Oh, Hey, Look, A Distraction

I like to write, draw, and design clothes. I'm here to follow more than to be followed, but what the heck, I'm here, have some art. Somehow this has turned into a bunch for Daughter of the Lilies fan art: not complaining, just observing.

[pyronado-moved]

Please stop trigger tagging with #epilepsy tw/cw/warning/etc.

I need every single person to understand how horrible tumblr’s tagging system is

I go into the tag for epilepsy and its all flashing lights. We can’t use our own tag because people without epilepsy fill it up with improper warnings.

Use ‘flashing’ in place of ‘epilepsy’ in your tags. You aren’t warning people of epileptics, you’re warning us of flashing lights. Please please tag properly. Epileptics say this endlessly and constantly and it’s ignored. You are risking lives by doing this.

Here’s proof of what I mean:

THIS POST IS 100% OKAY TO REBLOG, I ENCOURAGE PEOPLE WITHOUT EPILEPSY TO ESPECIALLY DO SO!

[listing-to-port]

Nine gothic misfortunes

1. You have an enormous black dog which must be walked for four hours daily or it puts its excess energy to use in lighting witch-fires in awkward places. One day you were feeling a little ill, so you asked the unreliable narrator to walk the dog instead. The unreliable narrator faithfully walked the dog for four hours. It is a complete mystery as to why everything is on fire.

2. You hid under the grand staircase to escape that thing that was knocking at your window in the height of the storm. Now there is a ‘delivery failed’ notice on the mat. You are going to have to pick up your artisan cheeses from the local depot twenty miles away.

3. The malign spirit possessing you has lapsed on its ghastly rent, and as a consequence you have been re-possessed by a bailiff. It is somewhat alarming to be in the possession of a supernatural bailiff. Your body spends more time in the high court of the dead that you would like.

4. You came to this graveyard on the cliff over the sea at the dead of night with the intent of digging up the grave of your long-lost love, which you believe to contain the silver dagger that alone can settle her unquiet ghost. It is a stressful situation. You were never very good at numbers when stressed. You believe you may have taken twenty rather than thirty paces from the old yew tree and may in consequence have dug up a badger.

5. A dread raven has settled over your door, from which it hourly proclaims your doom. You made a plan to get rid of the raven. The raven network appears to have got hold of this plan, because another smaller raven turned up to perch on the shoulder of the first and proclaim its doom. Now a third, even smaller one has turned up. You have recursive ravens. There is probably a lot of doom about to come down.

6. Lacking a cellar, you have walled up your rival beneath your floorboards. Unfortunately your rival is a mouse and seems to be enjoying it down there. Will the cheese board will never be safe?

7. Now that they the have closed the refinery across the bay, the mist no longer descends over the high moor at night and as a consequence gruesome deeds cannot be done unnoticed. You have a huge to-do list of gruesome deeds. The local undertaker has started to call you up regarding supply chain issues.

8. You have been staring into this abyss for some considerable time. It is not gazing back. In point of fact it is ignoring you completely. It looks like you will be going home alone tonight.

9. Your grandmother has refused to pass down the ancestral curse, instead bequeathing it to the local cats’ home.

[catchymemes]

[tealambit]

I just need more tall girls right now

[nanowrimo]

30 Covers, 30 Days: Day 8

Every November, during National Novel Writing Month, thirty professional designers volunteer to create book cover art inspired by novels being written by aspiring authors from around the globe. Why? To encourage new, diverse voices, and help build a more creative world.  

30 Covers, 30 Days is presented in partnership with designer and author Debbie Millman. Read more about these NaNoWriMo 2018 novels-in-progress, and the cover designers, below.

Keep reading

[tealambit]

Sorry I’ve been mostly off tumblr for a while, I really am still working on Lys Noire-- but I’m also working on an original noir-inspired story for Nanowrimo, and my story idea got chosen for 30 Covers, 30 days... and I just kind of needed someone to scream in excitement to. It’s so pretty...

[plutothewitch]

september will be kind. september will be magical. september will bring the missing energy. september will be working towards our goals and self. september will be a month full of growth.

[tealambit]

I could use a good September.

