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70s AU Masterpost

This is the first post on my side Tumblr. If you're new to my 1970s Holmes & Watson AU: WELCOME!

I've always wanted to do my own interpretation of Doyle's duo. However, I was never good with Victorian fashion or design. I was always more interested in media, fashion and history from the 40s to the 70s. So, as I was writing my master thesis in 2019 I was thinking: "What if Holmes and Watson met in the early 1970s?" And that's when the 70s AU was born.

While characterizations stay somewhat the same, there are clear differences from Doyle's vision. Watson is now an English-American and a Vietnam War veteran, for example. If you want to know more about that you can read some snippets from my AU here.

This blog will mainly be art, musings and writing about this. Hopefully I'll feel more motivated to do a comic or write more soon. This is truly my passion project, so if you enjoy let me know!

ALSO: Not every post is going to be in chronological order (from earliest to most recent). Plus I do use references for most of my pieces of either myself or from the internet. Just to make that clear.

Again: thank you!

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1970s AU shitpost, featuring Wiggins.

Watson doesn't get service on the phone and is incredibly frustrated. Not easy to get an ambulance, then. Luckily he had a shirt to use as gauze for Holmes' arm, so everything is OK! No wonder Holmes is flustered, though.

Close-ups here:

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"Afterglow" (2024)

I wonder what they've been doing...

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Idea sketch:

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"The Lovers" (2024)

Comes as a set, do not separate.

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70s Mary Morstan and inspector Giles Lestrade

A sketch (sort of) of the two being involved, if you catch my drift! Further along in my 70s AU Mary ends up with the awkward Lestrade, and Lestrade can't comprehend why a tall, beautiful red head wants to be with him. But they fit like a glove, and I think that's swell!

BONUS portrait of Lestrade:

(Never mind that the character design is different, haha.)

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70s Mrs. Hudson & Billy Wiggins

I love these two so much. I put them together since they're like family. Mrs. Hudson is the widowed land lady of the building the boys live in. She's a hard working, sweet woman with a lot of love to give. And the reciever of most of her love is young Billy Wiggins, leader of The Irregulars gang. Wiggins likes to play tough, but he's really a nice, humorous kid. He calls Mrs. Hudson 'auntie', and in return she's the only one allowed to call him by his real name 'William'. The two middle pieces are of an older Wiggins, post-Hiatus.

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70s Mary Morstan

Mary is probably my favourite 70s reinterpretation and her design has been pretty consistent since day one. Her introduction in my AU is very different from the Canon, as the boys meet her in an underground gay bar. She gets dragged into the case the boys are on by the end of it. It won't come up early in my AU, but she is trans, for your information.

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70s René Norton (Adler)

The three images above were the first concepts for René ever! It's some years between them as well. The last portait I did this year and I believe I'll go for this design. They're inspired by James Dean's look from 'Rebel Without a Cause'. They're also gender non-conforming, so I use they/them pronouns referring to them.

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Line art, sketches and assorted other stuff

Some unfinished line art, sketches and assorted other stuff. Concepts that either didn't pan out, random sketches I did just for fun or stuff I just didn't know what to do with.