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Friendly Neighborhood Unknowable Horror

@nyarlathotep-thecrawlingchaos

Your run of the mill Crawling Chaos. Don't mind me, just here delving too deeply into Fandom. Pronouns include: she/her/it/wait what is that/oh dear god my eyes/make it stop/i have gone irreversibly insane at the mere sight of this monstrosity
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Little more work, hair definition, and now he has wine, because Mihawk should always have wine.

Words not working. Brain fried.

I may never emotionally recover from this project

Noteworthy headcanon: Mihawk put an immediate end to his brief (and beautiful) long-hair phase the very first time it put him at a disadvantage in a duel.

With Shanks.

Who, while a bit drunk at a disadvantage himself, grabbed said hair, and yanked as hard as possible, and gave the goofiest grin that he ever grinned, and made some unnecessary comment about how pretty he was with long hair.

Shanks lost the duel and sustained a mild concussion via a particularly hard kick to the head as a result, and Mihawk subsequently chopped off his hair while grumbling in annoyance about the dipshit redhead.

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So I figured out how to use gradients on Krita tonight

Like out of pure curiosity

I had nothing to actually apply this knowledge to, I just wanted to know how it worked

Until my brain went !!!!! and uh

The shirt was always going to be some atrocious shade of purple

But now it's mauve with ✨️RAINBOW✨️

To the one person who mentioned the shirt itself isn't slutty enough, I am operating in my own personal headcanon that six-to-seven year old Luffy gave him this shirt (and likely stole it to prove his worth as a pirate) and really didn't even know what "slutty" meant.

But Luffy didn't have an actual dad (that he knew anything about), and Garp wanted him to be a stinky Marine, so he gave this to Shanks.

Beck tried, and failed, to explain it.

"So...it means he's really nice to girls? Like Makino??"
"Uh...sure. Yeah, we'll go with that."
"So he'll like it??"
"Oh, he'll probably refuse to take it off for the next month, kid."
"Yay! 😃"
"🙄 😑"

It is among Shanks's most prized possessions, and he eventually returned the favor with the "Anchor" shirt.

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Color/skintone pallette test for my bestie @unkamensoul 's commission. Actually like it on the first try. Gloves and belt will be standard black leather so I didn't include them.

I really like how this project is going in general. I was worried about the perspective in the pose, but I'm honestly so pleased with how it turned out. This is a lot different than any other pallette I've worked with before and I'm looking forward to playing around with it.

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And that's a wrap on the line art.

Not gonna lie I kinda love it. The boots and the pants and the floofy sleeve and the ruffles and the hair. I'm much happier with this than I expected to be.

And of course the one I'm working on for @unkamensoul, which both he and I have been happy with since I finished the rough draft for his sketch.

We'll see how much I continue to love them once I get into rendering....

I'm slowly growing more confident in my ability to do commissions, with many thanks to these two amazing long-time friends who have helped me along on this journey. Who have honestly helped me with much more than that over the years. I've known them both for over a decade and they've been there for me through some incredibly terrible things. They've put up with me going into depressive episodes and not contacting them for months at a time. They're two of the most wonderful human beings I have ever had the honor of knowing.

Thanks to them, I'll be drawing up official details for commission requests soon. Some rough details for now:

  • I'll probably be taking two or three at a time, I don't trust myself to take on more than that at once.
  • Prices can be discussed any time between starting the project and the completion of the line-art sketch. I will absolutely NOT charge anything before I've finished a sketch, to ensure that it's something I'm capable of doing.
  • I've studied up a bit on average commission prices and I'll be trying to keep pricing flexible but reasonable, depending on the project. I'll likely go with the method of partial-payment on completion of a line-art sketch that we both agree we like, and the remainder of payment upon completion of the project.
  • I will probably harrass you with frequent progress updates throughout the project to ensure you still like it because I want to make sure that you're satisfied.
  • If you have a deadline for when you want the art complete, you need to let me know in advance. I usually work pretty well on a time crunch, but I definitely need to know if the project HAS to be completed by a certain date/time.
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Almost done (with the line art, at least), just a bit more black to fill in to define the shadows, a little hatching, and a little more detail work in a couple places.

This is my third draft for him and it's been super frustrating. Apparently I hold commissions at a far higher standard than my leisure work because I just could NOT get to a point where I was happy with him. This works for me, though. And my friend loves it, which is what's most important.

