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A man designed for public consumption. Take all you need; he's not real and he can't bleed.

#rafael #sketch #hi-note #A smile you can sell.

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I forgot to mention that the uncensored sketches are on our patreon (along with a bunch of other sketches haha)

nerds.

#I wanna...draw these guys being tender and intimate more #I mean--it's like...ALL I ever draw these days but still...wam more

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nerds.

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Raf is very sweet but can we also appreciate just how much fun Margie always seems to be having? in the smut drawings, she always looks like she's having a blast lol

also true 😂 this is her favorite thing to do with her favorite people, it's always a good time!

#nsfm

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he does do this a lot lmao

#warm soft intimate... #what's even the point of having sex if you can't use it as an excuse bury your face into your lover's neck?? #or so Raf apparently asserts lmao #nsfm

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Different Anon, but similar and just wanted to say how comforting your art feels to see. Even your sketches just feel warm in the same way spreading nice smooth butter onto fresh baked bread feels warm and soft and AH! Art good

I am so happy, thank you aaaa♡♡♡♡ this is both validating and encouraging, and gives me that same warm feeling!! thank you♡

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I love how, in most of your Raf x Margie drawings, Raf looks like he just can't be close enough. It's the way he insists on nuzzling his whole face into her neck and the way his hands hold her. It's very, very sweet.

this ask has given me enough seratonin to last a week Q vQ♡♡♡♡ thank you, anon!!! yes, this is what I was hoping to get across haha♡!

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nerds.

#hi-note #sketch #rafael #magritte #nsfm #that lower left space isn't as awkward in the 'other' version but you know...

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Raf Approaching a random performer at a dive bar after they finish their set big star shades on in the dark room and smelling strongly of weed: “Hey, me and my two partners saw you from across the bar and we like your vibes… do you want a massive recording contract and space to properly produce your music, and the resources available to distribute it properly?”

you know, this probably isn't that far off from how the Hi-Note talent sniping is conducted at first lmaooooo At least--until they realize that a lot of the musicians they reach out to neglect to follow up because they think it's a scam 😂

#hi-note #the real mistake is letting margie handle the emails...

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my throat hurts, and my nose is leaking, but I am drawing some goods :]

#wip

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

#yes #but also #My followers are built different. They don't need to be told or reminded. They send me Q's and comments on the daily!! #and I grow more powerful with each and every one.

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this masterpiece brought to you by @seandunkley

#meme #hi-note #lmfao

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When Magritte gets angry, it doesn't really manifest as anger, it emerges as frustration--and it makes her cry, which she really hates lmao. You'll never see her get hopping mad, or yell a string of profanities out of rage. She simply...doesn't experience rage. Maybe she feels hurt/wounded, maybe she feels irritated at herself or at the situation she's in. But she doesn't even experience the urge to punch a pillow or scream into one. She just cries and it's like a leaky faucet she has no control over. Sometimes she'll start crying at the smallest inconvenience, and then--while she is ugly-sobbing--mutter about how embarrassing it feels "to be crying over this, of all things". Usually, though--that's a sign that she's been feeling very stressed. And usually, she doesn't even realize how stressed she's been until the waterworks start up over something silly lmao Raf, on the other hand...there are more times than he can count where he's wanted to go absolutely apeshit and tear faces off while screaming like an overstimulated, feral chimpanzee. But--thankfully, he's kept it together each and every time lmao. Instead, he goes quiet. Very, very quiet. And he leaves. No matter what the situation is, no matter how inappropriate or rude the action might be deemed; he gets up, and he walks out. If you try and stop him, he'll quietly but clearly utter the most scathingly vile, meanspirited shit you've ever heard--and he will use the window of stunned silence, however brief, as his opportunity to get outta there. Cuz if he can't, it becomes very much a 'cornered animal' situation and things would probably get physical. It's never come to that, people know when to back off. Cortes never gets angry or frustrated or upset. She can feel briefly bewildered while she tries to make sense of bizarre minutia--and that's about as negative of a reaction as you're gonna get from her. The bewilderment could even air on the side of disappointment, but it is very fleeting--a matter of seconds before reason settles in.

#hi-note #Magritte #Rafael #Cortes

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hey!! this is so random, but did you ever draw a bunch of feathery dinosaurs or something for a video game? i feel like i played a demo ages ago and something about your art style feels so familiar, but i remember absolutely no details except for how pretty it was haha

You're thinking about ABRAXAS! Yeah, that was us :D aww it's cool that you remember it..!

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Thinking about how Raf decides to run Hi-Note, turning it from a recording studio to a proper label* with a bit of a catch.

Specifically, Raf mandates Hi-Note to find musicians who've fallen through the industry's cracks or play to extremely niche audiences--and provide them the space and financial security to produce music in whatever capacity they're capable of. Hi-Note is able to market and distribute records/recordings, and it accepts that it'll lose money on the majority of the artists that sign onto it. It's run as a business on paper, but its goal isn't to raise capital. Raf's... from a wealthy family who runs a wealthy corporate machine. He gets paid a fuckoff amount of money every year just for existing, and he only inherits more as time goes on. He doesn't need Hi-Note to be financially viable. Rather, Hi-Note kinda becomes the seive through which he's able to pay steady patronage to musical talent that might otherwise have never been able to get a foothold via the more standard industry avenues, granting money/resources to them so they can comfortabley produce the music they love producing and reach a wider audience for that music than they might have been able to on their own. If an artist manages to make decent profit, the cut Hi-Note receives circles right back around again to help support the label's artists who don't generate profit. So, in that way, one artist's success is everyone's success.

Hi-Note cherry picks the artists they sign, of course...and the circle of talent they scoop up stays rather small, with priority given to those who come via the recommendation of established Hi-Note employees. There's a certain...type of artist personality that it favours, and certain types of personalities it staunchly avoids. Artists who'd get along fine via traditional avenues or who have little to no trouble marketing themselves are passed over. As is anyone who seems to have lacked certain challenges in their lives and failed to develop certain perspectives on...how people should be treated and discussed. And this area of high subjectivity/personal bias is probably where Hi-Note finds most of the critisism levelled against it. But there is an equalibrium/"vibe" that Raf aspires to maintain within Hi-Note, and he is pretty uncompromising about it, since a lot of it ties in with his own personal feelings of ease and comfort. Perhaps for this reason alone, Hi-Note can never grow beyond a very humble size.

But, so long as the people working with and within Hi-Note are happy and feel well supported in an industry that otherwise would have ground them into jadesd burnt-out husks, Raf is content with its trajectory. Hi-Note is probably the closest thing he and Margie get to having kids lmao. They're not family, and he's most comfortable keeping them at that amiciable, professional arm's length. But at the same time, he's very proud of his retinue and is ride or die for Hi-Note's artists and employees. And, for the most part, they are for him, too.

#it's quite different from how Guillaume ran things... #Uncle Bill still treated like A Business. #Raf is like “what if I turned this into a supermassive money black hole that produces just a bunch of really weird music instead?” #Raf is bad at wealth aquisition/retention and it's all Margie's fault--she's a terrible influence[positive]. #Margie has conditioned him to believe that wealth needs to be shared and that dying rich could probably be considered a moral failing. #Not that Margie has ever SAID this...but she embodies it. #hi-note

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thank you for giving me cute tags and comments to read, guys!! I love them so very very much, they make me so happy Q vQ♡♡♡

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my dopamine levels are so low lmao Here, have my favorite guys again.

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