I say it’s from a worldbuilding project in the title, to let people know this is a drawing that is a small part of a bigger piece of fiction. And you say “but what about real life?”

Mostly Zieler brand art markers. The colors blend well into themselves, although they tend to bleed out at the edges, so it can be tricky sometimes to color tight spaces. I have a few other random brands, like what I did the skin with, but those do tend to get those ugly lines, and I try to only use them for relatively small areas. My previous 3 drawings were all done with them rather than my Zielers and I can tell.

Also you absolutely need a piece of cardboard spacer or the markers will bleed onto the next page.

Adapt or die.

It’s a Wizards riff.

You can dial manually as long as you bring your own power source.

No, my influences are older.

Thanks, and yes most of them exist in a universe I have come up with. I try to add a little something with each picture to fill the universe out.

Here’s Imgur or Tumblr pages if you want a clearer review of all the images back to back.

Not sure yet. The next piece of art will tell me.

"I’m going to need your badge and profiling notebook.

…and the ankle one."

My favorite scene in Criminal Minds is when one of the heroes notices that a person fits the profile for the episode’s kidnapping villain.

That’s it, guy fits the profile. No screams from inside the house. No suspicious behavior. The justification for exigent circumstances is essentially “it appeared to me in a dream.”

The hero picks up a potted plant to smash his way into the house and somebody else says “We have to wait for a warrant!” to which he replies “THERE’S NO TIME!” and jumps through the glass window into the house.

Insanity.

Backface soft armor also catches spall, which can be very dangerous itself. Even ceramic plates can have a danger of ceramic shards. I believe modern ESAPIs, XSAPIs, and such modern plates are designed stand alone, but original SAPIs carried a warning that their rating was only in conjunction with soft armor.

One time I got an “in between” job at a local business. The first day I showed up and the place made me sign a 17 page front and back NDA.

I’ve signed actual, legitimate NDAs. They are like 3 pages, max. Some people are just preposterous.

I have observed that “very clever” people on the internet have a tendency to disregard solutions that are only partial, even if there is little to no downside to them.

I’d think so too, but Columbine shooting was 1999. Movies still used it unironically for another few years. In media I think it mostly went away because it got parodied to death.

This movie is exactly of its era. Blasting 80s nostalgia that’s been filtered through a neon color grade with a snappy pace is exactly something that would come out in 2016.

There was also that short sliver of the late 90s through early 2000s where the slick black trenchcoat and sunglasses look was considered unironically cool.

The Matrix, Blade, Underworld, and Equilibrium all being in this era. Any movie where characters dress like this to be cool and it isn’t treated with at least a wink to the audience probably either came from this time or is a sequel to something from this time.

John Wayne’s ‘The Green Berets’ is an oddity. While it’s not out of its time, since the 1960s was packed with war movies, the fact that it’s a Vietnam movie rather than a WW2 movie gives it a surreal quality. It is filmed with the same tone, style, and music as something like ‘The Longest Day’ but it’s about Vietnam making it a million miles away from the style of most Vietnam movies.

Standout scenes include a green beret ranting at a strawman reporter, and the scene where John Wayne smashes an obviously toy rifle to pieces.

Sup.

I’m currently the “subject matter expert” on a nightmare project by having been exposed to it the most without going mad.

Uh, whenever you notice something like that- a wizard did it.