#and with his hair in a loose ponytail

[alipeeps]

[ask-ranma-and-ryoga]

[ourflagmeanssteddyhands]

honestly the more I think about it the more I realize how we were ROBBED of an izzy in a ponytail look

[thats-one-cool-dude]

silence from me bc im working on a human design for swad.. IM SO DETERMINED..

[wolfythewitch]

I fucking love your diomedes, just want to give him a kiss on the head and then absorb him into my soul

Thank you!! I'm having trouble with the hairstyle for the older version of him HAHA. I know I want it long and kind of loose, and I've been looking into different styles but. I can't decide the right one. I want the "I left the war and became a farmer" vibe and I will get it

[gordonfreemanspussy]

kicks my feet... i don't see it a lot outside of barmey but... have we considered pre-rescas [or just pre-combine] barney calhoun with kinda shaggy long hair. the kind he has to put up into a little bun to hide under his helmet, but it's just not quite long enough to be an elegant bun. the kind of length that always has him saying "haha yheah i need a haircut" but that haircut always comes late and then after that he ends up back at square one... have we thought about this [i am talking to two ants on my bathroom counter]

[dieanywhereelseart]

played around with a re-design for sissel in mixed media. watercolor, ink, marker, and highlighter. you can fit so many shapes in this dead guy.

[blujayonthewing]

he had no business looking like this. shut the fuck up

[siphoklansan]

Some art dump before I go to bed. This Riddle art that I did last year that I’ll never finish </33 sorry Riddle stans but there’s so many things I can’t improve in this piece. Anyway, here’s my TWST OC’s draft! This is their color palette and I’ll properly introduce them soon💞

[onyourstageleft]

I know that 26 year old me is disregarding all the lessons that 13 year old me learned about my hair, but it is too damn hot to use a hairdryer and my hair is too damp to leave down, so it's going in a pony tail straight out of the shower and I'll deal with the consequences in a few hours

[comradeboyhalo]

sorry it wasn’t meant to be aggressive i wanted to bond over thinking hes handsome

NO I KNEW YOU DIDNT MEAN TO BE AGGRESSIVE it was just really funny reading it that way. but anyways yes bad looked so pretty with his hair up in that one cookie stream with hannah and skeppy </3 he should do it more

[secretmellowblog]

i've never heard anything about valjean's beard being anachronistic, can you elaborate please?? :0

I’ll elaborate! I’m not completely sure about this, and anyone who knows more about fashion history can feel free to correct me! : D

Basically: I’ve heard that in the 1820s-1830s it was generally fashionable for French men to either be clean shaven OR to have facial hair on anywhere but their chin. Clean shaven faces were good, sideburns and muttonchops were good, moustaches were good— but beards/unshaven chins were out of fashion.

So having an unshaven chin marked you as someone out of touch with fashion/too poor and busy to care…or as an eccentric artistic type, part of the Romanticism movement. Thenardier even references this later on when he refers to his beard as “a Romantic beard.” I believe one of Les Amis sees Thenardier at some point and comments that he looks like a poet, probably partially because of the “romantic beard.”

Valjean is bearded after he leaves prison. This is meant to stress how much of an outcast he is, how he’s shaggy and unkempt and someone who hasn’t seen any barbers except the ones in prison who did the bare minimum.

But “Madeleine” is Valjean pretending to be a perfect completely normal unsuspicious member of the bourgeoise. Something like a Romantic Beard would draw attention and be eccentric, but Valjean is trying not to make himself stand out so it might not make a lot of sense.

Most early iconic illustrations/adaptations of Les mis depict Valjean beardless.

IIRC the reason bearded Valjean is so common now is because of the musical and especially Colm Wilkinson. Colm didn’t want to shave his beard for the part, which iirc became a point of contention, with the directors insisting Valjean is not usually iconically depicted with a beard. Colm was only able to keep the beard after he managed to dig up a few old illustrations that depicted Valjean with one. And from there….Colm was so memorable in the role that it had a massive impact on the way the musical was cast going forward. Most later stagings of the musical also give Valjean a beard, in large part because giving a character a beard is a good short hand for “old wise dude.” I’ve heard the 2012 movie is technically more historically accurate because it depicts him clean-shaven.

But again, I’d have to dig around to find actual sources for all this, and I’d take everything in this post with a grain of salt.

EITHER WAY

my argument is that I think Valjean can have a beard solely for the Symbolism. Lots of heavy parallels are constantly drawn between Valjean and St Nicholas of Myra— and St Nicholas is almost universally always depicted with a beard. So I think it’s okay to let Valjean be a bit eccentric/unfashionable for the sake of Symbolism… like? you can’t draw a beardless Santa Claus, it just isn’t right.

[afandomroom]

Hm..Cryptor artists/people who have drawn him in the past, reblog with how you choose to style his hair?

[cynical-cemeteries]

me with miriande rn

[worldend]

hes like a beaitfuoul girl to me

[annoyingloudmicrowavecultist]

oh my god theyre on (another) date. their outfits are so cute here