#private eye character

[mr-laveau]

I spent some time mindlessly making these so here have some small infodumps about outfits and designs of characters-as well as just like design refs.

[mx-paisley]

PRIVATE EYES AND DANDELIONS RAHHH 💥💥💥💥

close up shots below

I rendered it sketchbook style !! honestly i really love how this turned out. I'll make more art in this style again

[clarissasbakery]

private eyes microphone and taco, investigating a mysterious disappearance 🕵️‍♀️ and the totally innocent doctor, their client!!! i trust her, don’t you 🤭

[arthur-lesters-left-arm]

[the sounds of arthur brutally murdering and cannibalizing faust in the background]

john: this is great. i'm going to get a good grade in humanity, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve,

[mydirtyvalentine]

“orthor, this man just insulted you, asking if you’re trying to be ‘all worldstar’. he’s now mocking you- asking if you’re going to record him or something.”

“arthur, listen to me very carefully. tell this man that we have our dollar store camera, ON-“

[outletcrash]

my john design :)

in the book, the stranger says he has no mask. so i tried to make the mask look like a part of him, like bone. like natural growths showing under the skin. also a synonym for pallid is 'cadaverous', which is why the mask looks like a skull. the mask is also over his right side because he is the kings heart (right brained etc).

the cracks represent his humanity (like the spiral over his heart). they also represent where he has control over arthurs body (left hand, right leg, eyes). he's not trans in the conventional human way but he does have sparkly top surgery scars. and he has a sign of the king on his belly button (he was created by the king, kind of not really uhh close enough). the galaxy hair + chest/neck mouths are eldritch but also just cool.

[agarthanguide]

Very much love your take on the new looks for Orym and Ashton! I saw a bit of your post about how Liam and Tal give feedback... would you be willing to share any information about how the back-and-forth process works between you and the actors as you work on their stuff? (I just love hearing HOW the awesome happens, not just the end results.)

Yeah okay. Lemme think, here. Alright let's so this as a numbered list-

1- Actor sends description of character. This is pretty broadly interpreted, in my experience. It's something between a brief paragraph, an annotated pdf, and multiple pinterest boards.

2- I send back a Pitch. This has taken multiple forms in the past, but it's generally settled into a few pages, that kinda go- a- Poses and Vibe Sketches- This includes little portraits, attitude poses, a couple sketches showing extreme dynamism or movement. I try to suggest outfits and weapons or accessories, here, but I don't spend a lot of time fleshing it out. b- Outfit Poses- usually on a turnaround or one fairly lowkey pose. I try to include 3 or 4 serious attempts at outfits and maybe a couple of backs, if it's important. c- Color- I usually just pick an outfit at random and try to give it a few different palettes. If the actor is absolutely sure what the palette is, or if it's a character I've worked with before, I might just make one palette and briefly color each of the outfit sketches from b in that palette d- Accessories, Weapons, Other Important Stuff- if the character is carrying around like a book or a bird or a really specific weapon, I try to address that in its own space, though sketches for all of those things may exist on other pages. This has been known to be very pretty or a bit boring.

3- There is some form of back and forth between me and the actors (and a producer, who are all lovely and don't step in on creative things but are always working against a schedule and need to know how things are going. I just want to be clear that every producer at CR is a secret angel who eats deadlines and shits magic and every one of them totally Gets It. They are all One Of Us). The back and forth is always individual and based on the actor but it can be- a- Actor picks from menu, usually via complex "circling" system (also all sketches are numbered, so they can just ref numbers). b- Actor sort of picks from menu, while moderating and adding further references. c- Actor just sends a bunch more shit and I narrow stuff down based upon what they seem to be getting at.

4- There's this bit of finding what the pose is gonna be, marking in all the necessary accessories, getting that last email about adding a scar, can we add a necklace? etc. What you are left with is something that the Producers call "pre-final." If it hasn't already been with the modelers and painters this whole time, this is when the modelers and painters get the design and start their magic.

5- I go away into a cave for a time period of quiet reflection with my Gods. I refer to this period as "rendering." I cannot be reached by the reason of man and spend a lot of time bitching to my friends while I try to figure out why shading a cape is suddenly the most difficult thing I've ever dealt with in my life.

