BadEGG

Digital Artist

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Wip sketch. Flambae showing Robert the underworld. My apartment flooded on Friday and I’m spending a lot of time moving into another unit so I haven’t had a lot of spare time to draw. I fooled around on this last night before I went to sleep.

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Some ideas I have for my Hades/Persephone Flambert au. I decided Elliot is a VERY controlling Demeter that siphons Robert’s strength to feed his own. I’m working out what I want it to be as I add more drawings. Some of these I will probably finish into full paintings. But I thought I would share some of my idea process. Which ones do y’all want to see finished?

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Quick sketch of a villain Robert. With new and improved facial scars! Drew this while I was watching the Karate Kid Legends movie.

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Whumpee Robert Robertson. If Shroud won at the end and captured Robert and gave him red ring implants to control him. The whuuuuump.

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Okay, AU idea. So Shroud can calculate and predict pretty much everything, right? So it isn’t too much a stretch of the imagination to think Shroud could have calculated where the Mecha Man suit would explode after escaping the steel mill, and where it would fall. If not the exact location, he could probably have a good idea of the general area. And so Shroud has his men waiting to fetch Robert from the crash site.

Now let’s say Shroud has a healer on reserve to heal Robert, too. So what was a four month coma in canon lasts only a week or so. During this time, Shroud sets Robert up with his new Red Ring implants. The Pulse is still lost, but he knows he’ll find it eventually, and in the meantime… Shroud has a new pet.

Maybe Robert’s eventually able to escape and he finds his way to SDN like canon. Shroud anticipates the possibility and plants Visi there to keep an eye on his pet. Shroud let’s Robert have his taste of freedom, waiting for Robert to find the Astral Pulse (as he calculates it’s only a matter of time before either his men or Robert comes across it), at which point Shroud will come to collect both of them.

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Love this! Great idea! Poor Robert!

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MORE Myth of Persephone Flambert. Idk why I am so obsessed with this idea. I am FINALLY getting Flambae’s face to kinda look like Flambae’s face. That’s exciting to me lol.

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I have spent an ungodly amount of time working and re working this into something I finally like. This is from my Hades x Persephone flambert au idea. I haven’t really worked the idea out other than enough to make a couple pieces of art. But I figure this scene is from when Flambae tries to abduct Robert down to the underworld. They fight and Robert cuts off Flambae’s fingers. This only makes Flambae want him more (cause he sees how much of a baddie Robert is lol). So here he is begging Robert to come with him willingly - which Robert does.

The foliage from the last painting I made of Robert (twice cause I hated the first version) was practice for the background in this painting and I’m sooooo glad I did some practice before coming back to this one cause I am obsessed with how the trees and foliage came out.

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Ok. I was gonna leave it at the line art but I just kept thinking about how I wanted to make this closer to what I had in my imagination when I originally sketched it. So here we go again and I think it was totally worth the time and effort of starting over. I am SOOOO much happier with the end result and I really feel like the improvement on the trees and rocks from the last version is outstanding. I am so proud of the work I put into this version! I hope y’all aren’t tired of seeing this over and over again but I am done now I swear 😆.

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Ok since I wasn’t as happy with the colored version of this as I wanted to be I decided to go back to the sketch and try and turn it into a really clean line art. I like this version a lot. The background looks much better now that I have taken some time and re tooled the trees/background and tried to make things have more detail. I don’t think I have the skill to color this background in without the lines. The colored version I posted that I don’t like is the result of my attempt. I think to make this look as good as I want it too I need to leave the lines in and start from scratch on the coloring. If anyone wants to take a crack at this just message me and I can send you a higher res version to play with.

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I spent a lot of time on this but I just don’t love it very much. Normally I would keep mushing it around but the foliage has depleted all energy from my soul. I mean it looks ok but to me it feels unfinished (and I just don’t want to spend more time on it). I struggled a LOT. The trees and rocks and bushes and water I were so hard. I learned a lot but I just gotta be done with this one. Maybe I’ll try to remake this when I have more practice at nature stuff. Failures are worth sharing too. I just like the sketch better. Maybe I’ll even just refine the sketch and make some decent line art. It would be cool if other people wanted to color it. Let me know if anyone is interested in a clean line art version of this.

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Here is a sketch of Robert. I will probably paint this one. I really like it. I have a few other things I am working on and am in a rough spot I can’t seem to push through. I might post my progress on those later. This has a few things I want to practice a little more so that I can take what I learn back to the other stuff I’m working on and hopefully be better at it. That’s kinda how I work on improving. If I get stuck I make a piece meant to really push the skill I feel like I am lacking. Then I will go back to whatever I was stuck on with a better understanding and be able to push through it. I really need to try some foliage and trees and rocks and get a bit better before I can finish the other stuff.

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Whumpee Robert Robertson. If Shroud won at the end and captured Robert and gave him red ring implants to control him. The whuuuuump.

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Colored! I really like how it turned out - especially the negligee. Lighting yay!

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Someone said Robert was pretty in my painting of him as Ophelia so I wanted to do a drawing with the express purpose of trying to make him look pretty. I actually spent most of the day yesterday working on this cause I really wanted to get the line art right. I usually have super sloppy line art cause I just paint over it but I’ve been working on cleaning it up a lot this year. I want to be able to be proud enough of it that I don’t mind showing it. I’m really proud of this. I will probably spend some time coloring it in the next few days.

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Hey, I finished it! This is ROphelia lol. I’m really excited to post this one cause I like it so much! His face went through so many changes from my sketch I posted the other day but I started to really think it didn’t look much like Robert and so here we are after several hours of struggle. Just mushed it around until I finally liked it.

I really appreciate all the likes and re blogs on my art. I haven’t ever really participated this much in fandom spaces - typically I just lurk. As someone who just draws to make myself happy and hasn’t ever really cared to show it off very much it has been so wonderful to be able to see the number of people that have interacted with my art through either giving hearts, re-blogging and even commenting. I have been enjoying the dispatch fandom so much and just want to say thank you to everyone who has enjoyed looking at my work! It means a lot!

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So I thought people might be interested in my process some. I’m trying to work out pose and composition for another Hades x Persephone Flambert au painting but I am also kinda wrapped up in painting the weird Ophelia sketch I made of Robert (and boy am I going hog wild on it) so that puts this one on the back burner.

I figured it might be fun for me to post the struggle lol.

I still am having such a hard time with men’s anatomy since I never really painted them before this year. I keep thinking Flambae’s neck looks weird and Robert’s whole body looks kinda weird. I’ll eventually get there but so so so so much trial and error goes into these while I look at fifty bajillion references of men’s bodies in profile. It’s excellent practice so I don’t mind but I think it’s funny sometimes how long I fiddle over stuff. I used to just say fuck it and would fix it during the painting stage but I am finding that having the discipline to figure it out early before you start coloring makes stuff go a lot faster and prevents TONS of extra work like repainting over whole limbs and torsos that I don’t end up liking.

I even started painting this one before convincing myself I didn’t like it yet and then ditched the colors in favor of going back to the sketch. This is FAR from being finished. I am not even super happy with the sketch yet but like I said - I thought it would be interesting to see a slightly slower version of my planning stage.

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Just a quick sketch - Robert as Ophelia. Idk it was gonna be just a complete scribble but I got a little carried away actually throwing in like some values and stuff. I might go ahead and color this. I do love me a sad little portrait.

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I like making Robert sad…….Beef is trying to cheer him up.