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Anonymous asked you: Your latest portrait of the Prince looked so realistic! What’s your technique?
myshonok-deimos: Good question, anon. I actually do most of my linework in pencil first and then scan it. I do the clean up, inking, and coloring in Sai, with some touch-ups in Photoshop when I get lazy. I use a lot of layers of treat each one like I could only have one layer. It’s really important to keep track of the details on each layer, especially when I’m trying for a more realistic approach. For the Prince portrait, I used a lot of blending. For his skintone, I went crazy with the airbrush tool. He’s so creamy-skinned that I wanted a good contrast with the red soil, like, almost making him glow with it. I’m glad you liked it! Thanks for the question.
#my art #anonymous
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#my dumb headcanon #text post spam #why am I still awake at 3am?
turn-0f-mind said: I agree entirely with your thoughts regarding Pelgrad’s reaction to the ruins of the Red Palace, especially in light of all that happens between him in the Prince in the second book.
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myshonok-deimos: Another WIP. Slightly NSFW, Pelgrad/Prince
#star struck chronicles #captain pelgrad #the martian prince #my art
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myshonok-deimos: Just some sketches I did yesterday instead of my actual homework
#my art #star struck chronicles #the martian prince #captain pelgrad #felix phillips
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starstruckwonder said: is the Prince wearing a hoodie?! So presh I can’t
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the-nerd-word said: pppffffttttt cute
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starstruckwonder asked you: What do you think of Felix/the Prince?
myshonok-deimos: I don’t see them as being anything more than friends to be honest. I did some sketches a while back of them together but, I don’t know, anymore I just see Pelgrad and the Prince so much more easily. I think that Felix’s playful energy and flippant sarcasm is better suited to a friendship/support role. I don’t see him taking the Prince seriously enough. Someone with his kind of traumatic past and angst needs someone more like Pel, who can really care take of him and be the strength that he needs. I see Felix as being too superficial for any kind of lasting relationship with the Prince.
#star struck chronicles #felix phillips #the martian prince #my dumb headcanon
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elisetales said: so many OTP feels right now
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felixity said: We will forever agree to disagree
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| turn-0f-mind: Chapter 14 of Ghosts of Mars (finally! penultimate chapter!) Sorry for the delay, midterms kicked my ass
I am so excited that I scared my cat up on to the refrigerator with my undignified shrieking – and what do you mean the end is near?! Someone hold me, I can’t.
#sadfeels #so many feels #drowning in feels
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Anonymous asked: Do you have any pictures of your cat?
myshonok-deimos: She’s not very photogenic and hates the camera. I had to wait until she was napping on a pile of sketchbooks.
#gpoy #omg when did my room get this messy #ignore the clutter #I am a photoninja
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glassstrawberries said: your cat is so adorable
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myshonok-deimos: Finished the Pelgrad/Prince piece, but I don’t know if I’m entirely happy with the way Pel’s left eye looks. Hmm. (Oh, slightly NSFW)
#star struck chronicles #captain pelgrad #the martian prince #my art
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#my life #text post spam #why did I think graduate school was a good idea? #go to bed deimos you’re drunk
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starstruckwonder said: aww bb you’ll be fine! We believe in you!
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myshonok-deimos: Among the Ruins of Home (watercolor)
#shitty scanner is shitty #my art #the martian prince #star struck chronicles
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turn-0f-mind said: OMG PERFECT this is sooo sssaaaaaaaaaddd
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Anonymous asked you: Do you ever take commissions? Your art is really great!
myshonok-deimos: The horrible conundrum of being in graduate school is that I’m both desperate for money (a true starving artist!) and devoid of time. I’m not really taking commissions at this time because I’d feel bad about never being able to complete them. I would feel bad about selling fanart of something that’s copyrighted, but Louis Grenarde died, what, ten years ago? And as much as we’d all loooooove to see that Star Struck Chronicles live-action movie they keep promising us, I highly doubt it’ll happen anytime soon. But thank you for the compliment! I’m glad you like my art.
