#nicky/lark

[pittermogged]

hello !!!!!! I drew this massive piece to celebrate 1 year of me getting way too invested in this podcast ! I tried to fit as many NPCs in here as I could + hope you guys have fun trying to find them all ,,

also available as a print on my inprnt!!!

close ups under the cut !!

[mikeystrawberry]

Today is Dungeons & Daddies’s 5th Anniversary!

I haven’t been listening for nearly that long but the podcast and all its characters means a lot to me. Happy Anniversary!!!

Throwing the cropped sections under the cut because there’s a lot of stuff going on and I know Tumblr likes to throw half the pixel quality out the window. And also so I can ramble a bit about this piece!!!

This piece has been months in the making, possibly an entire year. And by that I mean I’ve had a sketch of the comp scribbled on my whiteboard for ages because I wanted to save this specifically for 5th anni art. Now onto design stuff!

(First off a random thought: I really love how the garlic knot came out, I kind of want it as an enamel pin.)

I knew I wanted to make this a stained glass piece since the beginning, but I was also going to add flowers at one point but quickly dropped the idea. It felt like too much and I also didn’t want to fuss over flower language assignments for everyone. I was also going to add Doodler tentacles, but also dropped that idea pretty early. Kind of on accident, right at the end, I figured out how to make it even more stained glass-like but taking a duplicated lineart underneath the regular layer and turning the brightness all the way down, then setting it to overlay and adding a guassian blur. It’s very subtle but it adds that tiny bit of depth that makes it look more real. As for shading on the lineart/gold, I tried adding more highlight on the characters who died but once I evened everything out it wasn’t as noticeable anymore so I’m throwing that thought here so the attempt at least known lol.

The order of characters only changed a little bit from my original comp, I flipped the Wilsons and the Oaks so the rainbow could work. As for the anchors, specifically in season 2, I lined them up to the teens since the season 1 anchors lined up with each dad:

Tony —> Scary: his death was the beginning of Scary’s betrayal arc and also Willy killed him.

Guitar Pick —> Taylor: it’s not really aligned with Taylor at all, but the anchor was with Glenn so I put it next to his blunt.

Scroll —> Normal: was only because it was the last left to give him, but there’s the whole scene of him and Hermie in the Green Room so it still works!

Garlic Knot —> Link: one of two that he broke, but the more significant of the two with him telling Grant he never wants to see him again.

Small notes on the season 1 anchors: I put the layer of mold in the overnight oats but you can’t really tell with the overlay. And to make the supper bowl more interesting I added the fantasy sodas mix they dumped into it. The lure of actually drawn before so I just traced my own art lol.

As for the other smaller triangles, it took me a bit to figure out what I wanted to put there. I didn’t even think of adding the vehicles until two days ago but I’m so glad I did. I don’t really have my own take on the mascot version of the Doodler (yet?) so I borrowed the design from one of the stickers in their merch shop. Teeny was terrifying as just a front facing head so I made him cute again.

In the outer circles, I put what I felt was the most significant quotes for each family. I really wanted to use “It’s okay to be angry, it’s not okay to be cruel” but it was just a little too long.

That’s all I can think of! If you read all the way through, thank you for indulging me in my excitement to gush over this piece.

[keepin-it-on-the-d-l]

It’s Mr. Steal Your Kids

[alien-bluez]

Lark can't handle nice things, and as he says "always fucks it up."

Drew a scene from this fic here, please please go read it right now!

[macksartblock]

see you know i couldn't resist this

thanks @babacontainsmultitudes for the idea i hope i did your vision justice lol

[zoynkzz]

and then they kiss or something idk

[peachyvillian]

people need to talk about fetch quest more. Also. Heyy. Hey. very wild wolf and very good boy and nick parallels. Narcolas and nick. Heh. heh. get it.

[ghost-106]

the kid dads definitely found rocks rock as teenagers and lost their minds over cummingtonite and tortured the twins with it constantly

[ithinkdogshouldvote2]

"Oh I love the Kiddads!"

Literally the Kiddads:

Boss kicks's subordinate

Love wolf (formerly) dad (Probably)

Apocalypse catalyst by day, homewrecker by night

Terry.

*looks at smudged writing on hand* Kicky Froster

[nesperus]

finished nark commission for moss!! this was so so fun to do

[transformersweatpants]

Nick and Lark as characters make me so utterly feral that the only logical conclusion is to draw them gay for each other. Obviously.

[wishfulsketching]

s2 dads with their weapons...kinda. Do Lark and Sparrow still have their gloves? idk

[meowitis]

doodler protection club

[keepin-it-on-the-d-l]

Kiddads Lineup! Aka the designs for them that I promised and never posted!

Heights: Grant is 5’11, Terry is 6’6 (tall mf), Lark and Sparrow are 5’8, and Nicky is 5’6 (short king)

Close ups under the cut:

[alien-bluez]

fucked around with those instagram avatar stickers with dndads characters and made.... this.