BS art thread

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(Sneak peek of my art there; due to the large number of images, all the other pictures shall be behind a link instead of being embedded on the page)

So. Hiya people! This is my first post here. I'm a random lurker who loves to draw, and recently I got inspired to draw Futurama fan art. I don't think I'll be posting much on the forum in the future, but I thought you guys might get a kick out of my Futurama stuff.

I drew my first Futurama fan art pics a few months ago this spring. These early pieces were good practice to learn how to draw the characters, and you always learn best through trial and error. Translation: I was unexperienced and the following pictures suck so badly that I hate looking at them. Characters are off-model and their anatomy is funky.
I'm posting these pictures for the sake of completion, so that all my Futurama fan art is in one place, and because I still like the concept behind some of the pictures.

These pictures were practice to draw different characters:
Bender is pissed.
Leela and Fry.
Bender and Fry watching TV.
Bender & Fry being immature about something.
Fry draws a comic.
Fry playing his holophonor.
Kif and Amy.
Group pic in a random, different style.
Another group pic.

I love cute animals, so I drew a few Seymour and Leelu pieces:
Walking on sunshine.
Fry hugs Seymour.
Boring Seymour pic.
Leelu.
Leelu and Fry.

"Space Pilot 3000" inspired me to draw a bunch of pieces. Season One DVD includes the early draft and animatic of the episode, and they have a lot of deleted scenes/lines. Many of them were funny, but I guess they had to be cut due to the time constraints of an episode. Anyway, I wanted to draw some of those scenes into happening.
Leela chasing Fry with her career chip gun.
Leela and Fry at head museum.
Deleted scene 1: Instead of Terry, Leela's the first person that Fry meets in the future.
Deleted scene 2: Fry and Leela talk about Leela's eye.
Deleted scene 3: Fry walks past some vending machines.
Deleted scene 4: Fry finds broken sunglasses in the career chip envelope.

More deleted scenes, but this time based on the early script that's included on the "Bender's big score" DVD :
Panucci gives Fry a pep-talk.
Lars has a discussion with Fry.

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That concludes the "old crappy stuff" exhibition. These next pictures are more recent, drawn in May and June. They are posted here in no particular order.

P.E. crew form a human pyramid. Why? Because I like drawing complex pictures full of characters interacting with each other.

More Seymour and Leelu.

Some mutants in the sewers.

The most action-filled team-up of all times!

What if Futurama was a Disney cartoon?

Bigger version of that Disney pic.

Robosexuality. I'm not a Bender/Fry shipper though, and this was drawn tongue-in-cheek. Robosexual slash creeps me out.

Character doodles.

Whale biologists.
Seriously though, I love the whale biologist character who appears in that one episode. I like his attitude, and his barely controlled irritation towards large marine mammals. And the way the police react when they realize he's a whale biologist. Man, I wanna be a whale biologist too, if it means that police will give me respect like that and I can get away with a bad attitude. - But anyway. The nameless whale biologist guy is a lot of fun and I hope to see more of him in future Futurama episodes.

"Then what?" "Nothing".

Fanservice for the boys in the audience:

Fry & Amy. Based on a screenshot in "Amazon Women in the Mood". Kif has a photo of Fry and Amy but it's too small to make out the details. It's a fun pic and I wanted to redraw it. This was traced from screenshot to get the poses right.

Leela & Nibbler. It's after the Coppertone dog picture.

And fanservice for the girls.

Fry family portrait.

Escaping from robot hell. If you compare this to screenshots you'll notice it doesn't happen like that, but I'm taking artistic liberties here.

Snowy day. Seeing how it's the middle of the summer now, this picture's not very appropriate at the moment.

Summer fun. That's more like it. (Apparently everyone else except Scruffy is here. Scruffy's missing because I had no ideas what to draw him doing and not enough room to draw him in.)

And this was inspired by the news of Futurama returning in 2010.

That's all for now. I have some more fan artsy things and plans, but I'll see what to do with them.

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Holy crap! That's a lot of stuff!
Great work!

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Holy crap! That's a lot of stuff!
Great work!

Second!

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wow, those are fantastic!

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wow, those are fantastic!

QFT.  Do you have a dA Account that I could stalk watch you at? 

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Excellent work, brainslugged! I particularly like the Fry/Leela stuff (being the shameless shipper that I am), but all your art is impressive (those deleted scenes were nicely done, and a great idea on your part). I hope your future plans include posting more of your work here; you're clearly a talented dude and/or dude-ette.

