#AbellArts

[abellarts]

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jon should have been able to sock him at least once before s5

[abelllia]

want to revisit my old Spiral!Jon concepts

[abellark]

more of Jumpstart and Hotwire, featuring them as cadets and getting ready to fly

[shadow0haven]

Abell I love you and I see you keep changing the tags xD 💜💜🌸🌸💜💜 @abellarts

[samwise1548]

Martin drawing for this thing on twitter run by my lovely friend @abellarts

EDIT: made some changes to this drawing, new version is here

[johnmalevolent]

[ID: A comic of Agnes Montague, Gerard Keay, and Jonathan Sims from TMA. Jon, irritated, says, "Agnes stop using your fire in public, you'll draw attention to us." Agnes casts a fire on her left hand while looking at Jon disapprovingly, saying "Relax, Jon, we're in the woods. We can't keep wasting money on matches." Gerry, carrying a book with his left hand, smiles at Jon and says, "Besides, it's really cool." Agnes is a girl with long hair parted at the middle, Gerard is a boy with chin-length black-dyed hair, and Jon is a boy with short black hair. They're wearing the same uniform, a shirt under a jumper and a blazer, completed with a tie. End ID]

based on @abellarts 's The Kids Are Alright AU i love them soooooo much

[the-jarchive]

Totally didn't forget to post these whattt- Anyways funky doodles that I might work out further and as bonus cat boy Elias cause I felt like it LGNDLNGD

@taiey @abellarts

[abellarts]

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guess who started playing stardew valley?

[abellarts]

Filipiniana inspired by the Entities (the Eye, the Vast, the Dark)

[ID: Three drawings of three modelled Filipinianas against a shared background which looks like aged paper. Each one is labelled a different entity which goes, from left to right, the Eye, the Vast, and the Dark. All the models are faceless. Three close ups follow the main image.

The Eye Filipiniana is an 1890s traje de mestiza featuring a brown panuelo with green embroidered trimming resembling ink pen tips and green strips resembling eyelashes at the opening, a translucent wide-sleeved striped baro in alternating off-white and green with green embroidered eyes for trimming, a dark cyan tapis with rows of books patterned on, and a silky striped saya in alternating yellow and green with an eye where the saya and the tapis meet and embroidery of people walking at the hem. Finished with accessories of a silky green necklace with a hanging realistic eye and a dark blue folding fan with an eye pattern. The model has brown skin and straight black hair up in a bun.

The Vast Filipiniana is a Commonwealth Era Style Baro’t Saya featuring a violet umbrella with a bright galaxy on the inside that the model holds on her shoulder, a magenta panuelo with yellow and orange stripes held together with a bright yellow star-shaped medallion, wide translucent butterfly-sleeved baro with a sunset to sky blue gradient from top to bottom with embroidered white clouds on the sleeves, a tapis with different shades of blue going from a light blue to dark blue top to bottom with embroidered silver fish of differing sizes, and a silky dark-blue-to-deep-blue saya with a long saya de cola with dark silhouettes resembling tentacles creeping up the sides. The model has pale tan skin and wavy hair held up in a loose lower bun.

The Dark Filipiniana is an 1840s Baro’t Saya styled for church-wear featuring a translucent plaid-patterned magenta panuelo, a striped straight-sleeved camisa in alternating dark magenta and off-white, a dark purple tapis embroidered with hands in alternating red and blue gripping each other by the wrist, a plaid-patterned magenta saya, and dark purple sandals. The models holds a dark purple hood over her head, the outside is a dark purple trimmed with white embroidery meant to look like closed eyes, the inside is a dark mass filled with open white eyes in strange positions, the dark mass drips down the edges of the hood, some eyes following. The model has ashy tan skin and combed back brown hair. 

./.End ID]

Finally finished it! I’ve wanted to do this for a while but pushed it off until now. The Entities as a couple versions of the Filipiniana. I don’t have plans rn to make the others since I suspect I will soon be busy again. Still, I have some ideas, particularly for the Web. Have a favourite?

My inspiration+info under the cut! :D

1) The Eye

I based the Eye’s Filipiniana off of the “traje de mestiza”, an aristocratic ensemble popular during the 1890s near the end of Spanish colonial rule. It’s also known as the “Maria Clara” gown due to association with the main heroine of Jose Rizal’s novel “Noli me Tangere.” 

Ngl I struggled to add more motifs than just “Eye” but I tried to be creative with it. The panuelo (the cloth around the shoulders) is supposed to look like eyelids which is why there are eyelashes. The embroidered trim is supposed to be the tips of ink pens. The trim of her sleeves are eyes. The tapis (the dark cloth around the lower area) features shelves of books. The bottom of the dress is supposed to be the Eye Watching people suffering at the hem. I got extremely lazy though and just got a “people walking” brush from the csp asset store and stamped them on. Didn’t get me the effect I intended but I was too tired to change it.

[ID: A sepia photograph of a woman looking to the left while wearing a traje de mestiza and holding a closed fan. /.End ID]

[ID: An image of the original front cover of Jose Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere manuscript./.End ID]

2) The Vast

The Vast’s Filipiniana I based off of the style popular during the 1930s-1940s Commonwealth Era. Honestly I only chose it because those sleeves are the very definition of vast. 

The design has a simple concept but I ended up liking the end result a lot! It’s supposed to be a top to bottom gradient of aspects of the vast. Starting from space, going into sky blue, then ending in the deep abyss of the ocean.

[ID: A sepia photograph of a seated woman wearing a Commonwealth Era Filipiniana. /.End ID]

[ID: A black-and-white photograph of three young women wearing Baro’t Saya in the Commonwealth Era style in a forest setting. All three have their panuelo wrapped around their heads. The girl farthest in the back carries an open umbrella./.End ID]

3) The Dark

Lastly, the Dark’s Filipiniana is based off of 1840s church-wear. I thought I could do something with the hood and the church theme suited the Dark well.

