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“You're afraid, aren't you? You’re afraid she’ll appear to one of them and tell them the truth about you.” “She wouldn’t do that.” “Wouldn’t she?”

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“Willie, you’re a coward. You always will be.”

“You’re scared too.”

“Not of death.” “You’re scared of HER.”

#dark shadows #willie loomis #barnabas collins #sarah collins #dark shadows 66 #dark shadows art #traditional art #watercolor #ink #salt and light #my art

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Just a couple of conmen who should have stayed far, far away from Collinsport and vampires. Based on the Norman Rockwell paintings ‘Boys Smoking’ and ‘Retribution’:

#dark shadows #willie loomis #jason mcguire #dark shadows 1966 #artists on tumblr #traditional art #pencil #dark shadows art #norman rockwell #my art

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Loved the part when Willie unlocked the GoodEndingTM and moved in with the Evans clan and everyone lived happily ever after.

#dark shadows #willie loomis #maggie evans #sam evans #joe haskell #dark shadows 1966 #dark shadows art #my art #digital art

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“A good heart and a clear conscience are the only jewels worth having.” 

“Yeah, uh, but what if you don’t have them? The good heart an’ all that?” 

“Then you’d do well to get them.”

A redemption story.

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“Do you really think you can stop him?”  “I don't know. But I can try. I can try.”    “You can let me escape!” “You know I can't. He'd come after me, he'd kill me--or worse.” “You can escape with me! Willie... Willie don't let me die.”    “He's going to kill Maggie Evans tonight. [...] And all I can do is stand by and watch as long as I live. I'll live with death, people dyin' --and worse. I can't let it go on--I gotta do something!”

#dark shadows #willie loomis #maggie evans #barnabas collins #dark shadows 66 #Dark Shadows 1966 #dark shadows art #traditional art #ink #salt and light #my art #this was the definitive willie arc #and i’m really grateful that the audios brought him back to it

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“...I’m sorry.”

“Oh sure, you’re ‘Sorry’. That’s a new word you learned only recently. I’d like to know where you learned to say it.”

Dark Shadows was really clever to juxtapose metaphorical and literal vampire arcs, and it set Willie up for one of the most devastating redemption arcs I’ve ever seen. 

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You already believed in vampires, the strong and the clever whose natural right it was to snare the weak and bleed them dry. You didn't notice the tremors as you crossed the outer threads of the web (don't touch me) to learn too late who, in the end, was the spider, and who the fly. (don't touch me) You're part of this story too, now.                 (I s--I said I'm sorry...                    I said I was sorry...)

#dark shadows #willie loomis #barnabas collins #jason mcguire #carolyn stoddard #elizabeth stoddard #Dark Shadows 1966 #dark shadows 66 #dark shadows art #traditional art #ink #my art #please forgive me for depicting creeper!willie #I'd like to forget him too but #narrative significance and all that

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“Jason, you're my friend. Help me.”

“Listen to me Jason, we're still friends--” “WERE friends, Willie! Past tense!”

“Are you squeamish about death?” “He was my friend!” “Your friend? You told me he tried to kill you.” “But a long time ago before we came here, we were friends. Good friends.” “You really are appallingly sentimental.”

Willie and Jason. friends

#dark shadows #these two give me feelings #willie loomis #jason mcguire #barnabas collins #dark shadows 1966 #dark shadows art #traditional art #ink #artists on tumblr #my art

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In ep 264 Barnabas and Willie believe Maggie to be dead, and only the vampire’s literal slave holds himself accountable. Go figure.

(Watch out, Barnabas, doesn’t sound like Willie is about to stand back and let you kill Maggie twice.)

#dark shadows #i definitely feel like it meant something that sarah appeared to willie immediately after this scene #as though he'd just proven himself to be one of maggie's allies #willie loomis #barnabas collins #maggie evans #dark shadows 66 #traditional art #ink #watercolor #artists on tumblr #my art

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I’ve discovered that the 1966 Dark Shadows soap (specifically Willie Loomis) makes a good subject for oil subtraction paintings.

#i'm so tempted to make a pun about shadows #dark shadows #willie loomis #dark shadows 66 #oil painting #traditional art #artists on tumblr #painting #my art

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Behold: Cass, Jason, and a reference to a quote from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

(Explanation: Cass’s book references the quote “I incline to Cain’s heresy. I let my brother go to the devil in his own way,” but since she’s the personification of “that sign won’t stop me because I can’t read!” I don’t think the book made much of an impression.)

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#cassandra cain #jason todd #batman #batfam #dc art #bat family #traditional art #digital art #ink #artists on tumblr

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I had a lot of people asking for this, so I finally set up a Redbubble, and if anyone wants a print, sticker, etc of this painting, they can find it here: 

And thank you to everyone for all your kind words in the tags! That was a really unexpected surprise. :)

#redbubble #the batman #batman #bruce wayne #dc art

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my brother wanted me to paint That Scene from the batman. [it's on Redbubble!]

#this scene was really beautiful #the batman #batman #bruce wayne #dc art #traditional art #gouache #artists on tumblr #my art

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Experimenting with cheap gouache on a piece of cardboard. ✌️

#the legend of zelda #link #traditional art #gouache #tloz #my art

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a strangled vine.

#my art #ink #traditional art #artists on tumblr

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ancient forest

#my art #ink #traditional art #artists on tumblr #fantasy #forest

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I will be rocks I will be water I will leave this to my daughter Lift your head up in the wind When you feel yourself grow colder wrap the night around your shoulders and I will be with you even then even when I cannot see your face anymore (x)

Cass grieved Bruce, too.

(The gif I posted months back never loads on my phone, so I’m posting a non-gif version. The original gif is here.)

#cassandra cain #bruce wayne #batman #batfam #dc art #my art #digital art #bat family

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L.

#death note #L Lawliet #death note art #traditional art #pencil #my art

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Juggling knives was always a dangerous game.

(Bad Company chapter 18: Three Denials.)

#dick grayson #batman #batfam #the apprentice #hopefully i’ll finish more BC art soon. #bat family #dc art #bad company #bad company ch 18 #traditional art #ink #my art