Marik Bentusi

Artist

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I'm leaving tumblr!

All of my current art here will stay where it is, but I won't post new art here anymore. I decided to make a bluesky account and didn't want to juggle one more social media account - plus I basically don't consume any media from this site anymore, I just come here to post.

Thank you for everyone who's stuck around over the years! Thank you for all the kind Asks! Lots of fond memories. You can find my future art here: deviantart | bluesky | newgrounds | pixiv | twitter | art repo discord Take care of each other 💜

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Oh yeah, forgot to post this goofy little piece that I drew for Joseph Anderson's video on The Witcher 3: https://youtu.be/WtIie2yPdSU?t=4568

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I'm not very happy with the length of this comic. The plan for Scylle was self-contained short comics (akin to my Gwenpool or Warframe ones), but the first comic sparked a bunch of ideas that I found interesting.

Maybe they should've just been scrapped? Editing down this comic by an order of magnitude (≤3 pages) doesn't seem doable, and splitting it into mini-comics seems annoying because you'd have to re-introduce the concept every time.

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That's all she wrote (ba dum tss)!

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Also I updated the previous page to hopefully make the first panel less confusing:

Basically, since she's breaking out of the panel, she's seeing the full extent of the creature, concluding that those purple spots were cross sections all along.

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Little filler art while I work on page 5. If you squint you can see its blurry shape in the last panel of page 4.

I knew I wanted a gadget like this, but I didn't know when it would show up because Scylle can't take it with her on lightspeed jumps, effectively limiting it to the vicinity of her ship. Since this comic her transporting supplies from the ship into the wreckage, I figured it would make sense to already include it as a background prop.

Due to the translucent exterior I had to think a bit about the interior, so I also attached some notes on those. It's obviously bad engineering, but it helped guide some visuals like the spring and gave me a better idea of how it'll be used.

If you like this design, definitely check out this pistol design by Zongwei / Chungwei1989 that I *heavily* referenced for this:

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Originally this wasn't meant to be a series of comics, but while drawing the first one I thought of this feedback loop and one thing led to another.

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I just think forbidden "magic" you can't even think or talk about is neat.

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belated

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Hmm I tried out a more painterly style for the background, but I now think the opposite with more flats/gradients would work much better. 🤔Like for some reason I prefer hoodie dude in panel 3 to the one right below. Maybe it's something else? Hmm.