Alleyway - Tumblr Posts
posting an old painting from like last year bc I've been too busy to draw lately
I can't remember how long it took I think a few hours?? based on a photo from pexels, added some of my own scenery etc
The demon (I still don't have a name for them)
alleyway / radio silence / can you hear me? (I paced around for hours on empty, I jumped at the slightest of sounds)
part one of three (second part is prompt 10, third part is an alternate prompt set as chapter 32)
Spike paced the alleyway like a cat stalking angrily along the fence that edged its territory. He felt as skittish as a nervous feline as well. Pacing around for hours, jumping at the slightest of sounds. He never did well with this part of bounty hunts - or, well, he used to be better… more chill, more aloof… but since hooking up with Faye he now worried when her life was on the line.
Granted, he'd always been concerned before when his partners were in the picture, but he'd been able to play it off so much easier. Having admitted to feelings, having revealed his hand… it made the reality of the danger of their job so much more present.
Radio silence was such a shit way to play things. It had been Jet's idea of course, he was always keen to do things by the book and as carefully as possible. Spike would have preferred being in constant communication and able to storm in at a moment's notice, not wait for word from Faye that the situation was ripe. What if things spiraled beyond her control before he could get there? What if Jet wasn't able to reach her in time either?
It made sense for Faye to be the one handling the contact with the suspect. The company wasn't entirely certain who the mole was and, suit aside, Spike himself didn't exactly blend into the business world. Meanwhile, Faye had the benefit of having regained all the memories of her former life, which included countless boring business meetings she'd sat through beside her father, and endless hobnobbing at social events at her mother's side. She knew how to talk the talk and walk the walk so the company had decided to use her as an embassy of a rival company to set up a blind meeting, piggybacking on a suspicious email they'd discovered. It seemed far too suspicious to Spike but he wasn't a high level business man constantly dabbling his fingers into other ways to make even more money. Perhaps it just seemed like opportunity had landed in his lap. Or perhaps he realized he'd been found out and wanted the chance to eliminate the envoy in the hope of dissuading further investigation.
He had to get control of himself, this was ridiculous. The anxiety in his belly was making it difficult to think. It wasn't even that tricky of a bounty really… just a well-off executive wanted for corporate espionage by people even higher up than himself. People who had wanted this assignment handled quietly and with care. Spike had scoffed at that. Neither of those words were how he or Faye operated. What had Jet been thinking by agreeing to those terms?
But the payout would be sweet. And they'd been broke for a while now - since Big Shot was off the air, bounty work was getting harder and harder to find. Irritably, Spike turned as he reached the end of the alley and made his way back towards the opposite end where the skyscraper Faye was in rose up ominously from the streets of the town. A gut intuition told him he should be trying to reach her, Jet's orders be damned.
Flicking his comm on, ignoring the half dozen missed calls from Jet, he dialed in Faye's line, hearing it make a strange click instead of the ringing or her voice answering that he expected. "Faye? Can you hear me?"
“Friendly Neighborhood Apostrophe Dog Dealer”, the 2nd!
So, after I did the quick drawing of Sans with ‘dogs in his rib cage, I wanted to to an actual scene with context. I like to think that Sans makes the rounds at times to see if he can trade unsold hotdogs for cool stuff- and Bratty and Catty probably find nice books he can bring home to Papyrus.
EDIT: (It’s been a long time since I’ve done a fully illustrated anything, and I’m still learning photoshop, so constructive feedback is very fine. :)