Rain and Acid

Another week away from the laptop brings me a little bit closer to feeling up to the tasks that challenge me every day. But I'm gonna need some more time alone before I can pick up my drawing tablet and start working again for real.

That's okay though.
When Christmas rolls around I'll have all the time in the world to do what I need to.
It's cool.

Enjoy a rough sketch of my Phossy boy in the meantime.
Have a nice weekend, guys. Hope you're all doin' your best, and if that best just happens to be not very good (like mine) then know it's only your best today and your best tomorrow might be better.

Phosphorescent (sketch)

 Hey.
I made another OverKill sketch yesterday.

And it's of our Phossy lad! P4!

Considering I had no idea how to draw glowing phosphorus, I think I did a pretty good job!
He looks the right amount of spooky and ethereal. Fragile and delicate, but you know very well you should keep your hands off him.
Excellent.

Breakfast at the Antidote Apartment

 Well. I was planning to write down something along the lines of an introduction, but then I spent the next half-hour reading comics and my brain feels like it's melting, so I've decided against it now.

And another half hour later, and I'm still here.
No point in letting this sit any longer. I'm out.  Enjoy your weekend, guys. *proceeds to go back to reading comics*

Prof. L.B. Phosphorus

Evening, all! Not much to say tonight, except that I've had a great week (in spite of those moments of raw panic) and I'm very excited for tomorrow so I can start work again! Like... "I'm ready for all the challenges that come my way and I can taste victory" excitement. Confident, but (hopefully) not cocky.
That will probably come back to bite me by Monday, but enthusiasm never hurts anyone. Besides; it might come true!

Ah, but enough of my rambling.
Who wants to see a familiar anxious monster?

 Hah. I was looking at some old OverKill sketches and thought it would be fun to draw Phossy again. Revamp his design a little.. but mostly just curious to see how far I've come since I first drew him.

 I think it's safe to say I've improved a little since 2018.
Just a bit, mind you.

Man, I missed drawing this stressed nerd! I definitely  need to try and do a big art project with him in the near future. That could be a lot of fun. Make it all glowy and sparky...
Heh. Anyway. I've got things to do, so I'll let you go now. See y'all next week! Take care! <3

Death and a Snake

If I could think of anything witty or nonsensical to say, I would. As it is, I'm still feeling like I've got too much going on in my head to bother with such things. Plus, I wish to get this over with so I can go and read something.

Also my brain is still being annoying, so we'll have to settle with a sketchy post instead of what I was originally hoping for tonight. But that's fine; pretty sure none of us care that much anyway. Plus, it's OverKill related! :)

Mortality is pretty fun to draw. Hard, but fun. I like drawing old patchy sweaters and big round glasses...
Definitely contrasts to Dr. Antidote's more formal appearance, anyway.

Also weird colourful eyes.

*Hmmm*

Yup. Guess it's just one of those days again.
I'll be catching you guys later! Gonna just quit for the day and try to relax.
*waves*

Hope you all have a nice week! <3

The Personification of the Will to Live and an Old Retired Detective

Hhmmkay just type out words to form a sentence, comeonyoucandoit, it's not rocket science..
Wordswordswords...

Introduction.
Introduction...

*slams sketch onto table and takes a step back*

.....

 Head filled with cotton. Too much traffic going through my fuzzy brain...

Enjoy a ridiculously tall grumpy being of pure spite with his favorite human companion.

*huffs out*

Phosphorescence

Hey. I drew the humanoid personification of Phosphorus again. Been a while since I've done that. :)

Played around with a lot of effects in this one. And I think it turned out pretty good. Not 100% to what I envisioned, but still good.

Just Phossy wanderin' around with a defective umbrella in the glowing acid rain stuff. As you do.

L.B.

Hey, guys. We're about half-way through November now, it seems...

Didn't realize how fast this year was going. It'll be December next time I look at a calendar again, wont it?

ANYWAY... Here's a little Phossy pic I upgraded this afternoon! <3

This is pretty much the only thing I drew this week.

 Ah well...some weeks are just like that, I guess.

C.T.

Hi!

 This is literally the only thing I drew this week..

... I have nothing else to say.

Have a nice day.

More Phossy Sketches (OverKill)

And while we're on the subject of Phossy, here's some more sketches I prepared earlier!

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As I've mentioned before, Phossy is one of the few personifications that actually likes eating food; I say eat, but really, how much effort does it take to consume a lollipop?

His human coworkers noticed this habit after a while and now give him a bag of lollipops every week or so; sometimes giving him a few of those bubblegum-centered ones as a bonus!

