Rudy Mora

small doodle roundup

hey everyone,

the last half of august is a bit of a slow one for drawings, I'm trying my best to stay on schedule for finishing WWY by the very end of October (which I'm sloooowly falling behind on, this shit is hard!!!) so I don't have too much to show at the moment.

I have this small collection of mindless doodles, drawing my ladies just doin nothin to stay warm on them. the second image was just messing with scarlet with some different body types, from skinny to chubby to extra...

Celebrating The Red Muscle

It's been 5 years since The Red Muscle's first chapter was posted and although it's still on a hiatus at the moment, I wanted to take the time to reflect on what this series has meant to me. I talked a bit about where the characters and basic premise came from in my last post, but I also want to talk a little bit about my history with comics and how Red Muscle fits in. To properly give the series the context it needs, I...

The Red Muscle, 5 years later

Hey guys! August 9th is the 5 year anniversary of The Red Muscle's first chapter being released and I've wanted to do a few things to celebrate the milestone.

I'll save my thoughts on what working on the comic means to me for another post next week (along with a fun illustration I'm working on), but I wanted to spend some time today showing where the comic came from and what I was looking at and thinking about. Also, attached at the very bottom of this post is a PDF of the original pilo...

Print Cleanup

Getting ready for Anime Impulse in September, I was getting my files ready for new prints and felt like some of my old drawings were decent but needed a little bit of tweaking. I wanted to gather all of these in one spot to showcase the changes since I think they've all improved quite a bit, even if some of the changes are pretty minor or didn't require too much additional drawing.

All new images are the first of each set, followed by their original drawing. I think I'm most proud of th...

Bumpers Karaoke Night

I've had this drawing planned out since I did the food festival pic towards the end of last year and I'm so glad to have finished this one up! It's part of a series of pics I want to draw of my four ladies from Bumpers hanging out doing a bunch of day to day things.

This pic was really tough to plan out; I had a completely different angle at the beginning but I wanted to be able to include the bit of showing off the lyrics to whatever song Ren and Frankie were singing. I tried a composi...

Merch Scrapyard

I've been collecting a handful of things this past month or two as I've been making stickers and these are the ideas I couldn't get myself to completely finish for one reason or another. All of these were to be individual stickers except the peach one the frankie fruit cart, which would probably be small prints.

The peach picture was a fun idea but I think it's too staged, or maybe the enemies dont have enough purpose other than filling space so I'd want to workshop it more. The DQ ladi...

Tifa Sticker + early sketch

One last sticker here from my new lineup of stuff I've gotten printed, I wanted a Tifa really badly! I'm shocked at myself for almost forgetting her when I really loved her to death when Mariel and I played through ff7 for the first time maybe 2 years ago.

I wanted to do something dynamic to show off Tifa's limit break but still show off her curves, I had done the sketch included above first but it felt a bit too flat and the pose was too similar to my first Scarlet sticker of her hero ...

Scarlet morning and night + sketch

Here's another set of drawings I made for stickers, this time it's Scarlet! this ended up being the combination of two separate ideas i had when i first started drawing all these new stickers.

I was trying to think of who i wanted my target demographic to be so i thought to draw a cute party girl in a tiny dress and a margarita trying to do a pose like she's getting her picture taken with her friends or something. It didn't have the look I wanted so I left it for a bit. Then I tried to ...

Rudy Rambles: Interviews With Monster Girls (Again)

There isn't really any educational slant to this, but I want to dump my thoughts on vol 10 of Interviews With Monster Girls while it's fresh in my mind. THIS MANGA FUCKS ME UP FOR REAL FOR REAL!!!!

I've talked about this manga before at the end of my post about a character trope I'm obsessed with, and this volume brought my favorite character, Sakie Satou the succubus school teacher, and her character arc to ...

Our Bishoujo of Guadalupe Sticker

I've got another sticker drawing for you, it's a weird one!

