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[malachiwardyt]

Never underestimate the power of a New Brush™

Artblock cancelled i found a new brush

#we are so back #now if only I could use new brushes to fix writer's block #guess I'll just have to settle for caffeine and video game soundtracks

[malachiwardyt]

Jonny, I stumbled apon your blog on complete accident and it may have been the best accident of my life. I have but one burning question I must know-

What is your favourite animal?

Oof, what a question - there are some real bangers out there in the ol' animal kingdom.

As a kid I was very into tigers. Loved those big stripy fellas - my grandmother used to cut out pictures of tigers from magazines and present them to me in a manila folder when I visited. I never asked her to do this and didn't have any use for the pictures, but she gave me a lot of them.

Penguins are also up there - waddling around having a good time. Feeding time at the penguin habitat is always a highlight of any zoo visit. Sure, maybe they make houses out of their own shit, but who are you to judge?

Seals as well, especially when they're fully in orb mode. Just wobbly ocean friends!

Plus, if I'm down the aquarium anyway, I always make a beeline for the pacu fish. Big, dumb motherfuckers just swimming about like idiots - they bring me a lot of joy. Plus I recently discovered they have human-like teeth, so that's a win for team Your Nightmares.

Also sharks. Every week is Shark Week if you're not a coward.

In the end, though, if I had to pick a current favourite, the one that brings a smile to my face even in its crudest doodle rendition, why, 'tis none other than the humble crab. They come in a plethora of shapes, sizes, colours and flavours, and every one of them is just a silly little guy.

#just wait until he hears about carcinisation #would make for a sick Extinction episode actually #crab

[malachiwardyt]

I have officially succeeded at my goal of spreading the TMA disease, my letter of resignation will be handed in tomorrow.

Tma fandom i have a question for you

#obviously this is a joke #or is it #no don't worry it is #magnuspod #the magnus archives #youtube #tma #the magnus pod #I'm really impressed that I actually convinced someone to listen to the podcast

[malachiwardyt]

Which TMA fear god is your favorite and least favorite?:3

Fun Fact! I've answered this question, and several others, before in my Q&A video, which can be found below.

The actual answer to this question starts at 20:07, but, as a TLDW:

Favourite goes to the Web. I love its unique role in TMA's narrative, I'm a big fan of spiders and web imagery (hell, I use quite a bit for the channel itself), and and the theme of manipulation and loss of control is both fascinating and terrifying.

Least favourite, then, is the Corruption. As a lover of bugs and someone with a surprisingly deep understanding of disease (I actually wanted to go into microbiology for quite a while there), I just don't find it all that frightening. I also think the Corruption just doesn't have that many stand-out episodes and, as soon as Prentiss is dealt with, never really plays a major role in the main narrative again.

Thank you for asking!

#magnuspod #the magnus archives #tma #the magnus pod #tma entities #tma the web #tma the corruption #the web #the corruption #I'll never miss a chance to promote old videos #Even if I don't like the art all that much

[malachiwardyt]

In honour of this post and Alex saying he could kick the corruption. Here is a complete correct list of what entities I could kick, from most kickable to least kickable:

1. Flesh

2. Web

3. Hunt

4. Slaughter (kicking is kinda part of the description innit)

5. Corruption

6. Stranger

7. Eye (most the avatars are tiny ass twinks anyway)

8. Burried (you could maybe punch your way out of the grave?)

9. Dark (not kickable, but you can get a flash light)

None kickable

10. Desolation

11. Spiral

12. Lonely

13. Vast

14. End

#gonna have to disagree with number ten #I could kick the fuck out of candle wax #magnus archives #magnuspod

[malachiwardyt]

What would the salary of a Bonzo be? How much money do you think he makes?

Is he now the breadwinner of the Nigel Dickerson household?

"mr. bonzo is one of our externals" I'm sorry, is that bitch getting PAID?