When not looking after his plants or trying to crack the secrets of his body, he'll usually be staring blankly at the wall or ceiling, or (when he's feeling really restless) be exploring the air-vents.

... Where he'll usually end up falling on someone and has to explain what the heck he was doing in the bleedin' AIR VENTS and has to somehow get back without causing too much attention to himself.

... Another thing about Phossy's body is that he'll turn a sorta yellowy colour if he stands out in the light for too long; not a huge deal, but he's afraid he might burst into flames or explode if he doesn't dump the nearest water bucket on his head or something...
He's over-reacting, but still; gotta give him props for at least trying to keep the public safe.

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WELL, guess I'll let you guys go now... I've got some Splat fest stuff in Splatoon2 to do anyway, so without further ado GOODNIGHT and FAREWELL. May we meet again some other time! :)

Coatless Phossy

Hi guys! Hope you lot are doing okay today. :)

I managed to finish outlining one of my OverKill sketches (finally) so Imma' gonna post it before I forget because I have a real habit of doing that, it seems...

AND WHILE YOU'RE ALL HERE let's talk a little more about my boy Phossy, because otherwise I'm never gonna be able to put this all down and frankly this dude DESERVES some attention before you all wander off into the wild blue yonder or whatever.

This will only take 5 minutes of your day.

Maybe more, depending on how fast you read...

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Okay, so for those that don't know or need a refresher, White Phosphorus is a very poisonous, highly flammable and self-igniting molecule that was once quite commonly used in matches around the 1800's.

Long story short, when people finally realized how bleedin' unsafe White Phosphorus was, Phossy went into HUGE state of grief, confusion, and depression, and just kinda hid himself in some abandoned warehouse until Lady Bee found him a few weeks later.

We're going to skip ahead a couple of hundred years and other stuff for the sake of keeping this short, but it's safe to say Phosphorus' never quite got over the shock of turning out to be one of the bigger threats to the human race, and is trying very hard to make it up to them by staying out of the way.

Eventually (after much more killing and deaths and stuff) Phosphorus was desperate enough to practically beg Dr. Antidote to get some sort of official decree to ban him from going into public areas and stuff. And as a result, he now lives in a high security lab under constant watch and guard and happily grows plants and stuff.

... More or less.

I'm still working on it, but that's the gist of it so far.

... On the plus side, the chances of being poisoned by White Phosphorus or getting Phossy Jaw nowadays are pretty much nil, so.. there's that.

Still no common cure, though.

Professor L.B. Phosphorus sketches (OverKill)

HI! Sorry, was super lazy these past few days but here's that OverKill sketch dump I promised you a week ago! :)

*Oh, sweet young Phosphorus... How you yearn to be free from this immortal coil, and the endless suffering you keep causing others...*

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Professor L.B. Phosphorus (Also known as Phossy) is a reclusive, delicate, highly-explosive and frankly rather dorky Chemical-Scientist that resides in one of the more top-class laboratories along the coast of Quietus City.

(Totally didn't just come up with that on the spot... Nope. Definitely not.)

Anyway. Phossy, being the highly reactive distressed poison that he is, is not exactly the most social thing on the planet. He rarely leaves the lab, and constantly hides in his room away from humans (without much success) doing his own 'solo' research projects.

Mostly testing out the limits of his body and growing plants, if I'm gonna be honest.

He likes his plants he does, my Phossy. <3

Cool abilities that he has include being a sentient nightlight, changing eye-colour (from red to purple, to something in-between or even one red & one purple), exploding, and being able to give someone a slow, disgusting, and painful death!

... Okay, maybe not that last one, but...

He's one of the few monsters that bothers to eat on a daily basis (despite not needing to) and actually rather enjoys sleeping! Sure, he only does it once every month or something, typically after he's had a very stressful day, BUT STILL!

And Phosphorus is one of the only living creatures on the planet that DOESN'T hate Dr. Antidote.
Truly, a rarity among monsters.

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I thought It was about time I posted a little about my favorite poison, cuz... Y'know. Phosphorus.

Anywho. Have a good evening, you guys~ Grab a cup of tea, crack a glow stick or three, and enjoy your night! :)

Or morning, or whatever...

Clinical Trial sketches (OverKill)

 After drawin' almost three pages of this chap in my notebook, I thought it was about time I tried going digital with him. And after a few weeks, I've selected my favorites into this neat lil' sketch dump for your entertainment!

