Wuxian is done for now pending some final touch ups once Lan Wangji is shaded.

What do you think so far? How's it lookin?

Previous versions under the cut for comparison.

Original Version - Drawn in 2019:

First Redraw - Drawn in 2020:

[patronsaintofmistakenidentity]

Marcille badass moments

[truly-sincerely]

Okay Alex Rider Nation. I need feedback. I said in a previous post that I've been working out what show!MI6 knows about Yassen Gregorovich and I've put together a little (extremely not little) Smithers presentation to ultimately be delivered in my snakehead treatment.

This is the first draft and I'm looking for fridge logic critique. Do Smithers and Jones' conclusions make sense with what they know? Did I miss any Yassen data (from the show) that they should've known about/that Smithers should've included.

Note: For Yassen's backstory I did take some key info from Snakehead and Russian Roulette and put them back together with consideration for how they'd fit into what the show has definitively laid out as self-contained facts. Internal consistency is more important to me than fidelity to the books (but I do love easter eggs).

With the casting of Yaseen Aroussi as young Yassen I decided to lean into making Yassen mixed-heritage. I also decided to address the fact that Gregorovich isn't a proper Russian surname by making it his middle name (and naming his father Grigory). I borrowed the surname I gave him from his childhood best friend in RR.

SMITHERS: Yassen Gregorovich. (pause for dramatic effect) Born Yaseen Grigoryevich Tretyakov in Moscow to Grigory and Hawa Tretyakov. Raised in Western Russia near Kursk--A place called Estrov--until it was destroyed in a fire that started in a nearby chemical plant. His father was killed in the initial explosion. His mother was exposed to hazardous chemicals and died of related complications in an evacuation center several months later. He was fourteen. JONES: I'm aware of all of this. He got onto our radar originally when he turned up in John Rider’s reports from one of Scorpia’s training facilities. SMITHERS: But before that he traveled almost a thousand kilometers to Moscow on his own, with no food or money. He spent the next three or four years in Moscow, living on the street and running errands for the local Mafiya. We still don’t know how he managed to find his way to Scorpia. JONES: Smithers. How long, exactly, have you been working on this? SMITHERS: Since Blunt lied to Alex about Gregorovich’s whereabouts. JONES: Two years. And why are you showing it to us now? SMITHERS: The man successfully faked his own death, then spent fifteen years doing whatever he pleased. And the reason we know he’s alive now is because he stopped to have a chat with Alex Rider. And despite that we still don’t know where in the world he currently is. CRAWLEY: Did Alex seem especially interested the other day when you mentioned him? SMITHERS: You noticed that as well, did you? Now, may I continue? JONES: (resigned) Go on.

(the timeline I decided on for Ian here is based on his having served in the parachute force for 12 years as stated in s1e1. If that's accurate, and he was 42 when he died, he wouldn't have been able to enter Special Operations until Alex was 4 or 5.

It's possible that the friend in Moscow wasn't Yassen at all, but:

I cannot be convinced that someone as upright and British as Ian Rider would speak this informally to someone he's never met before.

Unfortunately, Smithers couldn't possibly know about 'Yas', so I'm letting him make baseless conjecture about the friend in Moscow.)

SMITHERS: Going thru Ian Rider and Martin Wilby’s various and assorted records and communiques with a fine tooth comb, I found a few references here and there to a ‘friend in Moscow’ going back as far as 2010, which was not long after Ian received clearance to look at the Scorpia files. This may have been a coincidence but Ian was the only one of us who believed that Scorpia wasn’t gone and this could explain why. JONES: You’re suggesting that Ian knew Yassen was still alive all this time? SMITHERS: It’s possible. JONES: And that’s what got him killed. SMITHERS: Yes, that and Martin Wilby’s avarice. If my hypothesis is correct, it seems that Ian and Gregorovich had maintained a professional understanding for over a decade by that time. Then, only when Ian was on the cusp of finding proof that Scorpia was still active, Wilby was in place to prevent that from happening. JONES: And it would have been successful if not for Alex. SMITHERS: There was also the shooter that killed Alex’s clone outside of the school. Most likely also Gregorovich himself. And then Alex came to us again, desperately trying to convince us that he’d seen Gregorovich in Cornwall. And after he executed Simon Mariat and the five people in the hackerspace we lost track of him again, until– JONES: He shot Damian Cray and saved Alex’s life on board Air Force One.

SMITHERS: While wounded, I might add. We found quite a lot of Gregorovich’s blood just inside the cockpit. Ballistics confirmed that the shots that killed Cray were fired from that location, most likely in a supine position. Alex was confident in his characterization of Gregorovich’s motive. And in light of subsequent events, it seems very likely that Gregorovich did speak to him. Alex simply didn’t feel comfortable sharing the substance of that conversation with us. JONES: You believe Gregorovich sent Alex to Scorpia. That’s what you’re getting at with all of this. Alright. Let’s say I accept your premise. Why the biography? SMITHERS: You don’t see the similarity? Orphaned as teenagers. Forced to do incredible things to survive. And then Scorpia. But then we found out that Julia Rothman’s primary motive for wanting Alex at Invisible Sword was so she could watch him die. JONES: It would be rather out of character for Scorpia to sacrifice as large a payout as we can assume Cray’s operation would have netted them--not to mention reaping the subsequent economic and political consequences--just so they could personalize the murder of a teenager. Gregorovich must’ve been acting on his own cognizance. Scorpia likely doesn’t even know about his role in Cray’s death. SMITHERS: And then there’s the sniper. JONES: Sorry? SMITHERS: One of Julia Rothman’s people. His body was found on the roof opposite this building after Invisible Sword. The murder weapon, left at the scene, was the same Grach MP-443 that killed Damian Cray and Simon Mariat. JONES: That's right. With Gregorovich’s prints on it. SMITHERS: We’ve known that Scorpia discovered the truth about John Rider very quickly and had him, and his wife killed. The bomb on their plane. Could’ve even been Gregorovich that planted the bomb for all we know. Now that we know he’s been alive this whole time. Except... JONES: Except he didn’t know, did he? His loyalty was always to John Rider, and this whole time he never knew that John was one of us. Scorpia kept it from him, they must have. In his mind, Ian had been the disloyal one. But then he wasn’t at the Abbey during Invisible Sword. He must have discovered what Julia Rothman was planning for Alex, and with that discovery, the truth about John. And afterwards he’d have known Scorpia would want retribution. The only rational motive for killing the sniper is to protect Alex. And he left his weapon behind. He wanted us to know. SMITHERS: And there we have it.

