Razzek Does The Art

AO3 + FurAffinity + Patreon Blind cartoonist, comics artist, writer and general creative.

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I’m Razz, a digital cartoonist specializing in character design and illustration. Being mostly blind, I emphasize bold lines intended to make characters stand out and give them life with dynamic poses and details. Cartoons taught me how to see and I love sharing that unique perspective.

Specialty: inks/line art

Tools: iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, ProCreate

Education: self taught, originally worked with traditional media, switched to mostly digital after further sight loss in 2019

Experience: 20 years in freelance illustration, participant in multiple charity projects which have raised thousands of dollars for various charities, work has been featured in some printed projects (most recently Gorgeworld)

Links: commissions price sheet support me: Patreon + Ko-fi + itch.io blindness faq (coming soon)

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Put a thumbnail up front cuz Simon's design is a bit spoilery.

I want to do comics again SO bad! This is still too slow but I’m getting somewhere. This is, of course, this classic:

https://youtu.be/ctlEBHDROAw?si=e6y54OmJUmIGjgXY

ID: "Simon keep your shirt on!" Mark cries, hand reaching out in vain, expression a mix of horror and dismay.

"NO!" Simon bolts down the warp core hallway, flinging his sleeveless workman's top to the ground. The upper half of his jumpsuit flies behind him like his hair. He wears the infamous harness over his beefy pecs.

Mark is a somewhat scruffy man wearing his engineer's jumpsuit and crew cap. Simon looks much like him but his scraggly beard is more full. His left arm is gone halfway down the bicep. His left cheek has two rows of jagged teeth sprouting from it, the left eye slit pupiled and inhuman.

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Simon having a lot of feelings about eldritch monster gorlfriend.

I said in the server I'd draw these two and it would either be silly or something I could never link to. Consider yourselves lucky. :D

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Process/high res post is public in case Lixian wants to have those pics. :)

https://www.patreon.com/posts/155493550?pr=true

I really liked Markiplier's playthrough of Lixian's Project Lunky. This idea lodged in my brain and wouldn't leave until I finished it.

Play Project Lunky

https://lixiangames.itch.io/project-lunky

Markiplier plays Project Lunky

https://youtu.be/TtGmheVrXUg?si=lv91vNb2Dt3cmVHN

ID: "Ignore my associate. He's new."

Behind his desk, pink mustachioed Wilford Warfatache smiles pleasantly at you. One hand is out, holding back a looming rectangular creature with wickedly clawed hands on spindly arms. It's awful mouth splits it from top to middle, bulging dead eyes glaring on either side of a bloody canyon of jagged teeth. He wears a chipper name tag with "Lunky" scrawled in dripping blood. The name tag has a cute pink mustache on it.

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With my photographic memory I have drawn that one scene perfectly! This is exactly how it looked!

ID: The Convict stands stoically against a backdrop of bloody waves. His shirt is off, showcasing the leather chest harness bowing a little outward with the pressure of his massive pecs. He is incredibly handsome.

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I’m so tired of my face blindness getting in the way of drawing this guy, so I am solving the problem in the only way I can! XD He's a hooded fancy rat cuz they originated in Asia and were domesticated in Europe. I wanted something that would reflect the contempt others in the film have for him and be an animal that gets overlooked. Yes I do already have plans for Captain Ava and Jack. :D

ID: Character sheet of the convict as a scraggly gray furred rat. The main portrait is his grumpy face in his hood. To the right is a back view of him taking off his shirt to reveal his darker gray hooded fancy rat pattern going to his shoulders with two spots on his left lower back. A full body drawing in the lower left shows him looking forward and topless. His toned pecs are accentuated by a spacer's harness and his arms are bandaged, the Eden pendant looped around his left wrist. In the bottom right is his head from behind, clearly showing his Eden tattoo crossed by a still healing burn wound on the back of his left ear.

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Some of you might have noticed I like Iron Lung. :D So much in fact that I resurrected an old staple: annoying my fave characters by putting a horrible rodent in their vicinity. :D Captain Ava found this thing scurrying about and decided the convict could use the company. :D

ID: Nonplussed and eyes bulging, a bright green and yellow rat is being half crushed in a human fist. The rat is dressed in a mockup of the convict's tattered spacer's outfit, hood pulled back, cloth wrapped around their head. The fist is wrapped in a black fingerless glove, the edge of a brown coat sleeve just visible. The background is a still from Iron Lung of the convict looking disgruntled at the bottom right, the SM-13's green lights glowing, blood ocean visible through the open porthole glass.

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Existential dread, trapped in the blood ocean, yeah yeah, but check this out!

I got tired of trying to make the colors work but the idea is still amusing. :D

ID: Mostly submerged in red, Simon blows bubbles in the blood ocean, his lanky hair drifting in the waves. His eyes look a little happy, cheeks puffed out.

