#cog creates

this started as a much bigger idea but three days of sketching in i realized my brain-eyes were bigger than my hand-stomach could manage. i probably still couldve taken it further than i did but i think im still happy with what ive got for two and a half weeks worth of working on it.

also full disclosure the shot of johns politician puppet is almost entirely lifted from a photo of a white house meeting room (mirrored and with some people left out) and i straight up traced the city of melbourne from a stock photo because at that point i was afraid that if i didn't take some pretty extreme shortcuts id never get past it and id lose all my work up to that point. the original intent was for both images to show up for a second or less in an amv or an animatic or whatever were calling them these days so it would probably have felt like less of a big deal. so like, sorry to the original photographers for jacking your shit but also thank you for your service o7

inspired by a tumblr post or tweet that i can no longer find that posited the idea of murder-of-the-week abigail pent serial novels. i really want it, but alas, i dont really write. this took me nearly five months from start to finish because i couldn't decide on a hairstyle for abigail (and rl stuff. but honestly? mostly the hair thing.)