#my art #anonymous
felixity said: this amazingly wasn’t my ask despite how much I’ve tried to bribe you to draw felix/the prince
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| turn-0f-mind: Chapter 15 of Ghosts of Mars (final chapter!)
ohhhmmyyyyggoddd I made the mistake of reading this on my phone at Starbucks and now I am literally sobbing in the bathroom like a total crazy person.
#all my tears take them #buckets of feels #I have lost all ability to can #my heart is breaking
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myshonok-deimos: This is how I feel about Ghosts of Mars ending after eight months of glorious fic.
#my art #turn-0f-mind #the martian prince #captain pelgrad #I will never not ship these two
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elisetales said: uuggghhh my feels!
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Hello! Sorry for the random fanmail, but I wanted to say that I’m a big fan of your work. You have such passion when you draw the scenes on Mars especially. I was the anon who asked about commissions. It’s too bad you’re so busy. Oh, but you shouldn’t feel bad about being busy or anything. Graduate school must be hard I imagine. Are you studying art, I guess? I’m not artistic myself.
- practically-praxis
Hello as well. Thank you for the compliment. I’m glad you like my art. The Prince of Mars is my favorite character of anything pretty much ever. Yeah, I’m really busy with school right now and wouldn’t feel comfortable taking people’s money for something I just do for fun anyway. I’m in my first year of graduate school and I have no idea why I ever thought this was a good idea to be honest.
-myshonok-deimos
Hello again! Then we’re well-matched because I’ve always been partial to Captain Pelgrad myself, but there’s honestly not many characters I dislike from the series (the books I mean. I don’t there’s anyone who is honestly a fan of Kit Carson from the made-for-TV movie – apologies in advance if you are). I’m sure you’ll do great in school! Graduate school for art, right? You’re so talented, I can’t imagine what your actual art looks like. Do you ever post any of it?
- practically-praxis
Oh, yeah, Pel’s great too! I love him just as much, but the Prince is my favorite character. I like to draw them both, obviously. And, ahahaha, I guess you’re right about Kit Carson. I’ve only seen the movie in pieces online and those gif sets that pop up every so often. I don’t think there’s a full stream or torrent of it anywhere, which is a shame, because I’ve always wanted to see the Martian sequence. I heard the animation for it was half the budget. As for my original art (like the stuff I do for school) I don’t really post it on here because, I don’t know, it seems rather boring unless I sketch Pel/Pri all over the margins. Which is usually what happens at odd hours after midnight when I can’t sleep and should be finishing projects – like right now, for example.
- myshonok-deimos
myshonok-deimos: Ignore my lecture notes and focus on the cute
#my art #my dumb sketches #why am I still awake at 3am?
