Arsenic Lullaby- Progress pics of Green Arrow and Baron Von Donut commission

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I get all manner of strange commission request, but sometimes the strangest are simple requests for putting an Arsenic Lullaby character alongside some actual super hero. This recent one was a request for Baron Von Donut and The Green Arrow...

I trust I don't have to tell you which is which...

The version of the Green Arrow he wanted was specifically from the comic books, not the TV version. I don't know a hell of a lot about the Green Arrow, either version. I have always been intrigued be him, though. He is published by DC Comics, who also does Batman, Super Man, Wonder Woman, ect ect. As a kid I always found most of their characters boring, except for Green Arrow and Hawkwoman. They both seemeed interesting, but not enough for me to buy their books instead of the Avengers.

As for Baron Von Donut...he's a magical 6ft talking donut that is a mascot for the Keesler food corporation...

You can find out more about the good Baron at this link here-
https://www.arseniclullabies.com/PREVIEWCAST2.html

SO...how to combine the two? I figured as long as the notion of them teaming up is bizarre and absurd, I go with a golden age of comics type scene. I did one standard heroic pose, and one wild action scene.

I'm pleasantly surprised that side by side they do sorta look like a formidable team. And I'm glad I didn't have to be the one to pick between the two choices. He picked the action scene and off I went...

First the finished pencils...

Then I usually start inking lines that don''t have to be surgically precise...bricks for example. And depending on how the brush is behaving I'll do either short straight lines or short curved lines. Some days the brush wants to curve and some days it's happy staying straight. On this day it was happy to do either...

after I get some inking done and am warmed up, I'll try more difficult lines and lines that have to be just right. Baron Von Donut himself is a hit or miss situation. It's just two circles, you either get it right or you swear a lot and white out and try again. In this scene he's coming to the forefront so I could make those lines nice and thick...which makes it much less stressful.

By this point things were going well and I was confident in just inking away without much fear...

Usually, and this may be a bad habit, I leave the lines that worry me the most until the end. What will worry me on one illustration is different each time. Some days the details seem tough, other days the long straight lines seem impossible, some days the eyes and small circle give me cold sweats. The feathers and arrow tips were freaking me out for some reason...even though I've inked feathers on Arsenic Lullaby's main character Voodoo Joe hundreds of times. I dunno, some days the easy things seem hard, y'know?

Turned out pretty okay, I'd say.

...back next time with more work in progress and maybe complaining!

Later.

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