#martin is just extremely Expressive Face Coded to me do u know what i mean

[saintbleeding]

[ID: Comic of Jon and Martin from TMA, portraying part of their dialogue from MAG 154. Jon is a tall British-Indian man with long, curly hair and a beard, both of which are patchy due to facial scarring, and shot through with grey and white. He wears a partially-tucked business shirt and rectangular glasses, and his hair is tied in a messy bun. Martin is a short, fat, white man with neatly styled, desaturated ginger hair and very pale skin. He wears the waistcoat and trousers from an olive-green three-piece suit, and his sleeves are rolled up and tie loosened. The dialogue shown is the following:

ARCHIVIST: I think I’ve found a way for us to leave the Institute. MARTIN: O--kay? ARCHIVIST: Yeah... But it’s- it’s pretty drastic. MARTIN: What, you going to gouge your eyes out or something? (gets it) Fuck off.

Jon squeezes his hands together apprehensively, then slowly lowers them as they speak. Martin’s facial expressions are sardonically amused until the pause in his last line. As Jon tilts his head forward forebodingly, his eyes glowing dimly red in the low lighting, Martin’s face shows unconcealed shock and then perturbed affront when he says “fuck off”. The background is a dark, mottled green, and their dialogue is shown in two distinct fonts in pale teal. End ID.]

this week the general menace and also specialest boy in the world @hotdrinks introduced me to two very cool things: automatic drawing as a warmup/cool-down, and thinking about the physical circumstances during jmart’s 154 convo, and the combination thereof had me sort of sketching out my idea for the whole scene (which i may or may not ever actually do anything with). these few frames rly amused me so i expanded them and now i am laying it at ur feet and running away love and light xoxo

#the magnus archives #tma #jmart #jonmartin #mag 154 #jon sims #martin blackwood #multipurpose leland tag #my #saint draws #cursing #scopophobia #scars #eyestrain #martin is just extremely Expressive Face Coded to me do u know what i mean