#tmagp #tmagp 11 #tmagp spoilers #the magnus protocol #mr. bonzo #bonzo

[malachiwardyt]

Here's how Agnes Montague can still win- * gets shot *

#if the price of being right is a government hit so be it #tmagp theory #tmagp #agnes montague

[malachiwardyt]

The Magnus Archives:

The horrors are lurking, they are scheming and you will find yourself firmly in their grasp only when you can no longer hope to escape

The Magnus Protocol:

The horrors are here to beat yo ass, they will stab you and then call the police on themselves, try not to get eaten by a building ✌

#mr bonzo's on his way to fuck you up #seriously though #monster hitmen? #paramilitary involvement? #the horrors are ready for war #magnuspod #tmagp #tmp #magnus protocol #the magnus protocol

[malachiwardyt]

Today is a very special day, podcast side of Tumblr.

In about half an hour, the Magnus Protocol will be releasing to the public, which is very exciting. To celebrate, I decided to make a video going over my pre-series theories, throwing everything at the wall in hopes of getting a prediction to stick.

Originally, this was meant to be a full breakdown of TMA, but that project wound up being a lot longer than I expected. It doesn't mean it isn't coming, just that I couldn't get it done for today.

The art for this video features everyone's favourite Magnus ARG character, Mr. Bonzo, the jaundiced Mr. Blobby rip off with a slightly menacing aura. I knew I wanted to do something specifically related to Protocol, but I didn't want to do any of the main characters without hearing their voices and getting to know them, so I instead opted for Bonzoland's unsettling mascot, partly because he's a fan favourite and partly because I love doing monster design.

Bonzo obviously already had a design, which I did my best to stay true to, though I also make some changes. The most notable change is probably the teeth, which are much more broken down than in the original. I figured that a terrible creature like this would probably have teeth made of plate or ceramic, so I chipped away at them in the areas where they would most often be used, being the incisors and molars in a human. Of course, Bonzo has a few extra teeth, but that's alright.

The art did have to be rushed a bit, since I literally finished it around 3:00 this morning, so it's not quite as detailed as I would like, but I think that's alright. When I inevitably do my follow up AFTER listening to the premier, maybe I'll go back and give Bonzo the superior shading he deserves.

One of my favourite details about Mr. Bonzo is the fact that you can see little red eyes poking out from inside of the suit, with what looks like most of a face inside of the head, so I had to include that in my version. If you look closely, you can spot the eyes hiding in Bonzo. I did try to make my Bonzo a bit bulkier overall, with a smaller head relative to his body and defined neck, which I think moves him away from theme park mascots a bit, but into the realm of bulky animatronics or muscly monsters, which are their own form of uncanny valley.

Also, it's semi-unintentional, but I made his spots glow. Because I can.

This piece is also the first time I've publically shown off my new persona design. I've been holding on to the redesign for a few months now, but I figured this was as good a time as any to shadow drop it. Afton himself looks mostly the same, save for a hair update which makes it longer, but the biggest change is in his clothes, moving from a burgundy coat and green tee to a lavender coat and rust turtleneck. I've also bulked up the glasses a bit and finally found a way to get semi-accurate hair colours. Chestnut hair is hard to draw.

With all of that out of the way, I think that just leaves us to prepare for the release of Protocol. I've been dodging spoilers for months at this point, so I'm glad to finally get a glimpse into this new world. Will my predictions be right? Probably not. I can always hope, though. Regardless, thank you for reading, and good night, Tumblr people!

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[malachiwardyt]

I love your channel and art!

Thank you! I'm glad I can make videos you've enjoyed, and I hope to continue doing so into 2024 and beyond. Specifically, I have some big projects planned for this new year and, as my most popular series by far has come to a close, it seems that these new beginnings will have plenty of room to develop.

We just hit 1.75k subscribers on YouTube, which is really exciting. Our community is growing very quickly, and I love to see that people want to see more from me. In order to help with that goal, I want to do something a bit special. You can consider it a celebration of 1.75k, a returning of appreciation, or just a way to balance out the information I put out on Twitter, YouTube Community Posts, and Tumblr, but I thought it might be nice to give y'all a sneak peak at the next video's art piece.