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Those are great! I wish I could draw like that. I still need to stare at the pictures of the characters to get them sometimes. I need practice.

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Neat! *click*

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You get x.Bianca.x's swick rating of approval

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Thanks for your comments, everyone

QFT.  Do you have a dA Account that I could stalk watch you at? 

I used to have one. But for reasons too long to explain, I eventually left dA and deleted my pics from there. Since then I've been looking for a better art gallery site, so that I could post my art somewhere, but haven't found one. So nowadays I mainly post my art fairly privately, for a limited number of online friends.

Excellent work, brainslugged! I particularly like the Fry/Leela stuff (being the shameless shipper that I am), but all your art is impressive (those deleted scenes were nicely done, and a great idea on your part). I hope your future plans include posting more of your work here; you're clearly a talented dude and/or dude-ette.

Thank you for the compliments I'm a shameless shipper as well; I enjoy Fry/Leela stuff in episodes, fan art and fanfics.

I do have plans for more Futurama stuff; I've got this big Futurama project I'm currently doing. Originally I was planning that when the project is finished, I'll be posting it to those selected online friends. But then I wondered if people in the Futurama fandom would be more interested in seeing it. So I posted this entry to test the waters and see if I'd feel comfortable posting my art here.

(And whoa, I got comments from a few people who've written awesome fanfics and I can't help but let out a fangirly "squee"!  )

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That's awesome! Amy's nose needs fixing but Seymour and Leelu and the mutants were great!
Also, you can't squee. Sorry.

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Very nice work. Welcome to PEEL.

(Hmm, I can't really abbreviate your nick, can I...? )

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QFT.  Do you have a dA Account that I could stalk watch you at? 

I used to have one. But for reasons too long to explain, I eventually left dA and deleted my pics from there. Since then I've been looking for a better art gallery site, so that I could post my art somewhere, but haven't found one. So nowadays I mainly post my art fairly privately, for a limited number of online friends.

Ah.  Well, then, thank you for deciding to share your art here.

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Also, you can't squee. Sorry.

Why can't I? o: *curious*

(Hmm, I can't really abbreviate your nick, can I...? :) )

LOL! I didn't even realize what abbreviation this username would make until I'd already registered it. If you feel lazy about typing the full name and if you want to call me BS, it's totally okay for me :p I'm not uptight about things like that. Besides, this nick asks for it.

Here's a little art update;
Robot devil practice.
Short comic. Takes place soon after that first Xmas episode.

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Awesome pictures!  My favorite was the doodles!  Really great!  Send them to Futurama Madhouse!  Oh, and BTW, brainslug, do you do any picture requests by any chance? 

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heh, heh.  Nice little comic.  Such a Fry thing to do...

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Great stuff!

Leela & Nibbler. It's after the Coppertone dog picture.

Perhaps you could do a version of this picture with Leela:

http://imagebank.ipcmedia.com/imageBank/t/Tennis%20Girl%20450.jpg

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That comic was great, uh, BS. Very...professional-looking, for lack of a better term. Seriously, art-wise it's a lot better than the majority of Futurama comics produced by Bongo. Keep up the excellent (and predominantly shippy ) work.

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Thanks for your feedback again!

Awesome pictures!  My favorite was the doodles!  Really great!  Send them to Futurama Madhouse!

 

Nah, I don't like crossposting, I prefer to keep my stuff in one place. Before posting these pics I spent a while pondering whether to post it on TLZ, or its forums, or Peelified. Eventually I decided to pick Peelified and I'll stick with it

Oh, and BTW, brainslug, do you do any picture requests by any chance? 

I don't do requests, but I don't mind people suggesting what kind of stuff they'd want to see from me. Usually when people give me suggestions on picture ideas, I don't draw it. But occasionally other people's comments give me inspiration to draw something; someone's comment plants a nice picture idea into my head, and I feel restless until I've drawn it into a finished piece.

Anyway, I don't promise to draw anything that's suggested or requested. Artists are not art machines, after all; it takes some time and effort to draw. But I'll listen to the wishes of what sort of stuff you'd like to see.

(And I should've named this "BS art thread". I like the ring of that Is it possible to edit thread titles after posting an entry?)

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(And I should've named this "BS art thread". I like the ring of that Is it possible to edit thread titles after posting an entry?)

You can edit your first post maybe.
I'd prefer it to be Brainsluggeds Art Thread.

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That's a lot of fan art, nice work.

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You're registered since 2001 and you only have 197 posts?

