#vocation comic

[butchjesus]

ocelot sleeps like he's dead

[image ID: a digital sketch in blue of ocelot, a thin and muscular person with light skin, short shaggy hair, and tattoos, laying facedown in his underwear in a bed with his arms and legs akimbo. end ID]

[hee-blee-art]

poster / cover mockups for vocation issue 1, first blood

[image ID: several versions, crops, and combinations of two digital illustrations, arranged to make a poster design. the first illustration shows glasses (he/him), a thin chinese-canadian man with light skin, short black hair, a sharp face, several scars, and round glasses, positioned shirtless with his hands tied by a shirt above his head and his torso sectioned with dotted marker lines and x-marks, his nose bleeding and his face set in a scowl. the second shows ocelot, a tall thin white norwegian man with light skin, shaggy brown hair, rounded cheekbones, a scar on the right side of his face and left of his neck, and several tattoos, dressed in a white t-shirt, holding up his hands, which are dripping blood, with several red laser dots aimed at his chest and head, smiling and talking calmly. the poster design has the comic's title, "vocation," vertically down the middle, with each drawing on either side. the poster also has the tagline, "stick to your day job, no matter what." end ID]

[hee-blee-art]

the rituals are intricate... might post more panels / versions on twitter

[image ID: three greyscale digital drawings of glasses, a skinny chinese-canadian man with light skin, short dark hair, and round glasses; and ocelot, a thin and tall white norwegian man with light skin, medium-light shaggy hair, tattoos, and a scar across the right side of his face. the first shows ocelot pinning glasses' hands to the wall above his head as glasses says, "I can't wait to wipe that stupid smile off your face." ocelot replies, "and how're you gonna do that, glass?" with a smile. the second shows a close up of ocelot laying on his back as a shoe presses against his chin and collarbone. the third shows ocelot in an office chair and glasses knelt in front of him with his hands bound as ocelot presses his foot to glasses' thigh. end ID]

[hee-blee-art]

frames of judge and cignetti for a silly meme that turned out beautifully

[image ID: five digital illustrations of judge (she/her), a tall strong slim woman with light skin, short light blonde hair, and several scars, including one through her left eyebrow, dressed in a tank top and shorts; and cignetti (he/him) a tall strong slim man with light skin, curly brown hair in a undercut mullet, a moustache, and several scars, including one along his right cheekbone and around the side of his head, connecting to his partially missing ear, dressed in a red buttoned shirt and striped pants. image 1 shows cignetti sitting casually and holding judge's hand to his mouth to kiss, smiling slyly and talking with no dialogue visible. image 2 shows the two of them sitting comfortably face to face in a bed, judge responding with a tilter head. image 3 shows cignetti leans over judge and presses her hand to his throat, smiling and talking as she gazes up at him lovingly. image 4 shows cignetti straddling judge, who is now laying down, with her hands on his neck and thigh. image 5 shows cignetti peeling his shirt off, revealling the back of a sparkly, lacy bralette. end ID.]

[hee-blee-art]

judge & cignetti, two assassins very much in love

[image ID: six digital illustrations of judge (she/her), a tall strong slim woman with light skin, short light blonde hair, and several scars, including one through her left eyebrow; and cignetti (he/him) a tall strong slim man with light skin, curly brown hair in a undercut mullet, a moustache, and several scars, including one along his right cheekbone and around the side of his head, connecting to his partially missing ear. in image 1, they are shown dancing on a red background, both smiling, with cignetti in a black turtleneck, blank pants, and leg harness, and judge in a black cocktail dress with a garter harness knife visible. image 2 is a sketch page showing cignetti in different poses and outfits, and image 3 is the same for judge. image 4 shows cignetti sitting casually and holding judge's hand to his mouth to kiss, smiling slyly and talking. image 5 shows judge dressed in slacks and a white collared shirt embracing cignetti dressed in a shiny satin dress, overlayed with a screenshot of a tumblr post by queerpunksrock that reads "a guy and a girl can be gay for each other if they're bisexual and their genders are weird enough." in image 6, cignetti leans over judge and presses her hand to his throat, smiling and talking as she gazes up at him lovingly. end ID.]

