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I solicited my f-list for Halloween themed art ideas. These were the results:

( Silly costume doodles under the cut.... )

I also solicited art requests at the scooby_doo community I moderate. Here are the results of that thread:

( Will you click on the spooky link for a Scooby Snack? )
HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERYONE!!!! :)

A few weeks back, I was watching a friends daughter while she took care of some stuff at work. To keep her occupied, I brought out my sketchbook and asked her for comic ideas. This is what she came up with...

First she asked for Spongebob. And I apologized to her for my inability to draw him properly (I haven't watched the show in years)




Then she told me all about the Lego Batman Movie she watched the night before (I didn't even know that movie existed!). And started asking for Batman comics. And that's when things got fun!

First, she wanted a Batgirl drawing:




Then she asked me to draw Catwoman running away from a police man and a dog:
( Insanity under the cut.... )

Kid commissions are fun!! :)

I recently came to the realization that I don't draw enough Naga. This needs to change:



And here is Naga's most likely reaction upon meeting Gourry:


( Slayers under the cut.... )


Next up, more Sly Cooper AU comics to ease the pain caused by the-game-that-shall-not-be-named. This comic could fit into the Sly Cooper AU that earthstar_moon and gullwhacker are helping me with. But it can also stand on it's own as a "this is what should have happened" comic



THIS is what their reunion in Sly 4 would have been like if that game hadn't been written by fanboys who cared more about inserting fuzzy T&A in the game than they cared about writing half-decent female characters (and good stories to go with them).

( More scribbles under the cut.... )

So...a while back I made a tribute post to Carl Steven (the actor who played Freddy in A Pup Named Scooby Doo). Turns out he died in 2011 at the age of 37. Finding out that a guy with so much talent (he helped re-define Fred's character when he was only 12-years-old) died so young made me very sad. So I thought it would be nice to post something to express how much I admired his work.

I didn't think anything of it until today. When Carl's mom left a comment on the page saying that she loved the picture and thought it was a great tribute to her son.
....yeah. When I saw that comment, I almost burst into tears.

It never even occurred to me that one of his family members might see that post (if it had, I would have drawn it better). And it just blows me away that his mother not only saw it, but actually liked it and felt compelled to let me know.

I guess this goes to show that you can NEVER predict what kind of impact your work will have once you put it on the internet for all the world to see. Even if said work is just a piece of Scooby Doo fanart expressing your love for a 20-year-old kiddie cartoon.


In case you missed the original post, here's the picture:
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EVERY comment in this cartoon is based on DA comments and notes that I've actually received.

Sadly, a frightening amount of people seem to think that an artist's time has no value and that it's a personal slight if we don't IMMEDIATELY draw a stranger's random art request. And a LOT of people also seem to think that it's perfectly okay to send unsolicited requests to draw gross fetish/porn art to artists that clearly aren't into that sort of thing.

I'm grateful that people like my work. But it would be nice if I didn't get so many creepy comments and requests.

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My muse is REALLY into this "humanizing anthro characters" thing right now. Go fig. :P

My current targets are....The Rescue Rangers (my previous failed attempts at it can be seen here)



ARTIST'S NOTES:

( More scribbles... )


BONUS SLY COOPER CROSS-OVER!
Because I couldn't resist....
( DOUBLE DATE!!! )

I drew most of my recent "How the Little Mermaid should have ended" comic on my lunch breaks at work. My co-workers saw me working on it in the break room and they were actually pretty fascinated/shocked to find out that so much planning and math goes into making a comic page (they saw me using a ruler and calculator while drawing and thought that seemed weird). So I stopped to explain to them that I had to measure how much panel/paper space I was working with and figure out how much space each panel needed to get the point across. I also explained the process of trimming the dialog and scenes in order to figure out how to get the point across in just one page. To my surprise, they found it to be really interesting; so I thought I'd put my scratch pages with the measurements here just so you guys can see it, too.


Initial Idea Page

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I think I may be getting better at this! :)




I will say this for digital coloring: it is SO much easier to find just the right color you wanna use! And that'll be useful for varying skin tones on characters!


Original Sketch is here




And here's a random assortment of other related sketches I've done lately....
( Scribbling under the cut.... )

So, one of the people I met on Deviant Art REALLY liked this sketch that I drew...


....and asked if she could color it. Naturally, I was insanely flattered that anyone would want to do this with one of my scribbles (especially since this artist is REALLY good at digitally coloring her own stuff). And here's the result:



I REALLY need to learn digital coloring! Because I can't believe something I made can look THIS good!

The colorist's DA handle is "Obligatory Optional" and her page is here. Check it out. She rocks!

Because "F**k Tony Harris" will never stop being fun to say. If you don't know why, lookie here

Also, whoever can identify the obscure costume on the bottom-right gets a gold star!
Hint: She's a character from a 10+ year old JRPG.


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