Cody's Art Blog

A place for my art, both original and fan works. I mainly do physical media, occasionally digital. No GenAI is involved in any part of my process.

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Hello!

I'm Cody (he/him, early 30s, USAmerican), and I'm a professional scenic artist and props artisan in the theatre industry, but sometimes I like to do art For Fun, too. This blog is where that goes. My main fandom interests at present are:

The Locked Tomb series

and The Magnus Archives/Protocol,

but I may post other things, including original work, if it strikes my fancy.

I will update the above list and the tags of this post as and when I post art from a new fandom. If you are sensitive to spoilers, I would recommend filtering relevant tags while visiting this blog. Some of my art is horror adjacent. I tag common triggers as #cw [content], e.g. #cw blood.

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Want to share my work on other platforms? That's very much appreciated! Please make sure I'm clearly credited and that you link directly back to this blog in your post. Please don't repost my art to sites that will use it to train generative AI.

Feel free to request fanart of any media that appears in the tags below! Note: A request is not a commission. The requester does not receive any rights to the art they request. I don't currently take commissions.

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(My main is @elevenbenevolentmammoths)

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Final Plunge - Oil on paper, limited palette (sap green, ultramarine, alizarin crimson, titanium white).

Progress shot (from my main)

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Oops All Cavs!

Colored pencils and ballpoint pen on paper

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"The Reluctant Bride" by Auguste Toulmouche could work for several characters

awesome! I wasn't previously familiar with this one.

Anyone have specific casting suggestions? I'm leaning toward either Harrow or Gideon as the bride, and either way the girl in purple is def Ianthe, but idk about the other two.

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I don’t know who fits it best, but someone in the locked tomb as Saturn Devouring His Son seems like it would go hard. Maybe John, or Harrow x Gideon if you wanna get real real sad about it? Or Ianthe and Babs??? The t h e m e s

Oooh yeah! I think I've seen a take on this that was Alecto devouring John, so I'll take that pairing off the table out of respect for the artist who did that first, but certainly much else to think about here! Thank you for the ideas!

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So I painted Babs as Lucifer from Cabanel's "The Fallen Angel." Y'know, just because. Oil on canvas.

Open to suggestions for tlt characters to paint in the style of other famous works!

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First Melee (oil on paper)

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Fieldwork (oil and acrylic on paper)

Modern AU Cam looking for toads or smth in the desert near Trentham. (What are proportions - I've never met 'em).

This version of Cam appears in my ongoing Cam/Marta fic, One Hell of a Flight.

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Happy Valentine's Day! Have some knight-tournament-au griddlehark. As a treat. Oil on printer paper because I am full of art crimes.

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Last perspective header for Gone A-Tilting (my TLT knight tournament AU). 4 POV's is, in fact, Enough. Anyway, this is Sir Colum's banner. Considered making it a dove, but didn't want to do another heraldric bird. Would hate to differentiate two heraldric birds. Unicorn instead. Y'know, to drive in the Christian symbolism as far as I can push it without smacking a cross up there.

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When Your Snack Fights Back!

Oil on paper. Liked the effect of the unpainted shirt.

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- Royal Crest of Hadea* -

Continuing to do Too Much for my knight tournament fic. Perspective header for potential Harrow POVs.

*Ninth House renamed. Pluto->Hades. Y'know.

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The vile creature, as if knowing its schemes to be thwarted, made a half-hearted attempt to bite at Sir Gideon’s arm.

Chapter 2 of Gone A-Tilting is now up on AO3!

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"Studs, darling? Earrings on a diet?"

Horrible awful scene. One of my favorites in the series.

Bonus-- Ianthe is not used to being shorter than Corona:

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Sir Gideon of Drearburh - Knight Tournament AU. Colored pencil on paper.

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Check out the fic on AO3!

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Sir Naberius of Ida and his horse, Delphine. Colored pencil on paper.

The first chapter of my knight tournament au, Gone A-Tilting, is up on AO3!

(Babs is gonna be such a Horse Girl (TM) in this. It's, like, The Main non-canonical character trait I'm giving him -- and, y'know, I don't think it's much of a stretch).

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Oh, just designing some heraldry. No reason. Definitely not Overdoing It for a knight tournament au fic. Shhh.

These are gonna be chapter headers. Well, scene headers, really. I will be making more, but we're starting with the banners of Sir Gideon of Drearburh and Sir Naberius of Ida.

That bird's supposed to be a tern, by the way. We are not worrying about how janked up it looks, because heraldry animals always look a bit jank anyway. We are not worrying about it.