COMMISSION: Relaxation

Clothed.

Naked.

This is my second commission out of three to someone who prefers to stay anonymous. Work started on late August, based on a reference image of two anime girls enjoying themselves in the water. The overall composition of the image was quite challenging, and it took me several sketches to get it to a point where both I and the commissioner felt it was good enough. The final sketch was made with the new Samsung Galaxy Tab S8+ I acquired in late September for the purposes of both storing reference images and give me an opportunity for some private late-night sketching. This, by the way, has resulted in me being able to get a crap-ton of new ideas down, which you'll hopefully get to see start appearing after all the remaining commission work has been completed. Still, I am hesitant to call this a "comeback" since my situation hasn't really changed much from 2019. There's no way for me to predict how quickly I'm able to finish whatever I might sketch with the tablet.

You can find more high-res versions to download on deviantART. Please note that the version of the nude variant I uploaded on Paheal is an outdated one with an error in it, you can see the bottom ink line of Kitty's tail near her butt having some artifacts I forgot to clean up from the clothed variant. If this bothers you, get the fixed version from dA from the link above.

ART: Topless Secret /// EDIT: Roger Bacon's Agent Xero Pin-Up

I know I mentioned the next pic would be one of the upcoming commission works, but I managed to whip up this little number on the side. Not to worry, though, as that commission is about 90% completed and should be done in the next week or so.

As some of you may recall, many years ago I commissioned JaviDLuffy to draw a picture of the Gray Lady from the MAD Magazine classic, Spy vs. Spy. This is a character I've lusted after for quite some time but I never quite managed to draw her properly myself. Thanks to my recent acquirement of a new Samsung tablet that's powerful enough to do some sketching with, I've been able to work on my art a lot more lately and as such, I've decided to challenge myself almost every evening to draw sketches of characters I've either never drawn before or I've had trouble getting right – the Gray Spy falls into the latter category.

What you are seeing here is the first time I've been happy enough with a sketch that I've decided to actually finish it! Therefore, you may expect to see her pop up in later artwork in the future.

Higher quality version available on deviantART.

Way, way back in 2019 (or was it early 2020?), I asked Roger Bacon permission to ink and colorize a very nice sketch of Agent Xero that he had made that I had seen posted on 4chan's /co/. He said yes, and it took me several years to finally get to it. There isn't really not much else to say about it, except that I did slightly enlarge her head and therefore also had to tweak the hair a little bit. Everything else, though, has been preserved. The completion year for the original sketch is purely a guess, as the picture had no signature and I had to look up details from the file regarding the date I had saved it. I'm more than happy to update a proper date to the pic later, if I ever learn it.

The background was a nightmare to do.

Bacon's (and ZONE's) take on Xero/Lacey Shadows will be a hard act to follow but I do hope to eventually pay my own respects to this character in the future.

Higher quality version available on deviantART.