Author Lorem Ipsum's Art Blog

This comic commission was from my good friend Niko of his and a friend's characters from the game Darktide. It was supposed to be a bit memey, a bit silly, but I had so much fun coming up with these designs and working with them!

Hi does anyone have GS Dennings on speed dial, I need to talk to him about where the FUCK the next book is.

Like you CAN NOT leave the series like that and then disappear! I mean I'm grateful I'm here four years into his hiatus and not sooner but I'm already chomping at the bit for more. We've still got the Valley of Fear and His Last Bow at least to cover, not to mention how the end of the world has only just begun!

In other news I am going to chewing on this universe for the next few months haha. It's just so GOOD! The VIBES are IMPECCABLE!!!!

Hooray! More Redraws!

Took me a while to get to these, mostly because I was hesitant to work with Irene. But given I’m scheming to do her story here soon, I figured some fun redraws would be a good way to flex her design.

And let me begin by saying- GOOD GOOGLY MOOGLY WHAT IS WITH HER BOOBS IN THE ORIGINAL MANGA!? Most of the time they’re fine, if a bit large, and then sometimes it’s just like- WHAT!!!!

Anyway I think I did a good job with them.

Every time I do these panel redraws, I feel like I learn something new about crosshatching and contrast and texture. I'm actually starting to learn more about clothing folds! Volume 4 was WILD yall.

I need you all to understand the first scene, the one with the Prof in the dining car, is so gay. Like I get it now! I get why fans of this manga ship Holmes and Moriarty! There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY half of their interactions are straight.

We'll see how far that carries over into my redraws lol.

So when I say "Sign of the Nine is an acid trip" i am being completely honest. It's literally cases interspersed with mummy-fueled hallucination trips and it's terrifying. The way it's building up to this incredibly earth-shaking conclusion while simultaneously being the goofiest shit has me oscillating between rolling my eyes and hyperventilating.

Disclaimer: I read this fucker in march and kept forgetting to post while moving so apologies lol

I'm so excited and scared for the Finality Problem.

Guess what book I got for christmas!!! I managed to keep myself from binge-reading it right away for, about a week lol.

Regardless- for the love of all things fun go read the Warlock Holmes series. The amount of world building and magic lore they just casually drop has me in a panicking tizzy. It’s building up to something MASSIVE and I’m freaking out!!!

Ironically one of my good friends found the fact Holmes became a pseudo-furry the most delightful part lol

The coolest concept that Warlock Holmes introduced was the idea of soul swords.

Each person has one and each sword has a name, saying the name summons the blade, and it is a manifestation of an individual's wrath and anger.

"Why is Holmes' so large?" 250 years of Moriarty's bullshit

Doctor John H Watson is a god damn bisexual disaster, even in Warlock Holmes' world. Pretty women show up and his brain shuts off. Irene Adler literally threatens him and first chance he gets he kisses her and gets his ass poisoned.

I am BACK! It took me literally all of January to get my hands on Volume 3 but I GOT IT. And so, to you, I bring more panel redraws/manga studies.

Surprisingly this time I found myself paying a lot more attention to clothing folds and contrast, making sure everything stood out from everything else. In fact- with the first ones featuring Sherlock I actually made his jacket WAY too big because the folds were too loose, it was so weird!

When showing these to friends, @blobbei-art noted that while maybe I didn’t capture the same expressions as the originals, mine were more expressive in their own way. That made me smile, thank you Blobe

Okay because it’s not obvious- this is for the Frogwares game “Sherlock Holmes The Awakened”. Basically- a cosmic horror/cthluhu centric mystery starring Holmes and Watson! It’s fantastic and these doodles are actually based on my experience playing the game! In a few of these, John is my friends who joined me on a call to watch! It was great I had so much fun.

Now to clarify the first doodle- the reason I swapped the name to “AJ Raffles” is by the fact that like, Sherlock Holmes as a fictional character cannot exist if he’s a real person! It’s just a little thing that made me laugh lol.

Would you look at that I've drawn more doodles for a currently super popular game, oops XD

If you've been here since the start, you'll probably remember I kind of got a bit obsessed with the Cthulhu Casebooks by James Lovegrove. I've been rereading them recently after learning there's a fourth book :D!

Anyway- these are all redraws of pieces I made back in 2018. Put them down here so the post isn't too long. But just get a load of that improvement!

The originals circa March 2018:

So uh, I might be a tad obsessed with Warlock Holmes.

It's just. it's so. Once you get past the absurdism and the comedy there's actually some incredible depth, fantasy, and body horror.

Unironically the second half of Baskerville had me SQUEALING in both horror and delight it was just SO MUCH!!!!

Go read these books if you can, I'm so eagerly waiting to get the third book for christmas!