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Headcanon II Cover Process
🕑 Added 2016-01-18 23:32:25 +0000 UTC This month, I've been busy finishing my second pin-up art ebook. (It should be coming out later this week. Yay!)Here's a peek at how the cover came together. I took the unusual (for me) step of penciling it twice -- first on physical paper, then a second time digitally, tracing/refining the two characters separately so that I could fuss around with exactly how I placed them in relation to one another. In the end, I wound up moving Mr. X further to the left, hence the reversal of Dev's eyeline.
I am not sure how universal interest is in my pin-up work over here on Patreon -- I assume it can't be everyone's bag, even if it is mostly comedy-focused -- but if enough folks are interested, I'd be happy to include some more making-of stuff in the February issue of Sam and Fuzzy Extra!
Comments
Airyu
Thanks for answering my question on the main site too! (It was weird to see my name as "Airyu" instead of "Agni"; I forgot I changed it on here!)
Sam Logan
The Ninja Mafia recruits the vast majority of its members (ie: henchmen) from the general public. As a result, most of them are just miscellaneous working class Americans. The joke, originally, was that most of their members were just guys who thought ninjas were "cool" as a result of their overabundance in 80s and 90s pop-culture... hence their general lack of confidence. Whether the Ninja Mafia was EVER actually a proper group of ninjas from Japan... or whether it has ALWAYS been a bunch of western ninja wanabees, even historically... is something I like to treat as a bit of a running gag. There are 12 "elite ninja families" that make up the aristocracy/ruling class of the Ninja Mafia, and every time one of them turns up in the comic, I give them a really ostentatiously not-ninja-sounding last name like McMillan or Dupont.
Airyu
ooo~ cool! Are... any of the members of the Ninja Mafia actually Japanese? (Because it would be pretty hilarious if not.)
Sam Logan
I sure do! I picture X as an Arab dude and Y as being of some sort of Scandinavian descent.
Airyu
Oooo I love seeing the process! Not sure if you read these comments, but what ethnicity is X (and Y for that matter)?
mxwn
Some insight into the making-of is always nice, and I enjoyed the first edition. On top of that I just really like your art style.
