Happy 1 Year Anniversary Myth of the Machine!!! 🎉
Bit late but it’s done, and I’m never doing a full colored rendered piece with 30 figures again. I applaud ANY ask blog creators out there for doing this on the regular with those millions of character panels.
Im gonna spare u guys the sentimentality to try and keep this post short but WOW. CONGRATULATIONS TO NORT AND FLY FOR EVEN JUST DARING TO MAKE SUCH A WORK OF ART THAT IS MYTH OF THE MACHINE. This comic genuinely never ceases to amaze me with its writing, art, presentation, meticulous detail and thought and I could go on. But for the most part, I think to me it has mostly shown how through sheer force of will and passion people can create masterpieces, and how that can cause a ripple effect in inspiring and awakening so many other amazing wonderful people to make art. I can say with full sincerity that my life has indefinitely been changed for the better by not only getting to witness but also experience that ripple effect.
I only officially caved and read the full thing in September I think, and I remember how everyone was going INSANE when each of the stars were revealed. Cuphead had just been shot and now Sonic the Hedgehog is here. I drew this up to the coloring stage after the interlude finished then gave up, so that’s why all the characterizations are a bit wonky and the art is so old (dear celestials help me i was still drawing Boris BALD). I based the interactions like 90% off of these charts Nort drew for us, and it was also my first time drawing most of these fellas and had to guess with a lot of the colors (sry i thought Sheba was wearing a denim jacket this whole time). And then I finally stopped procrastinating two days ago and finished the rendering lol.
This is based off a 1940s painting titled ‘The Gossip’ by Norman Rockwell btw.
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