This is the first Character Ask for a character that doesn’t really speak (as I recall, the Cell Junior mostly giggle menacingly), though it’s not gonna be the last one. I had fun thinking up a good way to answer it, and hopefully the joke comes through despite the lack of dialogue.
First things first, I’m at a convention this weekend and the internet is crazy spotty. I’m going to schedule both today’s post and Sunday’s while it’s working, but I may not be around as much as usual to reply to things.
This here is Chip, a guest character from the first episode of HarmonQuest season two. Chip was played by Gillian Jacobs, a rare example of a male character being played by a female in that show. Perhaps that’s the reason he’s the only male character I’m attracted to in HarmonQuest, but I’m super attracted to him. I don’t know if anyone else will share this fascination with the little goblin, but I thought he was insanely cute and I would like to draw more of him in the future.
Here’s the first of the November Character Asks, this one directed at Beast Boy (though Raven makes an appearance as well). As much as I’ve drawn these two, I haven’t really gotten the chance to show them in their uniforms, and I thought this might be a fun chance to do this while also having them flaunt their assets.
Here’s the third page of ben_10mil’s comic “Surprise” colored. I decided to go a different route with the reveal of the second panel (as you can see below, the original version had little lightning bolts). I think the starburst here looks a bit better, and is also just funnier to me. Hopefully you guys like it, too.
So in early 2016 I had a commission client who wanted to purchase a few random manga pages to be colored. Even though this wasn’t exactly my normal style of commission, I agreed to, and the first was an Asuka/Shinji page from a doujin called ASUKA28. I colored it, and the client liked it so well that instead of doing the next page he had planned (which was from a completely different doujin) he asked me to do another page from ASUKA28. At the time he seemed very interested in getting the entire doujin colored, and so I sat on the two pages I had colored for a long time. However, I didn’t hear from him again, and even if I did I don’t know if I’d be able to take on a project like this again today. I just have too much else going on. I didn’t think it was worth keeping it squirreled away, so I decided to release the two pages I’d colored here for you guys. If you’re interested in checking out the full doujin, you can find it here: https://hitomi.la/galleries/764286.html (or just search for “Saigado ASUKA28” if you don’t like this host).
This page took longer than I expected due in large part to the position used. In most of the panels it wasn’t a factor, but a couple of them proved especially time consuming for me, and took multiple drafts to get to look right. Hopefully the final product was worth all the work. I know these pages come out slower than many of you would like, but I can assure you I’m doing my best to get them out as quickly as I can. Page eight is already under construction, though I’m sure it’ll be a while before it’s complete.
This is a picture drawn and colored by an artist known as Er Ar. The story behind this pic is that a couple months ago, Er approached me wanting to do an art trade. I wasn’t 100% on board with the idea, because I knew I likely wouldn’t be able to hold up my end of the trade any time soon, but Er talked me into it by promising that I could take all the time I needed. Predictably, other stuff kept getting in the way, to the point where I eventually offered to pay for the the other half (which was done pretty quickly) as a commission since I was worried about finishing my own. While Er at first told me that wouldn’t be necessary, I guess his financial situation changed and he accepted that arrangement. So I paid his commission price, and figured I might as well share the picture here with you guys.
I went back and forth on a few different ways to answer this Character Ask, but ultimately I decided that this idea was too cute not to draw. Also, I like that it allowed me to use Killua’s outfit from his last Ask.
Here is the One-Shot comic page from October. At the time that it went up on there it was very timely, but of course the One-Shots get released publicly a month after the fact, so it’s a bit late for Halloween now. I think the picture’s still cute, though, and hopefully you guys can enjoy it even if it’s no longer the spookiest time of the year.
Things are winding down for these three as day breaks outside. This is the penultimate page of One Night in Azarath. Next month the comic will publicly finish as you guys get to see the comic page sponsors got to see recently. After that, we’ll delve into a new ongoing comic written by my backers.
