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Here's your chance
to see where it all
began (and what's been changed)!
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A fairly detailed pencil sketch of Spice Ming, drawn while
still fleshing out the character. I don't know whether
or not Des's version of Spice smokes, since she hasn't drawn
her in any comic strips yet (that I know of, anyway). I
used to render detailed pencil sketches as a mid-point for
completing a picture. Technically, I drew the damn
picture three times. Once as a rough sketch, once as a
detailed pencil sketch, then finally as the colored version.
I have no idea why I did that. ~JMH |
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Now we arrive at the color version of the aforementioned
image. For some reason, I always imaged Spice wearing
sexy, tight-fitting clothing, usually in a dark green color.
I guess Des put her own interpretation of this into her
character redesign, since Spice now seems quite fond of
dominatrix wear and tight-fitting leather. I have no
idea if it's dark green, though.
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And now, Spice's total polar opposite, Sugar Ming.
Although they are twins, I thought it important to make them
quite different from one another, even when just doing the
pencil sketches. I always imagined Sugar as a fun-loving
individual who usually wears clothes that are comfortable, if
not necessarily the most stylish. ~JMH |
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Another color version of a pencil sketch, this time starring
Sugar. As you may notice, I was still working on my
blending techniques at the time this picture was colored.
The different colors don't quite seem to flow into one another
as smoothly as I can render them nowadays. The one thing
that always bugged me about this picture was the placement of
Sugar's tail. It's too low, and appears to be coming out
of her ass, instead of being attached above it. ~JMH |
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The only surviving color picture of Trigger Malone, it still
serves as a reminder that I still had a lot of work and
practice ahead of me if I wanted to get better. While
not necessarily bad, per se, I can say with absolute certainty
that Des's version of Trigger far surpasses my earlier
attempts. The colors are too grainy, too.
Thankfully, I eventually figured out how to get those damn
pencils to work in my favor! ~JMH |
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A very early concept picture, showing Viper with two sexy
vixens (who later became Dixie and Trixie Grant). The
building in the background is Viper's nightclub, and I think
it still has the same shape and design as my initial concept
drawings. I don't think it's located in the middle of a
friggin' field, though. I'm pretty sure Des saw fit to
change that. ~JMH |
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A full-color (if not exactly smoothly-rendered) drawing of
Viper, in his trademark Zoot suit. Desiree has made the
character noticeably taller than my earlier rendition. I
have no idea why I decided to put him in a Zoot suit. It
might be because I thought it'd be amusing to have the
waistline appear to be somewhere near the "normal" location
for a waist (the pants of a Zoot suit came up to the middle of
the chest. In this image, they still do, but since his
body is so long, it doesn't look out of place). ~JMH |
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Worthington the third, egotistical snob that he is, in all his
vain glory. At one point, he actually had a wife named
Regina (also a real bitch), but it was decided to leave his
marital status a mystery (as well as his sexual orientation).
I have no idea how this guy came into his money, whether it
was earned or handed down. Maybe it's best to leave that
to speculation as well, huh? ~JMH |
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An inked picture of the (now cancelled) lead human character,
Reed, and the love of his life, a 1968 Cadillac Calais.
Reed was, for all intents and purposes, me, just as his car
was mine as well. As a teenager, I owned a huge 1968
Caddy and spent every dollar on it, repairing whatever had to
be fixed on an almost-weekly basis. My friends all
thought I was off the deep end, talking to the car whenever I
couldn't fix something (just like in the old comic elsewhere
on this site). Fact was, I'd gone off the deep end years
earlier! ~JMH |
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This picture originally measured 11 inches by 17 inches, and
was intended to be turned into a transfer, and worn on the
back of a t-shirt. The address on the picture is totally
bogus, but the phone number spells out "cat cunt". As
you can see, I never got around to finishing the picture.
I think I was unhappy with the results of my coloring, and I
simply lost interest in the picture. I liked Sugar's
pose so much, I reused it in this image.. ~JMH |
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