Shadao's Art Gallery

Well, I wasn't happy with the quick ink sketch for the Pride Month, so I decided to make a proper Dorzma Artwork for the last day of June. Specifically, a remake of my first Dorzma art I ever did. Now with my personal versions of the characters.

This is the original from 2020:

"Someplace... Somewhere... AWAY FROM THESE HET'ROSEX'ALS!!" - Dorothy L. Gale (Yellow Brick Ramble).

Well, traditionally I would only do Dorzma artworks in the month of June. But Dorothy Gale from @yellowbrickramble has some of the funniest and most expressive faces I've ever seen that I had to do a fan animation to see it in action.

The animation was done in about a week or two on Procreate Dreams 2.

"It happened that, as I was watching some of the little people bathing in a shallow, one of them was seized with cramp and began drifting downstream. The main current ran rather swiftly, but not too strongly for even a moderate swimmer. It will give you an idea, therefore, of the strange deficiency in these creatures, when I tell you that none made the slightest attempt to rescue the weakly crying little thing which was drowning before their eyes. When I realised this, I hurriedly slipped off my clothes, and, wading in at a point lower down, I caught the poor mite and drew her safe to land."

Chapter VIII "Explanation", The Time Machine

Well, like with the Conan piece, this was also another digital illustration I did for Illustration class this year. And honestly, I've learned a lot about inking, lighting and model references in that class.

If you're wondering what I've been doing in April and May, this is why. This artwork I did for a Digital Illustration Class assignment.

The subject is Conan the Barbarian and the pirate lady Valeria looking at the ruined lost city known as Xuchotl, which is illuminated by the light of the moon.

Valeria's pose was based on a pose from @adorkastock complete with the swords.

Conan was based on a low-poly model lended to me by the teacher (as we had no big muscular figure for reference).

A fanart of @yellowbrickramble webcomic.

Well, CinemaCon showed Disney's Hexed and unfortunately changed the protagonist from a boy and his mother to a girl and her mother. It's rather a pity since we rarely get mother and son movies (The last one I remember was Elio, but that was a boy and his aunt rather than a mother for some reason).

With that said, the protagonist's smirky pose and magic seems to be a remnant of the original idea. Very tomboyish to say the least.

Well, it's the start of March and that means spring is around the corner. In the meantime, I decided to advance the next stage of whole Barbara Ivy AU side project. Whereas the past artworks were simply redrawing Barbara in screenshots as a plant person, this one is not based on any screenshots and instead have Barbara and Pamela Isley in new and original (or at least based on a pose I found on the Internet) poses.

It also gives me the chance to show the full body of Barbara Gordon for future references. Namely that her plant clothes are almost a symmetrical mirror to Poison Ivy, and while her plant straps are in the same limbs as Ivy, they're positioned differently to reflect Babs' wristband and Stephanie Brown's leg belt. Two peas in a pod.Now I still don't know what codename Barbara would take in this AU scenario. But I do know is that she will have to fight Poison Ivy at the beginning due to being more moral and sane. But in the end, the two would reconcile and rekindle their strained friendship (possibly blossoming into a romance). Whether it be Pam reforming or Babs turning to the dark side, I'm not entirely sure. They just look well together.

General Jinjur. A Munchkin woman who witnessed the Wizard's departure and Scarecrow's ascension to the throne, Jinjur feels that Emerald City has become weak and frail due to the Scarecrow's honest truths (such as Emerald City never really being made of emeralds) and lack of intimidation (since Scarecrow doesn't possess any magic on his own). Jinjur decides to take matters into her own hands and form a woman army known as the Army of Revolt to overthrow the Scarecrow and put women (namely Jinjur herself) in charge of Emerald City and Oz. Of course, this puts her in conflict with Tip, especially after Jinjur recruits Mombi into her ranks.

Glinda of Oz, based on L. Frank Baum's final Oz book cover of the same name. Featuring Princess Ozma, Princess Dorothy, and Glinda the Good Witch of the South. All in my designs on the characters (except Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, I didn't have time to add them).

