The Hills and the Souphanousinphones have a really cute dynamic in King of the Hill, I think. Peggy and Minh I like especially, and I kinda wish we got to see more of them interacting just the two of them. I’m hoping to pair Peggy up with a few different characters at some point or another, and I have plans for both of these ladies to work with younger relatives eventually, but getting them together in this Ask seemed fun and I didn’t want to pass it up.
This magazine cover was another selected from nominations by Subscribers. The theme this time was “Deuteragonist”, and I decided to go with Bakugou since I feel like it’s been a minute since he got a spotlight.
Not much to say on this one, other than I thought it might be fun. Due to how I wanted to answer this one the character being Asked doesn’t get to show his face, but that’s not the first time and I think the trade-off is worth it.
This is a pairing I had the inkling to do back in 2020 when I first introduced Cristina de Sange. I’m not planning to do annual new Spookyverse characters anymore, but I’d still like to revisit these characters some for little pics like these in future Octobers.
So this is a new reward I’m testing out for my $20 tier on SubscribeStar. The idea is that Subscribers at this level or above can submit to me scenario ideas, little story-based scenes involving characters within the Studio (though they don’t have to be set in the Studio, like this one is). Each month I’ll choose one that interests me and do my interpretation of the concept. Since this is a test run, how people respond to the concept (both in and outside the tier) will help me decide if it’s something I want to try and keep doing every month.
For this idea I thought it’d be funny if Gojo was just annoying Nanami while he tried to relax with Tiana. That makes this one sort-of a sequel or epilogue to Closing Time. I thought maybe some folks might enjoy seeing this pairing return with a slight twist.
My first thought when reading this question was that it wasn’t specified which of Gine’s sons they meant. Then I realized that could be the premise of the answer, so this is where I went with it.
So for the longest time I’ve had designs, personalities, backstories, etc. in mind for parents to a lot of established Applebridge characters. These parental figures are not, as of yet, involved in any stories or anything, so there was never any need to debut them. However, I thought it’d be useful to expand the setting a bit by establishing who these figures are, for characters who live with their parents. Every character has their own situation, of course, and I figure I can use the Applebridge Bios series to flesh these things out.
We’re starting with Corey Park’s dad, Max. Now, both of Corey’s parents are a bit distant due to their own lives and ambitions, which is part of what allows Corey to run the racket he does, but they’re loving parents in their own ways. Corey’s mom will be the next one of these I do, though it may be a bit before I get to her.
So this is a really simple one, but I haven’t drawn Ash and Goh together in a bit and I thought this interaction would be cute.
Here’s the third page, where Maki convinces Yoinks to go at a more reasonable pace.
So Joy isn’t able to get into the specifics here, but I figured I might just in case anyone was interested. So the emotions in Riley’s head are, of course, metaphorical. Like, I don’t think if you put her in an X-ray you’d see the command center and everything in there. So, to bring Joy into the Studio, she was brought in separately as a character, which is also why the other emotions aren’t in the Studio. Then, for her brief appearance in Sleepover Raid, she was set up in a set made to resemble the inside of Riley’s head from the film. This means that, within the Studio canon, Joy can act freely and interact with other characters, including Riley. I’m sure Studio Joy wouldn’t waste much time in doting on Riley, and I tried to make it clear they have an ongoing dynamic where Joy embarrasses Riley in one way or another.
I’m hoping to do a little more Inside Out stuff sometime in the future. Riley has a new, slightly older design in that movie, plus I’ve never gotten around to her MomSwap (although that one will probably use the first movie’s designs). I have some sketches of Sadness I’m thinking of dusting off, plus I’m interested in maybe doing something with Riley and Val from the second film. No clue how much of that will end up seeing the light of day, but this Ask is me exploring going back to this franchise a little eventually.
