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last few #ironcrown doodles i did. still kinda want to do that mousepad not gonna lie.

last of the #ironcrown character sheets, Joanna. comic's free to read online here



As the patron saint of guns, gold, and gin, she’s the unofficial vodka aunt demon consultant and sniper that Isandar calls in for challenging jobs, or when she needs a surgical strike.  Brutally competitive and lives for the hunt, Joanna doesn’t care how much she needs to get her hands dirty as long as it’s in the name of her one mission in life – killing said demons.

While also abrasive, cynical, and foul-mouthed (to put it mildly) outside the job, she has an amusing quirk of giving nicknames to everyone in the crew – Tango promptly took her given nickname from the day they met, which solidified their friendship mostly based on explosions (and salt).  Only Isandar knows anything about her before being a sniper-for-hire, but there’s a decent amount of speculation of her unusual familiarity with the Judges and how they operate.  Then again, that just may have to do with their shared efficiency of purifying the margins of the world from the unholy monsters.

#hellsing work around 2017 or so, when i was posting to twitter

note to self: never call a ship a crackship for your own IP. it, in fact, will not remain a crackship
filed under #ironcrown

splash image i made for #ironcrown when it was officially launched. you can read the comic for free here

completely forgot i was into detroit:beyond human for five seconds
lesbian hankcon, filed under #mscfanart

even in the trees of making a webcomic i still found time to draw #zihark
#fetellius

more fun warmups & concept art for #ironcrown
(comic is free to read here )

action layout/pacing warmup for #ironcrown
noodling with some (very abbreviated) scenarios about how/why they’d fight, even if this doesn’t actually happen in the main story.

Realized I haven’t done proper introductions of this cast for #ironcrown - let’s fix that!
(comic is free to read here )



Starting off with our lead, Diane Weiss.  Stubborn, suspicious, temperamental, two-faced, and stubborn again - she’s a gryffindor heart deep (very, very deep) in a slytherin mind.

Diane’s painfully aware of the spotlight on her as the daughter of the Butcher, and mistrusts strangers due to everyone and their pet hamster attempting to curry favors from a seemingly less intimidating personality.  (they learn.)  She also gets a bad habit of using other people as tools without a shred of doubt - that and his paranoia are two in a long list of similarities they share.

On the other hand, her one redeeming side is she’s a sucker for backing the underdog or fixing an unjustice that crosses her path (someone else being misused, for example) (the hypocrisy is strong in this one) - and has zero problem throwing a considerable amount of sheer willpower in solving it, even if it means declaring war on an empire without a scrap of bread to her name.

(Which she, of course, does.  Because why not.)

After her homeland’s in flames due to her father being a shithead, and she’s on the run - mercenary Commander Isandar takes her under the wing and is a much better fit for Diane, authority issues and all.  Those two (plus a certain … ah, smarmy demon … ) end up quite the power-trio through the story.

Continuing the #ironcrown character ref sheets - here’s Commander Isandar!
(comic is free to read here )



Calm and pragmatic with a voice like a foghorn - she’s led the Iron Crown Brigade for decades and is a familiar -and feared- sight at the Imperium’s warring borders. Ambivalent about many of her clients (and the few journalists  that interview her), she nonetheless holds a strong moral code - likewise with her crew, who remain fiercely loyal even despite facing suicidal contracts and hordes of Fell (demons).  The pay’s worth it, they say.

Isa’s a bit of an adrenaline junkie, too - thankfully Joanna’s usually there to talk her out of the wilder schemes (as the freelance ‘Fell consultant’ and off-and-on girlfriend).  (One of those involved several gunships, a crate of melons, and half the Imperium treasury.  Don’t ask.)

#ironcrown character sheet for shard. (comic is free to read here )



This guy.

As the arch-demon of war, destruction, and change, it’s an open secret that Shard gets pulled out as a living weapon every ~200yrs by the powers-that-be to intimidate political enemies and/or wipe them out.  (The latter doesn’t happen as much these days since he’s a touch too good at it.  The last time was called the Annihilation ..  yeah.)

Currently possessing the body of an unfortunate (deceased) Chanderan soldier. (demons work slightly different in IC given they gotta have a host body without a soul to inhabit it.  He’s a bit unique in that he’s bound by a magic dagger called Binder as well.)

Loathes the Judges who were the religious order that had the foresight to bind him in the first place, long ago.  He’s on board with anything that could spite them, which includes your usual demonic activity of carnage and mayhem, tempting mortals, backstabbing unwary masters, more carnage, and generally being a colossal troll.  Despite being the most smarmy thing ever on the surface, he’s actually deeply emotional and fluctuates between nihilistic apathy and widely varying mood swings (constant existential crisis over being a living weapon, etc).  Also has a few er a LOT screws loose after the Butcher left him to rot in the cellars for the last lifetime, which doesn’t help …

Diane and him end up bailing each other out of a sticky situation – but from the sheer amount of arguments that they bicker about, aka everything under the sun, you’d think they’ve forgotten it.  (They haven’t.)  Since she’s on her own revenge spree against the Judges, he’s smug as a cat being her right hand and is more or less on his best behavior.

mostly.
(he is a demon after all …)

about this time, i was starting to work on a lot of #ironcrown concept art, since i was pitching the webcomic to a publisher. you can read the comic here online for free

more vaguely nsfw timeskip!integra/alucard because krad is weeb garbage

(this was the post that made me realize i needed a separate artblog for nsfw at the time lol) #hellsing

really started getting into integra/alucard as a ship about this time - 2016 or so? they eventually were the two #hellsing characters who got me to start drawing NSFW art too.

i will be drawing #zihark until the actual heat death of the universe
#fetellius

I always wondered how integra knew her vampire servant could survive, y’know, everything…

#hellsing - also crossposted on Ao3!

right about 2015 or so i started getting back into #hellsing

 

“And it’s always weighted.”
Naesala noodlin’.  This entire cast was an utter gift. #fetellius

crossposted on Ao3!

last few #starwars #repcomm artworks

was into dishonored for 5 seconds due to Martin, that bastard.
(so my type) #mscfanart

was on the tail end of my #starwars #repcomm fandom run given the RP group broke up, but still have good memories with the book characters.

why is this ship so goddamn cute
(you can really see my romance taste even this early lol)
#starwars #repcomm

still to this day my favorite piece i did of vau.
#starwars #repcomm

rp-ing #starwars #repcomm dears gave a lot of opportunity for imagining shenanigans

One of my favorite, favorite crackships from this series.
parja/vau, #starwars #repcomm

still drawing #zihark on tumblr around 2015 :)
#fetellius

why do i love this trash tier ship
almedha/ashnard, #fetellius

kind of like the idea of these two as a potentially-interested-but-ultimately-don’t-fit-with-each-other vibe, but still good friends. life’s like that.
#fetellius #zihark

#starwars #repcomm pieces while i was in the thick of rp'ing