Continuing the new tradition I started last year, for Christmas this year I want to take a little look at the annual Near Hentai Studios Christmas Party. A couple of these panels were ideas I had last year but couldn’t do, either because I ran out of space or because the character(s) I wanted to use hadn’t publicly debuted yet. Others are just ideas off the top of my head this year, and hopefully we got a fun mix of appeals. Also we get to see our 2023 Studio Santa again, and I immediately had this idea for how Scorpia would work in this role, which I think is fun. At any rate, I hope most of you can enjoy at least one of these panels, and I’m already looking forward to trying out more ideas next year!
Every year I randomly select a member of the Studio to be our “Studio Santa”. This is the third year we’ve done this now, and this year’s winner was Scorpia from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. Scorpia’s a real gem in that show, and I’m quite fond of her, but her unique anatomy has deterred me from doing more pics with her. I think she makes a good Santa, though, especially since her default color scheme already kinda fits the theme. We’ll see her again at the Studio Christmas Party, but for now I hope y’all will enjoy this little pin-up.
Scorpia is a character I really love in Netflix’s She-Ra. She’s funny, sweet, and intimidating, all whenever she needs to be. I also think she’s super cute, which is something muscular women in cartoons often miss or lack. For one episode she got dressed up in formal wear, and she had on high heels and a slit-legged dress that looked great on her. The goal of this pic was to focus on how the thighs and calves of someone with her build would look in heels. Since this is in the Fright Zone, I guess this scene takes place after the Princess Prom, probably. Maybe to celebrate how the mission went, she’s out on the balcony enticing Catra to celebrate. Just a thought.
Speaking of Catra, what I really want to draw is her and Scorpia together. I just haven’t, like… nailed down how I want to do it yet. I’m sure I’ll get there eventually, but until then here’s this solo pic to help me get used to drawing Scorpia. I had some trouble with her claws, no matter how I drew them they always seemed awkward to me, but hopefully I’ll get a better hang of them in future pics.