very important to me elias Bouchard is a certain level of boring design wise, at least to me. like he can look like a Disney villain but he still has to look like he would enjoy staring at spreadsheets. very fine line you have to balance
I also think it would be really fun to rather than incorporate eye motifs into just his design/clothing/accessories that the environment is used to inform who he is. I recently watched gravity falls and really love the backgrounds used in the society of the blind eye episode. would love to see Elias’s office decked out in crazy eyes or even in just the archives themselves 🤔
(and also ofc that flesh chair in weirdmagedden that has eyeballs in it)
also I draw him with glasses bc it gives him a nice level of style and makes his silhouette a bit more interesting, but I think any sort of implication of them is just, hilarious to me. Very funny to me if he’s an avatar of an omniscient god represented by eyes and his own physical eyes arent actually the best, still funny if he’s just wearing them for appearance sake and he doesn’t need them like at all
idk ive thought out a lot of things with my own personal interpretation of his design.. just wanted to ramble… maybe more posts like this in the future? every tma design I do I try to think through as thoroughly as possible, even if they end up looking a bit generic..
lil snippet bc I worked a bit on a georgie design today. this hyperfixation is going to run me to the ground you dont even know how many hours ive put into sketching elias. anyways yeah. georgie my cutiepie, thinking of adding colorful highlights to her hair…
yep i really spent 18 hours drawing….a lunch table…. tried to hide a lot of little details zoom in for a fun little game of eye spy. don’t know how many eyes are here but you can try counting. haven’t really drawn many backgrounds before but I think my passion for Magnus archives must mean something if I’m spending hours drawing paperwork
couldn’t watch the movie I wanted to with my friend tonight (30 minutes of trying and failing) (it was nezha 2) (will I ever unlock the secrets of ao Bing yaoi?) so I made her listen to tma with me instead while we aggied. swirlers
Trying my hand at designing s1 crew. was just going to design Tim but then I drew a Sasha and then I was like ok I’ll draw jmart too i guess. and also some pictures of my real life cat Jonathan (the better, superior Jonathan)
I know Jon hair timeline is something usually used to express change throughout the seasons but I propose Jon glasses timeline where it’s like s1 regular blocky glasses -> s2 same glasses taped up around the corners -> s3 one or both of the lenses cracked/shattered maybe even in a spiderweb pattern -> s4 lose them altogether
Trying my hand at designing s1 crew. was just going to design Tim but then I drew a Sasha and then I was like ok I’ll draw jmart too i guess. and also some pictures of my real life cat Jonathan (the better, superior Jonathan)
well i guess im just posting a bunch of process things now. spent my morning thinking about blorbos and i cant stop yapping. my 100 hour brownie cake of an idea
editing this and adding further thoughts as I think this through:
For jon, being spring, I think a big theme with his could be overgrown. that typical beautiful long hair princess s4 look accompanied with bright and intense nuclear and inhuman greens in contrast to s1 which would be depicted with paler, more restrained greens. perhaps s1 would be in the warmer range, while s4 jumps into the cooler greens? (im always out here thinking about color) i think to some degree his would be symmetrical and orderly too, i have a lot of thoughts on symmetry especially regarding elias and using it to specifically represent the beholding. ah the beautiful art of compositions. also for sure holding the tape recorder or something and the text going from “Jonathan sims” (s1) to “The Archivist” (s4)? or maybe just the archivist the entire time, not quite sure.
For Tim, i think i would want to depict him with some cooler bright summery colors like turquoise bg and in contrast his s3 self against the bright red background of like velvet curtains for the circus or something. Would also be cool to draw him with other characters bc he’s very social, so maybe him interacting with the other archive assistants, and in the final those people would be replaced with mannequins (or, the remains of them at least)
For Martin i have the least ideas for just because idk i really need to dig into the meat of him i think and im currently only on mag 121 (i listened to the first 4 seasons years ago and have like a foggy (heh) memory of what happens) but generally i think it would be easy enough to (especially in contrast with jon) depict Freezing over. Both with the environment growing colder, the color palette becoming more restricted and less intense, and with Martin’s actual clothing.
With Peter Lukas it’s very important to me that he has just a big trenchcoat that kind of hides the actual form of his body. It has to be closed because it’s kind of like you aren’t getting anyyy secrets out of him, he’s not even willing to give you the vulnerability of literal layers of clothing underneath. My thoughts on this might change in the future bc i still haven’t heard much from him, but i think martin could be similarly outfitted with a very blocky and covering outfit, and then i accompany him with my lonely-typical impressionistic art fog or whatever. and icicles and maybe snow
