Sadly I was not able to complete all of them fully due to my hand acting up, so I instead will be posting the sketches and THEN later down the line posting the final drawings :)
Sorry this was really rushed but hey it’s finished!
Role swapped Martian and Annabelle because I think their both cool and Annabelle probably would have made a really good archival assistant for @tmaappreciationweek
[ID: A coloured digital sketch of a bust of Jon. He is looking slightly to the left of the viewer, with an irritated expression on his face. The background is dark red.
Character design: Jon has brown skin, dark shadows under his eyes, greying brown hair, and stubble. He has circular scars on his neck and face from worms, and three scars on his neck — from Daisy, the Hunters, and Helen, respectively. He’s wearing a green shirt. /End ID]
@tmaappreciationweek day one (which i, very cleverly, missed by not reading the dates closely enough) i chose pre-canon as an excuse to draw jon(ny) d’ville, because in gay like that
[Image ID: several images of jonny d’ville recreated with jon sims from the magnus archives. jon has medium length black hair with a few streaks of gray in it, and brown skin, but is otherwise dressed and made up the same as jonny d’ville (brown vest, white button-up, black lightning marks around the eyes). on the top left is a picture of jonny smoking a cigarette and smiling, one arm propped on his knee and clutching his gun, the redraw right next to it (as it is for all of these) on the top right is a black and white picture of jonny, one arm swung behind his head and a grimace on his face. he has a holster on his hip and is wearing a short-sleeved button up. on the bottom left is a picture of jonny performing, practically shouting into a microphone. in the lower center is another picture of a performance; in this one jonny has one arm outstretched, gesturing at someone to his side, with his microphone to his mouth. the lights color him in purple and red. he is wearing a black button-up, instead of the usual white. End ID]
@tmaappreciationweek day two (on time, this time!) with the prompt animals of tma. because… i love him?
[Image ID: a simple drawing of the admiral from the magnus archives. he is a black cat with large paws and huge gold eyes, and is curled up on his back. he is outlined with the same gold as his eyes and the background consists of the same image of him, repeated. in this image he is loafed. End ID]
Ok so I KNOW it said “character” and not “characters” but I couldn’t help myself! It was too hard to pick which one to draw, so I did both. Gotta love our queens <3
[Image Description: A digital drawing of Jonathan Sims from The Magnus Archives, lying on his back on the floor with his hands clutching his head in an expression of overwhelmed despair. One knee is bent, and the other leg straight. Beside him is a cardboard box full of loose papers, and a green binder also full of papers. Behind him are rows of stacked cardboard boxes. Jon is depicted as a chubby man with medium brown skin and short, greying dark hair. He is wearing dark purple slacks, a white dress shirt, dark grey square-framed glasses, and black shoes.]
Here’s a Jon for @tmaappreciationweek . I’m a bit late for Day 1: Favorite Major Character, but this also works as Day 2: Season One!
“From where I am sitting, I can see thousands of files. Many spread loosely around the place, others crushed into unmarked boxes. […] It is going to take me a long, long time to organize this mess.” (The Magnus Archives episode 1: Anglerfish)
Once again @tmaappreciationweek gets me to finish something I wanted to draw for a while now. In one of the Magnus Protocol streams (I think it was the Kickstarter pre-launch stream?) Jonny or Alex said something about a scrawny, beaten up street cat Admiral (and something about him being a ginger) and my mind immediately went to draw parallels to Jon getting beaten up all the time in S3.
So Day 2: Animals of TMA - The Admiral. Again.
Won’t be able to get something done for every day cause it’s con crunch season! But I can’t just pass over an opportunity to draw The Admiral. I just love cats…
mikaele salesa aka literally the only statement character that I always recognized lmfao, buyer and seller of cursed antiques yet caring of his crew unlike leitner, his story is so sad, yet he’s certainly one of my top faves 😭
[ID: A digital drawing of The Admiral, who is a cat, on an off-white background. He is a fluffy orange tabby with round green eyes and a pink nose. He is standing with his lower back raised as if asking to be pet there, and his tail held high. His eyes are sparkling and he is smiling, looking up at something off screen. There are green hearts above his head. end ID]
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heard it was animals day for @tmaappreciationweek so i had to draw the boy again. i think im finally starting to get my admiral design down. he has such a specific face and eye shape in my mind and i think im getting it down, as well as his fluff. it’s oddly hard to draw fluff that Looks soft but im getting there!!
[ID: First image is Jordan Kennedy. He’s white with brown hair and two extra arms. He has a beige t-shirt and blue trousers. He has ants crawling up his face. Second image is a digital sketch of a yellow door with a black handle leading to a hallway with beige walls and carpet. The background is black. /End ID]
Ok so you know “good, cheap, or fast; pick two”? Now say “good, fast, or prompt based; pick two”. We’re doing fast and prompt based. Under the cut is a version with Helen in, but it kinda sucks, so.
Anyway hiii @tmaappreciationweek i should really have done these in advance but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ This is for favourite side characters.
