This here is one of two Lord Tier commissions I’ve got lined up for this month. This Subscriber paid a little extra to get three characters involved, two boys from The Elusive Samurai and Erza from Fairy Tail. The dialogue here was all written by the commissioner.
I’m sure most of you are aware that there’s a running gag in Pokémon where James will crossdress whenever Team Rocket is trying to trick Ash and his friends. It doesn’t happen every time, and sometimes Jessie will also crossdress or sometimes they’ll just both be women. Regardless, he has a number of iconic looks through this gag that I’ve never done anything with, and I thought it’d be fun to change that. I went with this gyaru look he uses early in the series when giving Ash, Misty and Brock tickets onto a cruise liner that drives the plot for a few episodes. Both James and Jessie looked great in this disguise, I think, and I wouldn’t mind doing something with them as a pair with this disguise at some point. Originally I had James with just an anon, but I was trying to think of a good partner who’d like this look. While I don’t remember Todo having a specific interest in gyarus, they don’t seem that far outside his tastes, and James as a woman is both on the taller side and has a big ass. So I went that route to make it more interesting.
While working on this, it occurred to me that James’s crossdressing is a bit reminiscent of Bugs Bunny. Hopefully y’all will know what I mean, but something about the way they both adopt characters and disguises the audience is meant to see through but other characters can’t has a similar vibe to me. I’ve been thinking of doing some sort of pic series inspired by this tenuous connection, but I can’t promise I will. Maybe something where they’re both using different iconic looks to bring in studs in the Studio, like a competition. I’d be interested to hear if anyone would like something like that.
It’s been a minute since I did a First Shoot, and I think it’s because I’ve kinda burned out on the concept. The last poll we did for this series resulted in another three-way tie, the first of which is Purah here. I think once I finish these three shoots I’ll take a bit of a break from this series.
Purah’s a character I like a lot, but was always hesitant to draw just because I figured her design would be a pain to work with. I was right, of course, but I’m happy to have done at least this much with her. Her partner here feels like she couldn’t be more random (which of course she is), but I think they make an oddly nice pair.
Here’s the final page to this little comic. Everybody gets to finish on someone’s face. Some of you may remember that this comic was commissioned to help cover expenses following a personal disaster, but the commission I sold was for ten pages. This marks the end of the first half of that commission, and sometime down the road I’ll begin working on another five-page comic that makes up the second half.
I don’t know if Thorfinn has much interaction with any strong women in Vinland Saga. From my limited time with the series, the only strong woman I’m aware of is his sister. So I don’t know if there’s much canonical basis to work off of here, but there was at least one strong woman in the Studio I thought might remind Thorfinn a bit of home.
We’ll be well into it by the time this post goes public, but for Subscribers this Ask is coming out right at the start of the Year of the Horse. It’s a bit of a meme in Attack on Titan that Jean has a horse face or even is a horse, but in the Studio there are much horseier folks around. Thirty-Thrity is a BraveStarr character I included in a pic many years ago, but this is his first time appearing fully on camera (it was mostly just his cock before). He’s giving Jean a horsey ride to celebrate the Chinese New Year.
I’m actually not sure why it took so long for me to get to Riley and her mom Jill for this series. I wanted to do the Sleepover Raid girls who had moms early on, but I think I just got caught up in other pairing ideas. So she ended up pushed back, but we’re here now. One benefit of the wait is that I got to use her slightly older design from the second film, with this being the first time I’ve drawn this version of Riley. As for Jill, she’s one of my favorite Pixar moms, maybe second only to Helen? I’m not sure I’m prepared for a tier list but she’s definitely up there.
I feel like I’ve seen Yuji paired in one way or another with almost every pink-haired anime character out there, but I feel like Bocchi ranks high among them. Partly just due to their series getting popular around the same time, I think, I’ve seen many JJK/Bocchi memes, edits, whatever. I wanted to do something with them here, and hopefully this dynamic between them will be fun for people.
I mentioned wanting to pair Jiji and Yuji up back when I did that Ask with the two of them, but one other character I felt would pair well with him was Kirishima. Kirishuma doesn’t have quite as many obvious parallels to Jiji as Yuji does, but I just kinda feel like they make a good crossover pairing. This Ask seemed like as good an opportunity as any to test my theory.
Also, for those of you who’re interested, here’s the Q&A video I did for Subscribers last month:
This is the first Club Card I’m doing where it’s a monthly poll feature. Like before, my Subscribers chose the wine tasting club for the spot, and which member got the pic was randomly selected. The Wine Tasting Club has been alluded to in Asks before, so it’s one of a few I expect some folks to be familiar with and know a bit of the roster. Cana’s not a character I personally know much about, but I knew enough to know she fit the club’s gimmick. I tried to do a bit of research on her to get her info right for the card itself.
