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Mantis🍄25🍄pan/demi NB🍄she/they/fae🍄 proship/terfs/zios/racists/ableists etc fuck off

[mantis42]

so the new plushie huh 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 (shitty barely 20m doodle yuh)

[mantis42]

DEALER NATION WAKE TF UP

SECOND DEALER PLUSHIE DROPPING HOLY SHIT

[its-jooby]

i like that mantis npc from that room theyre pretty

[lambiebean]

Guy of the coat idfk

[xx-j4nu5-c4t5-xx]

Падший ангел / The Fallen Angel

Original painting by Alexandre Cabanel

Close ups and waffling ↓

I absolutely love Lucifer's face in the original painting. It's so masterfully done that it's often just cropped and pictured alone. The curls being whipped by the wind, the weeping eyes locked intensely on the flying angels still in the sky, the hands clasped so forcefully in a way that looks like it could either be restraint or prayer (and either way would be too late to help anything). I haven't done it justice with this adaptation. Don't think I ever could. Genuinely one of my favorite paintings ever.

But that being said, I think the composition of the piece also naturally draws your eye to his leg; where the face is busy and intense, the thigh serves as an open and relatively plain area for the eye to rest on, which slowly guides the viewer either up the ribs to the shoulder (where the curve of the shoulder blade hunching forward is really nice to look at) or down the leg (where the lower legs and feet interact really well with each other). The extended leg catching the light serves as a sort of barrier to contain the rest of the figure and separate it from the ground and the background. In my drawing, you lose a bit of that clarity because the ground is not rock and sea but snow, making the central figure no longer the brightest and most highly contrasted part of the image. I decided I could live with that in the end, because I think the increased separation of the values (almost to the extent that there are very few midtones) fun enough to warrant it, especially considering that there isn't the contrast between the warm yellows/pinks/oranges in the body with the blue of the background anymore.

I think there's a lot of very subtle anatomical detail in the original artwork that is completely lost in translation because of my simplified cel shading, but I really tried to capture as much of it as I could. Also holy shit look what I can do when I actually have a dynamic pose. what having a reference pic does to a mf

Chose Coat Guy for this redraw because I think the central idea of the painting is very. idk what word to use here. coatguyish. The focus being on Lucifer, not depicted as some vehicle of pure evil like a lot of art concerning him, but moreso as a tragic character -- almost sympathetic. Like yeah he did that shit but now he's crashed on earth, forced to look up at the heavens and see the other angels still flying. Not only did he lose everything, but he now has to watch for eternity while others enjoy what he can never have again. That's why I placed the stars above CG where the angels are in the original; he can look up at them, but never join them again.

[vivaciousinsomniac]

why the fuck are you green

[mantis42]

tomodachi selfship shenanigans

we got married barely a day after starting to date 10/10 game

[aonglegs]

[mantis42]

unpopular (?) opinion speedround

i dont like barcoat (bartag truther) i DO NOT like wirecoat (kinda boring ngl sorry not sorry + wow u put the two queer coded twinks together great job) i dont like palecoat (idk i just dont see it) i HATE fortune teller x amogus guy (shes a lesbian to me) i dont like rockstar x coat guy (idk to me theyre related or smth) i HATEEEE coat guy x ex minister (why.) i like happyhour (cheerful man x bar guy) i dont rly like coattag that much (i get it but yk. i selfship w coat guy so eh)

[mantis42]

i lowkey dont like the term antishipper like. idk it should be considered the norm to not be into weird fucking ships like inc*est etc. I've seen more people who call themselves proship being weird and straight up gr**ming ppl than ive seen "antis" do that.

i have proship dni in most my socials bc of ppl close to me who have bad experience w them (me included when i got harrassed) or were almost gr**med by one. but I'm not gonna call myself an anti bc idk i dont like the term and some antis can be really fucking weird too

[mantis42]

coat guy in tomodachi REAL

[lowpolyanimals]

Cockroach from Voices of the Void

[indecisive-neurodivergent]

THESE MFS FIGURED OUT HOW TO TIPPY TAPPY THEY LITTLE FUCKIN TOES??!

[postsintoblinkies]

i turned this post into a--hey wait a minute

[hungwy]

Really cool image I found online

[socpens]

[st4r-pl4t1num]

coat gay

[pseudopuppy]

Hmhmhm baby need smoko