Cartoon Purgatory

Postgraduate and Aspiring Animator, High-Functioning Autistic, Male, Fantasy prone (cover art by Gerald Scarfe)

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Weaver

The flayed Hands of the New God, cleaved from the Old. All the world is a canvas, and our flesh is their material. Within the canon of the Imagiverse, Weavers are the direct agents of the Maelstrom, and therefore the second most dangerous beings to exist. Formed by the corpses of the severed Hands that once served the Maker, they are unstable collective celestial beings driven by the hateful whims of the Maelstrom. To be caught by them is to have your body and soul be twisted, broken, dissected, torn apart and then made into new, terrible forms. The Imagiverse's greatest abominations can be attributed to the unnatural works of the Weavers.

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Evil Hand

Evil Hand, the puppeteer of the Darkness. His reach is as far as his component Hands are many. A rare example of a cognizant Weaver. Not to be trusted. A traditional sketch I did of a very old character from the early days of the Imagiverse, finally rendered in his current form.

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Max's Gamer Moment, feat. Doctor Innovatium

Coming to you live on Aether-Cable! Just a funny little sketch based on a meme that tickled my funny bone, highlighting the cultural differences between the 19th century Doctor and the Robloxian Max.

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Madcap

The scampering grunts of Bedlam, the Madcaps are as numerous as they are threatening. Observed characteristic traits include evidence of minor physical augmentation in the facial region (source unknown), a communication system comprised entirely of mad laughter and giggling, and anatomy that can reshape itself at will, notably their arms to form the spiral symbol of Bedlam, known as 'The Holy Mouth'. Be warned. A design for one of the myriad demons that plague the Imagiverse, this one for a demon of Bedlam, the Eternal Asylum and realm of madness.

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The Crooked King

"They hate us especially, I'm sure of it. Perhaps they sense that my comrades were Chosen by their enemies, and the stench drives them into a religious frenzy. Chaos does not abide the harbingers of Order." - Jonathan Skelecoot A rather more ambitious piece, with more emphasis on composition and framing to depict John confronting one of the many horrors he and his comrades face in the Imagiverse. A courteous shout-out to Pzych0maniac/Knightgeist for being a significant part of visual/tonal inspiration for this little piece of horror.

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Following up the sketches I did for KAT-E, I've gotten around to colouring and shading them. Continuing with the 'faux-Disney' style, I decided to render them in a manner which you'd see in a promotional poster, with extra texturing in the hair and more prominent shading.

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Some initial sketches for a redesign of one of my OCs. This is KAT-E, a domestic atomic-powered android from an alt-history 60s America where retrofuturism was the reality (though the social issues still stand). My story for her is that she was originally owned by a family back in the 60s, but at some point is later found decades later in a scrapyard and very glitchy and dilapidated, though still very much chirpy and cheerful. Visually, she's meant to invoke that Disney character look, since she's meant to be family-friendly (until you take off her clothes, of course) and be a sort of approachable 'big sister' for the children. Bearing in mind that her projected age is around the mid-to-late 20s. Thematically, I've also drawn some inspiration from Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains", in that KAT-E's still trying to perform all the rituals she attended to back when she was still owned, unable to fully process her circumstances and the time that had passed.

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A Creative Colour

Decided to do a little "this is me" piece, featuring my author avatar and a few elements from the stuff I've made thus far. Also took this opportunity to learn a bit of foreshortening.

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Derek Smythe - Avatar

Decided to do another piece of my author avatar, Derek Smythe, the world-weary post-graduate artist. This character has served as my avatar on multiple accounts ever since I made the (currently unposted) original artwork of him back in 2023, so I felt it was worth revisiting him.

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i cant keep it together

"I am disassembling

I could disappear, disappear"

Another character piece of Ariel, the spirit in the machine.

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Ariel

"Hey. I guess you're stuck in here like I am? Can you tell me what being a person is like?" Hailing from the Hyperfantastic sea that lies below the foundations of observed reality, Ariel (named after the character from The Tempest) is a 'spirit' of Innovatium, the reality-warping element that composes the fundamental fabric of reality in the Imagiverse. He was 'summoned' by the mad scientist Doctor Innovatium to serve in an experiment in creating stories through a simulated environment, with Ariel as the 'storyteller' and constructor of virtual worlds. Coupled with the unpleasantness of being rendered into a singular being rather than a drop in the Dreaming Sea, Ariel isn't exactly pleased with his current situation, but is bound to the whims of the scientist nevertheless, and spirits follow their contracts to the letter. That being said, he is not averse to 'challenging' the subjects of the experiment when it comes to the myriad adventures he is tasked to create, though not to the point of actual harm or risk of death.

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Alice and John

A study of dynamics between two of my characters, based on a meme by @gelu-the-babosa-multiversal​ I found on r/CuratedTumblr.

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Original meme below:

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Darly Boxman

An unaired reboot episode where Darly Boxman introduces the wonders of the internet by diving into the Dark Web, featuring Clippy!

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Isolated Darly below:

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Kinger

“Hey Kinger, look at these cool bees I made!” I don’t often do fanart, so here’s this depiction of my favourite mentally unstable chess piece. Tried to go for that vintage 3D aesthetic for the background, so let’s say the suckiness is intended. Same goes for the bees.

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Decided to quickly whip up an alt version without the bees, because I think it looks better.

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Kinger

"Hey Kinger, look at these cool bees I made!" I don't often do fanart, so here's this depiction of my favourite mentally unstable chess piece. Tried to go for that vintage 3D aesthetic for the background, so let's say the suckiness is intended. Same goes for the bees.

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Alice Nervous

Done another character piece, this time for Doctor Innovatium's surrogate daughter, Alice. Think XJ-9, but more chronically online with existential dread.

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Doctor Innovatium Presenting

After a hiatus of posting artwork, decided to get back into practice with a little piece of Doctor Innovatium. Particularly pleased with how this came out; the mouth is a lot more connected and fitted to his skull shape than before, and I added some more curves to his limbs to make them less stick-like.

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