a doodle blog

it may surprise you to learn that they bang later on

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facts:

1) kissing is hard to draw

2) but it felt wrong to have had these two for almost four years without ever having drawn them doing anything more couple-y than intense eye contact, so I felt obligated to try

Some Fleischers, currently backgroundless, arranged in order from youngest to oldest and mean muggin' at whatever faux pas is happening offscreen.

guess who has a soft spot for dogs!

Audrey, palette #18 – I liked this color palette because it reminds me of a poorly-preserved color photo from the 70s whose cyan dye has been the first to fade. There are probably a lot of such photos of Audrey rattling around her friends' albums.

Julian, palette #8 – would be a little better at beach-appropriate accoutrements than Paul if he didn't, y'know, bring along some Hegel (and a red pen for snarky comments) as "light reading."

This palette makes him look like a Disney villain tbh. I do not think he would mind this.

My first attempt at the limited-palette meme, using Prismacolor pencils instead of CG. (Sadly I don't have a scanner here and have to take pictures of everything with my phone -- it looks better and more color-accurate IRL.)

Paul, palette #10 – hangin' out at the beach, dressed about as casually and with as much skin visible as he's ever going to manage without anguish. Note the SUNBURN EVERYWHERE because gingers.

In 1964, Julian placed third in a national professional chess tournament in which most of the other players were adults. His parents lobbied graciously consented for the Washington Post to run an article about him, accompanied by a suitably cute photo.

Dealing with a Police Interrogation, Technique #1: this is all a big misunderstanding, I have a reasonable answer for literally any question you might ask me, obviously I am super innocent and utterly harmless, can I go home now please :(

Just a quick sketch of my little Belgians, who are currently next in line for my novel-writing attention. Leon (right) is a sickly kid whose family just unwittingly moved into a haunted house. Marijn (left) is the one who haunts it. They cannot actually directly interact with each other unless Leon is like, unconscious, but they are still cute baby queers together.