"finally me, and it's no big deal"

They won’t change position though 🤨

Tried challenging myself and actually putting them in a scene 😭🙏 Backgrounds are my enemy so I'll probably be trying to use them more this year and improve I had seen some art Youtubers mention Sketchfab as a good resource for 3D reference and god damn, it is!! The bg is messy apologies, but ay, the values do a good enough job ig 😅 How did y'all get to understand perspective... tips appreciated, but I'll probably just have to bear the pain and force myself to draw more backgrounds to get better at them lmao Oh anyway about the actual drawing, I was thinking about how Waterboy would cry(lol). I feel he wouldn't feel comfortable crying at home, risking overly worrying his grandma. Normally it'd be the janitor's closet, but now that he's not the only janitor, it's not as private anymore. I don't think he'd cry very often, just occasionally when it gets really tough! But oh? Rob happened upon him again... Probably by accident again. Just sitting next to him on the bench, waiting for him to calm down enough to talk about it. Mini fanfic scene accidentally...

i too am not immune to the concept of villain herm obsessed with robert

Yes more hurt Waterboy, actually it's kind of a continuation of the previous one I did by accident? LOL Had a good lineart day when I made this tbh

🔞 5 images before this on my patreon!!!

I really really love watermech and the idea of Robert being the only older male figure in Herman's life.. ik they are only like 5 years apart but let me dream

bouncing off the walls, thinking about waterboy with grown out hair

if anyone got reqs for these dumb bitches… yeah

Part 2

shower time

So a lot of headcanons seem to go with Herm being a big Mecha fanboy, and I love the idea, but it seems weird in their interaction here that he doesn't recognize him straight away if that's the case. So my take? Herman's a fan of heros in general, clearly he defintely likes Phenomaman and Blonde Blazer. But he has a more casual knowledge of other heroes at this point. So he's a casual Mecha fan during the tie scene. He must have missed the Mecha Man press conference and not kept up with the news, because he was under the impression that Robert was dead? Internet rumors got out of control and lots of people thought he died when the suit got wrecked and so he didn't even think to follow any Mecha Man news after that? Mecha Man was one of many heros that was the background radiation of his nerdy interests. So recognition comes eventually and you can tell that its a good realization because he has such a wistful voice when he realizes who is tying his tie. He probably feels embarassed later that he said he thought Robert was dead to his face, but also he was a nervous wreck because he wanted to get a job at SDN so bad and everything was overwhelming. And his mouth ran off without his permission. "Did I just call one of the biggest heroes dead and then tell him he was short?" he absolutely has a minor dying inside moment. I like the idea of Herm becoming a more hardcore Mecha Man fan after this scene. He was so kind... He didn't have to help me with my tie... he didn't seem offput by my stuttering... His voice... He gets to know Robert better over time because they work together, he just likes him. But Robert clearly has Blonde Blazer and Invisigal gunning for him, I can't compete with that. And Robert wouldn't look at me that way anyways.. It's nice to dream and get some posters, figurines, or other merch. Sure he chose me to be on Z-team, but they were down a person they needed someone. (Not knowing that Robert chose him over Phenomaman. It's definitely my preferred version though you do miss out on that cute your the most important man in the city moment.) And of course since this is my headcanon Herman is wrong... Robert likes him... Not like romantically... at first... He just so refreshing everybody else has an agenda, Herm just wants to be helpful, he wants to prove that he can do the thing, he wants to make the world a better place. He wants to be a hero because being a hero is something he's wanted to do forever. He's an actual nice person. And this genuineness shines through and before Robert realizes it, he's fallen and he's falling hard.

Remembered that Brett Hand wore a little pink apron in one ep and went "oh I need to draw Red in that"

been rewatching Code Lyoko

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