6- Done!

[tatangadragon]

want to post more about my ocs here so I figured id start by posting some old refs i made last year for artfight! slightly outdated art wise but I'm still pretty happy with these

[anachronistic-falsehood]

i know it's a joke but i honestly genuinely would not put it past pac to open the fitmc/pactw tag on ao3 and scroll through it out of curiosity. he would. i firmly believe he would and that is what is so frightening

[spiderwarden]

So! Because people struggle to find my rules for some reason I did put a BRAND NEW ITERATION in my pinned post. It’s the basic write up I will add to them cause I know I forgot a few things. But yes. There they are, they will expand likely as time goes on and I remember more.

[vaguely-concerned]

ms. fantasy noir detective neve gallus... will you do me the honor of letting me be your forever 'I knew this fool was trouble the minute they walked into my office'

[smidgen-of-hotboy]

I'm not the person who asked but 👁👁 may I inquire as to the spoilery season 5 problems

Understand that everything I'm about the say Under the Cut, comes from a place of bias. Bias that truly does love the Juno Steel storyline, bias that absolutely hates the plot direction Kabert took with the last two seasons

Slip Jackson. He is the plothole they wrote, the corner Kabert backed themselves into and had to write themselves out of. The one NO ONE ASKED FOR but they wrote in anyways to explain "this is what happened After Nureyev saved NK and killed Mag". I cannot stress enough how pissed off and annoyed Slappery Junkyard makes me from a plot standpoint.

Too many plot devices disguised as characters. Every other episode the listener and Juno is introduced to someone new. And every other episode they are forgotten about and we move on to the next. This is the equivalent I feel to early TMA and early WTNV monster of the week and even early TPP where Juno is solving one case after the next-

Only this time Juno's chasing after Nureyev across the fucking galaxy. I love Juno with all my heart, but it still is super annoying that all of season 5 is spent of him chasing after Nureyev, getting tripped up, chasing after Nureyev, getting tripped up, wash rinse repeat. Especially more annoying and upsetting when you factor in that Nureyev blatantly does not want to be followed (but me and every other listener is a fucking sucker for a hopeful fool and dramatic love story. If this happened to someone you actually knew, you wouldn't encourage or condone Juno's behavior, but because the Lady isn't real and it's all a work of fiction and Juno is the Hero, ofc we're all cheering him on)

Grandpappy's recipe. We're given a hint of worldbuilding to the rest of the galaxy, and Juno shows some appreciation towards Rita, but it is not her storyline. It is not Rita-centric. And the depiction of Nureyev in these couple of episodes (i don't know how anyone else felt) came so far out of left field for me, that I almost didn't believe what Juno and Rita were saying about him. Something along the lines of Nureyev is a con, and he sweet talks and seduces all of his targets into falling for him, before ultimately turning on them and stealing from their pockets. The Homme Fatale thing gets really pushed, and it's like everything discussed in Man in Glass never happened.

The amazing moment in Heart of it All when he reminds Buddy "a legend is a dead thing" (and by extension the discussion he had with her in Man in Glass) might as well never fucking happened. Peter goes the entirety of season 5 with his head so far up his own ass, he can't see past his own bullshit, until it's literally 10 minutes too late.

Nureyev is deliberately rude towards Juno (who did cross a boundary MULTIPLE TIMES) but is also extremely fucking dismissive of the Ruby7 being anything but a car (it's not, it's an alien from outside of this galaxy and Nureyev cannot accept that for some reason, but he can totally get behind reviving his long lost first love???)

OH AND RITA!!! POOR POOR FUCKING RITA OMG- Juno is a massive fuckin dick to her in Season 1, he promises to do better for her at end of Season 2, and she is the first Aurinko he rescues in Season 4 because he knows without her he won't be of much use. Rita is supposed to be Juno's backbone, but she's more like the brace he wears when he needs it. The Rita episode in Season 3 is framed as a good thing for her character and meant to be a confidence boost, but it's really not. And Season 4 I don't remember, but literally in Season 5 Rita is sidelined and put over on the bench because she "makes too many mistakes" on missions. Juno dresses it up as "You're our ace in the hole" but cmon. Come the fuck on.

