So there’s not much new here, but this is the complete version of “Monkeying Around All Day”. This is what the client purchased, but due to the size and scope of it I chose to upload the smaller panels individually. The end result was that some parts were cropped out of those versions, but now you can see the full image (plus the “flow” from one panel to the next). Hope you all enjoyed this series, and ideally I’ll get to draw Mowgli again some time in the future.
Here is the fourth and final part of the “Monkeying Around All Day” commission I’ve been working on. It’s nighttime now, and Mowgli is tired and defeated after a full day of monkey business. He’s tired and sticky, but the monkeys aren’t showing any signs of slowing down.
As you may have guessed, this series is meant to fit together into a larger picture. That full version will be posted here tomorrow, and will contain some details cropped out of these smaller versions (though not too much, to be honest).
Here’s another commission. The client wanted to show Conan (Jimmy Kudo) and his friend Mitch captured by a suspect out for revenge. For those not familiar with Case Closed/Detective Conan, the show portrays suspects as black shadow people as a way to conceal their identity until they’ve been arrested. This specific scenario isn’t based on any one episode from the show, but rather an original story by the client who purchased this picture. Here’s his description of the backstory:
More or less a year ago (in Detective Conan), an young science woman named Monashir Matsumaeya of Ainu origin returned in her ancestral territory in Hokkaido, to assist with the preservation of the reservation where her her Ainu family live. She was accompanied by her shikoku (A breed of Japanese Wolfdog), and as she was doing her job in the forest, she found a couple of living Ezo wolves, Japanese northern wolves that were extinct by the end of the 19th century (if I recall well, back then the Japanese government exterminated them).
Understanding her unbelievable discovery, she reported it to her Ainu family whose her uncle is the chief. And as this wolf had great importance for the Ainu culture, they decided to give their best to keep them secret for now. meanwhile, the girl tried to get her own wolfdogs breeding with those Hakkaido wolves. Which succeeded after several months.
But one day she learnt that some works and constructions were planned and about to start next to the reservation, and notably in the part were the wolves had taken shelter. So, she did a plan to stop it in assassinating the responsibles, Shiromainu Munehide Dakehara – who is the higher up/boss behind this project (and from Ainu ancestry, so there is also some feeling of betraying behind the act) and Genzaburou Hareakari, the overseee of the project, when this one was visiting the construction site. Sadly, Conan and his team that were in visit too on Hokkaido, he busted her while impersonating Kogoro Mori after having killed the guy, and she was arrested.
The Ainu, even if disproving what she did, kept and hide the puppies from the wolfdog and the wolves. And it was the cousin of the woman that rose them… while planning his revenge, as during the arrest of her sister he spotted Conan impersonating Kogoro. A year passed, and the man (Itakshir Matsumaeya) ended up to finding Conan, capture him and his friend that accompanied him. And decided to let now adult puppies to have their turn too.
Like with shows like Inazuma Eleven, I’m using the English localization names for tags with this franchise, even though I actually like the Japanese names better.
This is part-three of a larger commission I’ve been working on in the background for a long time. The monkeys continue to have their way with Mowgli in the trees, even while the sun goes down.
Here is one of the commissions I received this month, featuring Pit and Palutena of the Kid Icarus games. I drew these two together once before for NHML, but I’m happy to pair them up again here. The person who commissioned this stated that he’s really into these two right now and may want more of them in the future so, if that’s still true a month from now, we may seem them crop back up here again then.
This will probably be my last post for a couple days while I try and focus on other stuff. I’ve been super busy and am getting kind of a late start on things. In the meantime, enjoy this fun Avatar commission I recently wrapped up.
This is a follow-up to an earlier commission I did on the list of Twenty. That commission was a birthday present, and the young lady it was a present for liked it so much she came along and bought one of the slots that were still open at the time. This is what she wanted, a little montage of Frieza and her OC Hobbes next to a window of his ship looking out at the stars. I think her relationship with Frieza is very cute, even if it’s quite a bit different than the way I usually write him.
So here’s a little update on my status with the list of Twenty (which I need to finish before I can start the commissions sold this past weekend). I had a client who bought three slots, the first of which I drew up in January. He told me he needed some changes done, but not what the changes were, and then I didn’t hear back from him until just this past Saturday. I still don’t know what changes he wants made, but he promised to tell me soon. If he does, then I’ll have to go back to work on not only that commission, but the other two he bought, which will set me back some as they were all three pictures I expected to take a long time to do.
This was a commission featuring Tsukuyo and Seita from the series Gintama. I’m not super familiar with the franchise (I read a the first couple volumes of the manga ages ago, but barely remember them), but Tsukuyo is cute and I’m glad I was able to get some more straight shota work out for my followers who’re into that.
