Hey guys! I am still alive and still drawing, just RL stuff getting in the way right now. Here, have some fantroll sketches. I’m also working on many illustrations at the same time, which doesn’t really help for a regular image posting schedule. Wehhh wehhh
Since Jade’s eyes for the planet juggling portion of the flash were actually cutouts so they could be more easily animated, laying the extracted asset over black gives her a distinctly Uboa vibe.
It had to be done.
I’ve fallen in love with Uboa, send halp
Lexxy’s End of Act 5 Assets PART ONE!
I decided to break up my work for the flash into two parts, since cramming everything into one would’ve made for a photo set twice this size and I don’t think that would load nicely or look very nice.
SO!
I’ll kick things off with my first and finest contribution: Godtier Jade! Andrew was kind enough to leave the design of her new outfit up to me, so I started with one that was really close to an old sketch I started and it just kind of evolved from there as I got more feedback. I wish I could take credit for the ruby slippers idea (that was all Andrew), but the striped socks were what gave him the idea in the first place, so the Wizard of Oz homage was a joint effort.
You’ll notice she does not, in fact, have a tail. Andrew didn’t want to take the dog influence quite that far, so she’s just a human girl with cute, fluffy dog ears. That doesn’t mean you can’t draw her that way though! I’ve seen a few fanarts that included one, and it’s really cute!
My favorite iteration of her outfit is #5 with the cropped tunic, which is the way I’m going to draw it from here on out (outside of the comic). We ended up going with number 3 because there was more precedent for a longer tunic, but given the other two kids’ designs, I think that much variation in length could have worked! Still, I’m very happy with the way her design turned out, and so is the fandom judging by all the feedback I’ve seen! I have so many adorable Godtier Jade fanarts to my MSPA folder today it’s unreal <3
Anyway, once the final design was settled upon, I got to work on the digital painting. Andrew wanted it to be a really dramatic reveal, so I went all out with a hand-painted background (based off a portion of the Eagle nebula) and dramatic lighting, ultimately resulting in the first image you see. It took me a long time to finish, though, which meant rushing through my other assets, but I think it was worth it.
And speaking of my other assets, stay tuned for Part Two!
My favourite illustrator, doing what I assume she does best. あいかわらずすげー、レックシイ。
Been meaning to finish this for days! Whelp, finally got around to it. This fun-loving troll loves to cut people up, yes.
Character design WIP forawesome fantroll RP with my awesome new RP friends. Did I mention this is gonna be AWESOME?
Kalika Vulpis, my new fantroll. She’s meant to be insane, but I haven’t quite figured out how.
Also come at her, bro.
This blog, you guys. This blog.I FOUND A PUNCHLINE FOR YOUR COMIC STRIP
The real problem with American political discourse isn’t the undue influence the top 1% (or 20-25% if I’m a good bachelor of political science and use quintiles and quartiles) have on the policymaking process; the problem is that people legitimately refuse to believe that America’s political economy is in the state it’s in. The end results of the American dream—nuclear family, a car, a house, etc.—are very much still possible… for some. There legitimately was a time in American history when all of a vibrant middle class and even the upper eschelons of the lower class could achieve this goal through an honest 40 hours a week in blue collar professions. The problem is that over the past 40 years, the rich have gotten richer while the middle and lower classes have seen their real wages stagnate and have slowly been priced out of what was once a very feasible goal. But because we refuse to realize this, we as a society go into debt and all we get are foreclosed homes and mountains of debt.
The America dream is still achievable, but not for nearly as many people as it should be. But until “the 53%” (which, incidentally, is just as astroturfed as the Tea Party, mark my words) actually pay attention to the sorry state of things, nothing will change. I’m not saying that worker of all lands need to unite; I’m saying that American society as a whole needs to realize the huge gap between expectations and reality. Remember, people literally died so that we could live on a forty-hour work week once upon a time.
We can improve conditions or we can scale down expectations. But as a society, we can’t afford to continue denying that there is, in fact, a problem.Bless this post.
Those who are just shaking their heads at the hippies on the front step of Wall St. are either extremely lucky, or jaded, or both. They’re either so far removed from the problem that they don’t understand it, or they’ve convinced themselves that the “richer you get the less you pay” policy is a good one for our country.
That comic makes me so angry! Those drawings also somehow serve to enrage me further. Look at her in the last frame. So holier-than-thou, and yet so wrong.