I've been trying to explore ideas that tap into my mexican heritage for stickers and my mom got me thinking about this one. I was a bit hesitant at first to make it a little sexy and she had a normal dress at first but everyone i talked about it with pushed me to indulge and I'm pretty happy with how this came out! It's got some sex appeal but it's still pretty classy, i think it says a lot about me and feels like one of my mor...

Comic Analysis - Bubbles and Panels Are Actors Too

As I've been working on my graphic novel, I've been trying to make a conscious effort to find ways to improve my comic making. I've written about some comics in the past and what lessons I've learned from them before. It's been a bit since I've written about them so this post can try to explain some of those old concepts a little clearer as a recap. A few manga I've been really loving...

Chun Li sticker + sketches

I've been playing a lot of 3rd strike lately and I wanted to do a chun sticker! I went with a pose from her animation of her stretching her neck, i think it's one of her intros? I had to mess with the proportions a bit, trying to copy the sprite's proportions made this looks really funny with the tiny head, hopefully it still reads that shes all thighs lol. I also threw in two of my sketches trying to figure out what would do best for the final sticker. I do really like the wide air kick draw...

Frankie Hoe Phase Sticker

I've got a drawing here for you guys that I'm super proud of! I had the original idea last year and I've included my original pass for the sticker, I really wasn't happy with how the first version turned out so I had left the idea alone for a while. I think the final version is a lot funnier by putting Frankie in a skimpy dress. The final sticker has a kiss cut around the main content and the yellow was to fill in the 1/2 inch thick white space, the sticker isn't a rectangle like how you see ...

Yuka Bunny Sticker

Hey guys! I finished up this Yuka sticker, really happy with how it came out!

Not much more to say about this, I just love Yuka to death so this was a fun one to make. Got at least one more sticker to share, see you next post!

outfit designs + yuka bunny sketch

hey guys! I've been trying to finish up the last few pages of WWY and I've been collecting drawings on its own canvas to figure out the handful of outfit changes Yuka and Ren go through. Theres a few hairstyle explorations for Yuka too just for fun, she's just really enjoyable to draw for me at the moment.

There's a fun scene where Yuka wears a bunny suit and I love seeing her in the costume, I had an idea a long time ago for a Yuka bunny sticker and I've got a sketch that I really like...

The Tragic Beautiful Girls

I've been thinking a lot about writing more manga recommendations for patreon but as I reflect on manga that really resonate with me and the characters that I get most attached to, I feel like there's an overarching theme to my interests that I want to ramble about that I think says a lot about me and my "brand". I get interested in just about anything that focuses primarily on relationships and/or ...

Samus Sticker

Hey guys! Mariel and I just recently found a new convention in Pomona, CA called sticker expo which is a short one day event in august and we signed up! I have a whooole bunch of ideas for new stickers to make and I knew i wanted a nice Samus sticker, i've really grown attached to Samus ever since Dread came out. I've still got to print my Soul Calibur ladies, I want a Frankie sticker that I think will make you guys laugh (i've got a concept), and a few other ones that will be fun.

This...

End of the month Roundup

I've got a handful of WIPs, doodles, and pics ive abandoned (mostly the zelda ones...), I wanted to collect them all here for you all.

The first one is another illustration of my set of pics I wanted to do with my main 4 ladies, I'm going to finish it but I'm not sure how I want to light it! I want to do a good job rendering it but my attempts so far were not what I wanted so I've put it on hold for a minute.

Hope you enjoy these pics! See you next month.

Scarlet Outfits

here's something fun that was mostly just for me, another batch of outfits to try to define Scarlet's style more! I know the top right one is a repeat from ch6 but I liked that one a lot. lol

the top row besides the repeat was date outfit ideas for an upcoming chapter, what will probably end up being ch9, and the bottom row is more casual stuff that she'd wear on a regular day.

the black dress is the current version of a thing I've been repeating over and over every time I try to ...

Yuka Orange

I recently got a new phone and wanted to draw a wallpaper for it, and I remembered this Yuka drawing from last year that I always thought I could do better. Here's a redraw of Yuka eating an orange with the old one for comparison! I know the BG is much less involved but I wanted to try a more graphic thing instead. I've also included the nude version of both new and old just for the fans lol.

