Christmas who?

A Dangermoth page in progress... I don't think I've ever shown pages in progress. I tend to have a scorched earth policy when it comes to my work. If the sketch ain't already shitty quality, then it gets deleted when I finish my inks and move on to colours. And then, my old habit was to have a single layer file only, so my inks got destroyed too. And to add insult to injury, I saved low res. 

When I was asked to show my work for an interview I was totally screwed. I feverishly scavenged up some low-qual inks and sat there, sweating my biggest shit-eating grin, hoping they didn't notice that I completely missed the point of the expose interview. I scraped into that by virtue of my shapely ass, people. The interview went from 'DARING YOUNG COMIC ARTIST' to 'OMFG COSPLAY GUUUUURRRRL'. I severely doubt they even noticed the inks I used were sloppily slapped over a Daz3D model >_>. 

Welcome to the world of professional illustration! If there are titties involved anywhere in the process, expect the 'professional' side to slip. 

 

TRAINING MONTAGE

 

See? I even managed to delete the sketches for panel 2 and 4 before I remembered I was documenting my process. Maybe I'm sketch racist. I mean, I love seeing everyone elses sketches, but my own? Wuuut no.

 

ORIGINAL TOTES

 

Revisiting a comic character I created in, oh... 99? Holy shit, that was 11 years ago.  Christmas Raven was my rockstar girl character. I used to be the biggest rock n roll retard fangirl ever to hide herself away from the Queensland sunshine. Christmas Raven. Christmas, because my name means Christmas (lol original), and Raven - NO, NOT actually because it's all sweet gothic cool, but because of a totally rubbish horror movie from the 80's called 'Monster Dog'. Yes, Alice Cooper's first foray into the field of acting wasn't so much spectacular as it was a steaming pile of hepatitis ridden werewolf shit. Anyways, he was a werewolf rockstar called Vincent Raven (Vincent being Alice's birth name). Christmas was (and get your pad and pen ready to tick off the cliches) a fallen angel with purple hair and red eyes, who wore all black, with studs and leather, and ran a rock n roll carnival of the damned. Please note: Alice Cooper ran a theatre of the damned in exactly the same way.

She seduces and controls a teenage boy called Vincent (more name stealing) who is a giant emo faggot if you EVER did see one. Also, I'd trace pictures of Shinji from Neon Genesis Evangelion and just add long black hair to illustrate him. Yes, I was THAT bad. Say hello to the consequences of only using anime for reference material. 

RARE SURVIVING ARTWORK:

AHHH IT BURNS

Annnnd there's Alice Cooper lyrics quoted on it. Pretty much the whole thing is was 'anime Alice Cooper with tits'.

 

MMM TWI'LEKS

Change of pace: TWI'LEKS. Oola and Lyn Me from Return of the Jedi .

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