#skeleton detective

[lyadrielle]

Skulduggery Pleasant was one of the first characters I ever created art for. It was also the first time I posted my art online, shamelessly tagging the author on Twitter because I was so proud of it.

In short, it’s partly thanks to this book series that I am posting my art online nowadays, so it seemed fair to do a little something to say thank you!

Since I now work full-time as a concept artist for video games, the character concept art format seemed fitting. :D

Thanks for reading my rambling and thank you for the likes, comments, silly tags, and lovely interactions over the years, and for many more to come, hopefully! Edit : I switched the last board with the correct version... I posted too fast and did not check it was the correct version silly me!

[nicstylus]

Billy-Ray sanguine had taken her smile with one vicious punch.

'Let me see. Open your mouth.'

'The moment we're out of here, we'll have Professor Grouse fix up your tooth, OK? You've got nothing to worry about.'

'Oh, my dear,'

'There's no need to cry, there's no need. What's happened to you, eh? Let me have a look. A broken tooth? Is that all?'

'That's nothing, Valkyrie. That's a half-hour's work at the very most. You've nothing to worry about. We'll get that smile working again, don't you worry.'

'You can wait elsewhere, Detective Pleasant. I'll have her back to you soon enough.'

[nicstylus]

So if you search Skulduggery Pleasant on here this is one of the more popular drawings and I took inspiration from it to make this

"animatic" <- watch :D

Just ✨️them✨️

The idiot duo that is definitely smarter than you

[lunamgv]

Fuck this is GOLD the whole dancing sequence of the skeletons of dead boys detectives I didn't know this existed

Btw I saw it on twitter where it also explains the details from the opening credits https://x.com/Bowtiedino/status/1796971544545038682?t=GtscLrWq6-_J-xlINf6vrA&s=19

[pappelsiin]

it turned into au art 💫

[weirdlookindog]

Norman Saunders (1907–1989) - Mr. Maddox' Phony-Finish

cover art from 'Dime Detective Magazine' #233, December 1948

[trashno0dle]

its been stuck in my head since the first episode and im not complaining <3

[gameraboy2]

Saucy Detective #1 (1937)

[hoarder-of-dragons]

Couldn't find any of the cool screencaps of the Dead Boy Detectives intro to keep as subtle wallpapers so I just made them

Played around with the colours a bit, to make them a lil red and blue for The Boiz™ Though I have to say, removing the credits were a payne (hehe) in the ass, as you can probably see from the botched umbrella

Just wanted to share though until someone makes some better ones

[moose987]

So it’s been confirmed that the two skeletons in the opening credits are Edwin and Charles.

But let’s discuss this snapshot here. Because what platonic best bros stand pressed up against each other while one of them (Charles) rests his head back onto the others (Edwin’s) shoulder, eyebrow brushing against his jaw?! Does that look like the actions are two people with no romantic feelings for each other?

And some people have the AUDACITY to call Charles straight!

[sawtism101]

Alt versions with text under the cut

This took forever lmao. But here they are!

[starlight-archer]

What if our skeletons held hands? What then?

Ivy: Affection, Friendship, Fidelity.

Charles: Daisies (Innocence, Loyal Love), Baby's Breath (Everlasting Love)

Edwin: Red Tulips (Passion, Declaration of Love), Pink Camellia (Longing)

[nicstylus]

Posting separately as well

Watch the "Animatic"

[invinciblerodent]

I read I think last night someone saying that Emmrich and Davrin are like two single dads with diametrically opposed parenting styles, and at first I was a little skeptical (because people are often very quick to assign parental terms and roles to characters and their bonds, even when I personally often find that kind of unwarranted), but yknow? Taking the two of them out together?

Yeah, I hate to admit it, but I can't not see that either.

Like I've only had Emmrich on the team for like ten minutes, but already I feel like their styles really fit their respective "children" too.

Emmrich is like a permissive, encouraging "parent" to an ultimately harmless wisp of curiosity, and Davrin's job is to care for a largely undisciplined adolescent griffon that's brimming with restless energy.

Manfred is like a toddler just learning what his fingers and toes are for and needs his proud daddy to encourage his artistic endeavors by putting his crooked finger-painted portraits of the Veilguard up on the fridge, while Assan is like, a rowdy, jocky teenage boy who would live off Monster energy if he could, and needs his dad to sometimes lay down the law and protect him from himself so that he doesn't fuck up his future and lose his sports scholarship.

[laiqualaurelote]

“So you’re saying that inscribing this rune on a device casts a spell that lets you play music from other devices?” “It’s a Bluetooth speaker, Edwin,” says Crystal. “But basically, yeah.” Charles squints at Crystal’s phone screen, where she has pulled up something called Spotify. “And how many songs have you got on there?” “Dunno. A billion, maybe?” “That is too many songs,” says Edwin faintly. “I would not know where to start.” “Who’s this Taylor Swift bird?” Charles demands. “Why’s she everywhere?” “Has she been to Hell too?” Edwin peers at the screen. “I did end up in the Tortured Poets Department a few times. Dreadful place.” He shudders.

in this city there's a thousand things I want to say to you

[moonikabear]

more #savedeadboydetectives STICKERS!

Hi there DBDA friends! 👻

I got inspired by all the stuff people are doing to fight for the show, especially the stickers, so I made my own sticker design that will hopefully get people's attention when they see them outside!

Feel free to download and print them!

Also, sharing the sticker design online (or offline) is very much encouraged, I'd love for these to reach as many people as possible all over the world! It would be especially great if someone could share them on Twitter and Instagram since I'm not really on either of those.

It did take me quite a while to make them though, so I would appreciate it if you could link or mention this post when sharing these. Thank you! <3