#thetimtale

[leenalecklin]

I decided to go through my old drawings and maybe finish a couple of them. Here’s a pair of robots standing in a cool pose ready to file your taxes! 📑🤖

[talincomillart]

I drew @leenalecklin‘s character Tim! <3 he’s a good egg

[leenalecklin]

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! 🎄❤️❄️ I drew Tim as a tiny Christmas tree and now he’s ready to lighten up the dark winter night 🌟

[leenalecklin]

In my story Robin de Silva is the fire fighter who rescues Tim - and also adopts him later on. However, he had a bad tendency to take huge risks on the duty. So after couple of years raising Tim he gets killed on a mission, and Tim is moved to a foster home where the main story begins. Tim’s mask was also originally Silva’s old ceremonial mask: there is a resemblance in the facial features, since most of the masks are custom made for the person wearing them. I’ve been trying to study how to draw muscles as Robin is a beefy old man. 💪 It’s still hard but I’m getting there

[leenalecklin]

I’ve been following TimTale for… two, going onto three? years, and that’s not that long of a time, honestly, but I still have such, like. Nostalgic emotions associated with it. Makes me really happy. ALSO can I say that I’ve always loved how distinct Tim’s body language is? He always seems kinda hunched in on himself, a bit like he’s trying to make himself smaller. Somehow it makes him feel more distinct. ANYWAYS I hope you have a great week!!!!

Agh, Thank you so much! It really means a world to me. Yeah, Timtale has really been a long-term project of mine. (How long has it been? 4 years? 5?) It moves on super slowly, as for the most of the time it’s my last priority after the school and my freelance work - but it makes me really happy to work on it even little by little.❤️ 

Being invisible is exactly what he’s trying to do - and he’s so used to do it that he can’t let it go even when he’s with his friends or all by himself. And he’s quite small to begin with - people get surprised when I tell them Tim is only 150 cm (4′11′’) tall. He’s a tiny boy. 

[leenalecklin]

show us the boy without his mask

Like this? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[leenalecklin]

Only the cool kids wear shorts over jeans and bobble hats over caps ⭐⭐ and Tim is coolest of them all!

I finally bought my very first Cintiq tablet where I can actually draw directly on the screen - and this was the piece I practiced how to use it. I’m starting to get used to it little by little. It feels quite weird I don’t have to draw the same line 14 times to get it right like before.

[leenalecklin]

Is there somewhere I can learn more about TimTale (I've tried your blogs)? I'm very intrigued I think I've found a gem haha

Gosh! Thank you so much for the interest! I’m afraid there’s nothing else you can find so far. Except maybe my new Instagram account where I have (and planning to add more) some extra wip stuff I haven’t uploaded here (https://www.instagram.com/leenalecklin/). 

I’ve been working on turning the story into a comic to be able to tell it all in reasonable amount of work, but it’s a slow process. I have my school, and then I have a job to pay my school. So after all that I have only little time for myself. 

The sketching process is going really well with the comic, though. Next thing I have to learn is how to draw muscles. I’ve never been too happy with my muscle-drawing skills, and the firefighter who rescues Tim in the prologue should have a pretty robust build. So it has been lot of grinding teeth and filling a new Pinterest board with references and examples. But I’ll get there. I’m gonna learn how to draw muscles, dammit! I’m gonna have some fabulous muscular old dudes in my comic just wait for it! I’m working hard to make the comic to happen asap!

Here’s a tiny teaser to make you feel better. :)