I've got some Weekend With Yuka updated pages to share with $5 patrons too, expect that soon! 2022-03-10 22:43:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Old Baiken

when baiken came out in strive she was super fun to play but i really couldn't help feeling that i don't like her current design! I wanted to do a cool print of her and thought the old design would be fun to draw. this didnt end up as involved of a piece as i hoped so i might try a more proper illustration at some point but have this draw of old school baiken with the new school boobs, lol

Scarlet Yoga (redraw)

I was reuploading my sketchbooks to itch after gumroad's whole ordeal and the book with this scarlet cover (2nd image) was getting the most attention. I remember really liking the idea for this cover but not being satisfied with how it ended up and decided to redraw it.

just a small thing to get the ball rolling for the month, hope you enjoy this lightheaded scarlet doing a stretch! haha

Posts will be resuming soon!

I'm about to leave for a quick trip to visit family out of state but I'll be resuming the regular content march 1st! I have a few drawings i've accumulated over the month that I can share with you all along with some comic updates.

Mostly though I've spent this month playing eastward, smash remix, and the new king of fighters! I had comic goals i wanted to hit by the end of the month and I DEFINITELY did not meet them lmao

anyways, see you all march 1st!

Pausing Patreon for February

hey everyone! just wanted to make a post here to officially say that I'm going to pause payment on patreon for february to take a short break. I'll be getting back into a lot more comics and also finishing up the Zelda pics when I return!

I had in my 2021 resolutions to complete one other comic that wasn't Red Muscle or Weekend With Yuka and that did not happen.... but I'm aiming to try to get some sort of one-shot for my character Yolli done this year, I've been writing a lot of notes ...

Bumpers - Karate Frankie

I've got a new comic for you all!

Mariel and I have this world I'm sure I've mentioned it here plenty of times before that I have this fictional city called Bumpers that I want all my characters with no supernatural elements to exist in, which primarily means Ami, Frankie, Yuka, and Ren. I've drawn some old comics with Ami and Frankie that I quickly was unhappy with and put them on the backburner while I started Red Muscle but I've started to feel that it would be ok for them to exist p...

Metroid Dread Samus + Sketches

I finished Metroid Dread just recently (I was playing it very off and on) and I've had an itch to draw a nice samus pic in her suit since I started. I wanted to make it really nice and make it a print but I couldn't figure out a composition that I felt deserved it. I colored that first one just to get it out of my system while it was still fresh, maybe I'll try something closer to what I imagined another time.

Just wanted to post this while it was hot, other stuff on the way!

Soul Calibur - Seong Mina and Xianghua

Hey guys! i finished up the last of my soul calibur stickers, here's Seong Mina and Xianghua. I wanted to get something out for you guys early in the month, and i'll be getting back to work on my bumpers comics too.

Not much else to share at the moment but I'm going to try to finish up the rest of my Zelda pics this month too hopefully. See you next month!

Makio, Hinatsuru, and Suma (Demon Slayer)

I've had this old picture from 2 years ago that I never finished but with the new season of Demon Slayer starting and having some canon colors for the ladies, I decided to finish it up for you all. I haven't been watching the show at all and finished the manga a good while ago so I don't really have the same attachment to these characters as before but I though it would be fun to see this through to the end.

More art coming soon!

A Weekend With Yuka Update

Hey everyone, December is going to be a busy month for me but I'm going to try my best to get some content up here for you all. I normally leave comic preview stuff for the $5 patrons but I figured this update relates to the Weekend With Yuka preview that's been on sale for a while so most people will have the context for this. In case you haven't read it, I've posted it on patreon in the past, you can download it here...

Soul Calibur - Sophitia and Talim

hey guys, last post of the month! I finished two more of my soul calibur ladies, only 2 more to go. The Sophitia might be my favorite of the whole set of 6 and I'm really happy with how she turned out.

Aiming to have some comics done to share with you for next month, see you next post!