#frog!

READY TO ROCK - FROG ATTACK!

dendrobates tinctorius if it got lisa franked (monthly frog #2)

Lucy gets her own page because she was… so difficult to draw. I had no idea what colours to draw her with. I still don’t know what I’m doing with her.

Someone PLEASE ask me about Lucy, I love talking about Lucy.

Design notes:

• When drawing her webbed hands and feet, I considered making them look like cormorant feet, but I decided against that. I based them off Panamanian golden frogs instead, because I couldn’t resist. They’re magnificent. Look at these little guys:

• They’re lovely and sunny and have no eardrums, so they communicate with a form of frog sign language! They wave at each other! • I generally attempted to make Lucy look vaguely frog-like. • I thought it would be fitting for Lucy to look bright and sunny, since Lucifer is known to be the light-bringer; I also heard it said that Lucifer was the ‘brightest angel’. No idea where I heard that one, but I’ll take it. • Lucy gets a staff- I will admit that I have disappointingly little knowledge in weaponry so I wouldn’t have the faintest clue as to what type of staff it is and whatnot. While reading the book, I was absolutely convinced that Lucy’s parasol was a means of hiding a secret weapon of some sort, and the most convenient weapon would be a staff. I had high expectations of a flashy anime scene where Lucy converts her parasol into a tool to more effectively beat someone up. This does not happen but Findley can pry my dreams of cool anime scenes from my cold, dead hands. • I can see ‘Not Wanted on the Voyage’ Lucifer being the brightest angel, but as in being the most intelligent angel, not one that is particularly powerful. I don’t get the sense that she’s a combat specialist like her brother Michael, and we never hear of her miracles being considered impressive by angel standards. And I like that- the idea of Lucy being a threat simply due to being clever and tricky. (Lucy herself seems pretty confident in her own ability to be resourceful and wriggle her way out of situations: “I’ll make it up as I go along” seems to be her general motto. She strikes me as the type of person who waits until the very last minute to start working on a school project but somehow always manages to do well.) • Her feathered gown is based off of a common bronzewing, simply because I looked up pictures of birds with bronze feathers to reference from. They’re quite cute as well:

me: [guy with short hair and a rainbow tank top and ancient Egyptian patterned leggings squatting in the grass outside a barn at night while tenderly holding an insanely large frog]