I was just scribbling tonight and suddenly was overwhelmed with the desire to draw their smug little faces…
Now with colour and description (thank you @saintbleeding for that, I expanded on it a little bit)
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[ID: Two versions of a sketch page of characters from The Magnus Archives (the first is the sketches, the second has them rendered in full colour): Martin is pale and freckled with light blond hair and light violet glasses and is holding a thermos and cup, with text in the steam billowing from them reading “Let’s hope it’s not oolong”; Jon has a brown skin tone and dark wavy, grey-streaked hair coming down to his shoulders, He watches with a sad, wide-eyed, stare, His eyes are glowing in a bright, green and small eye symbols are forming around his head; Tim smiling and looking slyly to the side; a small, low-detail bust of Sasha with dark skin, round glasses and a large blob of dark her bound to the back of her head, behind a larger, more detailed bust of Not!Sasha looking over her shoulder (not by op: both of them are meant to be differing designs for Sasha, but the bigger sketch showing a young woman with a blond bob of hair could work for Not!Shasha quite well); Jon and Martin grinning smugly, Martin has a purple towel hanging over his shoulder, Jon is wearing a soft salmon colored hoodie, which is too large for him; Tim lounging on a wheely-chair and wearing an open Hawaiian shirt, holding a mug with a paper umbrella and smiling; Georgie is dark-skinned with short curly hair that has a red shade to it and freckles on her face. She is looking mistrustfully off-camera with an arm around Melanie, whose face is downturned. She has dark glasses concealing her eyes. End ID.]
Since I’ve been combing through an ungodly amount of fan fiction lately, I was thinking about how to depict physical intimacy that goes beyond cuddling on the couch but not into the explicit territory, or rather: how to deliver the feeling of being in that kind of moment without coming across too voyeuristic for the viewer. Not sure if these scribbles are yet where I want them to be, but I overworked them so much by now, it is time to leave them be. Also it is just such a joy to draw these designs for those two – big and round vs small and angular but both of them just extremely soft. :)
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[image description: three colored in sketches of Jon and Martin. The first shows them kissing, both their faces mostly obscured by the other; Jon has one hand in Martin’s hair and Martin has one at the back of Jon’s neck, half under the collar of his shirt. The second image is Martin’s profile pressed against Jon’s neck. Both are smiling happily and lost in the sensation. The third is both of them sitting next to each other on a bed, coily but directly looking at each other. Martin is bare-chested and wears only his boxers, while Jon still is in a dark red shirt. His left hand rests tenderly on Martin’s upper thigh.]