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I understand not wanting to do requests, that's cool.  Although I would like to see a Planet Express slumber party picture.   No big deal, really. 

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KurtPikachu: slumber party pic could give me an opportunity to draw another pic of lots of characters interacting with one another, which I find challenging and fun to draw, so it's not a bad idea

And here's some more art. Two animated ones, also.

http://i933.photobucket.com/albums/ad179/brainslugged/futurama/fryhead.gif
That wasn't originally supposed to be one of those head rotate animations, but it kinda turned into one in the middle of doing it. That's why it's not doing a perfect circle around; I had different intentions at the beginning and didn't originally plan to make it loop.

http://i933.photobucket.com/albums/ad179/brainslugged/futurama/bendercheeseit.gif

http://i933.photobucket.com/albums/ad179/brainslugged/futurama/blueflashlight.jpg
Fry as a superhero called "Blue Flashlight" from purplefish's fanfic "The sapphire delivery boy". Purplefish used to do some awesome fanfics; exciting and funny, in-character, some Fry/Leela shippyness but it was done really well and didn't go over-the-top like in many other fanfics.
I don't know if purplefish is still around in the fandom, but I've been wanting to draw something based on their fanfics.
The costume here is based on a picture that Kriebs drew once.

http://i933.photobucket.com/albums/ad179/brainslugged/futurama/leelapic.jpg

http://i933.photobucket.com/albums/ad179/brainslugged/futurama/lrrr.jpg

http://i933.photobucket.com/albums/ad179/brainslugged/futurama/spider.jpg
Somewhat inspired by the latest Futurama comic, in which Fry's got a fear of spiders. And I wanted to try drawing the Fighting Mongooses Universe Fry and Leela.

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Ha, that last Fry and Leela one is cute.

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And here's some more art. Two animated ones, also.

http://i933.photobucket.com/albums/ad179/brainslugged/futurama/fryhead.gif
That wasn't originally supposed to be one of those head rotate animations, but it kinda turned into one in the middle of doing it. That's why it's not doing a perfect circle around; I had different intentions at the beginning and didn't originally plan to make it loop.

Objects that are spinning tend to remain spinning. /commentary reference

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Excellent work as always, BS. I particularly like the Bender animation (his frantic flailing escape, it amuses me) and that Lrrr drawing (there's not enough Lrrr fan-art around, I say). (Plus, y'know, I love the parallel Fry/Leela picture...but, from me, that goes without saying.)

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Wow some Futurama art that actually looks like Futurama! I was getting so used to only seeing Coldangel's manga that I forgot what Matt Groening actually drew!

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Look, I'm sorry okay!

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You're very good. It looks about 96% completely accurate to real Futurama drawings.

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Here's a pretty big art update.

I mentioned in some early post of mine that I've got a Futurama project that I'm trying to finish.

In the art circles of the internet, there's this "100 picture challenge" meme that's been around for years. The challenge is a list that includes 100 words, themes or phrases (for example: "Sorrow", "Happiness", "Break Away", "Deep In Thought"). An artist that decides to do the challenge has to draw a picture of each 100 items on the list.

I heard the images of the challenge don't have to be of a unified theme/fandom. But so far I've seen most people selecting a fandom and drawing all their pics with characters of that fandom. So I ended up choosing Futurama.

The common way to do this challenge is announce you're gonna do it, and then post your drawings online one by one as you're advancing with the meme and finishing pics. My original plan was that I'll finish drawing all the pics first, and only after that post all of them in one big batch. But I changed my mind. I'm about halfway done with it, but in case the last half will take longer than the first half (as it seems at the moment), I'll post the first half already.

Some pictures you've already seen, and some pics that I'm doing for the challenge are kinda like rehashed "special edition" versions of older pics. Also, the pictures are done in completely random order. Some pics are newer and some are older, so the art quality varies between different pics.


1. Introduction
2. Love
3. Light
4. Dark
5. Seeking Solace
6. Break Away
7. Heaven
8. Innocence
9. Drive
10. Breathe Again
11. Memory
12. Insanity
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Questioning
17. Blood
18. Rainbow
19. Gray
20. Fortitude
21. Vacation
22. Mother Nature
23. Cat
24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Tears
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Under the Rain
31. Flowers
32. Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold My Hand
36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes
38. Abandoned
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still
43. Dying
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family
47. Creation
48. Childhood
49. Stripes
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Sport
52. Deep in Thought
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Tower
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale
62. Magic
63. Do Not Disturb
64. Multitasking
65. Horror
66. Traps
67. Playing the Melody
68. Hero
69. Annoyance
70. 67%
71. Obsession
72. Mischief Managed
73. I Can't
74. Are You Challenging Me?
75. Mirror
76. Broken Pieces
77. Test
78. Drink
79. Starvation
80. Words
81. Pen and Paper
82. Can You Hear Me?
83. Heal
84. Out Cold
85. Spiral
86. Seeing Red
87. Food
88. Pain
89. Through the Fire
90. Triangle
91. Drowning
92. All That I Have
93. Give Up
94. Last Hope
95. Advertisement
96. In the Storm
97. Safety First
98. Puzzle
99. Solitude
100. Relaxation

