Toxic Taicho

Adam is kind and helps vendors or other regulars when they need a strong hand (his shirt is a gift from monster-fucker friend, iykyk. 😏)

Victor is soooo intrigued by the weird anatomies of the creatures in the market.

He's such a mood!! 😭💖

The parallels between these two keep adding up even though your first impression would be that they couldn't be more different 🥺

Kosode, cotton, with stencil paste-resist design of skulls and bones, Japan, 1840-60

ᴏꜱᴄᴀʀ ɪꜱᴀᴀᴄ ꜰᴏʀ ꜰᴇᴀʀ ᴏꜰ ɢᴏᴅ ɪɴ ᴄᴏʟʟᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ 8

Eventually, they finished their work. Stacks of complete books now stood before them. Jo smiled and wiped her hands on her skirt as she stood up, Adam following suite.

i saw the idea on pinterest but i just drew it on the top of my new comic book box

then we move on to just freehand like the next day

I was really struggling with the screencaps where Oscar has his hood up so I bullshit him a jaw and ears to make shit easier on myself

at this point I start checking my work by dragging the portrait over the screen cap and seeing if shit lines up. I'd properly eyeballed everything BUT the eyeballs and the height/narrowness of the jaw so I tried to make the eyes Smollr and now they look too small.

clearly what will help is more oscar refs

third day in the mines so we're back to tracing first then doing the portrait freehand, and we're still checking our work by draggin the sketch over the reference

we're getting really close! And then I got a fucking Marc screenshot with super short focal length and immediately crashed and burned

BOO. So I traced his face again, erased it so it was very faint and used that as the sketch base, basically strapping the training wheels back on

thankfully I did not need training wheels for anyone else

and then, inexplicably, I didn't even need to tweak anything for the below sketch which. That is a fuck ass angle how did I knock that out in 18 minutes????

and the last sketch had a case of Giant Eyes

and the rest were actual sketches of Victor!

So that's been my last week! Fuckin decrypting the Voynich manuscript of this dickhead's face. His face is so much more narrow than I was drawing before, I also didn't understand where the bridge of his nose Actually Was bc one of the most legible refs I had made it look too wide from the front.

just compare the really sharp edge of his bridge when turned to the side in both the screenshot and the 3/4th shot of the action figure to the nose of the action figure from the front. It looks like it's a completely different shape from the fucking front

similar example from Moon Knight;

shadows are hitting his nose in ways my brain didn't understand until I realized where the bridge of his nose Actually Is in the pic on the right

cuz on first glance it looks like this

which do not seem like the same nose. But really his bridge is HERE

and I GUESS the lighting is just such that it's spilling out around the sides making it look wider