[atlattacus]

vrisrezi… uhmmm girls kissing teehee

[soupradio]

You know that trend of "What this arcane character wears to bed" I did that with Sevika. (Ft. A character study) <3

You know how some artists find it difficult to draw the people they love because you can never quite depict them how you see them? That's how I feel about Sevika.

I feel okay enough about this Not like I will ever insult my own art on the internet because it's mine and it's beautiful

Did I fuck up what side her arm is on?

[fellow-fanatic]

First draft of character designs for an au I’m working on! I had the idea like a year ago and the motivation for it recently hit me again like a truck. Hoping to get this project done by the end of the summer :)

[merimaybe]

Continuing to spread my venti agenda. Also venti hair up venti hair up venti-

This is just a practice- I need to do more side profiles :’) so any feedback is appreciated!

[alinartistique]

"Tell me doctor..." ⚠️TW: blood, gore, disturbing imagery

My most recent artwork ft. my OC Chouwa.

Feedback and critique is always welcome, please don't feel shy!! 😊 I don't bite.

[aediondraws]

the Magnus Protocol Character Designs

these are just my current headcanons, as well as some things I've seen from others. idk who came up with the Sam amputee hc but I rlly fwi! These aren't final, so feel free to tell me your hcs in the comments, I'd love to hear about them!!

Colin, Lena & Celia are next, and if i find the time I'll try to work on some others like Bonzo etc.

Some details:

[cavecanem3000]

Notes from a deity researcher #1

The Small One

I met this god in the California desert where the Holy Laboratory of the Microscopic Deities (HLMD) is located. The location put me in mind of a university campus. There was a buzz of curiosity in the air.

The followers were intriguing, as most Holy Scientists are. These were a specific sect focusing on microbiology. Most were very excited about my research. One young lady said "research is our form of worship" which delighted me to no end. Most followers I meet are standoffish and territorial of their practices and culture.

The followers wore strange robes, made to replicate the images of microscopic animals. The cut of their clothes was often round and shapeless. It was often impossible to differentiate between the genders of the followers, as they all tended to have short, practical hairstyles.

The method of conversing with The Small One was fascinating. First, I was instructed to swab the inside of my cheek, which the Holy Lab Tech then slipped into the microscope. As I looked into that contraption, I felt my whole body come alight. It always feels different with every god I meet. I had a complete and total awareness of every aspect of my being. I felt the friction between each cell, the dull snap of my synapses, the trickle of my hormones. It was a churning cacophony of biological machinery.

The god looked like a cluster of grey bubbles.

"Hello," it said, in my own voice. It hummed up the microscope and spoke through my own vocal chords.

My mouth felt slack, so I did not reply right away. I leaned all my weight onto where my eye rested on the cylindrical tube of the microscope. It took me a second to get used to the feeling. The ache of metal against my eye socket returned me to my senses.

But alas, it had vacated. The strange feeling left my body, and I was looking at regular spit cells once again.

The Holy Lab Tech patted my arm in sympathy, "It never stays for long," she said.

I tried to speak with it a couple more times during my stay, but to no avail. I was devastated.

[halogenrobotics]

STILL A WIP, SEE BOTTOM FOR MORE INFO

I've had this idea in my head for a while now, and I finally decided to make it! It is a mind control "alignment chart" for fiction. It is meant to show how strong a type of mind control is vs where the control comes from. The strength side uses numbers since there may be cases that lie between the categories listed.

For example, Belos possessing Hunter in the Owl House would be a C-2. This is because Belos is acting as a parasite in that scene, which is a category C method, and Hunter is shown to be able to resist, which is a category 2 strength.

My hope is for this chart to become more widely used as a way to compare and contrast differents types of mind control with relative ease.

As I stated at the start though, THIS IS STILL A WIP!!!

As such I am currently looking for feedback to make this chart better. Please feel free to leave comments either here or on the doc page I am editing this thing on.

[bi-the-wei]

okay! Final linework unless anyone sees any glaring issues!

Next will come coloring. X_X Ugh. I like coloring but I wish I was better at it. Whelp anyway nowhere to go but upwards and onwards! Awaaaaaaaaaay

(Previous version's linework under the cut for reference)

Please do actually let me know if the new one is better or worse than the old one? I don't expect to have improved TOO much but hopefully I have improved some in the past 4 years.

And DO please let me know if you see anything majorly off in the new linework that I can try to fix before I start coloring. Critique is invited and welcome I gotta do more non-derp drawings if I wanna keep that ball going. But derps are so fun haha

Oh also, this is the original original from 2019 (I don't have the linework alone anymore so full finished pic it is)

[mattorododo]

I like how I drew this.