This one’s kinda a throwback, I guess, but I thought seeing Gabi like this would be fun.
Month: August 2024
Here’s the ninth Studio Life magazine cover. At the time that I invited nominations from Subscribers for this cover, I hadn’t done a male-focused one in a while (the commission with Gon hadn’t happened yet). So the theme this time was just male characters, and there was a variety of nominations. In the end I went with Denji, who’s a character with a pretty unique situation in the Studio who’s also made a lot of appearances, so I thought he’d make a good cover star.
This Ask is worded a little confusingly, but I think I got it. When I think about the type of guy who James would most go for, I see him as someone with a bit of a daddy complex. So I ran with that here.
While I haven’t played many of the newer Pokémon games, I did play Pokémon Y and had fire starter for that game. Braixen seems to have become the most popular stage of that evolution line, even though I remember really liking Delphox. Braixen got the big push by being a main character in the anime, plus (if I remember correctly) a playable fighter in Pokken Tournament (which I only played a bit of). Anyway, I thought she’d make for a good Pokédex F entry here.
Tapion and Minotia’s story in Wrath of the Dragon was always really sad. Both have been in the Studio for a good while now, but I never really did anything with them together. By now they’ve had plenty of time to acclimate to Studio culture, though, and I thought a little Ask featuring them might be fun.
Also, for anyone who’s interested, here is the Q&A video I did for Subscribers last month:
I talked about it a little bit when I did the AMV, but I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed Gushing Over Magical Girls. It’s far from perfect, but for what it was trying to do I thought it hit the mark more often than not. I love villainess/heroine-in-peril stuff, but don’t draw it too often, but I’d like to indulge that interest a bit with this series. I have a lot of sketches covering most of the characters who appeared in the first season, and hopefully I’ll get more of them done than not. I started with this one, focusing on Magia Sulfur, ’cause it was one of the simpler ones and I wanted to get the ball rolling while the series was still somewhat fresh in my mind. The next Gushing pic I do will probably focus on my favorite of the magical girls, Azure, but I did end up liking Sulfur a lot more than I thought I would.
Now, I don’t know if this Subscriber had anywhere specific in mind, but this Ask was shouting foot worship at me and I feel like it’s been a minute since I’ve done anything with that straightforward of a foot focus. I also had a pretty good idea how each girl would respond in the Ask, and I think the final result is cute.
Dungeon Meshi, or Delicious in Dungeon, is one of those shows where there’s too many characters I’m interested in. Sometimes shows like that end up in something like Three Stooges Syndrome, and I end up barely drawing them at all. Hopefully that won’t be the case here, though. I drew Chilcuck on commission for a Subscriber a little bit ago, but prior to that my plan was to debut him and Laios together in this pic. Neither of them are at the top of my priority list for this series, however I knew for some folks they would be and I thought it might help grease the wheels to two characters I knew would be in high demand out of the way.
A lot of people like these types of comparisons when you have alien super species. I think power works differently in Dragon Ball than many other franchises, though, and tried to work that into the answer. I should also note that, despite what he’s saying here, Vegeta did decide to go blue on Mark.
Back in June of 2020 I got the itch to draw Yomi, and ended up sketching a bunch of pics focused around her. At the time, only one solo pic ended up inked and colored, but I kinda shoved the rest of them into a folder with the intent of eventually going back to them. I’m kinda shocked it took me as long as it did to dig back into that folder, but this pic is one of those from back then. Yomi and Tomo have a really fun and cute dynamic, and it’s easy to ship them. I hope y’all will like this pic, and I’m really hoping to go back to more from this folder eventually.