“Look at this, Chang! Aliens in Nevada? Papers will print anything nowadays. Unbelievable!”
“Well, the yeti exists.”
A story idea I’ve had in my head for some time, it’s the late 50s and poorly researched stories of alien sightings are flooding the tabloids. A middle aged Tintin and Chang have a pretty severe midlife crisis and decide the best thing to do to clear up the narrative is to travel to Nevada and break into Area 51.
Will they uncover aliens, or some sinister cold war secrets? Haunted by the previous world war and a greater understanding of their responsibilities as journalists, Tintin and Chang struggle to decide what to do with their discoveries.
All twelve rulers of the Empires SMP! One 2-hr painting a day for twelve consecutive days—this was a really fantastic exercise and it was a nice way to relax and take my mind off things while I’m sick with Covid. Thank you to everyone who followed along as I progressed! It’s unfortunate that being sick prevented me from being able to take commissions this winter but I’m glad I was able to do these, if I go too long without painting I get all itchy inside
Some take-aways from doing this series:
- I love painting faces! I feel like this is apparent, but worth mentioning.
- I’m very bi. I feel like this is also apparent, but also worth mentioning ;)
- Speaking of, Empires has a really fantastic gender balance!! This makes me very happy.
- The number of highlights that are visible in the eyes really affects how you interpret the characters’ personalities. I plan to speak more on this later :3
- There are only so many different angles of ¾ view faces and I think I might have found them all
- While getting Covid is really awful on my body, it turns out to be amazing for my tumblr activity statistics. Silver linings!
I don’t often do this (and I can’t link it because tumblr hates links) but if you enjoyed this series, I have a Ko-Fi I can plug if you’re interested in supporting me that way! The link is in my bio ☕️
Bonus reference image under the cut so you can compare my paintings to the original skins:
