Bandaged Mackerel

Artist with total aphantasia 🥀 Hyperfixations are my reason to live ✨ Commissions open✨

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He's not good with all that Italian gibberish 😔

God I just LOVE his color pallete, he was so much fun to color

Yusuf my beloved 🫶

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I spent way too long on this but to this day it's one of my favorite pieces of digital art I've made

Can you tell I like sepia? Surely not /s

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Ah Yusuf my beloved..

Yet another side character I went and got attached to. I thought 'surely, this guy will be fine. He's a master assassin, look at him'

...

So YEA

He is greatly missed 🥀

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Aging like a fine wine, this man

It looks a bit off, but it was meant to be more of a doodle that turned into a messy.. Whatever this is

Is it just me or do all in-game models of like.. Most if not all characters have the same eye color? Like. I know in the descriptions they say blue or gray or amber. But they all look hazel/greenish to me. Maybe I need to get my eyes checked

(Especially La Volpe. His eyes do not look VIOLET in the slightest, as it said in his character description in the animus database. I feel scammed 🥀 )

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Here's my boy Malik! Named after one of my favorite characters in AC

I know he doesn't exactly resemble Malik, but I hope the vibes are there. I really like how his necklace turned out ❤️

I'm planning on changing his eye chips to a dark brown soon!

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I still haven't found what to add to the other side of the bookmark, any quotes and ideas are obviously welcome!

So yeah! This is my bookmark for 'Renaissance'. I'm really proud of that side profile, it came out so crisp 😩

(Yes I know I didn't capitalize the 'A' in Auditore, I just forgot and noticed way after inking. Ah the woes of being dyslexic)

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A bit of an experimental piece, one layer and lineless

The quintessential love language of siblings insulting each other, you love to see it

Would be terrible anything bad happened to either of them hahah..

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Don't mind me coping with his death ✌️

He literally carried the entirety of the creed that day on his own. What a guy

(Yes, there is the argument that if he hadn't tried to stop Altaïr, there mightve not been a fuck up with the assassination of De Sablé, but I can't blame him. He's done no wrong)

Also let's talk about the fact that he forgave Altaïr?? My God. Imaging losing a limb and a sibling to someone and then declining their apology because they've grown enough as a person to apologize in the first place-

RAH.

I'm so normal about him.

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So here's my bookmark for 'The Secret Crusade'

I thought it would be a retelling of the AC1 and Bloodlines, but the additional context in some scenes was very interesting

Also they did my boy Malik so dirty. I grieve his loss every day. He did not get to taste a full day of freedom after years of suffering 🥀

Went and emotionally attached myself to the ONE side character in the game that suffered the worst fate

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"May no one remember your name"

Every eulogy just kept getting better 😩

Ezio is such a drama queen and we're all here for his theatrics

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The one downside to finishing the Ezio trilogy in the span of 5 weeks is the insane bleeding effect between the games. Events that I thought happened in AC2 but were part of a random DLC mission in Brotherhood just catch me off guard

So anyway, the Copernicus monologue had some nice cinematic composition that inspired me for this

(Still very confused on why his outfit was the way that it was, but I'm not judging the drip)

I really like the brotherhood outfit Ezio has, it was very fun to draw

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Am I a bit late to the party? Only by almost 2 decades 😭

So yes, I recently got into AC

By recently, like almost 4 months ago 😅

In that time frame, I have managed to complete all games up to AC3 (started black flags just yesterday!) and I've read through the secret crusade (amazing book, I definitely recommend)

Randomly decided to try Bloodlines on the psp, but I fell headfirst into this franchise. XD

Anyway

As for the drawing, needless to say, as someone who has only played Minecraft, parkour was difficult to get into (resulting in a very clean Ezio, and a lot of doctor visits)

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Simple silly watercolor doodle while watching a video

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Now would be a good time to mention he was inspired by iron maiden's Powerslave

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There's just something so satisfying about drawing his eyes

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The coolest moment my boy had in a dnd oneshot

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I'm sorry Dave 🔴

(I accidentally used the wrong pen while inking his eyes on the second page and blackened them out completely. Truly a nightmare come true when inking 🥀)