#malkul

Some weird fancy malkuls 2 by EnterTheDwelling

I’ve wanted to make a stranger version of Malkul for a long time. Therefore, I did! And I went way too hard with it! Doing this piece really kick-started some recent artistic experimentation, though, which I owe it a lot for. It needs a proper stranger name and a write-up someday.

Malkul belongs to me, as well as this fan stranger based on him. Strangers and The Stranger Modules belong to @atrocityland​ / atrocityland on Twitter / Felix Kramer!

Aggressive art experimentation? I think so! I’ve really wanted to level-up my ability to draw and color quickly and effectively in a way that’s not overly stressful to me, but still makes me happy and features a lot of lush colors and environmental lighting. I’ve been chugging away at making new custom brushes for myself and figuring out how to use them in my work effectively while keeping a satisfying level of consistency.

I’ve also considered doing small-scale illustrations/thumbnail paintings to pair with small Myriaverses relevant story snippets, which is what the bottom pictures are meant to test out.

Look at me! For once I’m working on my own stuff again, and it’s high-time poor Malkul got some new reference material.

I considered just updating his Fantroll reference... but really, I’ve wanted to do actual profile stuff for his Myriaverses versions for ages but never had the oomph to do it. In the end, I figured “you know what? What about I COMBINE THEM INTO ONE REF”, and so, that’s what I’m doing. Also makes it much easier to show his variants off! Uh... also just so you guys know, polkan Malkul SHOULD have clothes but I haven’t drawn them in yet wheeze I’m still figuring out how polkans do clothing.

Also added the image on the bottom in case you guys wanted a rough idea of how tall Mal is nowadays. Regardless of context, he’s in the midst of a growth spurt. Uh-oh.

MALKUL DAGOON - Overview

A man who is trained to be an impartial government servant but is unable to entirely ignore his surprisingly big heart, Malkul Dagoon is somebody who’s been forced to mature very early. In all of his iterations, he grew up either as an orphan who didn’t know his parents or lost them for a significant period of time, and this is crucial to his empathetic nature; life put him at a severe disadvantage in an unkind, militaristic society.

His lack of family or prestigious lineage to reference, as well as some childhood health issues, gave him a bad habit of overworking himself in order to prove his worth to his peers and superiors. Though this has given him some problems later in life with self worth and taking responsibility for issues he couldn’t have prevented, it also meant he worked particularly hard when trained in his assigned career - reconnaissance/intel field work. It’s crafted him into a dangerous foe - and an excellent ally in intelligence gathering or battle.

Malkul, though polite and outwardly friendly, is quite slow to completely trust, but he’s incredibly loyal to those he cares for once they’ve entered his inner circle. It’s no exaggeration to say he would die for his closest companions and his partners. His military upbringing, tactical mind, and devotion to found family, lands him in or makes him gravitate towards leadership jobs.

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I’m finally done!! Malkul’s got a recent, live piece of ref material that actually feels correct and shouldn’t be too hard to alter as needed to reflect new material.

-Check out his full profile here-! I was just gonna’ put it here on tumblr, but at least docs doesn’t constantly crap up my pretty formatting and is easy to update without having “the wrong version” of a reblog going around hhhh

Some dumb doodles I did recently while staying up way too late (more like too early - the sun was almost up smh) that spiraled off of real mega-stupid conversations. PIC ONE (top): @altamaranempire and I both have Gaia avatars of Malkul and Orwurm that we often use, and it’s common for us to put them in new outfits every once in awhile. At one point, she’d put a huge bow on Orwurm and I commented that it was a nice bow. She said it was an accent scarf and I replied with “YOU’RE AN ACCENT SCARF”, but she misheard it as “YOU’RE AN ACCENT” as in like ‘YOU’RE AN ACCESSORY TO ME”. Needless to say we had a really good laugh about that and quickly applied it to Malkul and Orwurm interacting and whelp there you go. FIGURE ONE: Malkul Dagoon is CONFUSED AND CONCERNED at Orwurm’s sudden upset.

PIC ONE (bottom): A Joke Occurred concerning Orwurm convincing Malkul to wear sexy underwear since there’s an ancient, unposted picture of him in sexy underwear that Jess made in the distant past. That conversation rolled into something about how ascended!Malkul - life god of a planet (Zonyatl) - would probably become less and less concerned about what people saw of him after a few centuries so... this happened.