Dorothy/Joyce grinding blues, from the archives
Okay, I think I found the proper energy again! Or I'm at least once more approaching it instead of having veered off somewhere.
2026-01-05 03:15:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hrm, I dunno, I feel like refining this one has lost some of the energy I wanted. So I've just been staring at this thing for two days! Might need to go back to shapes. Need to refigure out the energy.
2026-01-04 20:27:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's more pencils! I'm going back to geometric shape basics here, over the exploratory pencils, to help make sure the anatomy and perspective is working underneath it all.
2026-01-01 17:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post
What? MORE? Sure. Let's keep going into 2026 or whatever.
Remember when Dorothy started confronting her bisexuality and pratfalled into Amber/Dina's room, getting a worms-eye view of Amazi-Girl lifting weights? Well, I guess I'll be drawing a nicer version of that. It'll be filed under the "not technically naked" category, and it's probably going to be tame enough to be posted anywhere else without adult content warnings, really, but it's nice to have variety, right? Sure.
Not-so simple shading? There's no airbrushing, but the shadowing is a bit more involved than usual.
When I repurposed this artwork for the "Friend of Dorothy" Slipshine comic, I completely reinked it and reshadowed it and... well, put it in a dimly-lit room! So the other path in this forked road is actually pretty different!
also, less spittle in the slipshine version
sometimes you find yourself flipping through your archives looking for something to canonize
ANY...
2025-12-31 15:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post
And here's color fills and colored lines!
And the glasses lenses on a separate layer, for transparency.
(and also the glasses rims, not that you can tell here -- sometimes it's just easier to draw them on a separate layer so you can fix or move them around with better precision and without having to erase/redraw hair and eyes all the time)
2025-12-30 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Whoops, covered up a bit of the other arm with Dorothy's grasping right hand! It's fine. It's fine.
Inks! But you knew that.
2025-12-29 15:00:20 +0000 UTC View Post
THERE we are, now it's starting to take shape. And some of you, at this point, probably recognize it as some artwork I repurposed for their Slipshine comic! (or maybe some of you did a few days ago, with just the joyce as the clue, who knows, i wrote this two weeks ago)
anyway, i figured out the dorothy positioning so that we don't lose too much joyce anatomy
i did cover up an arm, and i do love to draw arms, but ah well
kill your darlings, sometimes
2025-12-28 15:00:32 +0000 UTC View Post
okay, joyce pencils were good, but all right we gotta shove a dorothy in there somewhere, and i like the anatomy pretty strongly, so it's gotta be a somehow not-too-obscuringy dorothy
so i take the pencils, shrink and move 'em around, add a dorothy and some grinding
a step in the correct direction, bit of a dead end ultimately, but thought i'd show you this false middle anyway
2025-12-27 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Yep, just some fuckin'! Of some kind! Starring Joyce? WEIRD. well, pencils are kinda loose, but i'm sure we'll get somewhere
2025-12-26 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Joy to the world! Etc etc! Here's your full airbrushed rendering of Santa Sal! I showed it to my wife before uploading all these last week, and she said it was good, and she has good taste, so. Anyway, eat some sugar cookies or go get some fried rice, either or.
Tomorrow, some other stuff! Not-Christmas stuff. it's probably joyce and dorothy, i have a lot of that in backlog, joyce and dorothy are a good bet
2025-12-25 15:00:27 +0000 UTC View Post
It's Christmas Eve! Mary's immaculately-conceived water has probably broken. It's 4BC! Things are probably not going great for her. i mean she's probably wondering why they call it 4BC
and then it's explained to her and she looks up and is like... but... okay... am i giving birth to this kid for the next four years???? and they're like no no no no no no, someone in the future is just bad at math
anyway, tiddy
2025-12-24 15:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
You gotta add those green stripes or it gives more barber shop than candy cane, i find
barber shop underwear means something entirely different
2025-12-23 15:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
on the third day of christmas, my true love gave to me
tracing over pencils with darker lines
2025-12-22 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
can i learn how to better render crotches??? let's find out
anyway yeah this sal now has a santa hat, vest, and some candy-cane-stripe underwear, all vintage santa outfit things, probably
2025-12-21 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
It's that time again! We're celebrating the birth of the Baby Jesus, the Son of God, Emmanuel, by drawing half-naked people dressed up like an old man. As you do! It makes sense, right? It's got to make sense.
And so, for the... counts files six days of Christmas!...we'll see the progress on this Santa Sal. And after that, something else!
2025-12-20 15:02:07 +0000 UTC View Post
That's right, have some animation! I originally animated this quite a bit back, but this week I refurbished it a little to be more on-current-model. Joyce's nose is broader, made the hair a little more dynamic, that sort of thing.
There was a long while until now that I was sitting on this animation on my hard drive, and wondering if I could, you know, easily reskin it as Dina and Becky, just to get something publicly consumable out of it. But 1) probably not very easy, no, it'd actu...
2025-11-30 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post