Again, I will be open to doing a couple commissions at a time once I'm through with the two I'm doing for my friends, so anyone interested is welcome to drop an ask or a message and let me know.

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I finally got back in touch with my friend who wanted a commission of one of her RP characters (there's over a twelve hour time difference between us and she's in school full-time so it makes it hard for us to find a lot of time to talk). I had already done a line art and wasn't pleased with it, so I'm going back through and redoing it with my preferred brush.

She also gave me permission to share progress since I'd like to start accepting a few commissions at a time on Tumblr once I finish the two I have now. Anyone interested can send me an ask or DM, but I won't actually be STARTING anything new until the two I have at the moment are finished.

So here's the progress on him, complete with my janky-ass sketch underneath.

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Got to looking through my older WIPs and decided I wasn't happy with Doflamingo. Like. Proportions off, sloppy line art, and he somehow came across as too unhinged?

If that's possible??

Like, idk man. It lacked the balance of Chill AF King vs Raving Psychopath that I desired.

Anyway I decided I'm gonna redo his Elton John looking ass, and well

Yeah much happier with this so far. Still gotta work on the proportions of the sunglasses a bit, but I'll get there.

For the record, I hate Doffy as a person but love him as a character.

Essentially I regard him as an amazing villain and love his character arc; but if I ever got isekai'd into the One Piece universe, I would happily punch him directly in the gonads and tell him exactly what I think of him (even if it was the only thing I got to do while there because I would almost certainly be killed within seconds).

So I will likely insult him at every turn any time I work on any project (art or writing) involving him. But please note that said insults come from a place of sort-of affection, and I will always do my best to capture the complexity of his character to the best of my abilities.

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Useless drunk ass piece of shit (affectionately)

Dipshit decided he had grown his hair out halfway through this sketch and made me edit it.

That's my Janx.

Named after the strongest liquor in the entire galaxy, which he somehow managed to procure a bottle of, which probably explains why he's draped across the floor and manwhoring so hard.

Fckin idiot. I love him so much.

Extra finger is intentional, he has twelve total, polydactly in both hands and forever proud of the fact that he can flip off four people at one time

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Not a single thought behind those eyes honestly. My pretty lil blonde dum-dum pirate bb 🥰

Still working on angling the chain how I want it. He fidgets with it a lot. His one small comfort since I'm a horrible writer who took almost his entire family from him. Locket's flowery because his daughter picked it out when she was three (in present fic timeline she's twenty-four). Contains on either side a picture of her, and a picture of her mother who died very shortly after she was born.

Other points of interest, which probably no one but me is actually interested in, can be found below.

Joined Gol D. Roger's crew kinda by accident when he was in his early teens, when they arrived on the island he had managed to get stranded on after stealing a fishing boat from the docks of his home island and getting washed ashore there amid a storm.
Roger's crew arrived there looking for a devil fruit that fisherman from a different nearby island had mentioned seeing there. Lyon had consumed said devil fruit by the time they arrived, with no knowledge of what devil fruits even were at the time; he was just starving and there was nothing else to eat.
Roger found this hilarious and immediately welcomed him aboard.
Found out a few weeks later that his Devil Fruit allowed him to control the wind amid a desperate firefight with a Marine fleet, in which he accidentally summoned a gale that capsized two Marine ships and caused the rest to retreat, gaining him his first bounty of 100,000 berries at the tender age of fourteen. He didn't even mean to, he was literally just shouting at the wind to just f#<%ing blow already because Roger's ship had gotten chased into the Calm Belt.
Roger also found this hilarious
He's a couple years older than Shanks and Buggy, but due to his naivety and gullible nature and smaller stature they viewed him as a younger sibling, varying between being protective and playing jokes on him because he's just such an easy target how could they not—
Really never had any ultimate goal as a pirate, was always fine with the idea of Shanks or Buggy becoming Pirate King after Roger's execution. He did want to be a captain, and he did want to eventually surpass his mother's bounty of 3.2 billion (Helena Lionne, her bounty still active even decades after she retired from piracy and disappeared from the World Government's radar, part of the generation immediately before Roger), but beyond that he just wanted to see the world and have a good time.
Ended up sailing with Shanks for a few years, with the mutual understanding that they would eventually part ways as friends and rivals once they both had enough money and enough crew to captain their own ships.
Lyon's bounty skyrocketed much faster than Shanks's, less due to Lyon's capability as a captain and more to the sheer volatility of his Devil Fruit ability. Being able to control wind currents without much understanding of them made him a natural disaster waiting to happen, resulting in his epithet of Lyon D. "Hurricane" Rollo because of his propensity for causing said storms (often by total accident). He gained better control over his abilities after hiring a navigator with far more knowledge of weather patterns, but still wasn't averse to triggering a catastrophic weather event intentionally if the situation called for it.
He and others close to him came to refer to his Devil Fruit as Kaze Kaze no Mi (Wind Fruit, Logia type), despite it obviously not being a Logia type fruit; Logia users can typically manipulate their own physical form to take on the element of their fruit, but Lyon was never able to do so. In addition, he learned later that he could also control ocean currents. The exact nature of his Devil Fruit therefore remained a mystery during his time as an active captain.
At the time of his crew's disappearance (canon timeline being around a year after Shanks lost his arm in Foosha Village) Lyon's bounty was up to 1.1 billion. No one knows what happened to them, but those who knew Lyon before he vanished don't believe him dead, in no small part because his bounty poster is still in circulation.

