Inktober Day 20! Rivals! (Oh? You approach me?!)
Cross-posted from "Inktober Day 20! Rivals! (Oh? You approach me?!)" by @[email protected] in ![email protected]
The meme popped into my head when thinking about this one, so that's what I went with! This is also my very first piece of Jojo fan art (maybe my first piece of anime/manga fan art ever too, come to think of it!) It's pretty fun drawing figures so dramatically! I wish I had a better eye for such poses without a reference, maybe someday if I keep up my drawing practice!
I almost cried to this panel
In this solemnly rendered image, derived from the venerable illustrated chronicle known as JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, two noble figures engage in dialogue fraught with emotional weight and rhetorical jest.
In the uppermost panel, the character with crimson tresses, bearing an expression both stoic and melancholic, doth proclaim unto his companion the phrase: “Deez Nuts.” This utterance, though modern in tongue, is delivered with an air of grim determination, as though burdened by its own irreverence.
The second panel, directly below, reveals the same red-haired individual now in silent repose, his visage marked by sorrow and the trace of a tear, as though he beareth the shame or futility of his jest.
The final frame depicteth a man with dark azure locks, turning from his companion with stern countenance. He respondeth thusly: “You are not funny.” His words are final and unyielding, casting judgment upon the attempted levity with the gravity of divine decree.
Thus, this triptych speaketh not only of humor, but of the heavy cost of jest poorly received, and the eternal tension betwixt mirth and solemnity.