Another year, another Halloween party here in the Studio. This year’s party felt like it took longer than usual, and I think that might be in part because I tried to fit too much into each panel. Not only does this make the page take longer to get out, but it also makes the figures smaller and maybe even harder to make out, so I’m going to try avoiding that for the Christmas party if I can. I am happy with everything we fit in, though.
There’s a couple characters here we haven’t seen in a while, maybe even some of you didn’t even know some of them were in the Studio. This year I finally got to do something with Carmella Creeper, the undead DJ from the monster cereal line. I always pictured her in charge of the music for these parties, but this year we got to see her. We also got a fun little nod to the Poll Me Closer series, plus I finally got to pair Corey Park with one of the Tom & Jerry witches I introduced last October. We also have a follow-up to the Canute Ask. Of the costume ideas submitted, Link and Zelda just seemed weirdly fitting and also gave me some ideas for how to use them in a scene.
I hope y’all enjoy this year’s party! In spite of it all I’m pretty happy with the final page, and I’m already busy working on Christmas’s!
One more spooky Ask here. When thinking about this one, I figured it’d be fun to focus on just other vampire ladies. There’s a few who haven’t really gotten to appear much, so it was a good excuse to bring them back. Obviously there’s more vampires than this in the Studio, including a few of my own OCs, but I feel like this lineup is pretty fun and eclectic.
I see this Ask as a sort-of sequel to the Mini Commission I did of the orange sisters not long ago. I see Blackfire as taking a lot of personal pleasure in domming Starfire due to their relationship from the cartoon, but I do think she’s also the type to enjoy controlling anyone who would let her. While I don’t see Princess Bubblegum as a complete sub (honestly, she’s got “switch” energy to me), I do see her as someone who could enjoy slipping into that role, letting go of pressures and stress, even if she finds Blackfire’s rudeness a bit tough to swallow. Mostly I just thought it’d be funny if Blackfire was drawn to another woman whose voice scratches that itch for reasons she can’t explain.
Some of you may remember a picture I did over a year ago featuring the unlikely trio of Bulma, Starfire and Katara. The story to that picture is the same as this one. I had one of my friends dig through a folder of my reference pictures and choose one as the pose. I then had another friend, who hadn’t seen the picture, choose which characters would go into the pose. That’s how we got this picture of Zuko, Ace and the Flame Princess.
I drew this one over a year ago, so I feel like it doesn’t quite hold up to my current standards (no background, I think Zuko looks kind of off). However, general laziness on my part meant it kept getting pushed to the side, and I just now finished it. I have two other pictures from this game (one paired with each of these I’ve done so far, where the two friends in question traded roles), but I have no idea if I’ll ever color them and post them here. I guess we’ll have to wait and see, but I have bigger, more interesting projects I’d rather focus on for the time being.
This picture is basically me trying a few things I’ve wanted to do for a while. One is Adventure Time, a show I absolutely love, but I don’t think I’ve ever drawn before. Another is futa, something I’ve done once or twice on commission and have colored numerous times. I’ve never felt confident about my futa pics, something about how I draw dicks just didn’t feel right for a ladycock. I’m trying to fix that with this pic, though, so let me know how I’m doing. Finally, this was also me attempting to draw with just a mouse, nothing sketched out on paper like I usually do (it didn’t work, this final product was drawn on paper like everything else I do). Maybe someday I can accomplish that last one and save a few trees.
Also, this specific image was born from two different lines of dialogue, one of which is in the image, and the other was re-purposed as the title of this post (but was too obvious, I think).
I hope I can do more Adventure Time in the future. I have a great idea for a short straight shota comic from the series (it’s not what you think), but I have so many other comic ideas I haven’t done yet that I can’t say if or when it’ll get made.





