Bolt from the Blue

A Despicable Me fanfiction project [Chapter 15 in Progress...] Profile picture by @diamondzart Header by @bobapoopa Blog run by @tonkaorsomethin

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Welcome to my little passion project, now with its own blog!

Bolt from the Blue, formerly just "Despicable Me 4 (fan concept)" is a fanfiction I've been writing since 2022 and is a deep dive into an original, alternate concept for the fourth movie, with inspirations taken from this comic by @elitadream. Over time this project has accumulated quite a few enjoyers and lots of beautiful fanart, which has helped evolve quite a firm aspiration for me to finish this – so, I decided to make this blog to separate it a little from my personal blog and give the wonderful fanart the space they deserve. Also for updates of course!

Summary, for those who are new:

After Balthazar Bratt's defeat, everything seems to go better than ever: Gru and Lucy are back working for the AVL and Gru's overly enthusiastic brother, Dru is the new bad guy in town.

...or is he?

The illusion of everything going so well fades, as the past comes back to haunt the family, threatening to destroy them once and for all...

If it wasn't for the most passionate of the family doing everything in their power to protect what they love most - even if it means to step over the bounds of time and space itself...

If you have any fan works or like to be added to the update taglist, let me know by tagging or messaging this or my personal blog @tonkaorsomethin!

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Chapter 14: Word goes around - is out!!

Lucy loves field work. Just not the type where she may land on the wrong side of the barrel of justice. Meanwhile Gru is in charge of keeping the situation at home under control. It works swimmingly.

... For no one in this house.

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DID “DESPICABLE ME 4” TRAILER LEAVE YOU DISAPPOINTED? There’s a solution! :D

My very good friend @annchanorsomethin writes THIS AMAZING FIC on AO3 for over a year already! I am following it since November 2022 and let me tell ya, I wish this was the way Illumination treated their canon. I don’t think this amount of planning went into the real DM4, judging from the trailer…

And for those of you who were upset about the absence of Dr Nefario and Dru, this fic has you covered, believe me 😏

SUMMARY:

After Balthazar Bratt's defeat, everything seems to go better than ever: Gru and Lucy are back working for the AVL and Gru's overly enthusiastic brother, Dru is the new bad guy in town... or is he? The illusion of everything going so well fades, as the past comes back to haunt the family, threatening to destroy them once and for all... If it wasn't for the most passionate of the family doing everything in their power to protect what they love most - even if it means to step over the bounds of time and space itself.

Rated M for possible graphic depictions of violence in the future (though for now it stays in PG, I think). Features Professor Rott as the main antagonist – the original character inspired by early concept arts for Gru from late 2000s, the idea and design of Rott belong to @elitadream

This post also features original concept art made by me, styled to mimic Eric Guillon’s (official concept artist from Illumination) style, so it looks more like a real DM4 concept. I really, really hope this story will find more followers, because it totally deserves them! For now there are 11 chapters, and there will be more!

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Guys I want to recommend you something really cool

There is a fanfic that @annchanorsomethin writes and publishes on AO3, it features her own vision on possible plot of “Despicable Me 4”. There are four chapters written already and I’ll tell you what, I haven’t felt so much excitement and joy and thrill from reading fanfiction for a long, long time. Just.. believe me and check it out, it is amazing already :0

>>>CLICK TO READ<<<

And under the cut is my character concept art based on her text. It may be a major !!SPOILER!! so open on your own risk or read the fic first!

So, this is my own draft design for Nefario’s time-traveller metal suit. As described in the text, it changes colors from black to white depending on lighting. A lot of details here are not described in the text and it is just what my brain drew to me when I was reading it. This design will most likely be modified/upgraded in the future.

P.S. I’m not into metal/mech things at all and this design was a real challenge for me. I very much liked this experience!

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Chapter 4 "Man On The Roof" + Character Artwork!!

You better watch out because now it's time for the story to really start rolling! I hope y'all enjoy this long but big chapter ^^

(Also thanks to @diamondzart for giving me such wonderful art tips, otherwise this drawing would have never turned out as good as it did!)

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Pinky!

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Oh I am cooking today alright

Dinner is served ✨

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He’s so done with all this shi-

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Oops, AVL encounter

This is my experimental work with a new technique – I tried painting with the lasso tool and a soft brush. At first I thought it would be tedious and boring, but it turned out to be extremely satisfying and I got sucked into the process. It looks much better and crispier than those times I tried to paint using just brushes. Lasso tool does magic, fellas.

This art happens in the universe of @annchanorsomethin's Despicable Me fanfic, hence he has this coat that I designed specifically for that fic verse a couple of years ago.

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Wasn’t planning on posting this anywhere but my friend convinced me, hehe

This is kind of an illustration to @annchanorsomethin’s fanfic (Chapter 11)

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He still drives me crazy, even after all this time. I rarely post my sketches of young doctor Nefario these days, but I honestly still am fixated as hell. The main person to “blame” for this is definitely @annchanorsomethin, she writes an absolutely amazing fic called “DM4 fan concept”, it involves time travelling stuff and I highly recommend to check it out.

The outfit he’s wearing on this sketch was designed by me while constantly consulting with Ann and it had like 3 or 4 major redesigns in the course of 8 months before we came to this variant. If there is still anyone interested in him, I can make a whole post about this outfit because this is just a part of it. Guys you should know how much I miss our little simp club… I wish one day we all came together again. And by now… we’re just holding on and hoping for the best.

I actually have much more stuff to say but I don’t want to make this post too long soooo thanks for checking it out!