Some Sketches From This Week

I'll be doing art fight this year if anyone's interested

https://artfight.net/~TV_AJAX_

Hot take, apparently, but

a) Percy's hair in TLOVM isn't that bad. It's simple and effective and the built-in shading really helps give dimension to his head. And, more importantly...

b) consider that in the earlier concept art, he does have cool hair. So the hair he ended up with was a conscious choice by Taliesin and Phil Bourassa (and any other artists involved in the process).

Look. He went from this...

... to this:

It doesn't seem all that easier to animate (and if Percy being a pain in the ass was an issue, wouldn't the simplified coat/etc. already accomplish that?), but the main thing that stands out is how much younger it makes Percy look.

Which, y'know, is important, given S1 focuses on his trauma suffered as a teenager. Which was not all that long ago.

He is young, the second youngest of Vox Machina! And a core part of Percy's character is that, despite thinking he and Vex are the only adults in the room, he is not nearly as mature as he thinks he is. Which is also apparent in his more silly moments in S2, which are also complimented by the more boyish hairstyle.

Percy shouldn't be taken too seriously, which I think is emphasized by how much Taliesin makes a point to underline his flaws and bully the character when he can. With the gunslinging and shock-white hair and cool coat and shadow demon and a castle to put it all in, he's already bordering on too cool; making him look like a stud when he's really just a nerd would make it harder to pull off comedic moments with him. On top of emphasizing the horror of what happened to him at the hands of the Briarwoods and Ripley; he's still so young.

And as an audience we need to be reminded of that when he's pulling off a cool pose or trying to flirt with Vex or getting all raspy with the Orthax voice.

Anyways, art is subjective, but Percy as a character walks the fine line between 'coolass anime protagonist' and 'cringefail nerd' and I think the artists and Taliesin knew what they were doing refusing to let him be too #badass or #hot when he's an early-mid twenties nerd wailing that he's very flammable and sniffling pathetically after giving a girl he coat.

silly guy I'm romanticising his trauma with music /j

had a random urge to draw Percy again and like how these turned out. I'm feral for this man he's so fun. he's a goober. tried messing around with rendering.

Introduction thing ig?

figured I should do this thing

Basic Info

Name: Ajax/Max

Age: 18

Gender: Male

Pronouns: he/it

Languages: English/Estonian [native]/learning German?

Orientation: Aroace [panaesthetic]

Interests: sea, sea creatures, pirates, shanties, Will Wood, folk esq music, foresty things, cottagecore things, autumn coded stuff, clothes/weird clothing design, birds

Other links: https://linktr.ee/tv_ajax

Current fandom: Tomb's Serial Slashing

other fandoms/things/characters I like:

Biggest fan of my own ocs

Dungeons and Dragons

Critical Role [Vox Machina only for now]

Submas

Team Fortress 2 [mainly just the mercs]

Lil Pootis

Trying to get into The Magnus Archives [listening to s3 rn]

Moomins

House MD

Five Nights At Freddy's [SUNDROP AND MOONDROP]

Adventure Time [Simon Petrikov, Prismo]

Gravity Falls

Smiling Friends

Disco Elysium [wip playing it]

Dsmp [I still enjoy the story/characters/lore but I do not like most of the people]

qsmp kinda? don't know the lore really but I like death family, especially Philza

Dayshift at Freddy's

How To Train Your Dragon

Owl House

Phiting [Medkit]

Our Flag Means Death

Good Omens

Stanley Parable

Steven Universe

Undertale

Dungeon Meshi

House of the Dragon

Notes

Using my art is ok as long as it's not for monetary reasons and if you credit me, not needed to ask but I would love to see when you use my art!! ::::D

I switch my current fandoms/interests/hyperfixations a lot/quickly so good luck following me for a specific character/fandom lmao

I revisit fandoms somewhat often though

I am very open to suggestions! if you want me to draw something, be it fandom or even oc, it's not unlikely that I'll draw it if you submit an ask or something so feel free to do so! [fyi it will not be a rendered drawing]

Feel free to dm me

I don't think I really have much of a DNI list besides like bigots and generally bad people [racsist, hompophobes, transphobes, etc]

I'm kind of a private person? I prefer not to talk too much about me and generally stick to talking about my interests instead of myself [unless I know you]

old men also yeah I think Winter King would look a little aged and not perfectly young and people can tear that fact from my cold dead hands.

rat

he just like me frfr

I fully support the headcanon of aroace submas .

[I am biased because I am aroace]

my contribution to the moomin valley fandom

watched Dungeon Meshi. I knew I was gonna like these two before even watching it.