this unit loves grease

Belated but not forgotten, here’s my full Lunar New Year illustration, another piece in the “Maiden of- ” series that’s become a little tradition of mine.

my Patrons received the HD no-watermark version and a step-by-step process page with all the main stages of the illustration!

18 July 1916.

Blood on my hands. Blood on my hands. Blood on my hands.

i saw people drawing spaceships out of mundane objects like shampoo bottles, and i wanted to do something like that too, but none of the objects were speaking to me. i realised i had no idea what i was doing, so i went to do something else for a year, not really thinking about it and hoping for the best. last week i thought about this whole idea again, and it suddenly struck me:

a clothespin.

as a kid i spent some time obsessing over plastic clothespins with rings. i thought they looked like planes or weird skyscrapers when put on top of each other. i was throwing them out of our fifth floor kitchen window to see if they could fly. the only thing flying there was my mother’s disappointment in my behaviour, but that didn’t matter.

so with the idea of a giant space station shaped like a clothespin, i went into the process. here’s how that worked out:

and here’s some more process:

can you tell which one I used reference for finally😹

wow a proper comic commission! my favourite

commissioned by @greetingsadventurer and based on their writing