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I spent two hours making this joke three people will get. XD I’ve had that damn jingle stuck in my head for a month! Don't look at his bum!

ID: Sitting in a rusty bathtub to match the rusty rover interior, scraggly Simon looks nonplussed. He holds a childish drawing of himself crying while Ava yells over the speaker and the eel monster watches. The tub is frothy with bubbles and Simon is still wearing his tactical chest harness. Reflecting the drawing, Elli the eel is visible on the scanner.

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Making this a public post so the person who inspired it can see everything. :) Stop by my Patreon to see my full process!

Some of you are aware I like Iron Lung. :D I’ve wanted to draw some fanart but couldn't think anything that a) I can figure out how to draw or b) hasn't been done better by other awesome artists. Until! I lucked upon this wonderfully written daemon AU fic that stays true to the film while still creating its own identity!

A Light On the Water

So here's Simon and his daemon. You'll have to read to find out more about her. :)

ID: In a darkly shadowed, cramped submarine made of pipes and hanging wires, a man hunches over a rusted console. His hand rests on the shoulder of a large canine facing you, her shape in shadow. Her tatty, fluffy tail curls around his ankle. The man and canine are lit in dull greens to contrast the rusty, bloody reds of the submarine. Her vivid green eyes shine the same uncanny light as the sub's gauges, both luminous in the dark.

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Living the dream! Was it everything you hoped for? :D

ID: Caine's little ringmaster body hovers in the air, nonchalant. Bunny man Jax is crammed awkwardly between the two halves of Caine's toothy jaws, his legs and feet dangling out the back. . Caine's earnest eyes rest on Jax's belly, Jax's little bunny tail on Caine's tongue. The bunny man meets Caine's hopeful gaze with a frustrated, long suffering grimace, arms folded judgmentally across his chest.

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"Hey big guy."

They're so awful for each other and I want to eat these interactions like candy! 8)

ID: With the bright circus in a circle of background, Jax the purple bunny man leans casually on ringmaster Caine. He's stolen the chatterbox avatar's hat and has one arm draped loosely yet possessively over his shoulders, yellow gloved hand resting over Caine's chest. Caine is uncertain, barely hovering over the ground, hands tapping nervously together, eyes shadowed by his teeth but still looking shyly at Jax.

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Got to do a wonderful interview with the hosts of the Unseen Potential podcast! They are a blind brother and sighted sister who interview interesting blind folks. Definitely check them out! We got to talk a lot about being blind, my origins and process as an artist, how I get inspiration, and traveling with my guide dogs. It's a great episode and this is such a fantastic podcast!

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made up fic title: Two Dead, Very Tragic: Jumpin' Jack Flash KLOS

Very chill, lightly serious and lightly romantic/fluffy road trip fic. :D I can see this being Pickles focused, in the days between Snakes N' Barrels and Dethklok. Probably driving between Colorado and LA with Magnus to tie up some loose ends in LA that he would rather not do but must. The whole thing would be light and then the last paragraph or line has a sting in it that hints at this absolutely awful, forever doomed friendship/romance between them.

I have no idea if KLOS means anything or not. XD

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the context for this phrase is that my older brother was driving in the early 2000s and listening to the radio station KLOS which was like, "classic rock," and the DJ was reporting on a recent mass shooting that had resulted in the deaths of two kids at a school. After the first part, "two dead, very tragic," there was a three second pause of complete dead air, then the guy switched to his DJ voice and said "Jumpin'-Jack-Flash-KLOS" all in one breath and the guitar hook for the Rolling Stones song started to play.

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Holy shit! XD

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I just wanted to draw him in that dress.

ID: Hands up and clenched, knees together, Jax the bunny is in a cute anime maid dress. His lip curls in disgust as he glares at his little bob tail wagging happily under the bow tied at the back of his frilly apron.

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"Now that you have all this free time, what are you gonna do?"

"Well...!"

Had the pleasure of rewatching ep 7 and hearing a friend shriek "What?!" at the dinner date. I wanted to know how that would work out. Now we're here. XD

ID: Cain's giant teeth frame the scene, Jax's yellow gloved hand grasping at the lower set. The purple bunny scowls, square pupils meeting Caine's eyes inside the giant mouth. Caine's huge crossed eyes press one floppy ear out into the light while Jax's other hand grasps at the tongue. Jax grimaces, nonplussed by the predicament he's gotten himself into.

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I’m not sorry. :D

ID: Lace, a bug-like creature made of silk, looks over her beruffled shoulder while she rests her gold pin casually over the other shoulder. One hand rests on a voluminously over exaggerated hip. Her normally fluffy pantaloons are shaped like a massive posterior. Sheer gold curtains drape above the polished Citadel floor.