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.

EDIT: Frederick-Art's Red Hot Riding Hood (dlt edit)

ORIGINAL ARTIST: Frederick-Art 

I need to emphasize that this is not my drawing. I merely edited it. Go give Frederick a watch and check out his amazing artistic output on Twitter (SFW/NSFW).

High-res versions of the pics available here and here.

As my followers on deviantART probably now, starting from last summer I was put in a situation where I'm not able to work on my art nearly as much as I'd like to, and working through my remaining commission orders has been a bit of a hassle for a wide variety of reasons. However, my life has recently seen a bit of an upswing on a personal front and I feel more energized – and when that is the case, I tend to get a bit more productive than usual. A couple of months ago, when I was getting closer and closer to wrapping up a stripper-themed commission featuring Paulina and Star, I stumbled across Frederick's drawing of Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood, done in the style of DC Superhero Girls. Being that I'm a big fan of Lauren Faust's art style and I also dabbled a bit within the miniature horse show fan community (though I never went too far... I think), I was very much pleased with what I saw! The gratuituous ass shot also helped.

I rarely do edits of other artists' works as I'm generally not fond of others editing my own works and I don't want to come off as a hypocrite. However, with this one... I couldn't resist. I've been itching to draw a Red Hot picture probably close to eight years now but for one reason or another, something's always been holding me back, be it time or my own lack of skills to pull of the perfect picture of her.

Also, I really wanted to see how the pic would look like as a smart phone wallpaper, although I figured it was probably a better idea to also do a covered-up version of her. You know, just to be on the safe side.

After that, things sort of got out of hand and I ended up turning the whole thing into a digital painting or airbrushed piece of sorts. I guess? I'm not entirely sure of the terminology. Incredibly enough, this didn't have too big of an effect on my commission output and eventually, I even found myself having a bit of free time while I was waiting for replies from the commissioner regarding any last minute changes which then allowed me to not only tweak the Red pic to weed out any potential mistakes, but also finish a partially-inked Kick Buttowski piece from 2011. Sometimes, life is good.

In the end, however, the biggest thanks will obviously go to Frederick-Art not only for coming up with and drawing the original picture but also for graciously giving me permission to release the edit(s) for you all to see. Enjoy!

DF/EDIT: The final panel for the Danny Phantom cumix 'Song of Lust'

(Over 9000 hours in MS Paint)

For DarkDP, by yours truly. The comic should now be finished for good.

Perhaps I should help out on Stuck and Steamed too?

EDIT: Jack Davis draws faptastic women

This is currently my avatar on the forums I frequent. I don't remember what issue of MAD Magazine this pic is from (somewhere between #200 and #231) but it's one awesome babe there, drawn by the ever-talented Jack Davis! I've modified the pic slightly: first by cropping it into an almost square shape and then by removing the oggling guys and a kid from the background with the combined powers of eyedropper, brush and smudge tools. I wasn't exactly that careful as I knew the image size had to reduced to 150×150 for the final avatar. This effectively hides the editing marks that can still be seen in the original version, seen below.

The original spoof goes like this:

"An Advertiser Would Have Us Believe..."

"...that acquiring a 36-inch bust, a 22-inch waist, wavy blonde hair and perfect bone structure all depends upon choosing the right low-calorie diet cola."

Good stuff.

The image quality is low because the scan I have from the original issue sucks major ass.

EDIT: Just practicing...

Oh! Is that you, Count? Finally. You left me rarin' to go... come and look at this!
- Evelyn

Here's a little colourization excercise I did back in February. It's a panel from David Messina's comic The Client Comes at Midnight from French Kiss issue #5. The story centers around a woman called Evelyn, who I suppose is a real estate agent, and her assignment to show a creepy, haunted mansion to a client. The client, of course, never arrives during the comic and Evelyn gets to have sex with all the clichéd horror story icons, such as a vampire, a werewolf and the Frankenstein's monster. Messina has used Evelyn in at least three other stories too and I wish we'd see more of her, she's a real vixen!

I've never been good with traditional colouring. I hated crayons, I sucked with colouring pencils, I made a mess with watercolours. Digital colouring, however, is a completely different thing. For some reason that seems a lot easier for me to do. I admire artists like Shabby Blue, T.Catt and miravi who do a marvelous job with digital colours (although I believe Shabby still uses pencils to colour his art and then "smudges" them in Photoshop for a smoother result). I actually aimed to mimic Shabby's style with this practice run. I made up the colour of her hair and clothes, since I've yet to see any of the three Evelyn comics I've come across in colours. For some reason I always saw her as a blonde playing the classic role of a "bad brunette".

In other news, I'm aiming to finish the PPG piece by Friday afternoon. I'll start inking it tomorrow but it's a big process after that: scanning, vector tracing, cleaning up the lineart, colouring and, because this one's a hardcore piece, drawing digital cum.