The Doctor’s tiny smiles when he’s trying to cheer frazzled people are the best thing ~ <3

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ladyyatexel:

ajsavestheday:

ladyyatexel:

Watercolored SWAN-verse Homicides!Johnny and Edgar, because I have no self control, evidently.

It was really nice to paint them traditionally again after all this time!

i love these assholes so much

Damn I love Johnny’s ribbons. I used to make bookmarks like that.

It’s nice to see such worn, sad clothes on such a happy couple again. The lunatics. <3

These colors are awesome! You’re getting really good at watercolors! It’s all vivid and woosh-y, especially Edgar’s sleeves, looking all oceanic. Nice.

Haha, watercolors are sort of My Thing at this point, I just hadn’t unleashed them on these two yet!  I’m glad you like the look of it because you’ll probably see more! 

Do they look couple-y, happy or otherwise, here?  That’s interesting!   I often feel like there’s this weird sort of dual thing happening with them where performance mode is ‘on’ and Johnny toys with all of them and his issues with people and touch and everything vanish for the length of a song (I think this was best depicted in this one! There are hands all over him there, and if this happened in any other context, he’d be tearing limbs off of all involved, probably Edgar included considering his hand placement.), and then sort of his ‘off’ mode where if anyone but Edgar comes within a certain proximity, they’re getting musically kicked in the teeth.   I’m not sure which mode might be visible here, but I’ve always found it difficult to see ‘couple’ when they were all dolled up to perform and not showing some very overt affection.  Like, there’s a doodle I posted here … a few weeks ago? Has it been that long? With Johnny inspecting Edgar’s stitches and that looks very couple to me, and ones with Johnny singing right at him, but then I think of stuff like this where Edgar is definitely in Johnny’s lap, but he’s also being stabbed in the stomach with a street sign. (And then he and Devi are tangled up and Jimmy is attached to Devi and I always do this with them, I just link them all up in ambiguous ways as much as I can.)

 Edgar’s soulless eyes here might be contributing to me just thinking it looks like Homicides goofing off rather than couple-ish, but I’m really cool with it looking any way at all, so that’s kind of fabulous to me!  This is possibly what happy couple looks like to people this deeply fucked up, haha.   Even the montage of kisses I put up on dA has this undercurrent of fucked up sitting in it. Alas~

this isn’t painting what am i doing

Woo for splashing every art medium everywhere!

That’s an interesting point, that everyone crawls all over each other in “media mode,” and obviously the “orgy” posters are a more playful/action-accepting side of Johnny than when he’s having a regular day. His personal space bubble inflates a great deal most of the time he’s not performing. I guess I pictured this more “dicking around after a show” than anything onstage, but then again, that’s probably the old SWAN talking where Johnny was a bit more smooth and a bit less silly in front of an audience? (You did say, a la the broken stairs/”I wasn’t listening” sketch on LJ, that he’s more fallible in the revamp. (I don’t have the internet at home so I’ve still only read the first chapter so far.)) So I see this and think “my partner and I would absolutely do this” and just sort of toss it into a couple-y pile even though it’s not distinctly couple-y.

Or, maybe, it’s that I know they get together *at some point* so I just already ship everything they’ve ever done. In which case, that would be my bad for making assumptions where they (and you!) might not have intended!

responding to fans might lead to more painting ideas~

One of the things I’ve been really enjoying about doing this all again is actually just letting them all have fun.  We knew they had fun in the original, but we didn’t see it as often, so it’s written in more and I get to draw some too.  So pictures like this are coming from that sort of thing.  They make good promo shots and goofy shit like that, but they’re also just being complete dorks.  THUS, it could be FOR a show as much as goofing off after one!  Johnny is so iffy about his relationships to other people that the act of letting Edgar carry him like his outside of performing could be more significant than it would be with other people.  Or it could be that he’s kind of a theatrical narcissist who likes to be carried around higher than everyone else and Edgar likes to indulge him.  OR IT COULD BE BOTH.

I think once you get further into reading it, you’ll see the kind of 'falling down the stairs’ stuff that LJ was referencing, but that performance mode is still pretty much like it was, just with an added layer of 'fuck it, do what you want’ added in.  So he’s still very in control of people, still loves being manipulative, but it’s done with a little bit of a wild kind of 'I dare you to do this too, I dare you to be caught off guard and think I’m harmless’ goofing off too.  So lots of us seeing him having fun and enjoying those images because of it, but getting the sense that perhaps he would most like it if he had that fun at our expense. 

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