#the acorn scene

[myths0f01d]

And thus, when all is well and done. And everything is truly lost. All you have left is a memory within an oak tree.

[ladyfeatherfall]

Get yourself a man (or person) who looks at you like Thorin looks at Bilbo during The Acorn Scene. 🥺♥️🌰

[mintedwitcher]

Y'all I just wrote my retelling of the acorn scene for an upcoming chapter of my thilbo fic and !!!!!!!!!! let me tell you, I am over here blushing giggling kicking my feet Thorin is SO WHIPPED it's actually ridiculous I cannot wait to post it oh my god.

[arsonwizard]

Book one of The Murderbot Diaries, All Systems Red, is a survival mystery as a small team of scientists are faced with an unknown threat while trapped on an isolated, hostile planet, with no hope but to trust their second hand, possibly murderous, robot security.

Artificial Condition, book two of The Murderbot Diaries, is about two robots in a trench coat pretending to be human for a job interview.

[megalomari]

i watched the hobbit !! it was… an experience…

[mathelaw]

(it's sad bagginshield hours again) bilbo was never afraid of thorin, not for a second, not while he was trying to kill him, never.

gandalf tells him he should be afraid of thorin, afraid of what he'll do to him, but i don't think he understands bilbo's actions at all! when he sneaks past alfrid and goes back to the dwarves, and when he confesses he stole the arkenstone, he does this fully knowing what could happen next. thorin has already threatened him twice before... and both times he snapped out of it! he trusts thorin will be stronger than the sickness in the end, and he's right.

[smoking-old-toby]

hear me out. what if bilbo sucked the dragon sickness out through thorin's dick

[bonefall]

does this make acorn swoop the patron of dad jokes? i feel like i remember those being *prra*

Acorn Swoop and Bumble both have dominion over dad jokes. The inspiration for a dad joke is typically within Bumble's power, and Acorn Swoop is the one who chooses the perfect moment for it to spring.

[oliviarosaline]

Sometimes it's the little things that make your day.

Tiny mushrooms, an acorn, and lichen amongst a blanket of moss covering the forest floor.

Aug. 14th, 2023

St. Louis County, Missouri, USA

Olivia R. Myers

@oliviarosaline

[inejstanaccount]

me the first time i saw this fool smiling like that during the acorn scene:

[rainbowbarnacle]

Shout out to this shy lil' guy:

[ithrilyann]

♡ what love looks like?

like this

[katinthestarss]

Acorn scene fluff

[jennrypan]

Sally: Sonic you can't punch kids!

Sonic: I would never punch kids!

Sally: Jet said you punched him!

Sonic: That little asshole is an exception!

Sally: He's 14 and you're 18!

Sonic: And he decided to talk shit! So I taught him the first lesson of life; Fuck around and find out.

Sally: ..Sonic.

Sonic: I'll apologize 🙄

[kogarashi-art]

It's the last previews for Falling Into Darkness!

Important note before I go into some details on the pictures: I will, in general, not be doing this for other fanfics I post. The main reason I did this series of illustrations was as something of a treat for finally crossposting this 10-20-year-old story to my AO3 account. I don't really plan to draw a ton of illustrations for other fics I do.

That being said, I may do occasional images that will be posted with future stories on AO3 (I have a quick one for the first chapter of the next fic I plan on posting, for one), and if I do other fanart, related to a fic or not, I still plan to post art here.

But I'm glad for all the kind comments and everyone enjoying this series of illustrations with me. :D You guys are awesome.

With that, description-stuff (including more behind-the-scenes than usual) below the cut. 'Tis long; be forewarned.

First up, arguably the easiest illustration to do in the whole set. It's a silhouette, so the foreground wasn't really an issue (other than trying to get the edge glow just right, and I still don't think I quite managed but I'm definitely telling myself not to mess with it any further). The background was already painted for the second illustration in the whole set:

I just fixed up the paths and the treetops and added a little lookout stand to the building on the right, now that Sonic and Sally weren't blocking those spots. After all, it's supposed to be the same view anyway, so I figured I'd make it easy on myself and not have to completely repaint the scene.

The second image employs some little cheats here and there. Here's the original sketch from my sketchbook for comparison:

Very loose, lacking detail. Straight lines are more like suggestions. The robots are spiky blobs. I have a literal note next to a stick figure and a hollow shape telling me to get some references. There's the barest hint of the alcoves the robots are standing in.

I didn't show this level of behind-the-scenes off with other illustrations in this series (though I suppose if anyone's ever interested, I could do a process post about how I worked on these), but one of the first things I did with this series of illustrations was sift through the roughly fifty individual sketches I'd drawn to illustrate various parts of the story (not counting redraws of portions), ranging from vague shapes to much more detailed drawings, to narrow it down to the ones I was actually going to finish for this project. I ended up with 27 total images, including the two I'm previewing today, focusing on having at least one but no more than three images per chapter.

Once I'd determined which sketches, like the above, were going to become a finished piece, I then went through each and every one of them in Photoshop with a sketch pencil brush and filled out the sketches to a point where I could reliably ink them. That meant things like swapping out figures that didn't work with redraws of them or making size adjustments, like so:

The first image is the second illustration, and you can see I redid Sonic because his initial pose didn't work. The redraw was actually a pose of him I did to draw his post-Mobianization robotic elements from the end of the story, but the stance was actually good for what I needed, so I Photoshopped it in and then sketched the rest of the replacement drawing digitally. The second image is Sally watching Knuckles walk away, and you can see that I changed her left arm, and also reproportioned her body prior to inking (bigger head, smaller body).

And for pieces like the final one in this illustration series, I sketched in all the details that were missing from the initial sketch (which, as I said, was pretty barebones; in my defense, it was the last one I drew, and by that point I was pretty tired of drawing robot hedgehogs so Sonic was something of a stick figure in most of the last chapters' sketches).

And here's where one of the cheats comes into play. I drew one robot hedgehog. Specifically the one you see the most of, near the tip of Robotnik's cape by the drafting table. I drew it on its own layer in Potoshop, then copied and pasted it into all of the other holding bays, erasing parts that wouldn't be visible as I went along. I also went and found those references I needed for Robotnik and Snively and drew the two of them properly.

And then, because I much prefer physical pen-to-paper inking over digital (my tablet is not one of the fancy screen ones, and I've yet to really get comfortable digitally inking with it, despite owning it for nigh on twenty years), I colored all of the sketches red, assembled them in groups on letter-sized images, and printed them out onto cardstock (my preferred medium when I'm going to be traditionally inking). I inked them with my various inking pens (some Sakura Microns, some Faber-Castell PITT pens), scanned each sheet back into my computer, and cleaned up the lines in Photoshop (the reason for the red printout was to make it a bit smoother removing the sketch from the inked lines, though it wasn't as clean as I would've liked; oh well).

That left us with the above. Because I inked them each by hand individually, the robots don't look copy-pasted, because it was the underlying sketch that had been, not the ink work. The tables and holding bays also have straighter lines thanks to using a proper ruler for those (though I didn't concern myself too much with things like perspective and right angles), and after drawing the straight line, I went back freehand over spots to give them a bit of that hand-inked wobble.

From there it was a matter of laying down the flats in Photoshop, then shading, adding effects, etc. I like the cold yellow light I've got on the robots, and the overall shading on the yellow cape. Also that sense of satisfaction when I called this one done, because it was the last one. Huzzah.

I'll see you on Monday for the last chapter!

[klassicstudent]

The Heart of the Mountain and the heart of Thorin