105 – A Bitter Offer
102 – Home Sweet Home!
Sep 122012
Hey folks! It’s Wednesday! Let’s get to the mash-ups!
Last week we started to look at the cult favorite TV show, Firefly, focusing on the crew of Serenity. This week, we’ll conclude that look with the rest of the cast.
Inara Sass is a Buddy. That is, she’ll be your friend for Shinies (had to clean up her profession for an all-ages site). I think I managed to give her a certain elegance here. I’m glad about that.
Shepherd Wrench is a fur who turned to the Bible for guidance after some dark times in his past. Naturally, he keeps those a secret, but every once in a while, he lets slip some useful information that a shepherd shouldn’t normally be privy to.
Oonch Tam is a doctor. Top three percent of his class even though Todrick isn’t totally convinced of his smarts. He’s totally dedicated to the protection of his sister whom the Alliance is determined to get back. I’m a little disappointed with how he turned out. I used a brush that was a little too thin to ink him. Otherwise, he’s solid. Simon wears sunglasses in just ONE scene the very first time he’s seen in Firefly, but it gave me something to cover his eyes. So yay for that!
Deema Tam is a little off-kilter. Nobody knows exactly what the Alliance did to her. She’s a brilliant girl. She sees things before they happen and it terrifies her. It’s weird drawing Deema looking unhappy, but I made up for it in the poster.
That’s it for this week folks. Next week, new theme!
Sep 032012
Aug 222012
Welcome back to the Wednesday Mash-up.
For the last two weeks we’ve been looking at the heroes of Eternia, this week, we start looking at the villains. As I was drawing these, I realized how freaky some of the Masters of the Universe villains look.
First up, is Sassetor…or Skelesass, your pick. Normally, I try to keep the Animus characters’ natural colour, but blue is such a big part of Skeletor’s design, that I gave Sass a blue body suit. I like the shading and the lightning effects. I don’t know that it comes through in the finished drawing, but the idea is that Sass is wearing a Halloween mask.
Next up is Zoë as Webstor. I tried an action pose and while the pose is alright, I feel that you don’t really get a feel for Webstor’s design. Oh well. I gave her a blue body suit too to try to make it clearer who she’s supposed to be.
Next up is Evil-Nek. I’m starting to like playing with shading to make glowing effects. I like how the blue orb in her staff turned out. Not crazy about the dagger. I used pictures of the Masters of the Universe Classics toy line as reference pictures for the other mash-ups, but Evil-Lyn’s body is a straight-up repaint of Teela’s body and I didn’t want to redraw the same body, so I used Evil-Lyn’s 2000 redesign as a reference.
Now we move on to Deema-lash. Of all the Masters of the Universe mash-ups, this was the easiest casting decision to make. Whiplash is a lizard-man with a tail. Deema is a lizard-girl with a tail. I tried something new with the tail smashing the rock action pose. I like the results.
Last for this week is Wrench-Jaw. Cyran’s wrench is glued to his left paw (his left, our right) so I had to switch Trap-Jaw’s mechanical arm from his right to his left to match-up.
So that’s all for now. Come back next week for the remaining Masters of the Universe mash-ups.