[om0000]

imagine if westley rlly betrayed wander n sylvia n stayed in the hater empire jk jk unless

[potahun]

waaaahhh im still so happy that furuya appears on the left side of the anicrossing reveal board for M28 >/////< it means he's appearing as amuro...? and anything public security-related might have to be extremely covert on his part? so there is really a chance he's travelling to nagano as kogorou's apprentice, and he's probably going to be pretending a lot, and be his amuro self, which. which. would be so much fun. and if kazami were to appear next week on the right side of the board, then...then >/////<

[blacktobackmesa]

20 for Coomer please?

20. What-ifs/Alternate Timelines

Imagine if you will a man made entirely out of What If scenarios. That man is Dr. Harold Coomer. He's had a lifetime full of choices that he's had to endure the consequences of, but perhaps the most pressing-- what if he'd been more assertive of his wants and needs in his first marriage? His then-wife had a habit of loving the man he had the potential to be instead of the person that he was. He was so smitten that it was easy to convince him that he was making sacrifices for his benefit instead of giving up things he liked about himself to be a person she liked. By the time she realized the error of her ways, he'd already been pressured into giving up his "dangerous" dream of being a professional boxer, lost years of his life to earning a Ph.D and mountains of student debt, and committed to a job that would strand the both of them on a lab compound in the middle of nowhere.

When she left, she told him she'd already caused so much unhappiness in his life that she couldn't bear to tie him down any further, but maybe she could have, y'know, stayed to help clean up her mess instead breaking his heart in one last act of "for your own good". If he'd been willing to take a look at where his dreams clashed with hers and talked it out instead of going where her whims blew him, they could have been happy together for a long time.

Ah, but then what would become of Bubby...?

[zeb-z]

Bad has so many reasons to be cautious, even paranoid, as anyone else on the island. From Federation nonsense to Dapper being kidnapped to the whole purgatory nonsense to whatever fuckass suit of armor “old friend” was setting up cameras in his house. But it compounds on his regular overly aware paranoid self to this state of hyper-paranoia. And as a demon who can and usually will lie, cheat, steal, and use sneaky underhanded tactics, he expects the craziest extent because he thinks of it, realizes it’s possible, and would use it himself. We saw this very obviously in purgatory - when he thought greens desperate last ditch effort to balance the scale was a super planned out tactic to tip the scale, so he did it first, all the hardcore base hunting, the spawn killing, there’s a reason every other tactic he used usually followed a main channel qsmp post with updated rules - all usually things he was surprised no one else thought of. But then this also piles onto the fact that he has to have things go his way, all the time, and that he’s argumentative as all get out, which led to the debate between him and Bagi yknow. Especially because he’s not just doing it for the sake of being right, he doesn’t think he’s paranoid, but that he’s exercising the right amount of caution.

So like. Listen dude. Yeah he’s got reasons to be paranoid. But his thought process around building vaults for separate cookie caches like they locked up the risus pills, only to scrap it because it’s not perfectly impenetrable, is extreme. His character has hardly been a leading example in someone who has reasonable reactions to things. And even when there isn’t his own children’s livelihoods potentially on the line, he has a need for control, and the most control he has is if he keeps the cookies in his inventory at all times. If he makes himself the sole point in which the others can get ones in a case of emergency, then he can control the variables. The problem is he’s unreliable about himself when he’s at his most rational and healthiest, and he’s far worse with the current memory and health issues he’s been mostly unaware of.

I dunno it’s like. There is never going to be a purely impenetrable base. And it’s not just a case of “Bagi just hasn’t lived through __ yet!”. Bad’s own logic about keeping the cookies on him at all times is flawed under his own logic, because Bagi is right - if someone has enough drive to break into separate secured cookie caches purely for the downfall of eggs, they more than certainly have enough drive to find a way to kill Bad and just take them from his inventory, or to just kill the eggs themselves. All it truly does is give Bad a sense of control, and soothe his paranoia.