i will not be normal about him

several years ago i made an edit of newtmas to mia and sebastian's theme (la la land) and i've wanted to remake it for a while now so here it is! they break my heart. still the ship ever probably.

im like 99 percent sure newt and thomas end up sharing a shirt in the scorch trials

and i know tocs did a post on this too but i wanna do it too so (im petty like that heheheh)

so ignoring the gay shit going on in this picture

they paralleled the two of them. they paralleled the gays look at the similar silhouettes of their shirt cutiesssss

2. look at thomas' shirt

the two lines going from the edge of the collar to his arms, the general color, etc.

hmmmm

kinda seems like another shirt ive seen before.....

look at this

SAME FUCKING SHIRT

and before anyone says that its bigger on newt, dylan o brien and tbs are different body types, and thomas has the sleeves rolled up on his

so literally even if its not the same shirt, or not intended to be, the costume department DELIBERATELY gave them similar shirts

none of the other guys share the same shirt with each other

sure theyre the same colors

but its not the same

i.e. fry's shirt here

minho's shirt the next day

similar colors, not the same shirt tho

SO LITERALLY THEY WERE SHARING CLOTHES

WTF

THESE GAY ASS BITCHES ARE SHARING SHIRTS

just to make it clear

its the same material too

look at the linesssss

gayass idiots bro

AND THEY HAVE MATCHING SCARVES

i know its hard to see but i cant find the one clip where its really clear and obviously red

so

yeah

first, I did a tracing of newt from the movie.

i actually did this one before i posted sarah come down to me, because i usually do a tracing before i get into any serious art for a fandom these days. you get a way better idea of where the proportions go on the face, especially on people with more unique facial features. this one is pretty sketchy/not too detailed, but i especially noticed the way newt's nose was squarer than i expected it was, and the way the folds of his of his eyelids intersected with them rather than falling above like i would have otherwise expected.

now, we start the actual process for THIS painting specifically. this was the original sketch/concept, that i wanted to do some sort of 'newt survives to the safe haven and is leaning against the doorframe when thomas wakes up in the final scene of tdc' situation. i had a general idea of the pose that i wanted to use, and that i wanted him to have a harsh silhouette against the background/be blocking out the light. once i had that generally down, i started to experiment with lighting. i knew that i wanted lighting to be coming from outside the hut, with the inside quite dark so that i wouldn't have to focus on the background too much because i sort of hate doing backgrounds. in this sketch, i had the lighting coming from more to the side, but i changed this in the final because i didn't like how it came out in the sketch.

at this point, i had an idea for an alteration - to make it so that newt hadn't survived, and to extend the painting downwards so that you could see that his shadow wasn't present on the floor.

i gave it a go here, but i wasn't super happy that it came across that newt was a ghost/not really there, so i changed him to be more transparent and to have a background colour that blended more with the sunset behind him.

and that was my lighting mockup done! which i have never done before in my life and it felt really weird to do, but it did make the final product look way better, so...

anyway. the rest of the process was pretty standard, but i did a full background with the sunset and everything that you can barely see in the final painting and i think it looks neat, so i'm adding it here as well. everybody appreciate my sunset.