Some old art of Bic and Bac I drew in 2014. My art was going through a bad period around this time but I still like this drawing.
I was thinking about them again.
“We are inseparable when we are together
We are irreparable when we are apart”
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#artists on tumblr #les Mondes Engloutis #80s #I need a better art tag #old artLes Mondes Engloutis, called “Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea” in english, is a french animated series that aired from 1985 until 1987.
The show is about… well…. Here’s the opening narration. It does a better job than I could;
“Ever since the time of the Great Cataclysm, the Arkadians have lived
deep in the center of the Earth. They believed they were the only
survivors of this great devastation. Their civilization thrived under
the power of their sun, the Tehra…until it began to fail. In
desperation, the children of Arkadia broke the law and entered the
forbidden Archives, searching for a solution. What they discovered gave
them hope. Anxiously, they used their special powers and created a
messenger to the people above. They named her Arkana.”
The show follows Arkana, an artificial person (she’s definitely not human. I’m not sure what to call her.) who discovers two human children from the surface and begs them to return with her to Arkadia to help save their sun, the Tehra, which is the source of life for the subterranean civilization. During their travels, they meet a man named Spartakus, whom is from one of the deeper tiers of the Strata (It’s like the Undergound, but they move more through alternative dimensions than through rock and caves). Spartakus is a warrior, and seeing the rather unequipped and vulnerable group, joins them to return to Arkadia. With them, is Bic and Bac, two magical fire-creating creatures who are thousands of years old and who helped create the kingdom of Arkadia. As well as the ship with a built in AI.
They are often in conflict with a group of rather cartoonish punk-looking pirates. The Pirates act as if they are a group run by a democracy, but in truth the current leader Max,s girlfriend “Massmedia” (not very subtle there) broadcasts his orders through microphone to the lower pirates and influences them to how Max wants them to act and behave with her radio show.
The show was developed by Nina Wolmark who is also a graduate of Sociology, and brought much of that to the story. Although aimed at children, the show managed to weave complex motivations into the characters the group meets as they travel deeper into the Underground to Arkadia, as well as Arkadia’s crumbling society itself. a Civilization pictured to be a utopia, but which in fact is stagnant due to its own comforts and reluctance to take chances and risks, even when faced with death.
Other characters the group meet include a slave tasked to carry a sacred object to a king as a ritual which will grant him freedom as a reward, something the slave desperately wants, but once faced with the idea as a reality of being in control of his own life buckles for a moment in fear, thinking perhaps the comfort and safety worth remaining a slave for. As well as secular tribes unwelcoming of outsiders, and dangerous philosophies and traps from unknown inhuman forces controlling those who come across them.
The show ran for 52 episodes across 2 seasons.
Nina Wolmark also worked on Ulysses 31, a retelling of the Odyssey poem by Homer (written around 8th century BC) except set in space.
The show also had a bad-ass intro song. The intro was dubbed into english for the show’s initial release, but when rerun it was replaced, for some… stupid… reason…
(actually all the music for this show is really good)
Names of characters and places were changed for the english version. I’m using the English names here because I can’t speak French so these are the names I associate with them u.u I don’t know why they named the English version “Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea” since Spartakus is not the main character
Each year we get a little further from the 80s, its art, fashion, music and movies become nothing more than just “old”, and it sometimes hurts because you just want younger people to know; they mattered.
I don’t think I really achieved what I wanted to here but I hope you guys like it anyway. (even if it’s not fanart or like… anything really)
Apparently French cartoons are a thing that keeps coming up in conversation today. So I’m about to spam you with some intros. I haven’t seen all of these but I just wanted to like… show they exist I guess.
I just like show intros.
1: Spartacus and the Sun Beneath the Sea (Aka Les Mondes Engloutis) 1987
Back in 2015 I went through a very brief Sonic phase after Sonic Boom was announced and the internet freaked out about the redesigns. So I made some redesigns of my own and tried to make the characters cute.
And since I have always been annoyed at how much story potential Sonic has which the games never seem to try and use I decided to draw my own version of the start of Sonic 3 as if it was a cartoon or something.
But I sucked at panels and stuff so I just did it this way X’DDD
This art is REALLY OLD and I’ve gotten SO MUCH BETTER since this but I still like this anyway.
Knuckles has some pretty cringey dialogue in past 2 so please excuse that.
Click for higher quality since tumblr ate it as usual
Here’s the rest and this is where I gave up X’D
Some of these poses are good and some of the expressions I still like but this is still dated and I’ve gotten so much better than this (Especially backgrounds aaaaa ksjhkjdfsh)
Again, I wanted to explore this game’s cutscenes and how you could have cool interactions and stuff and story and character and world building and junk.
The dialogue is still SUPER CRINGEY and I feel like I have to apologise for past-me X’D
But yeah. I thought it would be cool if Knuckles wasn’t aware that Robotnik would set the whole forest on fire while he was messing around with Sonic and stuff.
Anyway like I said. This is where I gave up. I started a part 3 but I lost steam and never carried on but I have a few sketches of it.
Anyway in 2012 it was Ratchet and Clank’s 10 year anniversary (jfc I feel old) and I spent an entire year drawing this piece by piece.
It’s 8/9 years old now and my art is WAY better than it was when I drew this but I still am very proud of it. Even if I could probably draw this kind of picture in 4 months if I were to draw it today.
But it’s ok because Insomniac liked it
I finally caved and made my own Self-Insert/Reader
I’m worried I made her outfit too intricate but it’s basically just leggings + skirt + t-shirt or sweater of some kind. Converse. Colourful socks. Or like literally what my Eyeball sona wears which is oversized 80s sweaters + leggings. (because Jeans are the enemy)
This is…. shockingly accurate to myself tbh X’D
I drew @circleheadd‘s self insert and Papyrus in the evenings when I wasn’t working on commissions or Time Scar. I also put Papyrus in a vintage 80s Tadashi jacket I wanted with all my heart on Etsy but it was like $90. So papyrus will have to live out my style dreams for me.
Hettie is an excellent and sweet dude who deserves nothing but the best and was very kind to listen to me whine and who I hope feels better soon!
I was actually quite happy with how I draw your self-insert’s bod but then most of it got covered by all that Papyrus OTL
First day of Repost-tober
Have this thing I drew in 2011 for some godforsaken reason