[hee-blee-art]

some vocation test panels <3 sleepy idiots

[image ID: two versions of a two-panel comic page featuring glasses, a thin guy with light skin and messy dark hair cuddled up in a duvet in bed, and ocelot, a thin tattooed guy with light skin and light shaggy hair sprawled out on a couch. the first version is greyscale, and the second is monochrome pink. end ID]

[hee-blee-art]

I would really li r to hear as much as you're willing to tell us about glasses and ocelot 👀

oh I'd love to talk about glasses and ocelot /gen >:) [cw: guns, violence, murder]

glasses is a "commercial assassin / hitman" working as a long-term agent for a company that handles mostly white-collar contract kills. he's a very talented sharpshooter / sniper despite having fairly poor eyesight. has like half of a physics degree (dropped out). loves shooting, used to do archery as a kid / teen and would go to a (gun) shooting range to blow off steam in uni, where he was approached by a rep of the company he ends up working for and offered a job, which he leaves his entire life behind to take (for multiple reasons). his nickname comes from the fact that it's very uncommon for people in his "field" to wear glasses; most wear contacts or get corrective surgery if needed, but he hates both of those things, so it became a bit of a teasing nickname among his coworkers that stuck. his "real" name—which is to say the name attached to the new fabricated identity that he was assigned & assumed when he joined the company—is lixin zhao, but no one aside from his boss calls him that. is almost always detached, carefully collected, and guarded. he keeps everyone at arm's length or much farther, only has good social skills when he's undercover or acting on the job, and has essentially no hobbies. his job is his everything to him, and he's one of the company's top employees, but he has no life to speak of outside of it and nearly everyone who meets him outside of his on-the-job personas thinks he's rude, arrogant, generally unpleasant or just boring, save for two of his coworkers—cignetti and judge—who have a strange part-bully part-rival frenemy sort of affinity for him. very professional and careful on the job but also fairly irresponsible and self-destructive. sleeps with his gun in his bed. overall a pretty big mess of a human being, but good at hiding it. enjoys simple things in life—good cooking, fresh air, sunrises. privately, he loves the ocean, and whenever he is afforded the time and ability he goes to the beach or out on boats to surf, swim, or just stand at the water's edge, which are the only times he truly feels at peace. one of the best moment of his life was watching blue whales while undercover on a cruise near portugal—which was also where he first met ocelot.

ocelot simply calls himself a freelancer, but has been variously identified by others as an eclectic criminal, a professional torturer, a serial killer, a cult leader, a high-ranking mafia member, among others throughout his "career." he doesn't work for any kind of organization, but he has had lots of different affiliations at various times, most criminal, some famous, and few both. no one knows anything about his life before age 20 when he was among the crewmembers rescued from a collapsing oil rig in the north sea—no one could find any record of how he got there or of him at all before then. he is clever, charming, intelligent, ruthless, highly adaptive, and quite impulsive—though he is also very good at thinking on his feet, twisting situations in his favour, and claims to have very good luck. he's also just kind of a freak. operates according to a personal code and his own whims, which are both very strange and hard to discern. ocelot was a codename shared between several intelligence, investigative, and law enforcement entities that he kept managing to evade early in his career, and after a significant intel leak by a rogue hacker, it became his brand so to speak, and he liked it, so he started going by it almost exclusively. he has given his "real" name on several occasions as aksel gunnar, but no one has ever been able to confirm that in any concrete legal way at least, and assume that is another alias. he's somewhat of a celebrity criminal, though very few people know much about him, and no one knows or understands him holistically (himself included). he is extremely dangerous and wanted by lots of people, governments and criminal organizations alike, both dead and alive. would wax poetic with equal passion about arts, astronomy, ancient civilizations, power dynamics, cuisine, and gore. hates guns, loves knives. he has several distinctive tattoos, including norwegian rosemaling designs on his chest, a norwegian textile inspired band on his left arm, and a smiling stylized sun on his right forearm. he also has several distinctive scars, including the ones on the right side of his face and the left side of his neck. overall, he's very visible, and often times doesn't really bother trying to stay hidden. very brash, big ego, definitely a romantic in a fucked up kind of way. he's very intrigued by glasses, convinced that the reason that they keep running into each other is that they're fated to be in each other's lives in some significant way, a notion that glasses vocally detests, but he can't deny the strange way their paths seem to intertwine.