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Hallo :3

I just wanna say I absolutely love your artwork SO MUCH I’ve recently started reading the Skulduggery Pleasant series (almost finished the fourth book) and seeing artwork of these goobers just makes me so happyyyy :D

Also sorry if I’m spamming your notifications-

Ah thank you so much! I really appreciate it :D

I think you were the person drawing your OC with Billy-Ray right? Welcome to the community :]

I will say though, be careful scrolling through Tumblr n whatnot, ESP my page because there are hella spoilers. I try to mark all the major ones with my sticky notes but I've been reading these for so long that I might forget to mark little ones too. You've been warned!

( notes spam is totally fine, it makes me smile o/ )

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Behold, the most beautiful woman in the world! And now, not only would you feel snapped-in-half if she glares at you, she could actually snap you in half! like a twig! What a wonderful development!

so yeah muscle china BARELY won the poll xD

Props to @squidcave for doing this first, check them out!

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goddammit China Sorrows

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HI!!! This isn’t an actual ask but I got jumpscared by your TikTok and I follow you on there now :]

oh shit! Thanks mate :D

I'm so inactive on TikTok- I blew up a bit a while ago because of my Din universe with Jason n all that, got super overwhelmed and just let it sit for ages. I've been tagged several times in some pretty sick SP edits though so I figured I might as well post my own SP art :]

(If anyone make edits with my art that's awesome but please credit me! Both to give me credit bc thats the nice thing to do but also bc I wanna see them lmao)

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Artfighters: Dinosaurs!! Crystals! Me: hehe skeleton

Come Fight me if you dare !!

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Melissa Edgley + Desmond Edgley

Completed: June 16th 2025 and June 15th 2025

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Notes:

4 and 5 of 24 SOTA Cards!

Flipped the order so that they're looking at each other- Desmond is mentioned first and was drawn first- but the previous three cards were all facing to the right and I was tired of it

I really mulled over the idea of combining a few characters for their cards, like all the married people and the three SOTA Elders but ultimately decided against it, in favour of just posting them at the same time. Rip me

Clueless lovable fool + the woman he loves

Desmond's shirt is buttoned incorrectly, just like every other time I've drawn him because I think it's funny

Desmond shares Gordon's (and Fergus') nose and eyes. He also passes on his jaw and dimples to Val, but while his hair color is very similar, the highlight actually matches Darquesse, not Valkyrie! Is there a meaningful and poetic reason for this? Not from me /shrug

Melissa passes on her nose and eyes to Val- and her eyebags- but those don't really show up until later haha

"But Gordon has sandy hair! Why is Desmond's so dark if they're brothers!" Shut up! Ditsy blonde is overdone anyway! Time for Ditsy Darkhaired!

You can find my spreadsheet for this project here

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We're tight rn trying to get up to the hospital to see him so every little helps! But if you can't, thats perfectly fine 💚💚

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Trefor my Beloved. Oh look Fane is also there

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So I read 'The Bone Houses' by Emily Lloyd-Jones a while ago, absolutely loved it, and then accidently stumbled across the Drowned Woods in my library a few weeks ago- saw it was by the same author- and immediately picked it up. I must say I liked the Bone Houses more, but this one picked up faster and I read it in like one day xD

Highly recommend both! I have a few doodles from TDW, but I'd need to reread BH before I draw those character I think.

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Skulduggery Pleasant

Completed: June 15th 2025

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Notes:

1 of 3 of Skulduggery's Phase 1 Cards!

Not his real skull- I've been drawing him the same way for so long that this looks so wrong and I hate it xD

.38 Smith n Wesson

Scarf! No facade tattoos yet :]

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I'm gonna do both eventually but I wanna know what is in higher demand haha

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Part 7!

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Ghastly: 'That day?' China... what's going on? Please.

China: I can't tell you what's going on.

China: But if you truly are Ghastly Bespoke, and not a trick;

China: Then you've been dead for 10 years.

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Valkyrie Cain

Completed: June 3rd 2025

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This is 1 of 3 of Valkyrie's cards. (For Phase 1)

First Coat from Ghastly!

Sceptre, since it appears in two of the Faceless Trilogy books. I actually don't think she ever touches it in the first one though. Oh well lol

Baby face

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I'd apologize in advance but we both know I'm not sorry. <3

They had Tanith for a long time man

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Me, writing ten panels of blood: Ha ha yay

Me, realizing I now have to keep all the blood consistent: oh no

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Yeah okay here you go. This was the most recent nightmare (I didn't have any last night!!)

If you care about the nightmare itself:

I lived an entire three months span as Atlas, one of the five that had been falsely arrested at a massive sting operation (wrong place wrong time) and sent to a prison camp erected solely to contain this cult/gang.

Cue three months of fighting, survival and trying to blend in because: a) the cult hates women for some reason? Who decided to put Cass and Atlas in there in first place?? b) the cult knows a bunch of the campers are undercover cops and if you're suspected you were beaten to death, yk, as a game c) all newcomers are suspicious by default

Me/Atlas: a tomboy with a sketchbook and HELLA anger issues. I was so angry the entire time. I mean I guess it's justified if I had to spend three months amongst people trying to assault and kill me, but damn girl you were angry even before you were arrested. Talks with her fists. Every time she's asked, she gives a different name starting with A. I went through Arin, Aris, Alex, Adrien, etc etc etc. Most of them were gender neutral but some weren't

Leroy: I changed his design on paper, but in the nightmare it was literally just my irl younger brother. I didn't get to be me, but he got to be him? unfair xD Very soft spoken and introverted, prefers his own company. Why he went with Atlas to a very loud and rowdy party I have no idea. That was honestly the funniest part in hindsight.