I’ll admit the Dark gave me trouble. Dark is a very vague theme. The hood is the main focus of the dress I think as everything else is pretty standard/I ripped off from the original whoops. The trim is supposed to look like a bunch of closed eyes. The inner hood is a dripping black mass with eyes from who-knows-where. The tapis has a pattern of several hands grasping each other by the wrist because something unknown gripping you from the dark is terrifying. “The blanket never did anything” anyone? 

[ID:  "A damsel going to early mass," by Justiniano Asuncion, 1841. The painting features a woman looking to the left, wearing darkly coloured 1840s church-wear with a hood, she holds a white cloth in her right hand./.End ID]

[ID: "A señorita walking to church in the daytime," by Justiniano Asuncion, 1841. The painting features a woman looking to the left, wearing brightly coloured 1840s church-wear with a thin gauzy white hood. She holds a small book, presumably a bible. ./.End ID]

[abellarts]

[ID: An oil pastel painting of Jonathan Sims from the Magnus Archives staring at the viewer with big wet eyes. Jon is a British-Indian man with brown pockmarked skin, long straight black hair with a few white hairs, a moustache and beard, and big unnatural green eyes. He wears rectangular glasses and a black turtleneck. The background is a sickly green. /.End ID]

Implied S4 so, you’re at a cafe and you see this guy staring at you from across the room, wdyd?

[abellarts]

psst. hey, hey you

🎉

I'm finally taking commissions! Currently it's only for quick sketches + color, but I plan on expanding in the future. If these sketches interest you, check out my new Ko-fi :D For PH folks I also accept Gcash 🔥

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[abellarts]

[ID: A highly-saturated oil pastel bust painting of Martin Blackwood from the Magnus Archives. Martin is a fat British-Filipino man with tan skin, short brown hair, brown eyes, and a minimal mustache and goatee. He wears rectangular black glasses, a dark blue shirt with a cloud pattern, and black stud earrings. /.END ID]

Martinnnn

[abellarts]

[ID: A digital crayon-style drawing of Jonathan Sims from the Magnus Archives. The piece is done with a limited color palette of red, yellow, cyan, and black. Jon is a thin British-Indian man with short wavy hair and a mustache. He wears rectangular glasses, a dress shirt, a dark tie, and a dark jacket. He appears to be zipping up the jacket. Besides him are the words “Jonathan Sims” and “Head Archivist.” ./. End ID]

I tested a new stylus! I really like the crayon style right now.

[abellarts]

I impulse bought oil pastels and had some fun :D

[ID: Two oil pastel portraits of characters from the Magnus Archives.

The first is of Jonathan Sims and the Beholding. Jon is a thin British-Indian man with long brown hair, moustache, and beard. He looks down at the viewer with glowing eyes and behind him is a giant eye. His hair sometimes forms mini-eyes around him. The painting is done in yellows, greens, and browns, with hints of blue.

The second is of Martin Blackwood. Martin is a fat British-Filipino man with short hair and stubble. He wears a dress shirt and tie. In the painting he looks at the viewer with an ominous expression and several parts of himself turn into fog. His eyes have been replaced with bright white lights. The painting is done in blue and pinks with the occasional orange-brown.

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[abellarts]

I want the deets on spiral!jon 👀

I'm so glad you asked *cracks knuckles*

Long text ahead just a warning. So Spiral!Jon is a canon deviation that starts somewhere in season 2. Right in that sweet spot where he's too entangled in the Entities to really get out but also not entangled enough that he can be considered an Eye Avatar. He doesn't know what's out there but he knows that, what ever it is, *exists*. And he would really like to find out the specifics, thanks. In my mind this starts with a dream. A vision of a door. There is nothing else in the dark room except for this door. He grows weary of this door and it appears every time he sleeps. Eventually, he goes and takes a peek into the keyhole.

From there, he sees things he doesn't understand and becomes obsessed with them. I think he'd draw connections with some things from beyond the door with things in statements.

This is a good time to say I don't have all the fine details fixed but yes.

Anyway, he'd probably understand that whatever's beyond that door is related to his current predicament and understanding it would mean understanding his present. So he becomes obsessed and starts researching them.

Big problem the Entities are kinda really weird and make little sense and they're kinda hard to understand? Especially from scratch? I mean in-universe Robert Smirke spent his life researching it and got some things wrong. So Jon tries working concrete logic on dream logic and it of course doesn't really work out? So each question he answers, several more pop up that he wants answers to. It's a hydra's head of a Research topic and it drives him mad.

He becomes "one of those fools chasing fractals" (thanks to Jane Prentiss for that sick description)

So eventually I think he becomes so enraptured with the unknown and understanding it that he becomes incomprehensible to everyone else? The more he makes sense of the Entities, the less he makes sense to everyone else, because they aren't on the same level anymore. They aren't on the same level of understanding how their reality works and once Jon Becomes of the Spiral (i don't know how or when) I think he would have already lost touch with the part of himself that could even start to explain what's going on.

I initially wanted to write a Statement fic regarding this Jon and his dreams but I honestly don't think that will happen any time soon. Not because I hate it but because I literally just never finish any of my writing. I have, however, prepared a comic based on the scraps of what I had done. I hope they will be suitable. Thanks for asking about the Spiral!Jon stuff! :D

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[abellarts]

An Explosion of Reds, Blacks, and Pinks [ID in Alt]

Inspired by, with text directly from, “la petite mort” by howlingmoonrise (TheDarkStoryteller) on ao3/ @howlingmoonrise on tumblr. The fic is really good, please check this wonderful piece of writing out!