My brain is awful at waiting for deadlines, I got too excited and posted early. Im so sad the manga is over, but I'm happy for the memories it created, as well as its existence!
i had so much fun making the sweet dreams figure from the book of bill, that i decided to make something else from it -- the BILL CIPHER MATRYOSHKA
i only wound up making five of them, because my medium of choice was model magic, and, well i don't necessarily recommend it for making matryoshka, but, it worked out!!
the original art from the book of bill, done by louie zong --
and there it goes in action!!
and a secret surprise 👀
of course the littlest one has something special inside! oh! it's a coin!!
and what's on the other side?
oh hey, there's another one in there! wait, it's the......same coin??
it's the young lady in my icon again!! It's Chrysanthemum. I wanted to update her outfit to have it look more like clothes someone raised by a human would choose, because she never actually met another person of her species until she was a young adult. She also likes sewing and embroidery, and has been making/modifying her own clothes for a long time (out of necessity and also for fun), so her little top and the long, flowy part of her headdress (and her pants in the second sketch) have decorative flourishes.
Pata in the second sketch has lived away from his homeland and in a more multicultural area for a few years, so his actual everyday clothes also somewhat resemble the clothes worn by humans and other sorts of people-- but here he's dressed in a traditional outfit to show both the fashion contrast and height/build contrast between Chrysanthemum and an average adult of her species.
(BLOWS UP AND LEAVES A PAIR OF SHOES BEHIND) I got an amazing comm from @/almguav on twitter I feel so crazy and lightheaded rn IM SO HAPPY AUAGAHAHAHAHAGAGAQGGA
haha omg i used to work in collections and let me tell you. YES. so many echinoids and mollusks… thankfully though they’re not hard to glue back together so it’s never much of an issue!!