My dad got me a clear phonecase so now I can shove my drawings under it. I think I was inspired by someone else doing a Drawtectives phonecase a long time ago when I saw it on Insta. I might add some glitter pen stars to the background. Also it bothers a bit that Grendans eyes are too far apart but I only realised it too late. Well, art isn't supposed to be perfect and so on.
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I wanted to make a background that looked like it could appear on a Drawtectives episode, and then I got carried awaaaaaaay. Which was very Julia of me, I gotta say. She is on some absolute next level shit, and I loved Season 2!
Image description:
A digital illustration in great detail and brightly saturated colors, depicting characters from the YouTube series Detectives in a beautiful cafe. In the foreground, Jancy True stands holding a disposable coffee cup, and looking up at Joebeans, surprised, nervous, and blushing.
Jancy is an older thin white woman with silver hair in an undercut, a black cochlear implant in the ear that is facing the viewer, angular features, and a fashionable sharp purple and gold coat with a red gem pin next to her private eye gold and purple pin.
Joebeans stands across from her, several feet taller, with her arms spread wide and a big smile on her face as though she is declaring something. In one of hands, she is holding a disposable coffee cup in the form of a bucket.
Joebeans is a middle-aged orc woman with bright green skin and large golden curly hair. She has blue eyes, magenta lipstick, white teeth with large bottom fangs, silver hoop earrings, a strong jaw, and large breasts. She is wearing blue jeans and a light-blue denim top. Her top's buttons are straining a little over her breasts. She is wearing large silver hoop earrings, and a brown belt with a large golden belt buckle that says "JB" on it.
In the background, Rosé, York, Grendan, and Eugene are hiding behind the café counter and peaking eagerly over it at Jancy and Joe. York is clutching Eugene's face to his head affectionately, smushing Eugene's cheeks.
The four characters in the background are partially obstructed by the counter, but Grendan is visible as a pair of brown eyes with brown hair and a garden hat with a daisy on it. Rosé is behind him, with her hands pressing down on Grendan and York's heads. She has brown skin and pink hair in buns and bangs. Her eyes are wide and shining; the irises are pink. York is an orc with a blonde undercut and pointed ears with gold piercings. He has green eyes and is looking affectionately up at Eugene. Eugene is a handsome young white man with a nose piercing and short wavy black hair. He has brown eyes, and he is wearing an indigo and lavender shirt with sharp shoulders.
The characters are in a sunny open-air cafe with an open criss-crossing wood beam ceiling that has plant life poking through, as well as flower pots hanging from the ceiling. The sky is blue. The back wall of the cafe is a curved glass window that shows a variety of green plant life, flowers, and trees. The counter is violet with an alcove for colorful bottles, an embossed baroque pattern on the front. There are brass caffeine machines on the back of the counter. There is a large ceiling-height door open-wall door that shows a vague city street in the background. The floors are cherry-wood boards, and there is a matching tapestry and rug set featuring symmetrical geometric designs in pink, yellow, and green.
All other images are various close-ups of the first image to show detail, as well as an alternate version that shows only the cafe setting with no characters, and the video is done in the style of Drawtectives, in which the empty setting is shown first, and then the characters fade in - first Joe, then Jancy, and then the other characters behind the desk.
the first thing fancy brew thinks when joe beans tells her to come upstairs is that she's definitely not paid enough to be interrupting her break for customers but she agrees to come up regardless.
the second thing fancy brew thinks when she sees the combination if people in front of her are family. the feeling fades as quickly as it came and it leaves her head aching and her heart pounding. she feels as though she's found a part of herself in them and she doesn't understand why. she pushes the feeling down.
and then the lot of them yell jancy and oh, these kids (and kids? that's not right and she knows it's not but, then, what is the right word for them?) are loud and she’s already so tired. but they keep going and oh they have the wrong woman, don't they? because she can't remember them at all.
and, while fancy brew knows her memories aren’t all there, she’s not sure if she can bring herself to believe that these kids are her family.
they call her their mom but she's, she's not that old, she knows she's not that old, at least. and anyways, one of them is a grandma? so she can’t possibly be their mom, because jancy- fancy brew may not know much but she knows she’s not that old.
and yet, she can't help but think of the pang of familiarity she felt, the pang of familiarity she keeps feeling but -- god her head aches -- but something isn't right here and jancy tru- fancy brew is on the case.
fancy brew knows nothing. she remembers little of her life before working for joe and still, she can't help but feel as though that didn’t always used to be the case.
fancy brew may know nothing but she's certain that these... children of hers, aren’t actually her children. they simply can’t be.
but fancy brew is a smart woman, and she knows that, perhaps, if she truly were to know these people, they might be able to trigger some of her memory gain if they talk about memories they'd shared in the past. and despite everything, fancy hopes that she knows these people and fears that she doesn't.
more than anything, fancy wants to believe that these people are her family, but a part of her is worried. what if she lets them down? what if they are her family and she simply can’t remember them? what if she isn’t? fancy’s not sure which outcome would be worse.
still when she floats the idea, the party takes it and runs with it and she's almost struck by the speed at which they are willing to bare their souls to her. fancy brew is reeling from the blind trust and faith they've put into her, a woman who can't remember and who doesn't know, a woman who may be a stranger. she knows that whoever this jancy is, these kids love her. and fancy is reeling at that fact, at the love they share for the woman they believe she is.
fancy bre- no, jancy true, does not remember everything. but she remembers cheering york on, she remembers bailing her children out of bad situations, she remembers the butt cloud and an angry (exasperating) horned woman and a sadder, older, horned woman as well and most importantly she remembers Rosé's birthday.
jancy true remembers her family.
jancy true used to know everything.
fancy brew knew nothing.
currently, jancy true remembers very little. when all is said and done, her memories are fuzzy and her head hurts so much so it feels as though she can't think.
when jancy looks at the party, her family, her children, she knows that she’ll be okay. because if she knows anything, she knows that these are her children, and, as hard as it may be to believe sometimes, they’re smarter than they may seem.