Kim Possible is one of those shows I rarely seem to get around to, just because I have too many ideas for it and I don’t want to get sucked into a black hole of just drawing Kim Possible forever. Since there are so many other artists doing great KP work out there, that never bothers me, but one character I don’t think I’ve ever seen used is Heather (no last name I could find).
In the episode “And the Mole-Rat Will Be CGI”, Kim and Ron catch the attention of a Hollywood director, who gets two big name actors to shadow them so he can make a movie based on Kim’s life. Kim’s actress is Heather, who appears to be an A-list celebrity in their world (despite not being mentioned before or after this episode, to my knowledge). Unlike a lot of similar plots in other shows, Kim and Heather seem to get along famously (no pun intended) most of the episode. Kim has a few hang-ups that seem to mostly be jealousy over Heather’s popularity, but they never quarrel or anything, which is refreshing. Since Heather’s job in the episode is to learn everything she can about being Kim Possible, I thought I’d look into what other things Kim might have shown her to help her get into character.
This month’s pick was Delilah from Gate, an anime I’m aware of but have never seen. I ended up doing some research on it for this pic, and seeing a little bit of the show, and I don’t think it’s anything I’ll want to be watching anytime soon. It’s filled to the brim with cute anime girls with some really lovely designs (which is dangerous for me), but the show’s tone and atmosphere seem very mean-spirited and bitter. Even the scenes I watched that were meant to be happy or humurous rubbed me the wrong way, I just can’t imagine enjoying a show like this.
Delilah here has two main designs she appears in during the anime; a waitress and a warrior. Of the two designs I decided to use her waitress one, since it seems she uses that look more often in the show, plus I thought it was cuter and offered more reasonable set-ups for a pic. The show’s cast is split mostly between cute JRPG characters and military characters, so I paired her up with four faceless military guys.
Here’s the second page of the prologue to Space Warped. In this page Goten and Trunks are sucked into a mysterious blue portal, where they find themselves in a mysterious castle and meet a mysterious nude blue figure. It’s all very mysterious.
I had fun with this page, Malezor did a great job with the interior shot, and I like the overall look of the page. We get to find out a bit more about what’s going on in the next page, which will hopefully be here before too long.
I had mentioned that this comic would move at a different pace than the ones I do solo, and here’s good evidence of that. Malezor got the lineart to me pretty quickly, and in turn it didn’t take me too long to get it colored. So, now we’re officially in the prologue to Space Warped.
I don’t want to get people’s hopes up too high, though, as crossover goodness many of you are looking for isn’t going to be in the prologue. We need to set up how the crossover happens first, but we’re doing our best to get this essential plot stuff published and out there quickly so we can move on to real “meat” of the story.
In site-related news, updates of any kind are going to be few and far between for a little while, as I have another convention I’m attending. Afterwards I’ll be visiting some friends, so for the next couple weeks (until about the 15th) I won’t be able to work the same way I usually do. I’m going to try and get as much done as possible during that time, but if I go a few days without posting anything, that’s why.
Hopefully you can’t tell, but this is an old picture. I first drew this in November of 2014, and it’s been sitting incomplete in my work folder ever since. For some reason I got the urge to come back to this one, so I cleaned up the art a bit and sketched up a background (in 2014 I was still mostly using gradients and the like). I’m actually really happy with the final result; I think it holds up better than I had originally expected.
The Master of the Universe franchise is one I’m always surprised I haven’t done more art of. This was one of my earliest cartoon relationships, and it was basically everything Dragon Ball Z is to me now before DBZ had entered my life. I was very young when I first watched stuff like He-Man, She-Ra, Thundercats and Voltron (these four shows are forever tied to my memory for that reason, despite only two of them having anything to do with one another). Perhaps it’s just how long I’ve known these shows that keeps me from thinking to draw them more often, like how I keep wanting to do more Hannah-Barbera cartoons but only seem to fart out one or two Scooby-Doo pics a year.
In 2014 I had a newfound love affair with Filmation’s cartoons. Not just He-Man and She-Ra, but also BraveStarr and Blackstar. I tried to watch some of their older action cartoons in the same vein as these shows, but for some reason had a hard time finding them (even Blackstar and BraveStarr were hard to get my hands on). I really love the corny, goofy charm of these shows, and of course the large cast of colorful characters with the bodies cut from marble. I could probably base my entire career just drawing the women of He-Man and She-Ra, if I wanted to. I really should come back to this franchise more often.
