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art-of-a-space-duck
1 week ago
Drawing of Murderbot and Ratthi sitting together. Ratthi says “You know, you’ve grown a lot since we first met you”. Murderbot responds, “ Only my hair has grown. The rest of me is actually shorter”.

It eventually gets a haircut too.

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the murderbot diaries murderbot murderbot diaries tmbd ratthi secunit i drew this a while ago and never posted it mostly cause it's supposed to be set during the final scene in book 4.5 and i don't know if ratthi would say this at this point in their relationship maybe this is instead a while after mb settled in on preservation but just before ratthi showed it how to tie back its hair i'm probably overthinking this
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art-of-a-space-duck
1 month ago
Drawing of the cyborg character, Three, sitting in a dark room viewing a recording. Three looks sad. Dialogue of the recording: Red Text: Status Check: SecUnit 02, 03. Brown Text: Status: Patrolling Hall 4, low activity from clients. Pink Text: Status Guarding Supervisor Sakai’s quarters, Sakai has entered rest period. Red Text: Status: Patrolling eastern border, the sky is very beautiful and the fauna are making wonderful sounds. Pink Text: Wow, it is beautiful. The sky wasn’t that colorful the previous cycles. Brown Text: I’ve seen the fauna that make that noise. I hope you encounter one on your patrol. They’re very gentle and almost as beautiful as the sky.

Why do I keep drawing sad secunits!?

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art-of-a-space-duck
1 month ago
Sketches of the cyborg character Three. The first sketch shows it without clothes, with visibly metallic joints, eyes, and abdomen and a BE logo on its chest.The text beside it reads: Differences from Murderbot - Slightly better hearing and smell - Low light vision not as good - 200 centimeters (yes, that does mean I have changed MB’s height to 200/198 centimeters) - More skin - Muscle pigments and logos do not change color - Slightly thicker outer support structure - No claws and shorter fangs The second sketch is of Three wearing red armor with BE logos on it and a pink splatter across it. The text beside the sketch reads: - Forehead sensors specifically for directly connecting with other secunits - Discoloration from a chemical accident during Barish-Estranza’s exploration of the lost colony in Network Effect The final sketch is of Three wearing a blue jacket over a white top and A necklace with a pink pendant with the number 3 on it. The text beside to it reads: - Will wear a Perihelion crew jacket, but currently wears the suit skin from BE as often as it can - Dogtag made from its old armor

Finally got around to drawing Three. I modeled my take on it after some of my early concept sketches for Murderbot, a few other Murderbot fan designs I enjoy, and, much more subtly, canines (given the vaguely feline traits I’ve given Murderbot).

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the murderbot diaries murderbot murderbot diaries tmbd Secunit 3 secunit three Murderbot spoilers Murderbot diaries spoilers Tmbd spoilers the Murderbot diaries spoilers network effect network effect spoilers I miss my 7 foot tall secunit headcanon but it was just causing me too many problems 6 foot 6 still ain’t half bad this is way too many tags says the gal who writes at least one essay in the tags every other month
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art-of-a-space-duck
1 month ago
Drawing of the cyborg Murderbot with a sad expression curled up in a blanket while viewing a holographic video. Behind it is the text: “All I wanted to do was watch media and not exist”. The full background is black with gray and red binary.

Quote from Fugitive Telemetry. Scene set between Network Effect and System Collapse.

The binary is in ASCII, Unicode, and ASCII/UTF-8. Whichever you pick, it will translate to the same thing.

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art-of-a-space-duck
2 months ago
Photo of a package of three astronaut-shaped lip gloss/oil keychains.
Photo of two of the astronaut keychains painted gray to resemble Murderbot in secunit armor. The one on the left is darker with the C-shaped logo of The Company from the Murderbot TV show on the faceplate. The one on the right is lighter with red accents.

For once me procrastinating on something has worked out in my favor.

Decided to make multiple versions, each based to varying degrees on the official illustrations, the TV show design, and my own headcanons. Now I just have to figure out where I put the third one and decide what to do with it.

And yes, the lip oil is still in there.

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art-of-a-space-duck
2 months ago
An abstract drawing. At the top is a large black blob with binary numbers within it. Radiating from the blob are black and white dots and blue and tan paint strokes. A curved white line runs from the large blob down to a smaller black blob. Where the curve meets the smaller blob is a blue star. The smaller blob is surrounded by white and blue concentric curves and tan rectangles. The background is a grainy blue and orange gradient bordered by black.
An abstract drawing. At the top is a large black blob with binary numbers within it. Radiating from the blob are black and white dots and blue paint strokes. A curved white line runs from the large blob down to a smaller black blob. Where the curve meets the smaller blob is a blue star. The smaller blob is surrounded by white and blue concentric curves and blue rectangles. The background is a grainy blue gradient bordered by black.