It's just one part of a much bigger drawing, obviously, and all of it is still in the sketching phase, but, if you've enjoyed the videos and the art so far, I think you're going to want to stay tuned for this next one! The Magnus fans in the audience (which, lets be honest, are most of y'all. I doubt very many people are around to watch me play Cult of the Lamb or something XD) in particular should get excited.

Anyways, I'm glad you've enjoyed my content, and I hope you're excited for what's coming in the new year. Good night, Tumblr people!

#youtube #sketch #digital art #in progress #art #tma art #uh oh #looks like I gave away that the next video is TMA related #which I already said in the End Explained video #and on Twitter #but now y'all know too #anyways #magnuspod #the magnus archives #the magnus archive fanart #the vast #the vast tma #the flesh #the flesh tma #the corruption #the corruption tma

[malachiwardyt]

A hilarious watch. It's honestly sort of frightening how many of these line up.

After FOUR months in the making, I offer to the TMA fandom the silliest of Christmas gifts. The horror fiction podcast community has seriously changed my life for the better, and I have made so many lifelong friends because of it.

This video was born from a surprising lack of SpongeBob meme compilations for this fandom, and was, frankly, somerhing i wasnt certain I could pull off, as I have zero-video editing knowledge. I hope you're all able to get a laugh out of it, even if it's not perfect. And I would greatly appreciate y'all spreading it around! I would love as many people as possible in the fandom to see their gift!

Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

@jonnywaistcoat If you would like something silly too--

#tma #the magnus archives #magnuspod #magnus memes #tma memes

[malachiwardyt]

Hello again, podcast side of Tumblr.

Entities Explained has officially come to a close with the final episode explaining the End. If you didn't know, Entities Explained has been a series where I, over the course of the last year and change, have explained each of the Fears from hit horror anthology podcast The Magnus Archives. This is the longest episode of the series, but I think it's totally worth watching.

Also, this video contains a major announcement: I am currently working on a MASSIVE video explaining The Magnus Archives in as much detail as I possibly can. Hopefully, it'll be a great refresher course before Protocol, and trying to get it done in a month won't absolutely destroy me.

For the art, I decided to draw the moment from Oliver Banks' statement in MAG 121: Far Away where he and the rest of the crew on a research vessel are destroyed by falling satellite pieces. I wanted the whole piece to be very dark and to have this slightly dusty feel to it, which I think I succeeded at.

I went back and forth a lot on what to dress Banks in, but, in the end (pun intended), I went with something a bit more casual, since he is mostly just hanging around a shipping vessel. If I ever drew him as The Coroner, I'd probably go with something more formal (full black suit with a wilted red flower on the lapel?), but this felt fitting. I also wanted to give him a rain coat because, hey, I imagine it gets pretty rainy out there.

Unfortunately, Banks' design doesn't get to shine through too much in this piece, since his back is to the audience but, for one, I think that's sort of fitting for his themes, and, two, it makes the composition, at least in my mind, a bit more interesting.

The falling satellite was something I experimented around with a lot. Using reference pictures of real satellites, I tried to get something that felt small, but also like it could do some serious damage. The motion blur was a late addition, but I can't say I don't like it.

The moon was always going to be an important part of this piece, but it was during the sketching phase that I realised I could make it into a bit of a stylised skull, which is just a subtle enough detail to be fun. The angular clouds were originally meant to cut through it, but I settled on it being in full view instead, which I think looks much better.

Finally, there's the veins themselves. I actually went with less of them than I originally planned because I think it felt less repetitive, but I'm really happy with the way they turned out. My one addition was adding a pop of colour to this very drab and grey piece (which could, now that I think about it, be seen as a parallel to the desaturated people in Banks' dreams) in the form of the red flowing through the veins. This is technically only described as happening when Banks saw Gertrude Robinson in his dreams, but I figured, if there was another time for it, it was in the moment that he was truly in the grasp of Terminus. I also, honestly, just think it looks better.

