Author Lorem Ipsum's Art Blog

Once again, big kudos to @ratblooded for his design. I love every chance i get to draw his boy. And something embarassing about that panel- I didn't realize it was Albert for a solid five minutes because THEY CHANGED HIS HAIR!

Biggest flaw with traditional manga styles, honestly hehe

Now another thing you'll notice is in the last panels I redrew, which I had to Frankenstein into a page of their own, I swapped Mary and John's positions. Truth be told, her height is more important to me than sticking to the canon panel. She's a tall wife and we love her for it!

So a couple weeks ago I replayed Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened with a friend group spectating/leading on choices and generally being awesome.

Of course, I had to make some doodles of our bits and gags as we played, I had so much fun and I love my friends so much.

Big kudos to: @fedorasquidwithglasses , @fire-on-the-island, @ignis--fatuus who played with me.

Oh and this is a literal costume that you can unlock in game:

Volume 8! No update today but I bring you art to tide you over haha.

The Ripper arc concludes and we've seen the first real major antagonist for the first time, woohoo!

This time was less a study and more just me running in circles and kicking my feetsies while drawing @ratblooded 's Alexia (Stand in for Louis Moriarty) and Irene/Bonde. And yes I may have rearranged the panels but that was to make sure they fit my document, hush it's no big deal.

Let's see let's see, what did I learn this time? Oh yeah! Manga characters need to see a CHIROPRACTOR! Especially the last panel- his back is so stiff I'm getting achy about it. Not to mention the body language doesn't at all say "I'm undercover snooping in a dangerous neighborhood" either.

In better news, I'm actually really genuinely starting to get the hang of the clothing folds, and you can tell since I'm drifting further from the source poses and having to Improvise ✨

Something struck me as I was reading the final book of the Cthulhu Casebooks by James Lovegrove, "The HighGate Horrors". It's less of a fourth book and more of a collection of stories from the same universe, but I digress.

What struck me was that every brilliant mind in the saga was aligned with a different Elder God. Sherlock himself with Cthulhu, Mycroft with Dagon, Moriarty with Nyarlathotep, and Irene Adler wth the goddess Shub-Niggurath. This then promptly spiralled into me wanting a Cthulhu mythos themed original tarot deck and I kind of got carried away, haha!

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