This is something I sketched out back when the first season of Velma came out. While I didn’t care for it at all, I did like the designs and wanted to do something with them. Obviously there’s no beating classic Velma, but I do like how the HBO Velma looks and wouldn’t mind doing a bit with her here and there. I’m less into Daphne’s design in this series, but I like her relationship with Velma so they’re fun to pair together. Daphne also has a different hairstyle in one specific episode that I think looks a lot better, I might draw her with that at some point.
At any rate, I never finished the first season and also never got around to working on this pic at the time. When the second season came out I decided to catch up and watched it all on one go, and while the show got better for me it still never got good. I found myself wanting to return to this pic, though, so I did. I also added a bit of dialogue that I felt was kinda on par for the writing in the show.
I’d been wanting to do something with Yung Hee and Velma for a while, since I feel like her main inspirations are Velma and Jade Chan. This Ask seemed primed for making that connection, and I included Daphne ’cause it would’ve felt weird to leave her out. Even though this is a pretty simple Ask, I like the idea of a mystery solving club. Whether they solve actual Studio mysteries or host, like, murder mystery parties, either way I like little looks into how Studio residents entertain themselves when they’re not on camera. I’m not sure how many potential mystery solvers there could be for a club like that, mostly I can just think of other characters from Hanna-Barbera Scooby clones, but I might revisit the concept if I have a good reason to.
I’ve kinda wanted to do a pic like this for a while, to the point that I had the sketch I used for this Ask in my work folder for a long time. I reworked it a little into a pretty simple answer. This is basically the same way I handled Mako’s threesome with Korra and Asami, but I think it’s a fun way to approach the dynamic.
While I’m sure he probably still comes on too strong most of the time, Johnny’s success rate in the Studio is bound to be better than it was in his original show. The third episode of that show was a fun crossover with Scooby-Doo, and I thought letting Johnny hook up with Daphne and Velma would be a fun and sensible first crossover for him. I don’t know how often I’ll be drawing him, since his stylized appearance and exaggerated proportions don’t naturally translate easily into my usual style, but I really wanted to fit this in while he’s on my mind. In the episode Johnny hits on Daphne, who rebuffs him like all the women in the show do, while Velma’s into him but ignored. I’d like to do an inverse of this dynamic eventually, where Velma gets some Bravo D, but for now I went this route since Daphne doesn’t always get as much love in my work.
Ever since I first started drawing Scooby-Doo pics again, people have been asking me about the Hex Girls (Thorn, Dusk and Luna). These three are very fondly remembered from their first appearance in Scooby-Doo and the Witch’s Ghost, though they also appear in shows like What’s New Scooby-Doo? and Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated. It’s not hard to see why people like them, a trio of goth rock stars is gonna naturally appeal to a lot of people, plus their songs in the first movie they show up in had much smoother and entrancing animation than most Scooby-Doo media. I decided to pair them up with Daphne and Velma, even though I tend to avoid pics with this many characters (I have trouble staging them, and they take much longer and slow down other projects). I will probably revisit the Hex Girls eventually, though it may be a while from now. I’d kinda like to do something with their Mystery Incorporated designs, plus I’m sorta interested in a Thorn/Velma pic. There’s a scene towards the end of Witch’s Ghost where Thorn is using a spell book while the ghost is going nuts, and Velma’s clinging to her in a very cute/shippable way. For now, though, enjoy this pic.
So I’m sure everyone’s seen the trailers for the new Scooby-Doo movie by now. I’ve been itching to do something with Daphne and Velma again for a while, and while I personally still prefer the more classic designs, I thought it’d be fun to dabble in these new designs a little. I don’t expect to draw these versions of them again (though I might try out the loli designs we see in the trailer at some point, not sure), I wanted to do at least one pic with them.
I’ve wanted to use the “Pup Named Scooby-Doo” versions of the Mystery Inc. crew for a while. Of them, I think Daphne is especially cute, so I used her and her mom first. Daphne actually has two different moms that appear in the show (there’s no indication they’re different characters, it comes across more like they forgot about her first appearance and introduced a new design when they used her later). The first time we see Daphne’s parents they’re just two rich people stereotypes, but in the second appearance they both look just like, well… Daphne. I used that later appearance here, since the family resemblance is there, and even though she’s not named in “Pup” Daphne does have a redheaded mother named Elizabeth in other versions of the franchise. I plan to do Velma and her mom in a later entry for MomSwap, too, but it won’t be the next one.