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ClumsyClement's fandom blog. Art, thoughts, nails, rants, comics, etc. Bee lover. Ask answerer. Feel free to be chatty. Please do not use my art without permission. Personal blog here

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I promised to post these ages ago but never did! At last a daytime photo of my Bandette nails.

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So I’m still alive I’ve just been having a slightly hectic and overwhelming year and Tumblr had to take a back seat for a while. I’m hoping to get back to regular posting shortly, thanks to all my followers who have stuck with me! Have a Merlin!

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So I drew a little Sherlock yesterday. I haven’t been doing much colouring recently so I’ve been trying to change that. I think I’m getting much better at drawing people though, hopefully I can keep improving. Colouring my own art for a change was a lot of fun.

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Updates

Sorry I've taken so long to post this. My non-fandom art posts will now be on Clumsy Clem Art (clumsyclement.tumblr.com) as I mentioned I might be doing. I've created a personal blog too, Clumsy Clem (clembeingclumsy.tumblr.com), if anyone is interested (links are in my bio for future reference). I've also made it possible to view just my art or nail posts, and will now be adding the odd comic related post to this blog.

Thanks to all my followers for sticking with me while I've been so absent. Rectifying this as soon as I can.

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I’ve been experimenting a little with a more painty style recently, thought I would share some roughs. Both are based off my inks of johnnybooboo pencils, your style is so much fun to paint! Huge thanks for letting me do this. Original pencils here, alternate colouring here.

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The Smartest Thing About "Sherlock"

…The BBC turned all of us into Sherlock Holmes. The entire teasing unavailability of this show, popping in every so often to break our hearts and then leaving again to go back to staid things like “Strictly Come Dancing,” makes our undying and steady devotion to it a mirror of Sherlock Holmes’s perpetual pining for John Watson. 

WE ARE SHERLOCK. THIS SHOW IS OUR JOHN. 

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Could that also make the show’s writers John? Like they each are slightly different interpretations of the character, with Moffat being one of those infuriating ones where John is a dick and doesn’t deserve Sherlock?

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Blog Update

I just wanted to check quickly before I change some stuff around on my blogs. I have no notes on any of my general non-fandom art so I am planning to move it over to an art only blog unless anyone would prefer me to leave it on this blog. I'm hoping to start posting one painting per day so please keep that in mind. Answers to this post/asks/fan mail are all valid ways to let me know.

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Happy New Year! Got some bad news in with some good stuff today. Unfortunately due to my Sherlock Mini-Bang partner being busier than expected (and finding writing on my own difficult) I had less than a week to try to complete the colours and inks on our comic and I just haven’t been able to do it. I will however still be posting when I do get around to finishing it. Sorry about that. I hope everyone who is watching The Empty Hearse tonight enjoys it.

In terms of good stuff, I got the Barry M Nail Art Pen in black recently and attempted to do myself Calvin & Hobbes snowman nails (bottom photo). I really struggled with using my left hand (this was my first time using the pen), but I managed to turn it into a cool abstract design with minimal effort and I’m quite pleased with result. Can’t wait to try it again.

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Another ink and colour. Based on this by johnnybooboo (please note the blog is nsfw). I altered the look a bit to match my Sherlock from this rp.

I'm still getting the hang of this so comments/critiques are helpful. How did I do?

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Just thought I would point out that if you would like to have your heart ever so beautifully smashed out of your chest by your fandom you can do so for the low price of £8.99 in HD or £6.99 in SD from iTunes right now. Seriously though, The Hour is such an amazing show, and buying the series is a good way to show the BBC how wrong they were to cancel it.

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Nimona! I realise she could just be a regular frog, but hey. *shrugs*

For cumber--collective. She is my Nimona. Or rather, I am her Ballister

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Look what happened a while ago! I meant to post this at the time but I've had a busy few weeks. Too cool.

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This illustrates my feelings quite accurately.

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More painting. Starting to get there…

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I’m off to Leeds for Thought Bubble today, and yesterday I finally decided what I wanted to do on my nails. I’m quite excited. I’ll post a better picture once I have one.

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I’ve been quite Sherlock focused recently, so I thought I would share some watercolours I did a while ago. Bottom left is a chog from the comic book Chew (like I had on my thumb for week 4 of the nail challenge) and the rest are Buffy/Adventure Time crossover characters. The little ones in order are Buffy/Fionna, Anya/Flame Princess, Willow/Princess Bubblegum, Spike/Marshall Lee. They’re framed but still yet to make it up on the wall.

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Finished inks and colours of this mystradedoodles sketch. I know it’s late but I didn’t even get my ipad until after Halloween so tough. It was too cute not to do it. I may post my headcannon for this in a few days.