Extra pic:
some details here.


Most of the pictures are pretty self-explanatory, but I've got a little commentary on some of the pics. I'm using spoiler tags in order to keep this post shorter.

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1. Introduction:
I wanted to draw myself in Futurama style just for fun. And it makes a good pic for the "introduction" theme, as the first image of this series.

5. Seeking Solace:
As far as I know, Fry has never asked who the heck Scruffy is (though Scruffy referred to Fry as "somebody called Fry" in "Devil's hands"). In "Luck of the Fryrish", Fry says "not even Scruffy" in a way that implies that he trusts Scruffy with all of his most precious secrets. In "Beast with a Billion Backs", Fry has Scruffy's cell AND home number on his speed dial. Because of all this, I like to think that Fry knows this mysterious character much better than anyone else.

My goal with the 100 pics challenge is to turn all the annoyingly emo image prompts into something silly and non-emo. With this pic, I failed that goal. I wanted to draw Fry telling about the message in the stars ("Time Keeps on Slipping") and discussing his feelings about Leela's rejection. I wanted him to tell about the love note to _someone_, instead of keeping it as his own knowledge. So I decided to have Scruffy be the trusted person here.

Scruffy's dialogue also kinda refers to the next episode after that ("I Dated a Robot").

7. Heaven:
Tentacle rape in Futurama? BWABB squicked me out.

10. Breathe Again:
This picture is the reason I'm doing the "100 picture challenge".

Years ago, I had been thinking of doing the challenge. I was reading the image prompts and thinking up image ideas. Then I got to this and thought "wtf is this supposed to mean? Breathe again? Whaaat??". The image prompt was so abstract and weird that it seriously pissed me off, and I dropped all my plans of doing the challenge.

Then a lot later, in May 2009, I re-read the rules of the challenge and the image prompts. Just for amusement. But this time, when I got to "Breathe Again", I was like "hey, this could fit with that scene in the episode Love And Rocket!". Then I thought up Futurama-related picture ideas for all the other image prompts, got more and more excited like "I can do this!", and eventually I decided I wanted to do this challenge.

13. Misfortune:
The look and proportions of the Planet Express ship are totally messed up. It's a big ship, but I needed it not to take too much drawing canvas space. Also, the windshield and people behind it had to be visible enough. So I distorted the ship's proportions on purpose, to make it smaller and more cartoony.

22. Mother Nature:
Bender's got a violent, criminal, alcoholic side, but he's also got a soft wussy side in him. The turtle, his enthusiasm with cooking, the way he turns into an emotional wreck every time there's problems between him and Fry. Like "I, roommate", "Jurassic Bark", "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz", "Deep South" and "Beast with a Billion Backs" (likewise, Fry also gets upset in these situations; for example in "The Honking" and "Godfellas"). Then there's a certain kind of feminine side too:
-stuff Bender did during his romances with Planet Express ship and Calculon may or may not have turned him a bit more fembot-like and girly ("like a cuddly baby tapir")
-Gender-Bender
-and hookers, don't forget hookers!

27. Foreign:
The alien language is surprisingly easy to learn. It took me about a week to teach myself to read and write it. The text there is written with a font I downloaded; it's quicker and easier that way, and more simple to check the typos. But I'm proud to say I could've written that stuff without the font or any help :P

The speech bubbles contain two scifi references; Hitch-hiker's Guide and Farscape.

28. Sorrow:
My opinion is that deep down, Lrrr is a big softie. Look at the ending of "Spanish Fry" and the poker scene in "Into the Wild Green Yonder".

Also, like I mentioned: whenever the challenge gave me an image prompt that sounded too emo, I aimed to turn it into mockery and silliness. Drawing straight-forward angst/romance/feelingy stuff is too simple and too boo-hoo. It was more challenging to try to come up with something silly for these image prompts. Plus, I like jokes, humor and funniness.