[tealambit]

Lys Noire Page One | Page Three

Your eyes do not deceive you; it’s Page 4 of Lys Noire. And, eh, that’s all I got to say, really. The proportions and sizes are still messy as all get out, but Brent in panel two is about as on model as I’ve ever drawn him so there’s that. TRANSCRIPT: Angela: Charming set up you have here, Mr. Orrig. Orrig: (v.o.) She vas about three foot nothing–haff dvarf. She played it cool but I could see her hands shake. Thistle: Won’t you please sit down, Ms– Angela: Armati. Angela Armati. And I’ll sit if Muscles over there does. Pointing to Brent They grow you big in this part of town. I get a crick in my neck just being in the same room. Brent: Muscles? Lyra: Armati– Like the car? Angela: Exactly like the car. My father founded Armati Automotive. Now I own the factory. What’s left of it. Lyra: You’d better start at the beginning, Doll. ——– And here we formally meet Angela Armati, owner of a big name car factory. And I don’t know what’s going on with her dress, I started with casual twenties then added sleeves for some reason. It’s an anachronistic mess but what about this project isn’t? Also I did come up with Angela’s character before seeing Greatest Showman, but I now want to sing “This is Me” everytime I draw her beard. Also, plot. That’s a thing now. Lys Noire is an AU fancomic based on Daughter of the Lilies by @bludragongal. I also owe a big thanks to @creative-type because her awesome Murder of Arthur Wright fic gave me a kick in the pants to finally get this page done. If you even remotely like this, go read that.

[tealambit]

Lys Noire Page One | Page Two | Page Four

Lys Noire Page 3. Re-uploaded; last time I was lazy and posted a photo of the page instead of using my scanner (mainly because said scanner is too small for my sketchbook and it’s a pain to cobble multiple scans together) but I just haven’t been happy with the image quality so I decided to do it again.

TRANSCRIPT:

Orrig (v.o.): Vas raining bullets outside, like sky vas at var. Maybe vun ve vere losing.

Lyra: So, what is this case anyway? Eaugh, not another referral from DeBries.

Brent: Ugh.

Thistle: DeBries? Who’s that?

Brent: Another detective agency– bigger.

Lyra: And they all have sticks up CENSORED.

Brent: If they referred something to us, it’s a case they wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole.

Orrig (v.o.): This kind ov veather is bad news for detective. Regular clients don’t come out vhen they need boat to get around.

Orrig: DeBries or not, I vant you on best behavior. New client should be here soon.

Orrig (v.o.): So, day like this, the only clients who come are clients who are desperate.

Lyra: Fine. But if they think I’m the secretary the way the last guy did, punching him counts as my best behavior.

Thistle: I’m not sure it works like–

Lyra: Do you remember the one with the monkey that stole Brent’s gun? Ha!

Brent: Hey. That wasn’t–

Lyra: You should have seen his face!

Brent: Shut up!

Angela: (Listening to all this from the hallway) … Swell.

————

Most film noir mysteries start when a beautiful femme fatale in a red dress walks through the door. I’ll let you decide if I succeeded in making my dwarf OC beautiful, you’ll have to take my word for it on the red– but is she a femme fatale? We’ll see.

Anyway, this is page 3 of a fan comic based on the exceptional Daughter of the Lilies by @bludragongal. You can follow along with the tag #lysnoire

[creative-type]

The Murder of Author Wright II

First

AO3

Chapter Two: Dashiell Cain

Margot was working on her third cup of coffee when she heard the knock on her office door. Two days had passed the disastrous events of the mage’s conference, more than enough time for news of Margot’s involvement to spread like wildfire through the Academy staff when she wanted nothing more to be left alone to work on lesson plans. Margot slid further in her chair and pretended she was invisible.

Keep reading

[tealambit]

OK, so @creative-type does some fantastic fanfiction, and now when I stop paying attention to tumblr for a few weeks she goes and puts up her own noir detective story. Seeing as I’m writing Lys Noire at roughly a page a year, you should all go read this now. It’s fantastic.

[tealambit]

Wanted to do a little sort-of-comic about one of my OCs from that mashup meme I did a bit ago. Ruth is an amnesiac skeleton detective with a human looking glamour that disappears in direct light. And she wears a fedora. I'm inordinately fond of her already. Also, good practice drawing skeletons. Transcript: Ruth: I remember waking up in an alley. Alone, wearing a filthy hospital gown--but my skin looked clean. Tattoo: RNGYN029 Ruth: ...Well, mostly clean. But I *felt* dirty. And numb. And then when I saw the sunlight hit my foot... Ruth: ...I didn't take it too well. Ruth: Before that? It's all a blank. For all I know, I was *born* in that alley, into someone else's bones. Funny, I guess. My first unsolved case is my own.