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I do like how you draw the captain, but then again I just like the way you draw everyone. And, really, you’ve never seen the TV movie? I taped it when they re-aired it back in the 90s. I keep having to lug my VCR around every time I move just so I have a means to watch it. When did you get into the books? My dad had the full set from when they first came out – the ones with the hokey 70s illustrations? Anyway I kind of grew up reading them, but I think the resurgence in interest is really great. I think eventually we’ll get that live-action movie with enough perseverance! Anyway it’s early in the morning here, hopefully you’ve gotten both studying and sleeping accomplished. :)
- practically-praxis
Oh. My. GOD. You have a copy on VHS?! asdfghj; I am seething with jealousy! Aha, then again, I don’t have a VCR. I admire your dedication. I only started reading them when I was in college. My roommate freshman year owned the first three books -- in the twentieth anniversary release editions, with the redrawn illustrations. I’m honestly conflicted over which set of illustrations I like better, but have you ever seen the French versions? They are these gorgeous watercolors, and the Prince is drawn with such delicacy but still so strong, and the line of his nose is so presh. Oh, oh, and the Martian landscapes, when they revisit the ruins of the Red Palace, I just want to rub my face all over the pages – ugh, sorry, I did get a little sleep last night/this morning but mostly I’m subsiding on coffee and adrenaline at this point. I’m sitting in the library cafe between classes. Once I turn in my portfolio I am DONE at least until after Fall Break. I have a Halloween piece I plan on putting together but I still need a costume idea for Pel…
- myshonok-deimos
I may have just outed myself as being older than digital, but I guess that’s the great thing about the SSC fandom in that everyone comes into it at different ages. Although my dad would certainly roll over in his grave if he saw some of the Pel/Pri art you draw! Oh, not that’s a bad thing, my dad was just – well a dad! I’m sure you understand. Oh, and, I’m a guy. Hope that doesn’t weird you out or anything, I know the fandom is mostly girls. Or ladies, I should say – I know turn-0f-mind is married. I have not seen any of the international editions, but I just found the photoset of the French ones that you reblogged a while back and – wow! You’re right, they’re certainly beautiful looking. I’ve never thought to see what the international editions look like. And for Halloween – you should have Pel go as a Martian nobleman! lol well okay this is why I’m not an artist, that’s the only idea I could come up with. Have fun on your break, you deserve it! Any plans otherwise?
- practically-praxis
My only other plan is to get drunk and clean my apartment. Maybe not in that order, unless I make it a drinking game where after each cleaning chore I take a shot. I better start with the more complicated chores and work my way down to safe, basic things like folding laundry. Oh, and I promised a friend of mine I’d help him break into this abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of town and steal some fire exit signs. Oh, uh, I’ve gotten an early start on the whole ‘get drunk and clean my apartment’ endeavor (you should see my fridge – spotless! Also empty unless you count the sixer of hard lemonade) so honestly that kind of minor pillaging makes entirely more sense when you spend all your time around artists. He does big 3D installation pieces. I’m not just a random hooligan (anymore, haha) You should check out the Russian illustrations, seriously. They are just gorgeous, utterly dark and sinister. Pri looks positively ethereal and Pel is just dead gothic sexy in a way that’s soooo hot I can’t stand it. (Ahaha, great, now I’m drunk AND horny with nothing to do except cleeeeeeaaaaannn ugh I need a boyfriend) Although they switched artists for the fifth book, so it’s slightly different. I’ve always always always wanted to own them. Like, the French ones are so pretty and cute and all, but I think those are my favorites. And I actually like your idea for Pel’s costume. The Prince could be giving him sexy eyes about it. Rooowwwwrrrr (idk are those sexy eye noises? Use your imagination) Oh and I’m pretty sure the entire fandom thinks I’m a girl, but, I’m not – I’m a boy.
- myshonok-deimos
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#my life #text post spam #to be filed under do you want cheese with your whine? #go to bed deimos you’re drunk
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turn-0f-mind said: awww gurrrrl don’t even worry about boys, they’re dumb! You don’t need one. Uh, don’t tell hubs I said that, haha! You little lush – GO TO BED!
starstruckwonder said: pffft you are so cute! You’ll find someone eventually
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myshonok-deimos <=> fer-souris: звезда поразила хроники
#praxis look i foumd them for youuuuu #teh terrible things i would do to pel
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myshonok-deimos: re-reading The Dunes of Saturn for the millionth time and…
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#my dumb headcanon #text post spam #the martian prince #all my tears take them
starstruckwonder said: ugh, so perfect, I agree with everything
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myshonok-deimos: Look I made an art (Happy Halloween everyone!)
