Posts tagged kuifje
Posts tagged kuifje
The Orphan by *Maidith
“Sorry, fangirls, I’m already taken! Au revoir!”
Reunion at Ostend Harbour - Homecoming - 1945
Painted in Photoshop using a Wacom tablet. Took between 20-30 hours, spread over several days. Inspired by the fanfiction “Homecoming” by Azzy.
I will make another version of this, a non-Tintin/non-fanart painting with different characters. I love painting Tintin fanart but for an aspiring pro illustrator, fanart is so useless - I can’t sell prints of it, can’t license it to anyone, can’t make merchandise of it, can’t show it at some websites, can’t enter it in many contests, etc. etc. :/ Also, I don’t want to ruin a potential client’s childhood. Sorry if this just ruined yours.
The last hurried telegram that reached him had been sparsely detailed and half-blacked-out, only the words ‘__________AT SEA AGAIN________ CPT HADDOCK’ remaining. Tintin still has the scrap of paper, ragged from his own stroking fingertips, despite everything that the war has taken from him.
Static crackles.
“I miss you so much, Captain,” he blurts out, helpless to stop the words, “I miss you, I miss you, why didn’t you-”
The bubbling hiss is his only answer. He knows why Haddock didn’t follow, this time; Britain called him, the last beleaguered bastion against Hitler’s might, and what could the captain do but answer? Tintin had flung himself headlong into death, after all. “Captain,” he says, low, desperate, and with a precise click, the line goes dead.
It is October 1940. The world is at war.
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Painted by me, using Wacom tablet and Photoshop. Inspired by this beautiful fanfiction
When in doubt, hold hands. <3
Missing page from “Tintin and the Picaros”, original work by Hergé.
TINTIN PILLOW FIGHT!
Yup, he’s falling onto a bed, and hitting the bad guy with a pillow. And seems to enjoy it.
From Tintin and the Blue Oranges, live action movie.

… am I the only one who thinks this original drawing by Hergé looks really kinky?
Taken out of context, that is.
It’s part of the cover of a small 16-page booklet that Hergé did - a documentation about how the comics are drawn, from sketched page to finished work:

The title means “Fifty years of real fun work”, and of course you can also read it as “Fifty years of real gay work” :D