Skeptical Scribbles

What's up, this is a side blog for me to post my art! My main blog is @skepticalcatfrog. Both the icon and the header are my art.

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Crows portraits part 3!

I saved the best for last, these guys are so unbelievably dear to me. Definitely possible that more Wesper will be on the way.

(See Kanej here, and Helnik here)

((Close-ups under the cut!))

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Part 2 of my Crows drawings! See part 1 here!

I'm having so much fun with all of these. I love these guys. Stay tuned for part 3!!

(Close-ups under the cut)

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Reading Six of Crows: A Darker Shore got me WAY back into Six of Crows VERY fast. While I've been hard at work on my musical, I wanted to do some quick art in the meantime, and I figured who better to start with than Kanej! So here they are!

Helnik and Wesper coming very soon! (Also a full reread of the duology WILL be mandatory so expect that soon as well. Lots of very important business to attend to.)

Close-ups under the cut!

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The uniquely human feeling of losing something important and searching for it in the reason you lost it to begin with

(Close-up and monochrome vers. under the cut)

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What's a casual heavily symbolic stabbing between buddies?

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And every demon wants his pound of flesh/But I like to keep some things to myself/I like to keep my issues drawn/It's always darkest before the dawn

- Shake It Out by Florence and the Machine

And I would give all this and heaven too/I would give it all if only for a moment/That I could just understand/The meaning of the word you see/'Cause I've been scrawling it forever/But it never makes sense to me at all

- All This and Heaven Too by Florence and the Machine

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On some very rare days, Marshall wakes up first.

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The second surprise!! New art!! I drew these in combination with my new fic because I wanted to provide references so the people in my fic class knew what all these guys looked like. I think they turned out soooo cute.

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My only wish in this world is that they had gotten the time to be freakier

(Commissions are open!)

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for secret Shanghai art reqs, would you ever do benedikt and his mama? 🥺🥺

The fact that we know literally nothing about her other than when and how she died makes me crazy. But I do think she really, really loved him.

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"The ground trembled: the fire had finally eaten up a gas pipe. There was a colossal shrieking sound, and then the upper half of the house burst with an explosion and collapsed in on itself.

Benedikt staggered to his feet. His mother had died to the feud....Maybe this was the way he would join her. The Scarlets would kill him, then throw him right into the raging fire—ashes to ashes, dust to dust."

- Our Violent Ends, Chapter 19

(Commissions are open!)

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"Benedikt remained staring at the table, both his hands pressed to the flat surface. Slowly, Marshall crept nearer until he was right beside Benedikt. He opted to lean against the table, the two of them facing different directions."

— Our Violent Ends, Chapter 25

(Commissions are open!)

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Roma is happy to have a sister. Benedikt gets nervous around babies.

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The other set of Legendborn portraits! Couldn't do the first set without including these guys too 🫶🫶🫶

(Commissions are open!)

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Obviously I had to draw some Legendborn. These guys live in my head right now.

(Commissions are open!)

((Some close-ups plus alt Oathbound versions under the cut!))

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He is soooooo gorgeous I just had to draw him, I got too sad about not being able to see his face in my last drawing.

(Commissions are open!)

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"Benedikt walked to Marshall. Appearing utterly, utterly devoid of anything, anything—he put his hand to Marshall’s throat and kept it there, waiting.

A terrible noise tore forward from his cousin. Roma would hear that sound in his head forever."

- These Violent Delights, Chapter 38

(Commissions are open!)

((Close-ups under the cut, as usual))

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(Also just going to tag @chloegong down here because I don't know if I'm going to put this one on Instagram due to. uh. the blood)