That wraps up Entities Explained, so I hope y'all have enjoyed this series while it lasted. I'm not going to stop Magnus content, as I have plenty of ideas already and I'm sure Protocol will only bring more, but I am interested to see where my content goes from here. If you've read this far, thank you so much for listening to my ramblings and, if you celebrate, enjoy your holidays. Good night, Tumblr people!

#youtube #magnuspod #the magnus archives #the magnus pod #tma #the magnus institute #magnus #the magnus archives fanart #the magnus protocol #tma art #tma entities #tma spoilers #tma fanart #tma the end #the end #terminus #the coming end that waits for us all and cannot be ignored #oliver banks #the coroner #antonio blake #this series is over #wow #that's weird to think about #anyways #enjoy the episode #existential terror for your holidays

[malachiwardyt]

Just wanted to say you're my favorite YouTuber and your art is really great!!:)

First of all, thank you!

I'm always glad to see that people get enjoyment from my content, because it's a big part of why I do it. The other part is the goblins tapping inside of my skull who threaten to break out if I don't share their information.

As for my art, I actually use my channel specifically to practice my art. Going back through early videos or, hell, just watching through the past year on Entities Explained, you can see massive shifts as I try to find a style I like and experiment with other ways of doing things. Art is also all about practice, so having to make art for all of my videos forces me to practice at least once a month XD

#youtube #youtuber #art

[malachiwardyt]

Howdy, podcast side of Tumblr.

I forgot to share this here, but on the 30th (yes, I cut the deadline that close) I uploaded an explanation of the Extinction from hit horror anthology podcast The Magnus Archives as part of my ongoing series analysing the Entities one at a time. For this, the penultimate episode, I wound up going way further into detail than I expected, resulting in the video analysing the least significant Entity being the longest in the series. Whoops.

As always, here's a breakdown of the art, for the curious. Although he isn't an avatar of the Extinction (in fact, he seems to be actively fighting against it in most of his appearances), it felt wrong not to do Adelard Dekker for this piece. I really wanted to play around with colour and contrast in this one, and I think it turned out pretty nice.

I dressed Dekker himself in a grey suit with silver accents, because I wanted him to feel very ordinary. Dekker is one of the most human characters in TMA, never seeming to fall to any Entity despite interacting with them very frequently. More than that, he's about as close as TMA gets to a true hero, being at least a comparatively strong force for good. Silver, then, I chose both because it compliments his suit very nicely and because it has mythological and traditional precedent, especially in European folklore, as a deterrent for evil or the supernatural. One of Dekker's most interesting traits is his persistent faith, which I knew I had to include somehow, so I gave him a silver necklace with a cross on the end. It's simple, but it works. The only pop of colour in his otherwise monochrome dress is the tie around his neck, which I've coloured green to show his connection to the Extinction. I know I needed at least a bit of colour, and a neon, toxic green is the colour I associate with the Extinction, so I used a darkened, desaturated form of it for his necktie. I always pictured Dekker as a slender, angular man, which I've conveyed in his face and body. I wanted to give him hair that stood up a lot into short points, and while I considered making them a bit rounder, in the end, the pointed tips just stuck. Finally, there's the glowing green in his eyes, which is, of course, another allusion to the Extinction. Not to imply that he's being guided or influenced by it, simply that he sees it. He was the first to catalogue it, and, admittedly, they do stand out quite nicely against the shadows over him.