UPDATE: Managed to get enough time to add Scarecrow and Tin Woodman. Plus fixing a few issues and adding colorful planets.

I mainly did this because I realized that I haven't done more with Glinda outside of the initial character design. I wanted to change that AND showcase just how tall she really is compared to everyone else.

The recently appointed General of the Nome Army: Guph. And the only reason he got the job is because that his hatred for the good and happy people outweighs any rational thought (which got his predecessors, well... discharged from service permanently). Through his hate, he was able to come up with a plan so bold and insane that even the Nome King doubted it would work.

An alliance with other wicked tribes neighboring their kingdom to form one huge army to overwhelm the forces of Oz. Yes, it is without a doubt that they could conquer the Land of Oz. But the tribes of Whimsies, Growleywogs, and Phanfasms hate each other as much as they hate Oz. And all were planning to backstab each other for dominance after conquering Oz. Guph is aware of this inherent treachery and plans to backstab them all by stealing the Magic Belt and then banishing them away to their home countries again so that only Nomes shall conquer Oz.

Kaliko: "Your majesty! What are we planning to do tonight?"

Roquat: "Same thing we do every night, Steward. Try to take over Oz!"

I couldn't resist. Kaliko is the Chief Steward for the Nome King. He theoretically acts like a grand vizier or advisor to the king. But in practice, he's just a glorified butler following orders, recording meetings, and cleaning up his majesty's mess. Occasionally, he does serve as a contrarian to the Nome King, but only because Nome King knows that Kaliko is a suck up at heart and can be easily cowed into submission. This is why he hasn't ordered his Chief Steward's execution despite executing other subjects for far less.

Still, Kaliko is a competent and reasonable Nome. Which is why he takes command of the Nome Kingdom whenever his majesty goes absence for a period of time.

It's November, and Wicked: For Good is out. Hmmm, I'm in an Oz mood right now, and you could easily call this month NOME-vember. Which, in that case, I'm gonna draw my own takes on the Nomes. Starting with their King, Roquat the Red.

Now, the Nome King is described to look like Santa Claus, even having a jolly and reasonable persona when Dorothy first met him. But that persona is merely an act, and we see that in spite of the Nome King's rationale and justifications, he's ultimately a selfish man-child of a king, claiming everything underground is his property and abusing his subjects when things don't go his way. Truly among the most loathsome kinds of rulers, and one with terrible tastes.

So imagine a Santa Claus who is rude, slobbish, and wears a tacky, red Elvis-stylized jumpsuit with a crown instead of anything truly noble. That is the Nome King in an eggshell nutshell. He also wears the Magic Belt around his waist, adorned with more jewels on the sides even though he only needs the big red ruby for his magical powers. Good thing the belt can accommodate anyone's size.

The Gump.

Or rather, the head of a Gump mounted on trophy wall. The Gump is described in L Frank Baum's Marvelous Land of Oz as being elk-like, complete with antlers and a long beard. Return to Oz made the Gump look more like a moose than an elk, but I find that a moose feels more appropriate for the Gump's personality.

The noble steed of Princess Ozma. A logging sawhorse brought to life by Tip (Ozma's alter-ego) with lifepowder, he takes the term horse to the literal conclusion. Outfitted with ear stakes, a tail stick, horseshoes made of gold, and a saddle, this Sawhorse is a tireless working engine that puts other horses to shame despite being so small and made of wood.

This character design proved to be the most tricky so far. Mainly because, unlike other interpretations of the Sawhorse such as Logan from Yellow Brick Ramble, this Sawhorse is a literal log on two pairs of sticks. Thus, he has no visible joints to make it easy to draw, let alone animate. Has to follow the rules of rubberhose animation. I have to admit, I'm not sure how much of the original sawhorse can you see, but I'm going to assume the magic of lifepowder made a few adjustments to the body proportions.