This here bitter son-of-a-gun is Clinical Trial! Or [as I like to refer to him as] CT, for short.

For those of you who're confused, Clinical Trial is the physical version of (as google puts it) "... a branch of healthcare science that determines the safety and effectiveness of medications, devices, diagnostic products and treatment regimens intended for human use"

 ... Sooo, he's just the human-esch representation of making sure certain chemicals are safe for you to use without any unwanted side-effects...

 Like dying, for example.

 ... He's a pretty important guy, to say the least.

His typical state in life is stressed with a  'done-with-everything' attitude. And despite not needing to eat or sleep, his co-workers all agree that he looks like death. (Mr. Mortality resents this, to say the least)

CT's conscience is pretty heavy too, seeing as he's killed a fair number of people in his various testings and experiments over the years.... He sometimes goes into a state of grief and depression, utterly convinced that he's just as bad as some of the poisons for all horrible mistakes that he's made.

And it doesn't help that even when CT DOES find something that'll help humanity in the long run, it's then considered no longer a part of him, because it's been tested; it's proven itself good enough to work, and therefore... yeeeah.

Pretty depressing, but at least he considers himself more useful than Dr. Antidote. Seriously, CT HATES Dr. Antidote!

It's a wonder he hasn't tried to strangle him yet...

But I love drawing this guy! He's just so beautifully messy and has such a BIG lab-coat and I just love his design overall~

Lady Bee (OverKill)

Hiya! Guess what? Yup! More OverKill stuff!

This is Lady Bee! Basically herbal medicine personified into a terrifying Scottish hippie girl who is violently passionate about hiking.

... Yeah, I'm aware she looks pretty human. But she has flowers growing at the back of her hair when it's springtime, and for a few hundred years she had a thistles and stuff growing on her! That's weird, right?

Also, Bee's the beloved wife to the personification of Death (technically the 'Will to Die', but we're still working on that).

... Believe it or not, she's the more threatening one in their relationship.

Malaria Sketches (OverKill)

SPEAKING OF WHICH...

Soo, 'been drawing a lot of Malaria these past few days. Was pretty happy with some of them, too!

Thought you guys would appreciate it if I posted some of 'em. :)

Malaria is certainly an... interesting monster, to say the least. She is the *ahem* 'oldest' out of a family of mosquito-diseased brats who love to cause pain and suffering wherever they go (Or death. They're cool, either way), is thought to be mute but probably just doesn't like talking to anyone except family (even then that's iffy) and typically looks like an angry misunderstood teenager.

... Gonna put her through her paces when I can come up with a design for Dr. Antidote. Might be a while, though, cause I haven't decided whether Anti is human or just some form of monster or something IDON'TKNOW all I know is that he's OLD, man! Been there since forever, practically! Has a hard time being told that the 'old ways' just don't work anymore, either.

... Judgemental jerk, too. If things were run HIS way, all the monsters would be locked up and the key thrown into space.

I wish I was exaggerating. Seriously, Antidote is HARSH.

Rabies (OverKill)

Hello! Isn't this little guy adorable?

... No? Huh. I though he was! I mean, just look at the sweet charming smile of his! And those beautifully psychotic eyes! Doesn't that make you want to hug him?

*Chuckles* Fine... But in all seriousness, I believe an explanation's in order.

OKAY... So, basically, over the past few weeks, we've been coming up with characters based on poisons to help me remember how to recognize them, including possible symptoms and traits, cures and causes, and even how to make it worse!

These 'Poison Characters' live in a world/city where poisons (whether natural or created) take physical form. I wont go into too much detail, but basically these guys are more often than not insanely dangerous (no kidding) and feared. 

(Although some of them are actually quite pathetically adorable.)

(*AHEM*ProfessorPhosphorus*COUGH*)

At first I just started with POISONS (Arsenic, Cyanide[s], Phosphorus, Thallium), but then decided to add DISEASES into the mix... Like Rabies, up there!

Rabies (despite his small size) is actually one of the most bloody terrifying monsters in this world. He's unreasonable, unpredictable, paranoid beyond belief, and madder than a cut snake.

He usually just hangs around abandoned streets, scaring the spit out of any and all animals who dare even APPROACH him, and generally causes panic wherever he goes. Doesn't really help that he's near impossible to catch, let alone contain, either!

Has this weird tendency to start cackling, too. Creeps the heck out of Doctor Antidote, to say the least...

Anyway! Might post more stuff about these guys if I get the spark of inspiration at the appropriate time. But until then, goodnight, guys, and sweet dreams~ :)