I’m so behind on @tmaappreciationweek 😭 I’m still not done with my day one peice- I might end up sketching one each day and then coloring them all at the end 😭😭😭 anyways back on topic, this is my day one sketch. I picked the Trending Moments prompt, and went with the scene where Jon first meets Nikola because it’s the one I see the most on my fyp and most of the videos aren’t actually tma related. This will definitely looke better colored, unfortunately I don’t have my colors on me as of right now so, this is all I’m able to produce 😭.
@tmaappreciationweek day three, with the prompt ‘au’. they’re ghost-hunters and best friends (they hate each other), you honor.
[Image ID: a drawing of melanie king and jon sims from the magnus archives. melanie is a short, east asian woman with black hair dyed bright red at the tips, upon which rests a pair of sunglasses. she is frowning at her small, handheld camera, and resting one hand on the top of jon’s head. she is wearing a leather jacket with spikes on the shoulders and a knife, coffin, and star pin on the lapel. she has two patches: a trans lesbian patch and one that says ‘fuck terfs’ in trans colors. she is wearing a spiked collar and a necklace with the lesbian symbol. her shirt is dark green with ghosts on it, and she is wearing an assortment of rings and bracelets. she has a pleated red skirt over a pair of fishnets and black boots with yellow and purple laces. she has two arrows pointing at her that label her as ‘the Face’, and ‘actual ghost-hunter’. jon is sitting beside her, a notepad in one hand and a pen in the other. he is a thin, south asian man with long graying hair, glasses attached to a chain, and a turquoise button-up shirt. he has two lapel pins in the shape of eyes with a thin band between them. he is wearing a long black and blue striped skirt and calf-length socks with ghosts printed on them. he has green converse shoes on which he has put a trans pride flag. he is wearing an asexual ring and looking at his notepad. he has two arrows pointing at him that label him as ‘(skeptic) empath’ and ‘editor’. the background is of a repeated pattern of ghosts, and on it is written ‘the archives, ghost-hunters extraordinaire’. below them is written their names. End ID]
i was going to do something similar to yesterdays prompt with the s2 finale but wasnt feeling up to it so heres a sketch of one of my favorite scenes that i quote daily
[Image description: A digital colored two-panel sketch of Jonathan Sims and the Distortion as fae. Michael is painted loosely in blues and greens with bright yellow underneath, and has wild curly hair, pointed ears, and long eyebrows and fingers. Jon is in darker purples and blues, has short dark hair and pointed ears, and wears a loose sweater with wings coming from the back. Top left: The Distortion leans over the panel break and smiles down at Jon in the second panel, their hand reaching down toward him. Bottom right: Jon stands staring toward the audience, looking perturbed.
The Distortion: Does he offer a good meal?
Jon: What?
End ID]
june and july are always weird creative dead months for me, so heres the quickest sketchiest thing i could do to try and wriggle out of that funk and get some actual finished drawing done this week
[Image ID: several scenes of jon and martin accompanied by lyrics from ‘people will say we’re in love’ from oklahoma! jon is a short, thin south asian man with graying hair and square glasses. martin is a fat red haired white man with round glasses. from the top left down there is: a scene of martin laughing as jon looks at him, blushing with got worm scars and a bandage around his neck — the lyrics are ‘don’t laugh at my jokes too much’; a scene of martin staring wistfully at jon’s open office door, sighing. the lyrics are ‘don’t sigh and gaze at me’; a scene of jon in a cot, his glasses resting on a cardboard box, and he is sighing sadly — the lyrics are ‘your sighs are so like mine’; a scene of jon’s hand reaching out to cling to martin’s sweater, his hand and arm bandaged — the lyrics are ‘don’t take my arm too much’; a scene of jon hunched over a cardboard box with martin’s sweaters in it — the lyrics are ‘don’t start collecting things’. from the top right down there is: a scene of a pie on a table, jon and martin kissing behind the table — the lyrics are ‘why do you take the trouble to bake my favorite pie?’; a scene of jon and martin standing in the pouring rain, with martin blushing and jon scowling — the lyrics are ‘don’t stand in the rain with me’; a scene of martin carving J + M into the truck of a tree, with jon leaning against it and smiling — the lyrics are ‘i carved our initials in a tree’. in the center there is a small drawing of jon and martin holding hands, with the lyrics ‘don’t keep your hand in mine’. there is a larger scene of the two of them, dancing together in the safe house, the sun almost rising through the window, with the lyrics ‘don’t dance all night with me’. End ID]
Fellas is it gay to sit on the couch with your boyfriend while he stares into space and his speech bubbles are just a random screenshot of a wikipedia article
“Which is why you bring a homeless man covered in blood and lord knows what else into the Archives!?”
FINALLY have an excuse to draw these guys! Behold! A Malevolent and TMA crossover that EVERYONE asked for! Been writing this bad boy for a while (can be found here on AO3) and would highly recommend if you enjoy some goofy shit, Malevolent, and fix-it AU’s ;)
This bunch would be fun right? Something, something, eye monster tricks/possesses them to do irreversible damage. Bonus points for dying! (Does being turned to gold count as death?)
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