@mao-likes-2-draw, here's your present for the @h2g2-gift-exchange :))) I had sooooooo so so so so much fun doing this that I was doing it for 2 months! 😭
Mao's prompt that I picked out of the three was:
"It would fun to see the scene of Zaphod crashing the party and whisking away Trillian, and then the subsequent shenanigans of her finding out that Zaphod is an alien and such."
Sooo,I was extremely excited about this wonderful, wonderful prompt, so much so as to go and make an over ambitious plan as follows:
Make a flipbook with
1. A pre-introductory scene showing where the party takes place
2. Inside the party before any of our main characters arrive
3. Trillian's iconic arrival at the party dressed as a doll
4. Arthur's arrival at the party stuggling to make it at all
5. Arthur spotting Trillian
6. Them having a little chat
7. Zaphod arriving at the venue in the meantime
8. Zaphod doing usual crazy-fun-zaphod stuff inside the bar
9. Zaph spotting Trills
10. Zaph telling her he's an alien
11. Them walking towards the spaceship
12. Trills pulling up a pair of white mice and convincing Zaph to take them along
13. Them climbing the spaceship ladder
14. The spaceship leaves
This post is for the pre-introductory scene (lmk if you want it in high quality, for some reason tumblr has made it a lil blurry)
___the big green leaf on the front of Turnmills is the Paul Wood leaf, a native of Islington___
“I don’t care,” said Arthur coldly. “We’ve met, haven’t we, Zaphod
Beeblebrox—or should I say … Phil?”
“What!” shouted Ford.
“You’ll have to remind me,” said Zaphod. “I’ve a terrible memory for
species.”
“It was at a party,” pursued Arthur.
“Yeah, well, I doubt that,” said Zaphod.
“Cool it, will you, Arthur!” demanded Ford.
Arthur would not be deterred. “A party six months ago. On Earth …
England …”
Zaphod shook his head with a tight-lipped smile.
“London,” insisted Arthur, “Islington.”
“Oh,” said Zaphod with a guilty start, “that party.”
This wasn’t fair on Ford at all. He looked backward and forward between
Arthur and Zaphod. “What?” he said to Zaphod. “You don’t mean to say
you’ve been on that miserable little planet as well, do you?”
“No, of course not,” said Zaphod breezily. “Well, I may have just
dropped in briefly, you know, on my way somewhere …”
I will post the subsequent scenes in the subsequent days (I love love love your art, and it inspired me to go learn character design, so that's what I'm doing now, and I'm redrawing some of my characters better) and I'll compile them in a flipbook too ^_^
Hope you like this and wish you a very very very happy new year!!!💗(I'm glad I was able to make it before the end of January *phew!*🫠, and really sorry to keep you waiting for so long)