[tealambit]

Old sketch I found today that was actually pretty decent

[yesterdaysprint]

Altoona Tribune, Pennsylvania, April 30, 1957

[tealambit]

Can’t the answer be both?

[shiropoint]

This is mesmerizing to watch.

[fuu-dog-treats]

actually physically painful to watch because you know months were spent masking all those frames for each of the kajillions of transitions in this

[ask-ickle-mod]

[thatsthat24]

Holy………..shmokes…….

[mozzarella-shenanigans]

Oh?? My god??

[pomrania]

I’ll try my best to describe this. It’s a video with a mash-up of a bunch of different Disney movies, set to a song that’s a mash-up of a bunch of other songs. That in and of itself wouldn’t make it praiseworthy, but this is DONE SO WELL that just, holy cow.

[drawnsnake]

HOLY SHIT

[tealambit]

Finally saw Coco a couple of weeks ago, and I’m a little bit obsessed. Día de los Muertos is my jam, so I expected to like it, but it was even better than I was hoping for. So, anyway, did a sketch of my new favorite undead couple. I had fun doing some more stylized skeletons for this.

[tealambit]

So there's this meme I've seen where you take 9 of your favorite characters and combine them to make a new original character that reveals your "type". I've seen some really cool ones --my favorite is probably Turing by @shazzbaa but there are a lot of amazing characters people have come up with this way. So I wanted to give it a try. I wasn't sure if I actually had a "type" of favorite character. Well, it quickly became obvious that I have *two* types. I have a long long list of characters who are either 1) Some combination of Fedora wearing, undead, and/or a detective or 2) Smart, socially awkward misunderstood people who have issues with being touched. (So basically me. Hm.) I'm more self conscious about this than I expected, I guess I'm pretty predictable. But, anyway, I cheated and made two characters. An undead detective and her roommate, an adorkable necromancer. You might be seeing more of these ladies because I had fun making them. Inspiration characters are listed below. Ruth Nguyen: 1. Nancy Drew, from the Nancy Drew books 2. {...}, from the webcomic Hana is Not a Boy's Name 3. York, from the video game Deadly Premonition 4. The Spine, from Steam Powered Giraffe 5. Skullduggery Pleasant, from the Skullduggery Pleasant books 6. Joey Mallone, from the Blackwell games 7. Ichabod Crane, from the Sleepy Hollow tv show 8. Blackjack Justice, from the Decoder Ring Theatre podcast 9. Harry Dresden, from the Dresden Files books Gabby Rodriguez 1. Steris, from the Mistborn books 2. Sidney Malik, from the webcomic Widdershins 3. Leo Valdez, from the Heroes of Olympus 4. Raven, from the webcomic Archipelago 5. Sylvester, from the tv show Scorpion 6. Froncœr (sp?), from the movie A Monster in Paris 7. Thistle, from the webcomic Daughter of the Lilies 8. Warrick, from the webcomic Namesake 9. Newt Scamander, from the movie Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

[tealambit]

1920s Thistle by Tealambit

Ugh, February is eating me alive, but I did find a little time to color this! I’m not really happy with the skin tone–it ended up way too yellow, but I had fun with the dress. 

Thistle is by @bludragongal, though if you somehow stumble across this without knowing that already then, boy, you need to go read Daughter of the Lilies because you are missing out. 

[tealambit]

Wanted to draw a reference picture of Lyra's weapon of choice in my Dieselpunk AU. Then I drew Lyra in a trench coat and a cloche hat to go with it. The scan is kind of rough, but you get the idea. Lyra is from Daughter of the Lillies by @bludragongal. If you are looking at my last pic of 20s-esque Thistle and then at this vaguely 40s Lyra and saying, "Hey, Teal, what the heck decade is this Lys Noire thing supposed to be in anyway?" then the answer is that I'm going for rule of cool over historical accuracy and throwing in whatever I think will be fun to draw from the 20s to the 50s. So... all of them. It's a quirky hand-drawn AU of a post apocalyptic fantasy story that I'm mainly drawing because clothes and precious babies; I'm not going to worry overmuch about pinning it to a real world date.

[tealambit]

I couldn't resist contributing to the rush of fanart of Thistle-with-face in pretty dresses, so here she is in my Dieselpunk AU, partying like it's 1929. I'm pretty happy happy with how this turned out; I might go back and color this one later. Thistle is from Daughter of the Lillies, by @bludragongal.