Revisiting An Old Setting Me And My Brother Used To Talk About Sometimes; The Woods Are Full Of Grass

Revisiting an old setting me and my brother used to talk about sometimes; the woods are full of grass that'll eat you if you don't bring a lamp to scare it off.

Still have the old stuff on hand. I do still quite like the aesthetic going on in these to a degree; I was required to explain my piece for an event though and I didn't want to go into everything going on here.

This is Snivel; she's the result of a "make a One Piece character" forum thread. I was originally going to go for more of an out and out vampire look but I saw this one image of Peter Cushing's Van Helsing where he's making a cross out of some candleholders and decided to pivot in that direction.

She's an escaped slave by way of lucking into a devil fruit and on the way out she assaulted a celestial dragon who I've decided to call Saint Grape, draining all his blood and then flying to safety before passing out. This Grape guy unfortunately survived and called the marines on her but whichever one found her took the bold moral stance that the child-killing that would be on his hands would be bad so he pretended not to have seen her. It turns out Grape was, and remains, such a cataclysmic drinker that Snivel is still not sober over a decade after the fact, so she's turned to a life of coffee-centric piracy.

It was an interesting challenge trying to figure out how to do a bug Zoan since I couldn't find any examples; I think Oda avoids them because it's less intuitive to translate human expressions onto insect faces. What I decided to do is have the maxillary palps do that job, though of course I'm not quite slavishly honouring the anatomy of a real mosquito anyway.

Some art that looks cool I think. Belated happy easter.

A lot of redrawn/reimagined art

For an art prompt. We were allowed to submit redrawn versions of five pieces. New ones (all from this month) posted before old ones; all pen on paper coloured digitally.

Right is from 2021 using the free trial of my copy of Illustrator CS3 I'd been using since 2010 that I got after my computer died.

(Right from 2019 with the same copy of Illustrator but before my computer died; same applies for the next two)

(2015)

(2012)

(2011 (probably; other art in the same artbook looks like I was cribbing from the type of stuff I'd have seen around where I lived at the time), pencils)

Feel free to speculate on what caused those splotches in the bottom right corner.

pov ur a very big very fucked fly

(fig never does this in the story; distinct possibility it never even comes up)