CMWGE comics

[caramelchameleon]

i cant believe dreamwidth will let me upload 50 images at a go and i can't believe i have the rank hubris to DO it, and then caption and transcribe all of them

when i first read CMWGE/GMD i got so jazzed about the characters and, like, had nobody to discuss them with yet.. and somehow that pressure spontaneously manifested in drawing short comics. i was just so ready to see these characters (de montreal) interact (with de montreal)

now completely transcribed with full commentary and with less botched HTML

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i drew this whole thing in a single weekend of hyperfixation. it came out in fits and starts and wasn't plotted beforehand, and you can probably tell i was still learning how to draw the characters. i did it in black and white plus single highlight colors for each character; gold for jasper was obvious, and then purple for leonardo to compliment it. now i have a palette of colors assigned to every GMD pregen - it ended up being a good shorthand for who's who when there are variants and gender swaps and me occasionally adjusting even further from the canon designs.
for example: i drew leonardo here with his bangs pushed back because he'd shoved his goggles up into his hair and then.. kept drawing him basically the same even without the goggles, forever. r.i.p. his official hairstyle and its Gigantic Emo Bangs.
    

a few weeks later, a friend requested an epilogue, so i drew this:


variant characters!
i like rinley yatskaya a lot but rinley titov is really really cool. default!rinley's leaf wreath has white strawberry blossoms; i drew rinley titov with some kind of black berries, instead.
dulcinea vii is leaps and bounds more interesting to me than, like, the heterozygous options on the character-option punnett square, if that makes ANY sense - leonardo vii and dulcinea de montreal, is what i mean. something about the intersection of human-passing* android + female just gets my attention better than the sum of its parts. it means i get to write a gynoid with a cool purpose and motivation who isnt a standard issue sexybot.
*of course, as you can see, i took "completely indistinguishable from human," nodded thoughtfully, and threw it totally out the window. i still draw her Like That to this day.
the story rinley tells is a real-world plains ojibwa story; i adapted it from the version told in "Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter," a compilation of Coyote stories by Barry Lopez. i intended to imply that rinley heard it from the fortitude rats, with a "wanderer" that was sort of ambiguously a rat but could also be a coyote.






Technically unfinished but I probably won't revisit. Man, I can't believe I used to draw Chuubo's hair like that. I couldn't parse the Official Illustrations' hairstyle and wasn't sure how to draw the floof he deserved. I have a better handle on it these days.





i had been experimenting with angel designs at the time but this is pretty close to where i settled! the watsonian reason for the tears down her cheeks is that she never stopped weeping after jade's death; it's nothing to do with her emotional state necessarily, just a continuous and conspicuous gesture of morning. the doylist reason is that it's a parallel to the visible seams i draw on dulci VII's face.
there was meant to be more of this... various factors conspired against me. For one I didn't script everything out beforehand, and even by the time I got here I didn't really know for sure why Jasper was doing the thing, which makes it hard to write good dialogue. I knew broadly where I wanted to end up but couldn't get it to mesh along the way. second was just IRL business cutting into drawtime.

most of the connection bond perks in GMD are uneven but natalia to jasper is the only actual negative link. and... what if it was gay

then i drew more individual images of the ship, which i'm including. why not.



another one that was pretty spontaneous - i drew angel!Leo and the Headmaster facing off, and then just kept going from there. is this how it went? who knows! nobody does! why'd i draw the headmaster so dang big you ask? sorry not accepting questions at this time
leo's yelling and hurling accusations about jade's death, if that's not clear.




jasmine is talking to the viewer here because this was prompted by viridiansunlight commenting "jasmine….. don’t do it" on another post



I drew kaiju-forms like the one Seizhi gets most of the way into for, like, half the GMD cast. I'll probably try and post them too. Seizhi's got bug traits here and elsewhere in my art because Actuals are compared to big twitching alien insects a lot. I know it's not literal but you can't stop me.

just a quick one, this was prompted by faeline, who proposed that chuubo's peacefulness aura might be able to mitigate leonardo's nightmares, and if so, that chuubo would treat such a thing as a Fun Sleepover and leo would hate it



using miracles to eat things that really shouldnt be eaten deals critical damage and this particular line in the Primordial redux examples had me reeling


Basically just one-for-one illustration of the proposed climax of Horizon-campaign Called Away Rinley's third quest, as posted on Dr. Moran's tumblr. I had to look up what 'samite' is.

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[kihou]

These continue to be amazing.