The actually first piece of Murderbot fanart I ever made (over a year ago now). Drew this up immediately after finishing Network Effect fueled by queerplatonic Murderhelion feels.

So yes, this is technically ship art of a technologically advanced ship named ART and its security unit.

No, the binary does not mean anything.

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abstract art the murderbot diaries murderbot asshole research transport murderbot diaries perihelion tmbd secunit murderhelion You can kinda see where my ideas for my take on ART started I did have a specific scene in mind when drawing this but it could really be representative of any of a number of scenes
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art-of-a-space-duck
3 months ago
Four drawings of the cyborg Murderbot with its hair tied back and wearing various outfits. In the first drawing, it is sitting down and wearing jeans, boots, and hooded jacket and a t-shirt with a graphic of three triple A batteries and the words “Batteries Included” on it. In the second drawing, it is sitting on a couch wearing a t-shirt with a graphic of a moon rising over an ocean with the words “The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon” on it. In the third drawing, it is sitting down with its back to the viewer. It is wearing a shirt that says “I DON’T WANT CAKE EITHER” in the asexual flag colors.

Murderbot in graphic tops (and a ponytail). I like to think it got a few extra clothes while on Preservation, most of them gifts from its humans.

I’ll let y’all decide what all the As stand for.

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the murderbot diaries murderbot murderbot diaries tmbd Wanted to dress up my blorbo I’m of 2 minds when it comes to MB wearing graphic tops On one hand they would allow it to express itself without conversing with anyone but to read them people would probably have to be close to and staring intently at MB I also headcanon that because of how they’re made clothes from Preservation tend to have visible seams while CR clothes usually don’t
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art-of-a-space-duck
3 months ago
Various profile drawings of the cyborg Murderbot at different points in the series. From left to right: Under Company Ownership: Pre-Series and Book 1. Its hair is extremely short, and its eyes are red. It is wearing gray armor. Its expression is blank. Pre-Alteration: Books 1 and 2. Its hair is still short, and its expression still blank. Its eyes are green, and it is wearing a grey shirt and jacket with a rainbow flower logo on the chest. Post-Alteration: Books 2, 3, and 4. Its hair is slightly longer, and its eyes are red. It is wearing a black shirt and a dark blue jacket. It’s looks angry. Second Hair Growth: Books 4 and 4.5. Its hair now reaches slightly past its ears, and its eyes are bright red. It is wearing a black shirt and a different blue hooded jacket. It looks worried. On Preservation: Books 5 and 6. Its hair is tied back into a ponytail, and its eyes are cyan blue. It is wearing a white t-shirt and the same blue hooded jacket. It looks happy. Survey and Rescue Missions: Book 5. Its hair is shorter again, and its eyes are red. It is wearing a black shirt and the same blue hooded jacket. It looks angry. After [Redacted]: Book 7. Its hair is still short, and its eyes are bright red. It is wearing a dark blue blazer with a logo of a planet on the shoulder and black collared shirt underneath. It looks terrified.
A drawing of Murderbot from the waist up with no clothes on. It is looking away from the viewer. It has three triangular logos in its body, one each on the back of its head, its metal shoulder, and its back. There are claw marks over the logos on its back and shoulder. Shown also are drawings of its arm and hands, displaying its claws, the gunport on its arm, and the bright pads on its palm and fingertips. The text reads: The logos are engravings in the support structure whose colors are created by LEDs connected to simple computer chips rather than muscle pigments. They are programmed to only be black or red. Constructs can withstand greater damage than humans, but without medical care, they cannot fully heal from even minor injuries.
A diagram of the typical arrangement of organs and other parts in Murderbot. From top to bottom: Skin: Thin or absent on various parts of the body. Outer Support Structure: Segmented to allow for movement. Thinnest (and grayer) in a few points around the eyes and the audio sensors to make wireless connections easier. Muscles: Thin and inorganic. Found in all constructs and some higher quality human augments. They include pigments that, if modified to do so, can change shape and thus color based on certain inputs. This feature is used in many comfortunits and some secunits. In Murderbot’s case, the inputs are various danger-related signals from the brain and hormone producer. The range goes from bright red (perceived extreme danger) to cyan (perceived safer than safe). Inner Support Structure/Skeleton: Encased within are its main sensory nerves and blood vessels. Uppermost layer on the shoulders and upper leg. Inner Organs: Example shown: Power Cell

I’ve been reading some fanfics and relistening to the audiobooks, so I decided to update my take on Murderbot.

