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Some men get a chance to give their mums a last goodbye embrace… but I guess you’ll do.

This was an idea that might have been a fan fiction, but I felt it was better told this way.

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How do you think a meeting with current spy and au spy go down?

Retired!Spy:

He’d be mixed with a great sense of disgust and self-loathing. On one hand, seeing how this version of him chose to abandon his family and now torments him is burning. Canon!Spy seems immature to him. Like he went stale 20 years ago and hasn’t evolved since.

On the other hand, having lived through making the decision of staying or leaving himself, he sees an objectively better world here. Jeremy is still alive. He’s angrier and less refined from an absence of his fathers guidance, but he’s ALIVE. And seems to be happy with his life. Spy staying with his family directly lead to the death of his Jeremy which came from a haunting of his past life.

The only thing that he can truly say is worse is his own life. Years of guilt come around confirming to him that his decision to stay and try to make a new life was inherently a selfish one.

That being said, he does internally adopt/rescue Jeremy from Canon!Spy. Like “you don’t deserve this, this is mine now.”

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Canon!Spy:

Canon spy has much less of an emotional roller coaster before him. He doesn’t know the Scout that he raised. He doesn’t have anything to compare or contrast to. His focus is mainly on this other him and any possible threat it is.

He accepts the other reality of his situation very easily and surprisingly with little interest.

However, when Scout had disappeared, he was running himself ragged and worried trying to find him. He got angry and dangerous, even confronting the Administrator. This confused and scared the hell out of his team who’d only seen him annoyed and nagging on Scout.

After everything is settled down, he and Retired!Spy have a heart to heart. They talk about the decision they each made that made them different people, since they were the same up until one left and one stayed.

He asks about how Scout was growing up. How being in a real relationship with his mother was. He mourns a life he never got to have, but is reassured by Retired!Spy that he made the right choice. Even then, he isn’t sure. 20 years of a happy home seems like a lot to give up for him.

They each make the other feel a little less guilty.

@retiredspy-timeline-cross-au

5 mins later

Retired!Spy Timeline Crossover Au

Okay. Consider: 

AU where there’s an alternate timeline where Spy ended up settling down with Spy’s mom and just being a dad.

Their Scout (just Jeremy in that world)  ends up being killed by some of spy’s loose ends.

Then, in current time, our cannon Scout gets transported to this world somehow and everything slowly becomes unraveled for him and this retired spy. 

Imagine some strange twenty something breaking into your house, insisting he’s never met you but that your wife is his mom and your step sons are his brothers, and realizing this is your dead son from another timeline.

THEN imagine realizing 1. you were an absent father in this timeline, he doesn’t know you’re his dad, but the you he knows he despises and 2. that may be the reason this Jeremy is still alive today. Guilt ensues. 

NOW imagine it from Scout’s perspective. You end up back home with yet another pompous french asshole (if you had a nickel for every time you met one of these) married to your mom. Also, your mom doesn’t recognize you.

and THEN imagine it slowly, slowly, dawning on you that you’re in an alternate timeline and this is the same french asshole that’s on your team. Which means that in your world, that spy is probably your freakin’ father. Denial ensues.

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Overall, wholesomeness (mostly from Retired!Spy and Scout’s Ma), shenanigans (mostly from Scout), and angst (from yours truly) ensue.

Edit: made a blog for it thinking of making a comic

"You're stronger than you'll ever know, Jeremy. I'm proud of you. I've always been proud of you, son."

They're trying.

BONUS

Art idea: Scout comparing his facial features with Spy and realizing how much they look alike :3

THIS IS ACTUALLY SUCH A FUNNY IDEA HAHAHAHA THANK YOU ANON

Sorry if your requests are closed, but I had an idea. Could you please draw Pootis and Medimedes? I think they'd look awesome in your style!

Wanted to wait till the new episode comes out and there it is!!! Ouuu drawing medipootis is actually such a great stress relief their shapes are nice and cute

I translated my stupid sad dadspy fic here's the link

Scout is having a moment.

A pre-head removal discussion.

i have to share this

full image in the “keep reading”

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I was looking through my Mario Movie screenshots and just realized something.