Cass: We (Leroy and Atlas) met her at the party/sting operation. She turned out to be an undercover guard around a month n a half into the nightmare. Atlas was pissed, but only for a little while because a) she was hot (really had my priorities straight there) and b) getting arrested had not been the plan and she was just as screwed/stuck as the rest of us. She'd been at the sting opp posing as a cultist with the plan being that she would organize the sting from the inside. After getting shipped off to prison she was pretty much forced to work as an informant for the guards, despite literally being a guard herself xD

Murphy and Devin: Honestly these two weren't super prevalent in my dream so I don't remember much about them. We met them at the party after we'd met Cass. They were not cultists or cops, they were just there for the food I guess?? Once we'd been shipped off to camp they wore their gang colors on the wrong hip, which immediately pointed them out as outsiders. That, combined with the fact that out of the five of us Murphy looked the most like a cop, and Devin was always with him... yeah we had to watch them as they got beaten to death. That was not a pleasant experience lol

Other relevant characters/groups:

The Warden: A dirty cop that ran the camp. She (strange, bc the cult 100% didn't view women as human) helped the gang sniff out undercover cops if she could, and basically made life especially hell for the five of us since she was pretty sure something was off about us, but she couldn't prove it without putting herself in danger.

The Cult Leader: I never met this dude. He was the reason all of this was happening in the first place. The Guard had information that whatever party we attended, the cult leader was supposed to be there. Obviously he slipped through the cracks because they didn't get him. The guard settled for just locking up his entire gang until they found him, and everyone that got caught in the crossfire (us) They did eventually catch him, at which point the camp was completely overhauled and anyone that wasn't supposed to be there (and was still alive) was rescued.

Cops/Guards: The authority. They weren't actually called cops but unless I want to start the whole ass worldbuiding process thats what I'm calling them for now This was a modern setting but it wasn't my country, and I have no idea where we were. Obviously the laws were super fucked up or straight up ignored, but hey it was a dream.

Dirty Cops/ Corrupt guards: Cultists that had infiltrated the authority. They worked for the camp/the law but they were loyal to the gang. They fed them information, contraband, whatever.

The Gang/Cult: I genuinely have no idea what the purpose of this group was for. They really liked fighting each other. They hated women and anyone deemed weak. They knew some of the campers were undercover guards, and since there wasnt shit else to do, most of their energy was used to either hunt these campers for sport, or fight amongst each other.

Undercover campers/guards: At the end of the three months it was revealed that literally a third of the entire camp was undercover guards. Some had been casualties of whatever horrible operations they ran, like Cass and were just trying to survive like us. Some were in there on purpose, trying to find information on the Cult Leader. A looooot of people were beaten to death for being even suspected of being undercover.

So yeah it was an utterly ridiculous nightmare, full POV, felt legit like I was living it, feeling it. I have no idea why it was so fully fleshed out, that rarely happens with my nightmares. But yeah. Now I have a whole novel waiting to happen I guess??? xD

I woke up n my first thought was "Christ, what day is it" bc I had been in the nightmare for SO LONG Fully thought it was October or smth lmao

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where do you get your inspiration for Mevolent? Is that how he looks in canon?

Hey Anon o/

Here are some doodles. I tried to capture what I saw as a kid vs how I tried to design him and now I draw him now. I don't draw him that often though haha

gl reading my handwriting

Talking under the cut

I don't draw Mevolent accurately to canon- I think the only person I draw accurately to canon is Fletcher, and even then I give him earrings half the time xD

Canonically Mev is 8 feet tall, blonde hair, lean and has nicotine yellow skin. Valkyrie/Darquesse notes how plain looking he looks and that she was underwhelmed by him or smth, its been a while since I've reread KOTW.

In my head growing up Mevolent had black dreadlocked hair in a bun/ponytail and super dark eyes, and his skin was pretty close to the color of stained walnut wood. I have no idea why xD Eventually between rereading KOTW, looking at fanart and actually sitting down to draw him it switched to what you see now. (I also thought when the book said nicotine yellow that his skin was straight up a solid dirty yellow- obviously I don't think thats what Derek was going for lol)

Now I draw Mev with... yellow ish? Olive? Sickly skin, dirty blonde/brown hair (I swear I have nothing against blondes don't come at me) and a much younger face than how he probably should look. Every time I try to make him look older he becomes ancient instead It's obviously very inspired by @facelessxchurch because out of the art I've seen of Mev they definitely do him the most justice. I liked how they'd also had my idea that Mev wears sigils, and the way they drew his armour and the shape of his face really caught my eye.

So TLDR My current Mev design was inspired by facelessxchurch, and Young Stylus was obviously either really bad at reading and missed Mevolent's entire description, or played way too much Zelda. The answer is probably both xD