every so often when I'm getting frustrated with homework I think about this- hoping that somehow my essay will just spontaneously combust

It's Fat Bear Week everybody give it up for John Watson

👏👏👏👏

😔 better luck next time, Art

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 ✨

Kudos again to @ratblooded for letting me borrow Alexia and James to stand in for Louis and Albert, i love them so much. Do not be fooled by their little round faces though- there is murder in those eyes lololol

It's absoluely killing me that I can't find any information/better photos for these but apparently Hard Rock London had pinup girl Sherlock Holmes pins?

If I had a nickel for every pin-up Holmes I’ve seen-

I’m Arthur Conan Doyle of the late 1800’s writing my book, I sure hope a major verb in the English language doesn’t shift meaning in the next couple hundred years

Fun fact there are 23 ejaculations in the canon

Watson does it 11 times

Holmes does it about 7 times (though one of the occasions is him saying it in reference to John’s)

Percy Phelps from the Naval Treaty does it 3 times

There’s also one occasion where nobody knows who does it cause it just says Watson wakes up because of a “sudden ejaculation”

Oh and Neville St. Clair (Twisted Lip) does it from a second floor window

By british cartoonist Smilby (Francis Wilford-Smith, 1927-2009).

Don’t lie John, I know your game

Just a little put out

A tad

A trifle even

Yeux vitreux et look vitrail.

More Sherlock because we don't have enough of them. These are of course David Burke and Jeremy Brett's charicature. Although they could be better, for now I'm happy with them.

Got a lot of environment ref to practice. Maybe I'll be back with more TGMD when I figure more how to approach the other character's design and the enviro.

Jeeves and Wooster referencing Sherlock Holmes:

+ Bonus Raffles

Raffles, Holmes, and Poirot all in one- what a time to be alive

"Nobody writes of Holmes and Watson without love." - John le Carré 

I am spiraling I love this art so MUCH

“I was at Holmes’s elbow, and I glanced for an instant at his face. It was pale and exultant, his eyes shining brightly in the moonlight. But suddenly they started forward in a rigid, fixed stare, and his lips parted in amazement”

fuck it. boscombe old place and shoshcombe valley mystery.

Fuck yea

Basil Rathbone.

Ok you can get a little Watson. As a treat.

[ID: a digital drawing of Watson in his nightgown with a red smoking jacket on top. He's lighting his pipe. /End ID]