The theme for nominations this time around was “Ten and Under”, that is, characters who I’ve drawn ten times or less. There were some fun nominations, but I thought Johnny Bravo would make an interesting and different cover boy. We also haven’t really seen him in a role like this yet, so it’s something of a change of pace.
Here’s the thirteenth Studio Life Magazine cover, featuring Maki Zenin. Maki’s been making a lot of waves in the Studio lately, and I think she makes for a good cover model here.
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.
A while ago I posted a pic of Cheetara with Goku, and I mentioned at the time that it was one-half of a Lord Tier commission, but I had another half of it that I’d have to post later. That time has come, with Cheetara getting a magazine cover via commission. Even though the Subscriber who commissioned it got this pic back then, I wanted to wait to post it because the couples cover was meant to be issue 10 and I didn’t want to fuck with the numbering.
For the tenth magazine cover I thought I’d break the model and do a couples pairing. A number of Studio couples were nominated for this page, but I decided to go with Goku’s parents since I thought they struck a good balance of being a popular, loving couple who have a good presence in the Studio but still feel underrepresented.
Here’s the ninth Studio Life magazine cover. At the time that I invited nominations from Subscribers for this cover, I hadn’t done a male-focused one in a while (the commission with Gon hadn’t happened yet). So the theme this time was just male characters, and there was a variety of nominations. In the end I went with Denji, who’s a character with a pretty unique situation in the Studio who’s also made a lot of appearances, so I thought he’d make a good cover star.
This is another nomination-driven cover, where I asked Subscribers to give me non-human characters that could appear on the cover. There were a lot of good nominations, but I decided to give it to the Butt Witch. Not only am I personally fond of her, of course, but I think of her as a big part of my brand. I know not everyone in my audience likes her as much as I do, but I enjoyed doing something outside of BWBW with her. I feel like it’s been a while since I’ve done a non-futa pic with her. I actually have a few other Butt Witch pics that I’m hoping to work on soon, too, so there might be a bit more of her before too long.
The other half of this month’s Lord Tier commission is another in the Studio Life Magazine series. This time the cover goes to Gon Freecss, which I figure was probably going to happen sooner or later. Like the other entries in this series that were commissioned, the article titles and such were mostly written by the Subscriber getting the reward.
For this cover I asked my Subscribers to nominate “science” characters. There were a lot of good nominations, and if we hadn’t already had several DBZ SLM covers then it’d probably be Bulma here. Instead I went with Reagan Ridley from Inside Job, a character whose representation in my work so far is much smaller than my actual interest in her. I’m extremely fond of Reagan and would like to find more excuses to draw her in the future, but for now this magazine spotlight is pretty nice I think.
I finally got around to doing another Studio Life Magazine cover, and this is the first one to be done with the Subscriber-nomination system I plan to use going forward. The theme I gave Subscribers was “bad girls”, in order to make sure we got out first female cover, and there were a lot of good nominations. I went with Jessie ’cause I feel like she’s got a pretty strong presence in my work while also feeling kinda underrepresented. I’m also just really fond of her, so it was nice to do a simple little pic like this. I’d like to do these a bit more frequently, if I can manage, since they’re pretty easy on me while also seeming to be popular with a lot of folks.