The green light on the left side of Mario's head highlighting the empty space where Luigi would normally be...

... it gets brighter and greener after Mario sees the commercial and finds the determination to get back up and fight help.

其实还存了很多没发的但是有点懒得发

Headcanon that despite being pompous, arrogant, and a bit of a jerk, the spy is actually a really good teacher… if someone is interested in a subject that the spy knows a lot about (fashion, French, stabbing people in the back, etc.) he will eagerly spend time one on one with that person to teach them about it. He’s also super patient, too, provided the learner doesn’t decide to goof off and actually takes him seriously. He’s also very encouraging and doesn’t laugh at mistakes or misunderstandings. Just. A good teacher right there

Some edits I made of maskless spy 😳

I was on twitter talking about the cut content from Expiration Date, and one of them included Heavy helping with the date as the waiter so here are some drawings I made thinking about that concept!

“Dad is here…” I was playing TF2 with my friend @tomeart and this idea came to me. So we had to do this together. We did together the layout, Tome did the drawings and I colored the comic. I’m so happy with what we have done <3 PS: go to @tomeart blog: they has done many cute TF2 fanarts!

How the hell do you manage to superimpose the hilariously exagerated proportions of the tf2 mercs into a cohesive 2d style? I always struggle SO much with like, the way the mercs' models have huge hands, the way they have relatively low-poly definition on things like arms, shoulders, and legs... and Especially the way like, the models are kinda janky when you pose them for art purposes- when using movement tools, things like armpits and seams between body parts get all deformed... Which makes the study of form and silhouette rather difficult.

I assume that a lot of your ability to translate the concept of the mercs from their original mediums into your own works of art comes to you quite naturally- through experience you have with drawing and art style stuff, as well as through intuition. I was simply wondering if I could poke at your mind and get some insight into your process, any thoughts you have about the proportions and silhouettes of the mercs, any quirks you've found while drawing the mercs, or simply what you enjoy drawing about them. Like, don't be afraid to infodump about something just because you think people wouldn't find it interesting- I am here, I am sitting, and I am listening- if you so choose to speak.

I am utterly fascinated and enraptured by the more behind-the-scenes aspect of art. The mundane things that come second nature to great artists yet seem so revolutionary to less experienced artists.

I love your work, I look forward to seeing more of it, and I hope you have a nice day :]

Sorry for the late reply! I've been a little…stuck on how to answer this but that's mainly because to me, drawing is composed of SO many different little skills - you have form, anatomy, shape language, silhouette, appeal, rhythm, acting and posing…not to mention everything AFTER your raw draughtmanship like line style, rendering and colour theory. Trying to distill a multiude of small skills into some pithy advice is overwhelming to my brain. So I'll take the invitation to ramble instead :))

I don't think I have any new or revolutionary insight into the tf2 guys specifically - more I'm using them as work horses to excercise general silhouette/posing/shape-language and further my skills when it comes to drawing characters!

I do agree though the proportions are rather silly when you stop and think about them realistically…they can be kinda tricky if you follow their 'actual' proportions. what looks great individually was maybe never meant to be directly compared (ie: Heavy's hand size against Spy's lol). It would've been funny if the TV show exsisted and we had more content to review…would the animators have had rules like Spy and Heavy can never shake hands? Would they cheated the proportions for shots? Or would they have said WHATVER it's gonna look weird and embraced it? (Like Kingpin in Spiderverse lol)

Paul Lasaine for 'Into the Spiderverse' This is AWESOME. But it's also one of the silliest designs I've ever seen comitted to screen. The varied scales of the characters work because of the unifying treatment (lighting, rendering, consistant hand anatomy, consistant cxlothing fold treatment etc) and because they are sort of proportional within themselves. A common manta is that hands should be about as large as a characters face....which they all are here!

