Vanita and the Demon King, Page 97 Step-by-Step
Monster Prom – Warm Walter and Doug
My friends Ben, Chloe, and I are playing through yet another round of Monster Road Trip on Ben’s Twitch channel. During the playthrough one of us quipped, “We need art of Warm Walter spooning Doug!”
So that’s what I drew.
This is *not* my first Monster Prom-related fanart. (I will share more as the year goes on). Honestly, it’s so fun for me to draw. It’s an art style that’s right in my lane.
Mini-prints of this will be coming soon to conventions and in-person events this year!
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What if Jamie Roberts Was NOT a Pirate??
You all know about Jamie Roberts, the genderqueer pirate who left the sea with their two best friends to go treasure-hunting in a land full of dragons.
But what if they weren’t pirates? Believe it or not, in very early drafts of this comic, Jamie and friends were not pirates at all!
In SUPER early drafts (we’re talking back in 2011 to 2013), they were students at a military school. In those versions of the story, they discover the top brass held an earth-shattering secret plan: to release a demon king and destroy their enemies. They would flee the military school and get refuge in the land where the demon king was sealed away.
In hashing out one draft, I had it that they were military school students, then turned pirate to escape. And the feedback I got was, “Why don’t you just…make them pirates?”
Honestly, storytelling 101: Keep It Simple, Stupid. Besides, I really wanted to get to the pirate bits more than the military school bits. People love pirates more than school, anyway.
So that’s how they became pirates!
Some of these concept sketches, though, will be making it into the bonus material of The Legend of Jamie Roberts, volume 3…Which is coming to KickStarter on October 14.
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Two Ladies
Can you believe I drew these Two Ladies a decade ago?
Yep, I call this piece “Two Ladies.” I can’t think of the title of this without thinking of the song “Two Ladies” from the movie adaptation of Cabaret. Fun fact, the song eventually made its way to the Broadway version after the movie.
I drew them in Copic markers on brown paper to really make the earthy tones pop, and to give the other colors a more neutral tone. I wanted this to be down-to-earth, above all.
In 2015 I was on a kick of drawing LGBTQ+ couples for a while. This is probably my favorite of the bunch, though I have more. And I can’t wait to show you them!
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