#fic supplement

[vyther16]

artwork referenced in shattered to ash

Ophelia (1851-52), John Everett Millais x

Kate is dead and ashes now. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, nothing left of what she was, nothing to prove she was ever real, not even a portrait like beautiful waterlogged Ophelia. No one paints burnings. Can’t pretty them up, can’t add flowers and vines and call it artistic. 

The Story of Nagastio degli Onesti (1483), Sandro Botticelli x

Over the months, as he conned his way into Adler’s good graces, Neal noticed more about Kate. She pinned her hair into a messy bun with a pencil when she worked late. Her favorite artist was Michelangelo, but her favorite artwork was Botticelli’s The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti.

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (c. 1560), Pieter Bruegel the Elder x

He’s a flight risk, apparently. He already flew, already fell. He’s Icarus, face down in the water in Bruegel’s landscape.

Spirit (1885), George Roux x

Kate had christened the first page with a sketch of Neal, standing at an easel, done in oil pastel. The room around him was dark, the brightest point on the page Neal himself, face obscured. Attached to the next page with a paperclip was a library-printed copy of George Roux’s Spirit.

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Went looking through my art and realized that I'd started on this (and gotten most of it done - only Nascour needed all that much work) back in 2021. So I figured that I was a little overdue to finish Wes and Nascour - especially since my last Wes art was back in 2017 and I've been writing a fic w/ him in it since then.

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I love doing a good creature and, since I'm a Fallout fan who loves a good cyberdog, I decided to take a shot at the CBR-S units from the cancelled Fallout Van Buren (slightly recycling some of my old Hounds of Tindalos into the mix while I was grabbing different 'robot dogs' for inspiration - mostly Friender from Casshern, since you can't go wrong with the OG, but AMEE from Red Planet and BigDog from real life as well). I liked the lineless roughs so much that I had to add them in as well, along with the different 'alt' colors I ended up with along the way.

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Forgot I did a Kaiju design two years ago, complete with references for the sake of commissions, and then never posted it despite the amount of effort/detail put in. Fixing that now! Kind of wish I had a better name for her than 'Ultra' (because she took more than a few influences from Ultraman along with Pacific Rim). Ultra Wavewalker is a secondary name at the moment, but not exactly applicable to this version of the character, but it can all get polished and improved with time.

A few of the inspirations on Ultra's design (along with moissanite, since moissanite is very rainbow/pretty).

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Been a while since I posted anything with Akizuki Akizu (formerly Akizuki Akira) despite having worked on some design/redesign stuff over the last few years, so she's back and in a few other Studio Gainax styles besides her FLCL origins (and in Steven Universe and Cardcaptor Sakura as well).

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So yeah here we go with 'Mandalore the Eyesore' /j.

Was in the mood to try designing some Mandalorian armor but then ran into the wall of annoying line art problems... so I just took a coloring book-type blank and used that to work off of along with tracing the outline of a Nite Owl-type helmet to fill in with better details - and then a kitty ear edit because this is for a Zygerrian character. The cape was actually one of the trickiest parts because I didn't want to bring in any new colors and I didn't want to have anything blur together. If I had my choice, it would also have a pattern, but I didn't have anything in mind at the time. It's pretty good as is tho.

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Jumpchain fic outfit designs for different settings (stacked up over a few years of doodling). Still polishing some stuff but figured it needed to escape into the wild before I forgot it existed.

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I just think that picking up a Mewtwo like a housecat would fix them, especially if they used to be Shadow Mewtwo. Scrungle that baby god kitty.

(Still stewing on what this Mewtwo's name gets to be, but she's way off of showing up in anything, even there's loose plans in place already, so I've got plenty of time.)