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“By the way kid, nix on the makeup - cute girl superheroes aren’t caught dead in it.”

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Shaded the portrait of Dick from a few weeks ago.

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For @bottomjasontoddweek​ ! 

12th of August: Daddy kink | Going undercover as a celebrity/model works too well | Earth 3 AU | Small!Jason AU

He’s been coming here every night he can for the past six months. He curls against the cold stone, mounted barely a week ago, and traces the raised letters that read A GOOD SOLDIER.

A good soldier. The highest of praise a Talon could gain, and him not even fully trained when he died.

The wind blows over the grass, unrestrained by trees or buildings. The dew on the grass will turn into frost soon, will ice him over, but he doesn’t care. So what if he doesn’t handle cold well? It will warm up in the morning. Right now all that matters is that he is here. If anything, the cold might be an advantage for now. If he lays here, tucked against the marble like his brother used to tuck himself against him, if he falls asleep here, then he’ll die tonight. The cold will turn him almost as dead as his brother, the closest he can get to embracing him again. He won’t stay dead; he’ll wake when the frost melts and the black stone warms his body back to the living. But it’s the closest he’ll come for a long time yet, and for now it’s enough.

It’s enough to feel cold tears on his cheeks; it’s enough to see the beginnings of frost form from his breath as the cold settles over Gotham. It’s enough to hear his own whispered voice as he tells his lover’s ghost about the world of the living.

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Okay so here’s the thing: either the serum passes on white hair genetically, in which case Joey should have white hair instead of blond, or it doesn’t, in which case Rose shouldn’t have white hair until she gets the serum. You gotta be consistent.

In the process of doing this I discovered that among Hmong, blond hair that darkens to a light brown with age is actually a documented thing, so it is reasonable Rose could have light hair - just not the same white as her dad’s when Joey is a normal blond. I’m a slut for tone on tone color palettes, so three versions.

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So you guys DO realize that every time you tell me not to ship BruDick, I make more content for them, right?

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Can anyone explain to me how Artemis, who is from Bana-Mighdall, which a)is in Egypt and b)does not produce immortal Amazons, but rather Amazons who reproduce the human way, is pale as fuck?

I honestly didn’t change that much aside from her color pallette at all. I think I just strengthened her nose and curled her hair. Oh and I gave her padding under her armour so it doesn’t chafe.

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The best thing to do with angry energy is to channel it into soft, sweet art.

Drawing kisses is hard, y’all

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Me, sitting bolt upright, my third eye wide open: What if Selena has a necklace she wears as Catwoman with a little bell shaped pendant on it

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Wally, Linda, and two kids with a permanent case of the zoomies

Pose for Irey and Jay referenced from @senshistock

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[deep breath] DC gave this woman skin lightening as a SUPER POWER

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Some Graysons, in their favorite costumes - or in their vigilante uniforms

Mary and John Rick and Karla Rick and Karla’s son John, who died at the same time as his parents and aunt and uncle when he was 16, and his brother James, who was taken by the Court of Owls to become a Talon

and of course Dick

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Remember when I did those Nightwings? Have some Tim designs. Three stripes, two green and one red on his first uniform, for each of the Robins, the red commemorating Jason’s death. His second one has a similar deal with a fourth stripe set apart from the others (the black on his gloves and red on his shoes) in honor of Steph. 

Sk8r boy evolved into emo teen

Bonus here’s what he wore in Lonely Place of Dying:

(those are basketball shorts)

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Remember when I did that Roy? I might’ve gotten mad and done another.

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I read that Artemis’ design was based on a real person, mixed race white-east Asian like her, who was naturally blonde

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If that’s the case (and I couldn’t find anything on a quick google, so I’m suspicious without a source), I question the decision to, on making her a hero in the cartoon, completely redo the rest of her design but make the choice to leave her hair blonde - while her sister, who remains neutral at best has dark hair.

Like, that was a deliberate choice, and it follows a pattern I’ve noticed with other characters.

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Father, daughter, son.

Been working on some portraits, partially to get a solid grounding on how I picture various characters, partially for practice, partially because wow does DC like giving their characters of color light eyes.

Decided to lean into the Egyptian imagery with them. I used Nefertiti as reference for Talia and a reconstruction of Nebiri, a priest from around the same time, as reference for Ra’s. They can have bright green eyes as a side effect of the Lazarus pit, but Damian gets brown. Seriously, how’d he end up with green eyes in canon?

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Dc…. just hear me out…..

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First batch of fake covers is done! I’ve been sitting on these because I keep forgetting to post them, but they’re done now!

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If you’re wondering why I haven’t posted art in awhile, this monster is why. I was hoping to have it done a week ago and instead I finished it at 1am this morning. 

A concept I had for the cohesive timeline rewrite @rainbowfoxes and I started working on. The Parliament of Gotham is a team of former villains and henchmen specializing in rescue and infiltration missions, primarily escaped Talons (thus the name). Unlike other teams, much of the Parliament doesn’t really bother with traditional callsigns - ideally they’re invisible anyway.

…..basically it’s what I personally would’ve liked to have seen if the limited series Talon from 2012 kept going

Pictured here are Casey Washington (ops), Calvin Rose (infiltration), Mary Turner (pyrotechnics, among other things), and James Grayson (bruiser).

textless version of this available on my patreon!