#star struck chronicles #captain pelgrad #the martian prince #felix phillips #olivera #thom reed #lt seberu #kit carson #halloween #my art
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| starstruckwonder: 8 views of Mars
#my homeworld #spaaaaace
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practically-praxis answered you:
(Hey, I didn’t weird you out or anything with my last message, did I? I hate that you can’t see fanmail after you’ve sent it. I vaguely recall answering you when I was drunk last weekend but, uh, can’t remember what I sent… Hope I didn’t say anything weird. Sorry. – myshonok-deimos)
Oh, no! Sorry that I haven’t replied. I just got unexpectently busy and, uh, went to the hospital and stuff. I’ll send my other reply ASAP. You didn’t say anything weird at all. I could barely even tell you’d been drinking :)
Hi Deimos! Sorry for the late reply. I saw your finished Halloween drawing – looks great! Pel looks great in his martian gear, and the Prince looks pretty interested! (Not that I blame him, although I think the Prince’s doublet is just about the cutest thing) I can’t believe you put Kit Carson in as a ghost. I guess he’s dead from fandom hate? Haha! Did you end up successful in your mission to pilfer/loot abandoned safety signs into art? Hopefully you’re not reading this from jail (joking!) Did you do anything fun for Halloween? I took my sister’s kids trick-or-treating around her neighborhood so she could stay home and pass out candy. Nothing very exciting I guess. I saw the Russian illustrations that you reblogged for me, you’re right that they’re so much darker in tone than the US ones, or at least the ones in my versions. I’ve begun re-reading the whole series from the beginning (again). I see you’re on fourth book already, or did you just start there at random? And the fanmail system isn’t that great of a way to message, you’re right, sorry again this is such a late reply.
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Well don’t apologize for being in the hospital, shit, that sounds pretty awful? Or is it not? I hope you’re all right, in either case. That’s a legitimate excuse for being late on a reply. I’m glad you liked the Halloween art. It’s so popular, 200 notes so far! I didn’t even know there were that many people who’d read SSC to be honest, wow. I’m not sure when I’ll get around to another fanart besides silly sketches since I just got slammed to the wall in actual art assignments. I have to do an acrylic portrait of myself, that’s the worst, I’d try faking it but I guess my professor probably knows what I look like by now. Stupid face. And I only added Kit Carson because we’d been talking about the made-for-TV movie, not going to lie, haha. Did you dress up for Halloween? I was a mouse. I went to a party, got trashed, pretty sure I lost my ears somewhere. Guess that can be considered a trick and a treat all in one. Your sister has a kid? That’s cool. Is she younger or older than you? Your sister, I mean. Uh, okay, running to class now. Bye
- myshonok-deimos
Oh, I’m fine, it was just an accident at work. I’m glad the Halloween one was so popular, you really did a great job on it! Take your time and focus on school if you need to, don’t worry about the fandom. A self-portrait? I bet it’ll look great! I wish I could see when you finish it. I did dress up for Halloween, nothing elaborate. I went as a pirate, yarrr! Figured I might as well the best of it… Sounds like you had an exciting night if you lost your ears. I hope a cat didn’t take them or anything. I’m actually the oldest of five children, all girls except me, but the sister with the kid is the same age as me, we’re twins. Not identical, obviously. So I guess that makes her 25 since that’s how old I am :) Not too old I hope? Ah, well -- have fun in class (or if not fun, at least learn a lot!)
- practically-praxis
That’s so cool you have a twin and, wow, that’s a lot of sisters. I’m an only child, I guess, unless you count my stepbrother but, I don’t know, never really lived with him so I don’t think that counts. And, wow, 25, okay I feel dumb I don’t know why but I thought for a minute you were going to be a lot older than me. (And not because you have the TV movie on VHS/still own a VCR, although that’s a contributing factor) I’m 23, so, yay. I was thinking since we both dislike the fanmail system, why don’t you just email me? I’m just myshonok-deimos at umail. If you want, that is. I’m going to be pulling an allnight at the studio tonight so if you don’t hear from me right away that’s why. Or you might hear too much from me, if you’re still around to email once it hits 2am. I always do my worst text post spamming then… Uh, okay, bye!
- myshonok-deimos