The Phantom Art Journal

This Update Gon' Be THICC

Howdy, folks! I finished another drawing today, and then I scrounged up a few extras I wanted to share with y'all.

You probably remember the femme! Shu from the mass story-art dump, but here he is again in poor line quality with a better cape. This is more inspired by Mister Sholmes' own coat. I adore the style of a capelet over top a coat or some such.
I never mentioned it because I was too tired during that update, but I drew this for an older au in which the gang were (older) demons representing the Seven Deadly Sins, but their sins weren't assigned based on what suited them best, you understand. Shu was Lust, Valt was Wrath, Ken was Pride, Wakiya was Greed, Honcho was Sloth, Daigo was Gluttony, and Lui was Envy.

This may surprise you, but this is actually Ace Attorney fanart. An AU in which Miles Edgeworth was taken in by von Karma and made to be a serial killer who took out bailiffs and defense attorneys. He's called the Lion of Agony, because once he was caught between a security team and cameras in some kind of museum, so he took a lion's skull as a makeshift mask.

This is DGS Sherlock in the true beast form I made up for him. (Ye, true beast as in what you see in the Scamper/Ferrine Theodore AU. I made him a bunny dog who was like Temmie!! :D I did the equations "he thinkin" thing based on the blank expression I gave him.

Next, you know how Iris changes some details and such in the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes for the sake of drama? I can imagine she'd describe his beast form to be more fierce-sounding for the sake of throwing off anyone who actually meets him in his beast form. XD Oh, and regarding his second pair of ears, I did add them originally but it didn't look right.

Before I explain, I just wanted to say I have now beat Baldi's Basics three times total! I am very proud, and I wish I could show you guys the videos I have saved, but Wattpad's not so kind. (And in the last one, I had found out how to use the microphone during screen recordings, so I was pretending to be Sherlock and it's a bit cringe. X'D)

Anyway, I noticed a long while before my third win that Baldi's fully developed sprite has very oddly shaped pupils. (Or are they his irises?? I can't tell.) They're not so much round as they are ovular and horizontal, kind of like a goat's eye! So I gave him goat eyes. :) The first drawing is just canon, he's all creepy and stuff, the second is for a witchcraft AU, because y'all know I LOVE witchcraft AUs (where the term "witch" isn't just the term for "female magic-user." Because witch and wizard aren't interchangeable terms they've got different connotations and everything-)

Also speaking of Sherlock, here's Merlock! I was just struck with the urge to draw a mermaid AU and Holmesie is my boy, so there. And I had thought of one before where he'd been captured and on sale in the blackmarket, where Captain Yuujin finds him and immediately demands his release, because merfolk aren't just pets to sell!! In a new AU, Holmes would be made a decoration of some noble who hires Yuujin and his crew to do mercenary work.
(That goes sour, though, because that noble wants them to kill someone good and they're like "naaah" and he doesn't like that. In the chaos that follows, Yuujin breaks the tank and helps Holmes escape.)

Holmes is also a more monsterous subspecies of mercreature, thus his splotchy, wispy design! I thought that basing his form on cogwheels and stuff may be too inorganic for a water creature, so I went based on his investigative chemicals and the smoke of his briar pipe.

Additional notes: His organs, mouth, whiskers and eyes glow for the purpose of luring in prey like an angler fish. The membrane over his stomach is pretty much just translucent skin.

Monster merfolk can't communicate in human tones, only in frog-like croaks and whale-like groans/whines. Most also don't understand the human tongue, but thanks to mermagic, all they have to do to rectify that is kiss someone to understand that person's respective language. :)
And you know, this weird human with the red scarf and big hat,,, he did help in the escape process,,,,,, and he certainly seems to have a good mastery of his speech,,,,,,,,,,, ;)))

And lastly, the second panel of the drawing with Yuujin is based on that one vine where the guy is walking on the street, and then he sees a cat locked in some kind of plant shop and freaks out about it, yelling that he'll help while the cat looks absolutely baffled.

Who's responding to Yuujin in order, because I dunno if anyone could tell by colors alone:
Susato
Kazuma
Barok van Zieks (Because of my personal headcanons for Kiekie, he still has a thicc backstory in this AU.)
Benjamin Dobinbough, or as he's known in the localization... -heavy sigh- Albert Harebrayne.
And then Barok again.