In the background, I knew I wanted a skyline with a mushroom cloud behind it, but, as I was working, I decided to make the buildings different references to Extinction episodes. Before I get to that, though, I have to talk about the colour scheme, which is mostly pale green. This was both, again, because the Extinction's colour, in my mind, is green, and because it contrasted nicely against the reds and oranges of the blast. Starting at the leftmost building, it references MAG 144: Decrypted, with numbers running down the side and an antenna on top to send out its encoded message. The next one over is a reference to MAG 175: Epoch, being a massive, Empire State-esque building with abandoned boxes and detritus scattered on its landings, alongside a few more... "living" manifestations. There are only five statements which are the MOST likely Extinction appearances, so, for symmetry, I had to pick an extra statement to throw in. This wound up being MAG 65: Binary, since it's a fan favourite and plenty of people theorise that it actually was related to the Extinction. To get the idea across, I put a few distorted faces on large screens, though I do regret not lightening the entire building up a bit. Across the empty space, we find a reference to MAG 156: Reflection, designed to mimic a large carnival sign and featuring tall windows with thin creatures in them. The windows could have been a bit smaller, but I worried that they would seem too similar to the next building. Speak of which, that brings us to the MAG 134: Time of Revelation reference, being an apartment building in a French architectural style (I don't recall which one at the moment, but I know it was a specific one) filled with figures in the windows, some of whom are half melted into walls or floors. Finally, the last building is a reference to MAG 149: Concrete Jungle, with a rounded roof to mimic the circular shabonos of the Yanomami people and a large, concrete serpent for... obvious reasons.

I think that about covers it. If you've read this far, I hope you enjoyed, and get yourselves ready for the final episode of Entities Explained dropping later this month. With that, all I have left to say is good night, Tumblr people!

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[malachiwardyt]

This is so awesome. Love to see references to the earliest episodes of the series. The golden heart in particular is really cool but, honestly, I think all of these are amazing.

Parts 1 - 7 of my Magnus Archives episodic design series

#i need to do a tma relisten again #tma art #tma fanart #tma spoilers #tma #tma podcast #magnus archives #magnuspod #the magnus archives #the magnus archive fanart #the magnus pod

[malachiwardyt]

Hello again, podcast side of Tumblr.

I'm back with a new video about The Magnus Archives, specifically going over my viewers' hot takes about the series. I talk about TMA a LOT, so I figured it might be nice to give other people an opportunity to talk about it. Also, controversial opinions are always fun.

As for the art, I did a lot of monster design in October as a fun way to get back into a genre of art I hadn't covered in a while, and this is an expansion of that idea. The character pictured here is an omen of death, inspired by Banshees, Will o' the Wisps, and la Llorona, which I haven't actually given a proper name to, so if y'all have any ideas, feel free to share them.

As for the background, I went with a bit of swampy atmosphere, with dark green water and trees barely visible in the dark. Given that the character is composed almost entirely of black smoke or fog, having her spread out over the water felt right. I also have a lifelong fear of water, so it felt like the right place to put a depiction of Death.

I'll do a bigger post at some point explaining all of the detail work that went into the character, probably along with some concept sketches or something. Did notice that I forgot a detail, though, while going back over the speedpaint in the finished video, which would have served to make her a little more solid looking.

Anyways, that's the hot takes video! I'll be trying to finish the Malevolent script soon so that we can have that video, though the latest episode HAS given me a new scene to draw. Feel free to let me know what you think of the video or the art and, as always, good night, Tumblr people!

#magnuspod #the magnus archives #the magnus pod #tma #magnus #the magnus archives fanart #horror podcast #horror art #creepy art #scary art #hot take #unpopular opinion #community engagement #halloween special #well not really #all saints day special #there we go #some of y'all's opinions about TMA scare me more than the podcast itself #controversial opinion #youtube #still don't know how to tumblr #Youtube

[malachiwardyt]

Guess who's back with another video, podcast side of Tumblr?

As some of you might know, I have a series on YouTube where I talk about the Entities of the Magnus Archives, and this month we touched on the Buried. We are almost a year and 13 episodes into this project, and it just keeps getting better, so I hope y'all choose to check out this episode.

Just like last time, I'll also post the art from this episode, which is of Hezekiah Wakely taking a well deserved nap. Once again, I tried to do something different with this one, which I really liked the results of. It uses a little bit thinner, more blended linework, a lot more shading, and some fun anatomy work. From a colour standpoint, I obviously wanted to use a lot of earthy tones, and green felt like a good supplement to make Hezekiah stand out against the background. I also made sure to include the split thread from the coffin bell, 'cause that felt right. Hope y'all like this one, and that you're ready for the next video!

With that, we're done for this week, so keep your eyes peeled for the next upload and good night, Tumblr people!

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