And that's my dum-dum in a nutshell. Kind of a large nutshell, but I could (and technically am given the fics I have planned) write an entire book about him. He and at least six of his crewmates have been with me for more than half my life, since I was just a lil teenage unknowable horror writing One Piece fics on fanfiction.net.

A lot of you already expressed your love for Janx, his first mate, when I introduced him. The blue-haired, twelve-fingered, pansexual, ADHD gun-toting jack-wagon that somehow balances Lyon's naivety just well enough that they don't get themselves killed at every turn—

—do know that I'm sketching a new art for him as well. This time in his natural habitat: drunk and flopped across the deck and likely trying to seduce everyone that walks by.

Janx is mine and I do love him, but that doesn't mean I won't call him out for being such a manwhore.

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Been working on this on and off for a while and made some decent progress on it this evening. Might try to finish the line art tonight, might not.

Lyon was the first of my OCs I drew, and I wanted to take a stab at him again since I've learned a lot since I started doing digital art.

I'll probably eventually do a redraw of the first one, but I'm much happier with this anyway. And I didn't forget his locket this time.

His associated fic is Hearing Problems, which can be found in the Mihawk sub-category on my master list, along with his character profile. So far he's only mentioned in the fic as his entire crew has been missing for over a decade. For anyone actually interested, I'm planning to start working on it again soon.

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UPDATE 24.08.24

Since it's been a minute since I posted I just figured I'd let everyone know I'm okay, considering how unstable things have been lately.

I'm still here, still MORE THAN OPEN to asks and things. I've just been trying to work double-time on my friends' commissions because my financial situation is still pretty fucked at the moment,and any source of income right now is like an oasis in a desert.

I am also sick again, yaaaay. Just a cold this time, nothing serious. But between that leaving me with less energy than normal, and keeping up with my miniature unknowable horror and my house, and dealing with my local social services office about financial assistance, and spending as much time as possible staring at my computer to get these commissions done, is definitely taking its toll a bit.

I haven't talked to one of my friends about sharing her commission here, but my other friend said he's more than happy to let me share his. They're both longtime (and sadly long distance) friends, both of whom I've known for more than a decade, that I love and cherish with absolutely all of my heart and soul.

So this is the line art sketch I've so far completed for @unkamensoul my bestie gamer, friend of more than a decade, who has stuck by me through gods only knows how many I Am Too Stressed/Depressed To Communicate With Other Humanoid Creatures spells with total patience and understanding. He is one of the kindest human beings I have ever known, and you should go follow him immediately.

He's a big fan of 90's-early 2000s Shonen anime and fighting games, and I'm incorporating that into his commission for an anime avatar of himself. I'm beyond ecstatic that he's approved of my progress on this piece so far.

I'll be editing this post probably tomorrow sometime to post all his links for his gaming content, but definitely follow him here on Tumblr, and also on YouTube. He deserves it more than anyone I know.

I am NOT accepting commissions on Tumblr yet. I want to see how the two I'm doing right now go first before I'm sure I'm ready. But if anyone IS interested in commissions, you ARE welcome to send me asks/DMs on the subject to discuss it. As always, my ask box is open to pretty much anything, any time, whenever.

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