Absol’s a Pokémon I always knew would fit in well into this series, but for whatever reason I never got around to it until now. Anyway, hope y’all enjoy!
For the tenth magazine cover I thought I’d break the model and do a couples pairing. A number of Studio couples were nominated for this page, but I decided to go with Goku’s parents since I thought they struck a good balance of being a popular, loving couple who have a good presence in the Studio but still feel underrepresented.
I don’t really know if Hisoka will show up in the Studio or not, but I’m sure if he does it’ll be mainly as a top for H×H boys. I thought giving Gon a chance to think it over might be interesting. This Gon has had a lot of new experiences compared to the version still back in his world, after all.
I watched the first season of Frieren back when it aired, and re-watched it with some folks a bit later. Going in I wasn’t super attracted to either of the female leads. I liked them, but their designs reminded me too much of other characters. As often happens, though, watching the show warmed me up to them, and I wanted to do a little something with them. It’s hard to say right now just how much of Frieren or Fern I’ll draw in the future, but I do think it’s safe to assume they’ll show up in my work again.
Goku’s gonna struggle with a question like this, I’m not sure if he really understands what circumcision is. He’s doing his best, though. Maybe they went to the city for it, but I always imagined Gohan and Goten being home births up in the mountains. Goku’s birth was very different.
I hope nobody had their hopes up for several pages of intense basketball action. Instead, we’re skipping the action to get right to the action. I don’t think Maki’s going to put up with this from Yoinks for long, though, so expect things to slow back down a bit in the next page.
With this Ask I wanted to go with someone who’s kinda in line with the types of villains Sailor Moon faces in her show, but is also completely removed from the genre. It’s a difficult balance to walk, but one I think provides the most interesting result, so I went with Demencia from Villainous. Demencia’s a character I always meant to do more with, and I think she makes a unique but interesting partner for Sailor Moon here as she explores the world of hero/villain play in the Studio.
Sand Land is a manga I read back in high school and enjoyed a fair bit. I’ve been happy to see it getting some recognition lately with a game and an anime adaptation. I haven’t played the game, but I thought the anime was fun. I decided to do a little pic with the main two characters, Beelzebub and Rao, that I hope some of you will enjoy.
There’s been some talk of Vegeta rating other asses after the Ask where he did so for Tanjiro. I don’t know how common that concept will be, but here’s another example of it with Edward Elric.
This is something I sketched out back when the first season of Velma came out. While I didn’t care for it at all, I did like the designs and wanted to do something with them. Obviously there’s no beating classic Velma, but I do like how the HBO Velma looks and wouldn’t mind doing a bit with her here and there. I’m less into Daphne’s design in this series, but I like her relationship with Velma so they’re fun to pair together. Daphne also has a different hairstyle in one specific episode that I think looks a lot better, I might draw her with that at some point.
At any rate, I never finished the first season and also never got around to working on this pic at the time. When the second season came out I decided to catch up and watched it all on one go, and while the show got better for me it still never got good. I found myself wanting to return to this pic, though, so I did. I also added a bit of dialogue that I felt was kinda on par for the writing in the show.