Human brains are very flexible and forgiving though. It's totally fine for you to put a character with huge hands and head next to a teeny tiny character! Vanellope and Ralph from Wreck-It Ralph look grand next to each other! And in that film you even have varying levels of stylisation sitting against each other (unified by the look dev treatment of the shaders and lighting). I think as long as the chracter is proportional within themselves it sort of works out. IE: a general rule is that a hand should be as large as the face so…you can have some large arse hands as long as their placed on a body with a big arse head. Unifying characters with the same treatment (ie: lineart brush, colouring style will also help them look cohesive next to each other :) )

I don't actually reference the 3D models/animations very much at all and instead draw their proportions based on my tastes for stylisation following their general vibes/silhouette profiles. I don't stick THAT close to their in-game looks and there are artists who do that are so so so much better than me (Creedei and Flapjack come to mind). I'm not amazing at body-type differentation and TBH they're all wearing chunky clothes all the time so I usually draw the guys as one-of-three body shapes: Heavy is the uniquely wide guy; Sniper/Scout/Spy are all tall and slim and Demo/Soldier/Medic/Engie have a little more of the generic 'hero' bodytype with varying tallness and broadness of the shoulders

Something like this! You can vary all these individual elements in terms of size, thickness, taper amount etc to create different characters. If you ARE going to reference the 3d works though you'll need to apply some anatomy knowledge to overcome the weird shoulders, armpits and knees which desperately need blendshapes to correct the 3D volumes and approach it a little more like an animation supervisor. There's a reason why you see in making-ofs and art-ofs character designers, character leads or animation supes doing drawovers of the models. These are character models that have had great effort put into their 'base' silhouette but it still needs to be reinforced in every frame for maximum appeal.

Shiyoon Kim for 'Raya' This sort of thing will occur at multiple stages during the animation process. Shiyoon Kim's notes are post final model but pre-animation. Most likely for internal rig tests, exploring what blend shapes and alt shapes are needed for the rigs etc. If your production has time, this will continue all the way to final anim. IF! But it's interesting to see how he emphasises the shapes and enhances the character acting of the 3d model.

As for 'mundane things' - I wouldn't say they're second nature! (If that makes you feel better!) I have to actively really persue certain advice and try to figure out how to best apply it. This can sometimes involve redrawing and redrawing an element of the drawing until I've grasped the nettle of whatever I'm after or…..until I get frustrated and either delete the drawing or just call it done lol

Here, I'm looking for a really specific flow of the head that sells both the acting and a subtle head tilt. I'm also trying to apply the general mantra regarding faces that converging lines (set by the eyebrows and mouth) are more appealing than parallel. It's tough! I also tend to use a drawing I've already done as a template/reference on the page too. Oh! This page is an amazing example of why I'm not an animator or storyboarder…consistancy? Who is she? 💅

Converging lines (that form tapered shapes) are always more appealing than parallel. Using this logic you can loft the facial features across converging lines to create dynamic appealing espressions. Combining this with anatomy, perspective and rotation is the tough part though. I'm still learning o7

The things I probably think about MOST are always flats vs curves, simple vs complex and general line of action/flow...and then eliminting tangents. Each of these can be a dedicated visual-essay on their own - hence my stumbling as to answer your question. Anyhow, not sure if it's ever come up on this blog but I looove dinosaurs :)) so i'm using a wee piece to demostrate these ideas! (but also to demostrate these concepts apply to everything from humans characters to animals, props and background design)

Okay, I'm getting self-aware that this is getting really long :') I have a wee tutorial tag for my blog if anyone wants to comb through my garbled art-thoughts. Learning, studying, repetition and practice will always be the greatest teachers! I'm glad you like my art- thank you so much for the lovely comments - I feel like such a noob still and not qualified to give people advice but we're in it together learning! High-five! 🙌

"I hate that about you."

Heavy  ❤  Medic  from Tf2  Never forget the kiss   ❤ 

Toasty!

figuring out how faces work plus some doodles

Soldier and Zhanna's wedding

I'm back ! Sorry, I just started playing Stardrew Valley, among other things :/

Anyway, I finally took the time to finish this drawing ! I stared working on it a week or so ago. That was one of the project I was working on.

So yeah. This is supposed to be a picture taken at Zhanna and Soldier's wedding. Near the end of the day.

Engi set up the camera but the timer was just a bit too short X)

It's not perfect but it's good enough :)