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pronouns: he/him | age: 1/3rd life crisis | drawings by @enigmaactual

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Official ominous sign

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Study on an idea I had where the mask holding wedges on the toa skull were actually mandibles.

Not surprised that the last time I drew in 2024 it was a bonkle.

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Vaporwave matoran I've been planning for a while but finally got the mask for. I'll be doing an articulated rebuilt matoran form eventually too.

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Matoran of Metru-Nui Mavrah

What do we know about Mavrah? He wears a purple pakari, he loves Godzilla, and Greg doesn't think he should be dead.

Due to a lack of purple parts existing, I decided to make purple into his secondary color and support it with the wealth of black and dark bley parts. Which works for me, because Metru-Nui is full of dark bley.

I've NEVER liked the Metru matoran chest Dorito, so in an attempt to find something that would restrict articulation less I settled on the marginally better rahkshi foot. That will cause a lot of problems later if I find other metru build matoran I want in my collection since it only exists in a couple of dark colors.

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Matoran Macku

Having made a scuffed lightbox for a different project, I figured it was time to share my matoran gang, starting with my favorite.

My parts choice for this model was to get as much color variety as possible in order to build the characters I wanted, AND, I absolutely wanted to use the mctoran foot for Mata-Nui authenticity.

From there I wanted to get as much poseability as I could, because I love posing figures.

I like juuust a hint of sexual dimorphism in my Bonks, so Macku and other Ga-Matoran I've built have a slightly longer axle and a set of spacers in their hips. The classic Gali chest piece was also used here but that steadily became a non exclusive trait as I built matoran in stranger colors and needed the socket pieces to fill out their schemes.

I consider this body configuration to be the post-bohrok rebuild, with a little Mask of Light mixed in.

I'll post some more later because I built a ton of these gremlins.

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Matoran Macku

Having made a scuffed lightbox for a different project, I figured it was time to share my matoran gang, starting with my favorite.

My parts choice for this model was to get as much color variety as possible in order to build the characters I wanted, AND, I absolutely wanted to use the mctoran foot for Mata-Nui authenticity.

From there I wanted to get as much poseability as I could, because I love posing figures.

I like juuust a hint of sexual dimorphism in my Bonks, so Macku and other Ga-Matoran I've built have a slightly longer axle and a set of spacers in their hips. The classic Gali chest piece was also used here but that steadily became a non exclusive trait as I built matoran in stranger colors and needed the socket pieces to fill out their schemes.

I consider this body configuration to be the post-bohrok rebuild, with a little Mask of Light mixed in.

I'll post some more later because I built a ton of these gremlins.

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Submission by ENIGMA Redrawing of page 19 of BIONICLE #20 from Bionicle Redrawn 2023. More of ENIGMA's work can be found at: https://enigma-actual-art.tumblr.com/ https://twitter.com/reeeidraws https://www.deviantart.com/reeeeeeeid

Based on art originally by Randy Elliott and published by DC comics.

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Not the most exciting page, but I found a way to make it fun for myself.

It's based on Takua's book of chronicles from MNOG. I wasn't sure what to really advertise, so I just used more space for the book.

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Submission by ENIGMA Redrawing of page 5 of The Legend of the BIONICLE: Challenge of the Rahi from Bionicle Redrawn 2023.

More of ENIGMA's work can be found at: https://enigma-actual-art.tumblr.com/ https://twitter.com/reeeidraws https://www.deviantart.com/reeeeeeeid

Based on art originally by Carlos D'anda and published by DC comics.

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The thing I like best about my submission this year is the concept I designed for the McToran. I imagined the arms a bit like if you put your arms in dryer vent tubes.

I wound up in a trap where I began the project using a more experimental style and brush and regretted having to use it to maintain consistency.

I generally like to draw my masks as 1:1 with the sets as possible, but several of them presented difficulty, and I have a better understanding of why so many people simplify them. I'll probably be doing the same in the future.

Overall, I'm very happy with it though.

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Submission by ENIGMA

Redrawing of advertisement 3 of BIONICLE Ignition Issue 2 from Bionicle Redrawn 2022.

More of ENIGMA's work can be found at: https://enigma-actual-art.tumblr.com/ https://twitter.com/reeeidraws https://www.deviantart.com/reeeeeeeid

Based on art originally by Stuart Sayger and published by DC comics

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I had a lot of fun with the goofy details in this one. Particularly the game pieces, props, and synopses.

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Skull issue.

Based on this guy.

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Star Guy Pre-MCU Star-Lord helmet, learning about shading, shining, etc. This is based on the Star-Lord style from before the MCU movie, with the look first appearing when Peter serves in a war with the Phalanx machines, and later goes on to form the Guardians. Actually a lot of subtle differences in how artists drew the helmet at the time, so I mashed up my favorites of the details. @ on the drawing is to my basically defunct art twitter.

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Peeboo approaches you lookin' extra devious today.

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Articulated diminished matoran figures. Old ballpoint drawings while on the clock. -February 2021

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Female skakdi concepts, from on the clock.

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Great Spirit Texas Nui prepares to fight Makuta with his big iron.