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My art blog where I reblog or post all my art. Not all of the posts are mine, but the art will be. My main blog is banemmanan.

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Felt like I should have one of these to make me feel like a legit social media artist 😎✌️

Make no mistake though, this is just a hobby. I could never manage the mountain of self-marketing required to be a working artist. I have a lot of respect for that 🙏

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It is my birthday! Hooray!

In true Hobbit fashion, I should like to gift to you, the tumblr public, some art on this momentous day. Sadly, I actually have no finished artworks to share.

Ideally, I would have liked to have posted way more of that Blake's 7 comic by now; my aim was at least once a month. I broke my leg in January (a real ao3 author problem, I know) and bizzarely I actually had less time to work on this than more. Even I sit here and wonder what exactly I was doing with my time.

HOWEVER! The initial sketched out version of the comic was finished back in December. And when I say "initial sketch" - these are little blob people. I lament sometimes that these guys actually have so much more personality and expressiveness than the finished artwork due to how rushed they are... As such, I have collected together some of my favourite silly little faces as a sneak preview of what is to come in the comic.

Anyway, the rest is below the cut so that you don't have to scroll half a mile to get to the next post lol.

First, I present to you these Gan and Cally sketches, which are actually from pages that I have already posted, but I just think that they look really cute:

Here is an example of a full sequence and the silly placeholder dialogue that I put in there so that I know where I am in the story if my sketches get especially lazy and hard to distinguish:

More silly placeholder dialogues:

(get his ass, Vila!) (wdym you can't tell that that is supposed to be Vila!?)

(Yeah ok, Gan, whatever. Hm, seems like the perfect time to play a new game that I just made up all by myself...)

"Who's that Pokemon Blake's 7 character???":

And now just miscellaneous doodles that I like a lot :D

Me, tearing up at my own drawings: "they're so small! they're just little guys!"

This is my artistic interpretation of Avon using his we-definitely-did-not-just-heist-that-casino voice:

Tiny Vila being praised (let him have this moment):

OK, that's me done. Enjoy the rest of your days and I promise that eventually I will finish this comic which has low-key taken over my entire life (haha kms).

(fr if I had only posted page one in a slightly more cleaned-up version of these doodles, I'd have been finished before the new year)

Answers to the pokemon character guessing game from earlier (L-R): Vila, Blake, Jenna. Give yourself a shiny if you got them all right!

More fun games to play: identify the finished panels for these doodles when I eventually post them. Reward: a gold star (emoji)!

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The Stress Before the Storm

(and the Calm After It)

Part 2 of 9

A Secret Orac gift for @helenonthehill-images

Ao3: script version & prose version

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The Stress Before the Storm

(and the Calm After It)

Part 1 of 9

A Secret Orac gift for @helenonthehill-images

Ao3: script version & prose version

*Start* | [next] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

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Each square represents a piece of information: a fact, a reason for that fact, or a conclusion that might be drawn from that fact. You keep shifting the squares until you achieve a pattern that makes sense. 

The next time I'm going to write something, I'll definitely use it. Thank you, Avon.

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What if it's actually a fidget toy but he doesn't want to admit it?

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Happy Thunderbirds Day!

Here is the meme that basically started my artistic Thunderbirds journey 😌✨️

Along with my inspiration

(they're the same picture...)

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Me, whispering to myself as I painstakingly erase by hand all the white background pixels for each image that the magic wand tool missed: It's just a meme, you don't have to do this. You're putting them onto such a low-res background pic that nobody's going to be able to see anything anyway. You could even go back and find a bigger background picture, it's not too late, you haven't even posted this yet...

Narrator voice:

and then she didn't.

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Some doodles I made whilst watching Lord Parker's 'Oliday

Thoughts on the episode:

Dude, that's the TARDIS console

Solar power, how... revolutionary...

Socks and sandals? I see that Parker really is a true Englishman!

I love fancy dress parties - somebody invite me to one; it's been too long! 😔

Cass has got himself a new job 👀

Good to see that Lady Penelope's driving has improved! Nevermind, she just drove off a pier... oh, she meant to do that, ok.

So International Rescue are allowed to take pictures but nobody's allowed to take pictures of them? This is a double standard! Smh... 😤

Why is he trying to slide his way up that slippery metal when there's a perfectly good frame right next to him that he could pull himself up with? 🤨

Having seen some of the falls that the puppets in this show have supposedly survived unscathed from, I was genuinely surprised by that bait-and-switch, ngl

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Some doodles I made whilst watching Alias Mr. Hackenbacker

Thoughts on the episode:

No way, that wasn't even a Fireflash!

He even has sunglasses on in his pass photo - how the hell did that get cleared by security!? 😭

Now he's taken off his sunglasses in the observation room? So he wasn't even using them to go incognito?? I have so many questions for you, Brains! And even more for the airport security manager!!

