#winging it basically

[sydney-carton-of-sour-milk]

The Many Illustrators of A Tale of Two Cities 2: Rowland Wheelwright

That's right, we're jumping centuries and mediums!

...specifically, from Phiz's engravings for the original 1859 monthly installments to Wheelwright's paintings for this 1925 edition! (warning: in the following, there is some violent imagery, and one image in the third grouping has blood)

As I'd mentioned in the announcement post, these illustrators will be highlighted completely out of chronological order to make it more organic when I continue to find more and more artists' work to add to the queue - so I wanted to start off with a particularly dramatic leap in time (and style!) to give a sense of the sheer variety of art we're going to be looking at here!

This also happens to be one of the sets that I scanned myself - most of these beautiful illustrations haven't anywhere on the internet (by my own intensive research at least!) until now. It's my joy to finally get to share them!

Overall, I want to give my own opinions and takes on the work of each illustrator as little as possible so that everyone can experience it in their own way, but the true beauty in his attention to detail in color, characterization, costuming, composition, and shadow calls for some comment.

This is the work of someone who loved and appreciated both the story itself and the act of illustrating it - I'm grateful to him for bringing these images into existence.

& the standard endnote for all posts in this series:

This post is intended to act as the start of a forum on the given illustrator, so if anyone has anything to add - requests to see certain drawings in higher definition (since Tumblr compresses images), corrections to factual errors, sources for better-quality versions of the illustrations, further reading, fun facts, any questions, or just general commentary - simply do so on this post, be it in a comment/tags or the replies!💫

[lamina-tsrif]

you’ve changed (for the better)

for @where-does-the-heart-lie ‘s fighting game au I love ur designs I love them dearly

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

We all know the semi-canonical ‘all the Robins know to hide/duck inside of Batman’s cape, even as adults’ thing.

We also know that Danny ‘is LITERALLY a ghost’ Fenton sucks at remembering his own intangibility while ALSO forgetting to look ahead of him.

All I’m saying is, Danny Fenton (or Phantom, if you’d really like) would absolutely SLAM into Batman on accident while running on roof tops and Bruce ‘Brooding Instinct’ Wayne doesn’t even think twice about letting the kid hide and scanning around for danger before there’s a record scratch of ‘wait who tf is this?’ kicks in.

[ruporas]

right by you (id in alt)

[starburstminibot]

What’s megatron’s reaction to bee’s sparkling?? And that breakdown’s the father..? I’m curious.

It's not everyday Megatron meets a bot who's not already aware of every wrong he's ever committed. It's not everyday he meets a bot who isn't terrified of him at first, but instead looks at him with awe and wonder.

You can't just reform your entire life/ideals and not go a little soft...

Though, it's important to note that Megatron still has a lot of relationships to repair. Not just with the autobots...

Megatron isn't the only one trying to turn over a new leaf. However, having some recent experience in trying to become a better person, he assumes he can maybe share some advice. Perhaps it was a moment of hopefulness, that he too could be looked at so fondly as Optimus; that he could be looked upon as a guidance figure.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

they tried to rebrand as The Criminals but riz is literally the city council's treasurer and also turns out people in their late 20s don't really name their friend groups. so now they're The Intrepid Heroes

[tsuutarr]

ARFF ARFFF ARFF FINLEY PLEASE PLEASE LET ME TOUCH HIS LITTLE WINGS I LOVE BIRD WINGS SO MUUUCHHH 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🪽🪽🪽🪽

I have like 610193993 birds and we all know that you can’t touch them on their back, because well.. They think you want to mate and that gets them sexually frustrated,

so if Finley has another big set of wings would that work on him too? Is touching his wings not allowed ?? 😓

You can 100% touch his wings <3 <3 He likes being pet a lot tbh!

(just be careful bc you might set him off~)

[magnetothemagnificent]

The American far-right: (((They))) built space lasers and hurricane machines to create natural disasters in the United States!

The American far-left: A country the size of New Jersey is single-handedly accelerating climate change to create natural disasters in the United States!

You guys sound exactly the same

[nettleneopian]

A Neopets Water Faerie shown with scaly legs and wings in an unreleased dress up flash game from 2009

[humbuns]

dunmeshi print i did with beloved mutual @kamuyagi !!! get your serving of this print now available here!

[galacticghoste]

OBLITERATING EVERYTHING THAT'S NOT YOUR FRIEND

I finally finished this drawing!!! His wings were such a PAIN to draw since I just HAD to draw them facing the viewer but DANG am i happy with the results.

Also fun fact about me I use to draw more lineless art back before I started on here I started using lines as a way to push myself and here I was worried I forgot lol

[xynczachrome]

Elemental of Wind

[jitterbugbear]

Goose mittens!! Not my original idea, I've seen these types of mittens floating around the internet for a while so I wanted to give it a go 🪿

[vessel214]

early concept for an icewing character

[animezinglife]

Mira: Stay away from Xaden Riorson, Violet. I mean it. Violet: Okay. I get it. I heard you. Stay away from Xaden. No Xaden. Xaden bad. Xaden: You need to learn to shield. Violet: I need to climb you like a tree.

[imminent-danger-came]

2x02 // 3x01 // 3x03 // 3x13 // 4x12

Team huddle!