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the murderbot diaries murderbot organs murderbot diaries tmbd Murderbot spoilers Murderbot diaries spoilers the Murderbot diaries spoilers you can really tell I’m an audiobook listener because I formatted ‘redacted’ like an SCP article Also this font doesn’t have an italic version Also I know I’m stretching some of canon a bit but let me have this self harm implied
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art-of-a-space-duck
4 months ago
Head drawings of 8 humans. From left to right, top to bottom they are: Mensah: She has a round face and very dark skin. Her light brown is braided into cornrows with her bangs being a poof of unbraided curls. She has dark stubble, a scar across her nose, and two beauty marks on her cheek. She wears a bluish-green shirt with a round upturned collar, a bluish-green beaded necklace, and silver hoop earrings. Her eyes are bluish-green. Pin-Lee: She has a round face and light olive skin. Her hair is black with gray streaks, tied back into a loose bun. She wears a light gray vest over a black collared shirt and a choker with a round silver pendant. She also dons light gray eyeshadow, black lipstick, and several silver earrings. Her eyes are medium gray. Bharadwaj: She has a long, triangular face and medium brown skin. She has long, wavy reddish brown hair with bangs. She has a beauty mark just below her maroon eyes. She dons a red sweater, red scarf, and faint lipstick. Ratthi: He has medium brown skin and a square face framed by wavy black hair and a short beard. His hair is tied back into a ponytail with a golden bow. He wears a matching golden bow around his neck and a gold and white shirt. His eyes are good, matching the golden strand in his bangs. Arada: She has light tan skin and an oval face covered in freckles. Her black hair is short and shaggy, with orange streaks at the top. Her shirt is various shades of orange with a dark brown pearl on the collar. She wears an orange triangular earring and two bronze eyebrow rings. Overse: She has a long, triangular face and dark brown skin with some much lighter patches. Her dark brown hair is long and straight, with bangs swooping to the side. She wears a necklace with a triangular bronze pendant, a dark brown tank top, and a light brown shoulderless sweater. Her eyes are medium brown. Gurathin: He has a triangular face and light peach skin. His auburn hair is styled in ringlets, which are tied back, and with curly bangs. He is wearing a light pink sleeveless top and over that an asymmetrical transparent magenta shawl with rose gold chains on one side as well as dangly rose gold earrings and a rose gold necklace with a pink diamond pendant. He has on blush and shiny magenta lipstick and eyeshadow, matching his magenta eyes. He has a light scar across his lips. Running from his forehead to his ear is a rose gold augment. Volescu: He has a triangular face and dark brown skin. His black dreadlocks fade to purple at the tips. A line of purple squares is painted under one eye as well as a line of purple lipstick on his lower lip. He has a poofy black goatee. He is wearing a dangly purple earring and a matching purple shirt and jacket. His eyes are light violet.

The PreservationAux team in All Systems Red, dressed in their casual attire.

One of the things I love about TMBD is how certain things are described with far less detail than you would expect, including the appearance of several major characters, leaving a lot of wiggle room for interpretation.

I did, to varying degrees, pull from the Subterranean cover for Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (Book 4.5) for the characters that appear in the illustration, but the information in the text was the only strict limit I put on myself.

Well that, and the colors assigned to each character. There’s no way I wasn’t going to give each of them a specific hue.

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murderbot murderbot diaries tmbd ratthi the Murderbot diaries spoilers dr mensah PreservationAux preservation pin-lee bharadwaj Arada Overse Gurathin Volescu I wonder if anyone else will notice the pattern well there’s multiple patterns technically
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art-of-a-space-duck
5 months ago
Portrait sketch of the cyborg character Murderbot, angrily yelling and baring its teeth. Its hair is very short and its eyes are dark red.
Portrait sketch of the cyborg character Murderbot, angrily yelling and baring its teeth. Its hair is medium length and tied back and its eyes are green.

I was relistening to All Systems Red yesterday to help me finalize my interpretations of the PreservationAux humans, and as you can see I did not do that.

The fanbase has convinced me that Murderbot with tied back hair is just chef’s kiss. For now my headcanon is that it has a ponytail when on Preservation, but just before the survey in Network Effect, it gets its hair cut.

I don’t know what it’s yelling at or why it’s naked. Maybe a washing machine ate its jacket or something.

I just really wanted to draw its fangs.

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art-of-a-space-duck
6 months ago
Drawing of the cyborg character Murderbot. It is looking down with a sad expression, as if about to cry. Its sclera and artificial seams along its face are dark red.

Felt like drawing a sad Murderbot. For a fourth time.

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