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first pass on pearl & gem

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My brothers keeper.

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My Villies past life designs! Grian is smol because team rocket but also I headcanon there was a glitch in the game, some people got their own skins back, Grian got smol

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Love this

✰ LET'S GO TEAM VILLIES!!! ᕙ( •̀ ᗜ •́ )ᕗ

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who survived? …anyone else but you?

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THIS IS AMAZING!!

What the next life series winner is seeing

And before you ask where's Scott and Cleo-

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Now I want to draw this lol

The life series winners go on a super fun crazy awesome road trip in The Car

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Shinyduo Art! AKA. Pearl on her routine 'Annoy Gem' visit 😂

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You should apply! If you’re a creative who loves the life series and specifically the southlanders, then it’s perfect for you!

PARTICIPANT APPLICATIONS HAVE OPENED !!

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A Southlanders Drawing I did today! It wouldn't be my drawing with a few lore references :)

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Some wild life ep7 sketches

Just ignore the difference in character size in the first sketch lol

Warning: spoilers, death, Mumbo

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Love this

Gem called shotgun so now Lizzie is stuck at the back (she is happy to be here, trust me.)

Also, Etho is at the back, he just kinda showed up (obsessed much?)

Bonus:

Joel picking up a hitchhiker

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something crooked this way comes

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every life series season has a villain, but not in the way you might think. it's always a symbol of some kind. it's not a person, but a concept, an ideal, an overarching force. that is, in every season except wild life

third life had circumstance. everything was new and hard to grasp, and no one knew what to do. the villain of third life was the world itself; think of the animal extinction, for example.

last life had brutality. both physically and mentally. it was rife with betrayal and isolation; reds had to abandon teams, and the boogeyman mechanic's paranoia forced everyone apart.

double life had love. love, and the fate it tangled itself in. it was a complex villain, but love killed them again and again, and rewarded the single person who didn't give in to it.

limited life had time. the passage of time itself was the enemy and everything was driven by that. they clawed their way to every last second, and time ate them all in the end.

secret life had the secret keeper. unyielding, unrelenting, unmoving, all-knowing. when the secret keeper forced them to do awful things, no one disobeyed, but hated it all the same.

wild life has grian. grian is representative of every wild card the world plays. he runs the command, and stops it at the end of the day. he is transparent about that. he accepts bribes for information, and unabashedly uses his knowledge to his advantage. he is Other. the players treat him the exact way they did the secret keeper; he's not a player like them this season, he's a symbol, and one of every awful thing that's happened to them at that

which is to say, wild life's villain is a symbol and an overarching force. it's just, for the first time, simultaneously a person, too. everyone else is realizing that too and are pointing their blades at grian, slowly but surely. it is SO fascinating

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NO WORDS FOR THIS MASTERPIECE

after watching several povs, there's something so striking about the way mumbo died.

he dies at home, first of all, which is notable in its own right because so much of his time was spent running about, usually in pursuit of kills. he dies with grian, too— to a thing grian created, no less, but it isn't actually grian's fault for once.

mumbo dies in that tall tower and when lightning strikes, from all across the server, everyone looks. their eyes land on that tower, and everyone is watching. even in grian's perspective, you can see everyone at renwood mound, lined up and staring. those at the bamlands looked on too.

they didn't see mumbo die, but they saw grian's grief. grian, who, throughout this season, has seemed cruel and untouchable to those outside of his circle due to his involvement with and knowledge of the wild cards. they watch grian immediately crumble under the weight of mumbo's death; several of them even explicitly comment, "look at grian, he's grieving, he's in mourning."

i like to that that, until that moment, grian was almost god-like in their minds; now, though, he's the quintessential concept of humanity. grief can be religious if you do it right, after all. even beyond the grian aspect though, isn't this just the most despairing omen of what's to come?

i mean, there's something about this image of a man fallen from grace, crying out as he holds the mangled corpse of his friend in the home they made together, high in the sky, on display for all the world to bear witness to. and the world did bear witness, be it with pity, horror, joy... it doesn't matter, because they saw.

the canary curse has been broken, but this was a fittingly foreboding, tone-setting image that did a stunning job filling its shoes

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Love this

either gem or joel im calling it now. im so sure theyre gonna get to the end together and do some kind of makeshift fight club moment

this is my prediction for the wild life finale (I love joel but I need gem to beat him up so bad)

reference for this pic lmao

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Oh my gosh, the art is absolutely amazing!!!!

YOU'RE DEAD TO ME

Also a cover version done as a joke bc it looked like a novel/manga cover for some reason + lineart :D