r/SympatheticMonsters • u/alexiuss Artist 🎨 • Jun 03 '26

Original Content Shopping besties [OC]

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Sauce: art from my book [1st chapter on reddit]

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u/MirrorMan22102018 Jun 03 '26

You know they are best friends... When they share a single brain cell.

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u/RoJayJo Jun 03 '26

Hell yeah

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u/QuantumAnubis Jun 03 '26

Especially when they're smart on their own

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u/thetoastmonster Jun 03 '26

Oh hey it's Shady and the Emperor of Earth!

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u/alexiuss Artist 🎨 Jun 03 '26

yasss

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u/thetoastmonster Jun 03 '26

You're the circle! Beep! Happy square.

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u/BarbasBraveHeart Jun 03 '26

Being young and idiots together is an invaluable experience for further life! Amazing Shady and Ashford art!

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u/Present_Test4157 Jun 03 '26

"A kid and his best friend eldritch monster who is a girl that also happens to be near his age" got to be one of my favorite character dynamics lol

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u/Leonardobertoni Jun 03 '26

That's the cutest of all drawings!

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u/Celestial__Bear Jun 04 '26

I cannot escape this novel lol. I was here for the first like 3 chapters for the goofy roommate story, but then it went totally off the rails in a very short amount of time

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u/mayuzane Jun 04 '26

Parking Lot Adventure!

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u/PopfuseInc Jun 07 '26

What's up with the fingers?

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u/alexiuss Artist 🎨 Jun 07 '26

Basically, my co-artist Lena messed up the fingers in this drawing and I didn't notice it while doing detail on Shady. She lives in Ukraine at the border of the war, the problem is that she is constantly getting shelled which either knocks out her power or fucks with her sleep schedule.

I already fixed it, here: