ART: Nothing to Report

Remember that episode of The Powerpuff Girls where they had to fight off minuscule nanobots that were eating up everything in sight? Remember how the bots also induced wardrobe malfunctions on everyone, including the girls? Yeah, everyone remembers that last part, obviously.

However, I doubt that anyone remembers Gabby Baloney, the female reporter who first relays the news to the people of Townsville about a mysterious, melting rain that's wreaking havoc in their city. She's got less than 10 seconds of actual screentime and her only function in the overall story is to interrupt the girls' TV time and inform them of the new threat.

But hey, it's Rule 34... and there are no exceptions*. Not much else to say about this, it's a quick one I sketched while drawing the Ms. Keane commission and I just wanted to make a suggestive pic of an obscure background character.

You can check out my screencaps of Gabby for reference purposes in the previous post.

*) Well, okay, this isn't exactly porn, there's no sex acts going on.

REFERENCE: Gabby Baloney

COMMISSION: Sam Rides Again

Commission for DarkDP. Yeah, you probably guessed it. Sam Manson is to him what Maddie Fenton is to me. Yes, that's supposed to be one of those... what the hell do you call them... sack chairs? I dunno bean bag chair is apparently the correct term (thank you, based Anon). Also, a Precision bass guitar and a gothic rock band poster because why the fuck not.

Not sure if there's much to say about this pic except that it's been the most difficult one of all the commissions I've done during this entire year! I originally intended to have this done before summer but after wasting nearly two months trying to come up with a suitable sketch I chose to postpone it instead and concentrate on other works. After I was finished with those, I returned to this order. I suppose something had happened between that period, because I finally nailed down this pic after wasting only two pieces of paper.

Once again, a very special thank you to ManiacalCarrot for helping me out with this one and a lot of the previous commissions as well. If it weren't for his excellent understanding of perspective and proportions I'd probably overlooked a lot of minor and major flaws and gone ahead releasing art of a lower quality. Oh, and I almost forgot: DarkDP himself came up with the guidelines after which I modeled the pose. Credit where credit's due!

Alternative versions (differences being that some of the pics don't have any fluids and there are more detailed background posters in two of the pics):

I will be concentrating on a Halloween pin-up next. Assuming I don't change my mind again, it's going to be... well, sort of a crossover/cosplay thing. Oh yeah, and it's going to have Maddie (duh).

COMMISSION: The Spy Who Loved Me

Commission for ThaMan. This is the very first pic I've done of Johnny Bravo, which I did watch back in the day but wasn't very high on my "must see" cartoons. I guess I wasn't really interested in the premise nor the art style, which I thought was closer to 1970s Hanna-Barbera productions than the '50s/'60s UPA shorts (I've never been fond of '70s or early-to-mid-'80s cartoons). Still, I did watch the show whenever it happened to be on but I don't remember seeing more of it than the first season and a few episodes from season two.

Fast forward twelve years and I find myself drawing this character, Heather Asplund, from the afore-mentioned show. She appears in S3 finale, in an episode called 'It's Valentine's Day, Johnny Bravo'. I watched this episode I had never seen before to be familiarized with the character and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised at the emotional state of this character in the very end – did Johnny ever meet up a woman like this before? I mean, obviously, as a character she's mostly nothing more than a walking gag but still. While the episode didn't have me roaring with laughter or making me pump my fists into the air, it was enjoyable and I was left with a nice feeling inside after it was over.

This image can be seen either as a follow-up dream or distant future reality after the said episode. Take it as you will.

I also did another version without gloves: