Completely Serious Question To Any Warhammer 40k Fans Out There In The Ether: Could A Space Marine Physically

foaming at the mouth thinking about talon being illiterate again.. ik I've talked about it before but him being a shit reader or unable to is rather important to me. it's just so damn isolating.

I know it's not technically canon but I think about how tal's original writer thought he was illiterate and Marcus taught him symbols to use as a secret code and God how awful is that yk?? Marcus would rather communicate via a secret code rather than have talon learn to read bc keeping talon tethered and naive is in his best interest. it's so AWFUL. also I think Marcus would be a terrible teacher but that's an aside.

from an inside angle, having a secret code with your 'father' would probably make talon feel special, but he's still just being manipulated, it's kinda brutal. and I think talons hatred for being bad at stuff would ALSO make it harder to learn to read it's just heartbreaking.

I think on first glance using 'naive' is a weird word for him bc talon has experienced The Horrors, but being illiterate keeps him stuck in place and isolated and he doesn't even know it.

The concept/colored art of a little fan skin line I’ve been working on. I’ll add a post with the lore later. No title yet but it was me taking a swing at writing a Grimm’s fairy tale type thing. Except not writing cause it’s mostly art 😅

First time water coloring on the go. The photo messed it up a little but I’m happy with the end result

Reading 40k books is an interesting experience, because no matter how fast a reader I am I feel like the biggest slowpoke ever.

Younger me is horrified that I’ve been working on the Ciaphas Cain omnibus for nearly a month now and haven’t finished it. Current me feels a sort of dark existential horror that I’m like seven books into this franchise and that’s only like 2% in.

It’s fun but goodness gracious this is gonna take a long while before I get even half of what’s going on.

I know my sons have warned me about attacking my fallen brother on his flagship but watch me put an end to his treachery

In fifth grade a boy tried to impress me by swallowing a whole tadpole live and I punched him so hard that he puked and the tadpole was fine.

A little guide I made for the rough coloration and designs for these three before I started working on the last Noxian Christmas comic. I never realized how much gray and brown were in all their palettes until I started cross referencing comics, splash arts, and models to figure out which shades to use.

Third base is getting stabbed in the stomach and slumping forward with your chin on their shoulder and blood dripping from your mouth

Just realized I forgot to specify who was who. In case that confused anyone from left to right: Briar (pillory form), Briar (monster form), Talon, Kayle, and Morgana

The concept/colored art of a little fan skin line I’ve been working on. I’ll add a post with the lore later. No title yet but it was me taking a swing at writing a Grimm’s fairy tale type thing. Except not writing cause it’s mostly art 😅

First time water coloring on the go. The photo messed it up a little but I’m happy with the end result

A little doodle of Kitty with more ‘realistic’ proportions (quotations because she’s still cartoony as heck but with more sense for detail and construction). Forgot to color in her eyes, but those would be gray. She’s actually quite pale, because she hasn’t been off the rock in centuries, but otherwise is blessed with a face quite befitting her job. There’s something about a soft face, strong brows, and a little gap in the teeth that strikes me as very jesterly. No wonder that’s what task an ancient dark angels chapter master stuck her with when they took her in all those years ago.

The perils of ticking off the immortal jester who lives in your house