#uhh anywah this is kind of outside my comfort zone tbh

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[image ID: a series of semi-realistic portraits of tma characters. Jon is a thin south Asian man with brown skin, pock mark scars on his face/neck, a scar on his throat, slightly curly hair that reaches his shoulders, and facial hair. There's a ring of green in his dark eyes, and he wears a blue-grey jacket over a green t-shirt with a cat on it. Martin is a fat Latino man with medium tan skin, a square face, and curly dark brown hair. He wears glasses and a brown hoodie over a blue sweater. Sasha is a black woman with brown skin, dark brown textured hair in a half up style, with glasses wearing a pink-grey sweater over a yellow shirt with a flower pattern. Tim is a Malaysian man with brown skin, a square face, pockmark scars, a large nose and black hair wearing a yellow striped shirt. Melanie is a Chinese woman with rounded-square face, tan skin, acne scars and black hair died blonde at ends/fringe. She wears black eye shadow and lipstick, along with a blue-black sheer dress. Georgie is a black woman with brown skin, dimples and freckles, and dark red locs in a ponytail with gold hair jewelry. She wears a blue cloth hairtie, a blue shirt and a dark brown jacket. Daisy is a white woman with dark red eyes, a sharp face, pronounced canines and black hair in a braid. She's wearing a police uniform. Basira is an Arab woman with brown skin, curly black hair, a straight nose and almond-shaped eyes. She wears a green turtleneck under a black jacket. Each character has their name written next to them as well as who they were modelled after (Dev Patel for Jon, Harvey Guillen for Martin, Shiv for Sasha, Henry Golding for Tim, Linda Louise Duan for Melanie, and tiktok users tomatotheif, whipjack and Sammybee for Georgie, daisy and Basira respectively). They also have a piece of iconography drawn behind them: an eye for Jon, a foggy lighthouse for Martin, theatre masks and eyes for Sasha, a theatre mask and an explosion for Tim, knives for Melanie, a skull for Georgie, fangs and flowers for daisy, and a target and eyes for Basira. End ID]

Hi! Went off the shits this weekend and ended up drawing semi-realistic portraits of tma characters! I don't do this often outside of school, so uh. Enjoy, I guess! (Also big thanks to @annabelle--cane for suggesting the Georgie, daisy and Basira cosplayers to me)

#the magnus archives #tma #magpod #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #sasha james #tim stoker #melanie king #georgie barker #basira hussain #daisy tonner #i see i havw mispelt Basira's surname again. rage #uhh anywah this is kind of outside my comfort zone tbh??? i spent a lot of time on it though and I'm pretty proud of how it turned out! #again went with those broader descriptors for jon and martin because their references didnt exactly match w/ my usual hcs #and then i just went with my normal descriptors for daisy/basira/georgie because i didn't know the identity of the actual models #I'm probably most proud of tim and Melanie's castings since they're closest to my headcanons- #-(linda duan is british-chinese like my melanie hc and henry golding is british and Malaysian like my tim)- #-plus they're both actually actors so it works in that way too! #Sasha's referenced from Irish-Zimbabwean rnb artist shiv btw #I'm generally not a fan of music that's too mellow but her song 'hold me' brings me to tears it's so good #this also to me carries the implication of Irish sasha which i greatly enjoy #i will make every tma character irish so help me #uhhh idk if k actually have anything else to say! #cool #see ya