For this month’s magazine cover I asked Subscribers to nominate characters with some sort of animal connection to their character, excluding furries. I got a lot of good nominations, but decided to go with Inosuke who’s still riding the momentum from his runner-up spot in the first Superstar Tournament.
For this magazine cover I decided to try something a little different. So far the covers have all featured established Studio residents, but for this one I invited people to submit characters who had not yet debuted in the Studio. I don’t plan to do this often, if ever again, but I got some interesting suggestions this time. In the end I went with Tier from Bleach. She’s from after I stopped watching, but I always thought she looked cool and figured she’d be an interesting addition here.
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.