I was really hoping that they'd have burnt Alan's ugly jacket after season 1... 😑

Is anything not bugged in this room!? 😭

EVEN THE SUGAR! These guys need to stoppp!!!

Saved by the bell! He didn't have to try and remember Hackenbacker again lmao (same, bruh, same 🤝 I can never remember names for the life of me)

Not even Brains can remember it now - it's spreading!

Sdfghjkl you would say that! 🤣

Parker ready to snipe some more pernods...

Man, all these 2065 airplanes are so bougie, I'm looking forward to being able to sit in one of these in 40 years' time...

Me: huh, why is Tin-Tin here suddennly?

Tin-Tin: I can't wait to hear all about the fashion show!

Me: explains everything. Good for you, Tin-Tin; you definitely wheedled your way into being there for your ulterior motives, but I 100% support you for it

WOW! What an ugly dress!

High-key no.29 eats tho. However, all that tartan and she literally has a sporran on and you want me to believe that this look is French-inspired? Buddy, you can't just stick a beret on anything and call it French! Add a pom-pom to the top and it may as well be a tam o' shanter!

#35 & #36 are mid-as-hell.

The finale outfits are all a total traversty.

Thank you for coming to my debilitating fashion critique

Turns out that Madeline was with the fashion police this whole time 😞

"I think you'd better give me that" bro, has that ever actually worked?

I'm getting the bad feeling that John won't be in this episode 😔 it being series 2, you'd think that the writers would be older and wiser and realise that this is an unacceptable situation 😞

"They won't be needing those" okay but that plane was still on fire despite the ejected fuel so I kind of think that maybe we keep the fire engines around...

Sdfghjkl Alias Mr. Steal-Your-Girl 😎

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Some doodles I made whilst watching Path of Destruction

Thoughts on the episode:

I love Crablogger - it has little hands!

That kitchen! 🤢

Listen, I eat absolutely anything - but I would not touch that with a 10ft pole! Disgwstang!

Oh, he's sick? Yeah, I'm not surprised!

"I can handle it!" Immediately passes out. Dude, ffs, why wouldn't you just shut it down? No way in hell did you not feel that you were about to pass out!

Big fan of Brains' jacket 👌

What were they doing to that man!?

Looks like that guy that Lady Penelope ran off the road in Vault of Death...

Since they're in Crablogger now, could they not manually steer it in a non-destructive direction until the timer runs out? Or, you know, not towards a ledge?

I forgot about those jet-pack thingys, I totally thought they were toast!

Things to add to Lady P's casualty list in her trail of destruction: an impending divorce.

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Some doodles I made whilst watching Atlantic Inferno

Thoughts on the episode:

Firstly: I am back! Hope you didn't mind the break, but posting for 30-odd days in a row really took it out of me lmao, but I'm back now for the last home stretch! 😎👉👉

The second I saw a manicured hand followed by an explosion, I knew for sure that it was Lady Penelope!

Dunno why Jeff is so surprised, she's always exploding things

Scott looks kinda weird, did they give him a facelift? I don't like it! 😑

Oh no, did they change Virgil's voice as well? He sounds weird...

Where's John's hair swoop!? What is going on here??? Season 2 is not off to a great start! 🤨

They have new portraits!

I love how Scott keeps calling John, like, "anything happening yet?" 👉👈

"Great, she's sinking!" is not a phrase that you hear often out at sea...

Jeff's just mad that he wasn't at home for the rescue! 😤

Gordon: Bruh, you've changed in the last couple of hours 😔

Scott: Yeah, well two hours ago dad hadn't yelled at me yet 😢

sdghkjkhlf 🤣

100% they'll be needed now and aren't going to go...

"They're gonna need my help!" Jeff, they're big boys now, you have to trust them with this

"C'mon, baby! Faster! Faster!" Like father, like son 🥺💕 cute!

Lady P looks so good in her plane fit!

Sdfghjkl Scott refusing to let Jeff land! 😭

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I do not know Gerry Anderson personally, but I would fistfight his ghost in a Co-op car park

(this is just a joke, I am sure that Mr. Anderson didn't actually hate John, but I think the concept is very funny)

(...now ask me if I really believe that...)

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Some doodles I made whilst watching Security Hazard

Thoughts on the episode:

Oh look, Gordon's home - wonder if they'll let him say anything this episode... 🙄

At least one line! 😃👍 back to my regularly scheduled "will John be in this episode?" concerns

Ew, Scott's jacket is ugly af

Why is Gordon in the Getting-Told-Off line-up??? He wasn't even there! 😭

Sfhkhkldjd Virgil is so offended by this child!

Alan failed at hurdle 1 ffs

This child is going to gaslight, manipulate, girlboss his way into all the secrets of International Rescue! 😭

"Well at least he's with Scott now, he won't get anything out of him" Jeff, your favouritism is showing again

Immediate cut to Scott showing the kid TB1 💀

Jeff you hypocrite!

Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss! 😌💅

So no John? 🤨 fml Chip, you're a fake IR fan if you didn't even think to ask about Thunderbird 5 - these guys can't keep a secret to save their lives, they'd have put you on a video call to John straight away! 😩

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Some doodles I made whilst watching The Cham-Cham

Thoughts on the episode:

I always love it when we get a bit of domestic Tracy time.

Virgil, you're so talented bbgirl! 😔💕

Ugh, I want a gazebo like that in my garden

Dude, cook is way too good for you, stop dreaming

Lady Penelope always eating with every outfit in this show gd

Tin-Tin should be flying the Ladybird every episode, why tf have they been gatekeeping pilot Tin-Tin from us? 😤

We should have gotten more Penelope & Tin-Tin team-up episodes too while I'm on the subject of gatekeeping

Tbf, as lounge music goes, Dangerous Game does kinda slap

Not the fucking snowball with limbs sticking out! 😭

Ffs, they've lost like 3(?) planes at this point and they're not willing to take a chance that this is International Rescue for realzies this time? What have they got to lose - another plane?

As catty as Tin-Tin was being earlier, Lady P talk-sings pretty good. Like, it's not amazing, but passable as somebody trying to make a living off of it.

Gordon just fucking disappeared from the episode after thatcone scene where he said absolutely nothing - Give Me The Boy! (John too, but he's at least on TB5 - Gordon is provably at home!)

They're Running Out On Their Bill - That's So Funny! 😭 don't pretend to feel bad about it, Lady P, you do this every second month just for funzies

Cable-car was a mistake; they should've skiied down! 😬

Jesus Christ, I was about to say that "Parker would 100% have been thrown off that roof so fucking fast" AND THEN HE FELL OFF!!! Rip to Parker, I did not respect him, but he had his moments

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I just want to say your constant use of the Peter griffin death meme is SO funny in the Thunderbirds sketches lmaoooooo thank you for drawing it every time, it truly makes my day 😂

Sdfghjllkgjk I just can't help myself 🤣

The first time, I was like "haha, this will will be funny!" And then I just. Kept. Doing. It.

I don't even watch family guy but the death pose has become my entire personality lmao 😔👌

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Some doodles I made whilst watching Martian Invasion

Thoughts on the episode:

Well, the Hood's always been very theatrical. I'm pleased to see that he's making a new career for himself in the movie industry 😊 (there's no way that this is going to be part of a scheme)

You're telling me that he has all those masks and yet he still uses the exact same one every time?

Hood unwittingly facilitating father-daughter bonding time between Kyrano and Tin-Tin

This has actually been one of the Hood's better plans tbf

Nevermind, why'd he just leave his mask behind? That's his favourite one!

Uh-uh, rumbled!

Lmao, why does Scott sound like a disappointed parent? "I'm gonna count to 5!" 😂

Regrets? Yeah, you could say that... why in the hell did I think it would be a good idea to draw the Hood in his stupid little outfit 7 times!? When I tell you guys that I was at my absolute limit... 🫠

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Some doodles I made whilst watching Attack of the Alligators!

Thoughts on the episode:

"Looks like we've got a storm coming up" so what's the boatman supposed to do? Just get rained on? No wonder he's so grouchy!

The river is full of weed, you say? Might take a trip there myself...

"That's some lettuce you've been feeding them with!" You're telling me that the rabbits are on the weed too? Who isn't around here!?

Maybe Virgil should stay and supervise actually? Or maybe Alan should attach himself to the tower with some kind of safety wire?? OR MAYBE BOTH??? (calling OSHA on their asses)

You're telling me John's been all alone up there with no contact from home at all? 😔 at least grandma seems to be worried about him

On the one hand, Culp is clearly up to no good - but on the other hand, these guys have all been bitches to him so they kinda deserve whatever's about to happen 🤷

Oops, it's all gone down the sink! You know what that means tho - gonna get some HUGE weed growing in the river now! 😎👉👉

You know, gang? I think they should send Gordon on this one...

Success! Gordon deployed! Maybe he'll even get a speaking role this episode...

Virgil: Scott stopped responding once he went into the dangerous situation, I'm worried!

Jeff: Eh, he's probably fine

Me: Jeff, I'm calling CPS

Gordon got a whole line! Aw, I've missed this guy!

He's not even looking where he's going - he's going to hover straight into a tree!

WHAT DID I SAY!?!? It honestly serves him right, the alligator deserves a little snack for that

"And you know what that means!" Does he though? Considering that Scott went radio silent as soon as he got to the house to discover everything, isn't Virgil still working under the assumption that this is all a freaky mutation?

These alligators better not eat my boy!

Why are they being so cagey about this rescue? 🤨

Are they implying that Tin-Tin is a serial animal adopter and they didn't want to give her ideas? My mum too, which is great for me actually because it means our house is full of cats

Tin-Tin: