Another commission for
TrickyMario7654
This one was rather tough. I couldn't find a lot of good refs for Simpsons characters underwater in the kinds of poses he wanted and ended up needing to use another guy on DA as a reference point. https://www.deviantart.com/underwatertoons appears to have completely abandoned his DA page in 2013, but I still could not have done this without his many underwater drawings to give me an idea of what I was doing, so credit where credit is due.
Story? I guess the witch who's been harassing the girls isn't through with them yet. She has decided to teleport them to some lake outside Springfield, where they are now developing a taste for wood. Or at least one of them is, anyway. Janey certainly seems to be completely done with this shit, herself. I don't know what this witch's problem is, but she's certainly making life difficult for people.
I'm . . . not thrilled with this one. There were so many characters in so many complex poses and in settings I've never drawn before, so it was a huge struggle to get things to come out in a way that at least satisfied the customer, if not myself. Some of it is just doing things the way the commissioner requested. The girls underwater should have a color filter over them to make them seem like they're actually underwater, but the commissioner wanted them drawn with their colors from the show. Some of it was just poor planning on my part. The plan to have the characters falling into the water was always there from the start, but I forgot to draw the characters in the first frame with their hair behaving according to rules of wind resistance, resulting in them looking like they were floating rather than falling. Adding teleport poofs was just sort of a quick way to fix it without having to redraw them, which I just did not have it in me to do because I'd already spent so much time on this sequence and a lot of it was frustrating me.
A lot of my frustrations come out of me just deciding to wing it. There were so many figures that I decided to skip planning and just start drawing the figures. While that works when it's one or two characters just standing around doing their thing - or having a thing done to them - that's fine, but with six figures in a sequence, where there's a specific chain of events requested . . . no, I should have planned that out more than any of the other pics I've done for this guy.
Hindsight. It bites hard.
So, there's plenty about this that I'm not happy with. But I guess as long as the person paying me is happy, that's the important part.
That said, I am going to put a hard limit on the number of figures I can be asked to draw in a single commission. I am not good enough to do justice to pics with this many characters in it.
TrickyMario7654This one was rather tough. I couldn't find a lot of good refs for Simpsons characters underwater in the kinds of poses he wanted and ended up needing to use another guy on DA as a reference point. https://www.deviantart.com/underwatertoons appears to have completely abandoned his DA page in 2013, but I still could not have done this without his many underwater drawings to give me an idea of what I was doing, so credit where credit is due.
Story? I guess the witch who's been harassing the girls isn't through with them yet. She has decided to teleport them to some lake outside Springfield, where they are now developing a taste for wood. Or at least one of them is, anyway. Janey certainly seems to be completely done with this shit, herself. I don't know what this witch's problem is, but she's certainly making life difficult for people.
I'm . . . not thrilled with this one. There were so many characters in so many complex poses and in settings I've never drawn before, so it was a huge struggle to get things to come out in a way that at least satisfied the customer, if not myself. Some of it is just doing things the way the commissioner requested. The girls underwater should have a color filter over them to make them seem like they're actually underwater, but the commissioner wanted them drawn with their colors from the show. Some of it was just poor planning on my part. The plan to have the characters falling into the water was always there from the start, but I forgot to draw the characters in the first frame with their hair behaving according to rules of wind resistance, resulting in them looking like they were floating rather than falling. Adding teleport poofs was just sort of a quick way to fix it without having to redraw them, which I just did not have it in me to do because I'd already spent so much time on this sequence and a lot of it was frustrating me.
A lot of my frustrations come out of me just deciding to wing it. There were so many figures that I decided to skip planning and just start drawing the figures. While that works when it's one or two characters just standing around doing their thing - or having a thing done to them - that's fine, but with six figures in a sequence, where there's a specific chain of events requested . . . no, I should have planned that out more than any of the other pics I've done for this guy.
Hindsight. It bites hard.
So, there's plenty about this that I'm not happy with. But I guess as long as the person paying me is happy, that's the important part.
That said, I am going to put a hard limit on the number of figures I can be asked to draw in a single commission. I am not good enough to do justice to pics with this many characters in it.
Category All / Transformation
Species Beaver
Size 1280 x 1164px
File Size 909.9 kB
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