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Winipig

Looks like Winifred has traded her coffin for a mud hole.

Sowlley

Year of the Pig is an entire year, after all. Why not get some mileage out of it? Admittedly, the pun would work better if Shelley’s name was Sally. But I don’t have a character named Sally.

Issue 19 Winifred aketch

Even when she’s not “dressed,” she’s still fashionable. But what’s she doing in a bathrobe? And what’s with the paddle?

Year of the Pig

Happy Chinese New Year!

M. Blanc

I finally saw Suspiria (2018) last night. It may not get the style points of the 1977 original, but I’m glad the director went in an entirely different direction instead of trying to ape Argento’s style. The story utilizes its dance company (not actually a ballet school this time around) setting much more. It also spills ...

Chickadee Recharge

No doodle today, just birds in hand. They’re worth like two doodles.

Statue Redux

Issue 19, page 1. Let’s go, boys!

It’s a very background-heavy page, at least for me. The building is based on the now-defunct (and probably converted to condos) Danvers State Hospital, an insane asylum featured in the horror movie Session 9. Despite living really close, I’ve never been to the site.

Statue

More Underburbs 19 sketches. A new setting!

I’m Seeing Double Here

Four Krustys!

Actually, the first sketches for issue 19.

Land, Sea, and Skye

The recent Skye Friendly commission was almost a swimsuit piece, but we agreed that her first appearance in years should be her iconic (?) stewardess uniform. Trying to walk the line between fat and balloony is a challenge, and I think less clothing makes it that much harder.

Underorient (sketches)

The jiangshi/yokai versions of the girls came together fairly quickly, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t work it out in the ol’ sketchbook first!

Skye's Limit

I was only asked to do a simple pinup of Skye Friendly, but she's just too much fun to draw!

Expanding Skye

Skye likes to experiment during her days off. She has to do it in uniform, though, as her street clothes aren’t made of the same expandable nanopolymers. They could tear or cause serious injury!

Uneven Skye

A brief return to the world of Skye Friendly and her body-modifying belt

Sam Allen Poultrification (lines only)

Taking a step back on this recent sequence. As you can see, this was drawn on two 9”x6” pieces of paper!

Curse of the Underorient (line art)

This was a rare b/w commission in which I did the greyscale in Photoshop. Here's the inks-only version of Angela, Winifred, and Shelley as various monsters from Chinese and Japanese folklore.

Sam Allen Poutrified (raw scan)

The pencil and ink version of a recent art trade.

See the completed version here: https://www.deviantart.com/mr-dna/art/Sam-Allen-Poultrified-782334355

Royal Family Portrait (color)

I've probably talked about using a blank Multiply layer over a pencil drawing many times, but I'm going to talk about it some more since this came out so darn good. I've been using a Wacom tablet for a while now, but still not enough to feel totally comfortable with shading, and completely uncomfortable with actually drawing....

Royal Family Portrait (raw scan)

I kinda meant to take a picture of this before I did the pencil shading, but I was on a roll. Anyway, this image, which already exists in its final form on DeviantArt, is another post-epilogue follow-up. In this particular Magic Lesson thread, Angela becomes a princess, then a queen, then the most beautiful queen in all o...