29. Happiness:
If you've been paying attention, you may have noticed that I'm a dog person and I really love Seymour. And I'm happy that my fav character is a dog person, too.

50. Breaking The Rules:
"Space Pilot 3000" early script, storyboard and animatic had a huge bunch of neat stuff that didn't make it into the movie. Check out the DVD extras on Season One. One of the most intriguing little left-out jokes was that apparently professor Farnsworth is also a job deserter. He was supposed to be a jai-alai player; not a scientist/professor.

61. Fairy Tale:
Old Amy with her amphibian kids. And Kif's in the picture too. I was struggling so much to make Kif look okay here.

The "glorcxz" is my own invention, it's not a reference to anything; just updating the story of Little Red Riding Hood to be more "scifi".

67. Playing The Melody:
The cool thing about places where Fry lives is that I get to draw lots of food leftovers, dirty clothes, and other crap just lying around everywhere and it's disgusting but fun to draw. [Morgan]Dirty boy![/Morgan]

79. Starvation:
On my sketching notebook, I've got multiple picture ideas for some image prompts. Sometimes I had an idea but then didn't like it enough, and thought of another to replace it. Usually I sketched up multiple alternative pics because my original idea strayed too far away from image prompt, or I thought my joke pic was too unfunny, or the image was too emo. This one had originally a thin Seymour about to starve to death. But then I decided it was too emo and I needed to take the emo-ness away. Eventually I realized I had no brainslugs in any other pictures, so that's what the pic then came to be.

94. Last Hope:
That stuff should probably read in Alien Alphabet #2, but I chose English for your convenience.

98. Puzzle:
Reference to something that was mentioned in "Cryonic woman".

Most of the other pics that I've posted in this thread are just a side-effect of this 100 picture challenge. I intended to draw only the challenge pics, but I got more and more unrelated Futurama image ideas in my head, and wanted to draw them. So all the pics before this post have been just a distraction that's taken my time when I've been supposed to be drawing this challenge.

I dunno if I'll be able to finish the other half of this challenge, usually I lose my interest/patience when I'm doing big art projects, and leave them unfinished. I've sketched most of the pics and know what to draw, but I need some patience to finish the pics.

Btw. There's some image prompts that I have trouble getting image ideas for:

66. Traps
71. Obsession
73. I Can't
82. Can You Hear Me?

I still don't know what to draw for these. I'd appreciate it if you guys have any suggestions on what kinds of pics I could draw for those prompts. Also, I'd prefer picture ideas that don't feature Fry, Leela or Bender; there's more than enough (finished and unfinished) pics of that trio and I'd want to draw some different characters.

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Kifs obsession with amy perhaps? How he has pictures of her all over his room.

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82 - Something to do with farnsworth having trouble hearing someone yelling to him.

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82: How about Fry trying to reach Leela while she's in her coma?

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Excellent work, BS. While I was looking through all those pictures, I actually did notice that you used a lot of secondary/peripheral characters (Scruffy, the Omicronians, Morris and Munda); I agree that it turned a lot of the more overtly melodramatic prompts into humorous ones. Very creative. And I love your style: it's so distinctive that, to me, it doesn't matter if the characters appear to be on- or off-model (for example, Fry, Lars, and Leela in #74 don't look like Rough Draft's version of the characters, but they're still instantly recognizable and just sort of fun). I hope you complete the 100 picture challenge, because what you have so far is really great.

As for suggestions: for some reason, "Traps" conjures an image of Zoidberg stuck in, like, an owl trap or something. Or that huge ant from TBWaBB who was caged with the promise of sugar syrup...

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Very excellent work.  Love the different styles, and you have a knack for drawing characters as they interact in a lively scene.  Thank you for sharing your lovely talents brainslugged.

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Love all your pictures!  Hope you can do some more! 

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You have made my jaw hypothetically drop. You sir, are a grand artist! *sniff* You are an inspiration... and ya make it look so damn easy to add a billion characters to one picture.

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BS, that...is definitely some impressive work. If you aren't considering animation or cartooning as a career (even a part-time one), I seriously suggest you give it another thought. To be able to draw that well, and utitilise that many different styles is a rare talent.

I can't wait to see how the rest of the 100 pan out!

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Also, you can't squee. Sorry.

Why can't I? o: *curious*


By definition 'squee' is a squeal of delight from a fangirl.  When the x/y carrier of the species reacts similarly, it's called a belch or a fart usually followed by an action such as a high-five or sticking the lone index finger heavenward--no not that finger.