#That moment is so loaded... like is it literally the moment Mathias realizes?

[fotze-politics]

[ryshcb17]

Brothers and Friends

I drew this for @reverseblackholeofwords a little bit ago, and I really wanted to make sure that people saw all the cool little bits I included, mostly because I am the type of person that needs that type of validation, and I couldn't do it when I originally submitted it because it was way too long.

So I'm doing it now. Because no one can stop me. Because this is my blog that I'm only just now doing things with.

First up is Dr. Iplier:

When drawing him, I thought to myself, what will make gentle, kind, everybody's-dad Doc seem menacing. Besides, of course, "I'm sorry, you're dying." And what I came up with was crazy obsessive scribbling of his catchphrase: "I know what's best" (also, the reference I used for his face is from the moment in Markiplier TV when Wil says that he knows what's best, and Doc growls at him)

Next came Green. It took a while to figure out what he was going to be doing, and for a while, the plan was to just have him be standing there. But then I rewatched the original Google IRL sketch and remembered that in one of the endings Google asks Mathias to grant him Full Autonomy. In retrospect, I kind of wish I'd gone with "Admin Privileges" instead, but oh well.

Red was easy, because he is an angry bean. Right at the end, however, I got the idea to add in a loading bar that says “Initiating Secondary Objective” which I thought would be fairly menacing, and I’m super proud of how it turned out.

Also, all 3 Googles have glowing eyes and I love them.

Anti wasn’t difficult either, at least not in the planning phase. When I first started coloring him in I had to adjust the Mark-Ego’s skin tone because they all looked Mexican in comparison next to his pasty white Irish-glitch-demon skin. Not that you could tell once I added the static.

My favorite part of Anti is the fact that he is also wearing a Google shirt, but not one like his brothers. Where theirs all have the weird glowy effect that I assume comes from their core or something, his is just your average glow-in-the-dark green shirt print, and it’s proportionally smaller. He’s also holding his knife backwards because for some reason that’s how Jack did it in the videos...

I knew I wanted to include Darkiplier when I started this after reading the way Ollie bonded with him over the paper cranes, and when that came back up later in the stories it just kind of reaffirmed that conviction. Obviously, he had to be holding one. I wanted to include more cranes, and the plan was to put a few at Ollie’s feet, and I still wish I had, but I forgot at the last minute. I will say this, however. I hate his face. It looks dumb. Also, the 3D effect is hard when you don’t know what you’re doing. 

(Depressingly enough, the reference I used for him was actually one of Mayor Damian standing at the top of the stairs waiting to greet you the morning after the party...)

While I went through and cropped all the bits I wanted to talk about I stumbled across this filter and realized that this was way more accurate to how I had actually wanted the picture to turn out. A bit darker, more gritty, not so bright except for around the literal ball of sunshine that is the light source for this picture. Oh well.

Holy butt, this is disgustingly long. This is why I didn’t do this the first time.

Oops