Here are 'pencils', 'inks', and color for another panel in the 'jungle girl vs lingerie girl' story. There aren't many pieces of art left on my hard drive with all three steps in my early 90s art process shown this clearly.
Here's the setup: 'jungle girl' has gone into the match barefoot, while 'lingerie girl' has stepped into the ring wearing some awkward-looking white 'fuck me' stilettos. But her intent in wearing the shoes becomes clear several pages in when she pulls one shoe off her foot and begins working over jungle girl's chest with the sharp heel.
A woman in the audience, angered by lingerie girl's dirty tactic, pulls off her own high heeled shoe and throws it to jungle girl in the ring. This panel picks up the action where jungle girl, now armed with the spectator's shoe, starts paying lingerie girl back for her assault.
And damn, I think this particular drawing turned out well. If I have any criticism at all, it's that the shoe lingerie girl is holding is sort of obscured by the swish lines from jungle girl's shoe. But in context, it's already been established that lingerie girl is holding the shoe, so the reader would know it's there.
I was again working at a mere 800 x 600 pixels. The year was 1996, about three years after the panel I posted previously.
Aas I mentioned a few days ago, I am now literally unable to duplicate this look. I don't remember how I did it. I've tried, but I can't get it right. It is a combination of the somewhat cartoony look of the women, the small canvas size, and an awkward method of creating the 'inked' look that I've since forgotten.
The dialog font is the one I built myself in Fontographer. The files are long lost, and I now use commercial comic book fonts purchased online.
Also, as a general rule, I don't think you can ever go wrong having a character moan, "Oh, my boobs!" somewhere in a catfight story.
A picture a day! I believe your blog will become the Mecca of catfight fans everywhere. This drawing is beautiful by the way, great layout.
ReplyDeleteI dare you to find one instance ever where having someone moan "Oh, my boobs!" is wrong.
ReplyDeleteAgain, I love the way the older applications approximate the pencil and paper creation of art. I miss the older programs. A great looking piece.
ReplyDeleteI'm a new follower, but I've been a fan of your art for years. It always made me CRAZY that I could never find the complete stories from these tantalizing scenes, which I just KNEW were out there SOMEWHERE on a pay site... Imagine my relief (in one sense) to learn that you were just spreading your random-but-related scenes out there all over the internet, spewing your seeds all around, just to tease us. Seriously, your stuff is beautiful, imaginative, inspired, and downright hot.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, I have one of the shots from this series where lingerie girl is actually pummeling jungle girl's boob with her heel. The look on LG's face is priceless. My friend, you are the master.
Thank you. I wish I really were the master, but I know I'm not.
ReplyDeleteHere's something I've found to be true in every career I've pursued. There were people out there who had fame and wealth far beyond my own, but not a tenth of my ability; and people whose talent rose far beyond mine, but who labored in even greater obscurity and penury.
I am fortunate to have the skills I have, and I regret I haven't been more productive with them.
And I know the panel you're talking about. It turned out pretty hot.