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DarkNo — A man and his octopus

Published: 2010-01-08 19:59:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 642; Favourites: 6; Downloads: 10
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Description (urgh dA, I don't get your categories. Can't you have a simple "illustration>digital work" tag?)

Schoolstuff. Thing is actually due in three days but might as well get some criticism now in case I dramatically failed something and have to fix it. :V
Pretty much a speedpainting but hey, that's what I felt the most comfortable with for this particular work.

Also, because we had to write a backstory and I was in a nonsensical mood:


Marcus Camille Orgetorix, accountant in a corporation selling sauerkraut to Middle-Eastern countries is one day sent on a mission in Gimizusaruto, small asian state recently discovered by a lost young boy, his dog and his doll called "Schwarzenegger". His goal: teach the locals the fear of Divine Punishment, which according to experts is the only way the American soccer team can ever hope to win a match.

Lost cause.

Hunted by the CIA (that should really have seen the fraud coming when said experts were caught playing Dance Dance Revolution in Easy mode), Marcus decides to drown himself in the Mediterranean sea. As he thinks he's hitting the bottom (both metaphorically and literally), he meets a scarlet octopus he immediatly decides to adopt and raise like the son he has, in fact, already had (but who never answers his phone calls).

"What a twist!" exclaimed Marcus, before breathing several liters of seawater.

"Bllb", was the eloquent answer of the octopus (newly christened Squishy McFly Jr).

Now BFFs (and after a short stay in the hospital for a nearly-drowning), Marcus and Squishy endorse the identities of Squidman and the Poulpator, superheroes whose powers respectively consist in being able to swallow chewing-gums without getting sick and being able to solve quadratic equations without a calculator.

Everything seemed for the best in the best of possible worlds when Squishy got arrested for illegal catfood trade is South Africa, something he'll deny till his death although he'll never be able to explain his presence in Johannesburg.

"OBJECTION!", yelled their lawyer, his finger pointed. "That last sentence was against the presumption of innocence!"

Tired of legal procedures, Marcus decides to get the cafeteria menu tatooed on his back. Thanks to a shovel skillfully hidden by a previous prisonner under a "this is not a weapon cache" pannel, our two heroes dig a tunnel to Chain, Bizarro version of China where the government has a irrational hatred of Elvis Presley bobblehead figures. Barely escaping the Chainese milicia after being caught humming a disco version of "Love Me Tender", Marcus and Squishy emigrate to India, where they meet an amazing success as Bollywood actors.

After a career as short as scandalous, they take a well-deserved sabbatical year and go fish giant sea crocodiles, which is as valid a way to relax as any other after all.
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Comments: 10

Liu-Barrowin [2010-01-15 07:43:42 +0000 UTC]

Such a charming endeavor I AM TOUCHED.

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Evolvana [2010-01-09 03:23:15 +0000 UTC]

Ca donne un petit cote cartoon cool!

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DarkNo In reply to Evolvana [2010-01-09 14:59:56 +0000 UTC]

Merci
Quite à avoir du boulot à la maison autant essayer de s'amuser à le faire. XD

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dannath [2010-01-08 23:06:33 +0000 UTC]

Ha! Ha! Such a funny backstory! I was really laughing!
And the pic is great too, I love the octopus XD!!

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DarkNo In reply to dannath [2010-01-08 23:24:16 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Glad you like it :'D

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CrackedKatana [2010-01-08 20:52:48 +0000 UTC]



i hate dA categories too :<

ALSO THAT IS AN ADORABLE OCTOPUS, though i feel like the only person ever who thinks that an octopus's tentacles always look exactly like a moustache orz

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DarkNo In reply to CrackedKatana [2010-01-08 21:36:08 +0000 UTC]



Seriously, half of them don't make sense ):

...
Now I have this random mental image of verus with an octopus-beard

IDK

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CrackedKatana In reply to DarkNo [2010-01-08 21:47:52 +0000 UTC]

they dooooon't :C

...........

BRB DRAWING THIS

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DarkNo In reply to CrackedKatana [2010-01-08 21:52:10 +0000 UTC]

DO EET

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CrackedKatana In reply to DarkNo [2010-01-08 22:18:48 +0000 UTC]

[link] (8

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