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Mab · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 3:39 am Post subject:

Is there anybody out there? *shrug* Maybe I should have gotten a scan session organised a bit earlier, like say 2007. Well for what it's worth now, here's what I found, various sketches, mostly 1-5 years old but some here must be pre-DEM for me which is about 2003/4

First is my favourite ever attempt at Stacy, a Snakes & Ladders cover image idea originally drawn poster size which got photocopied then scanned so a bit fuzzy in places now. I was equal parts miffed & amused that the Marvel booth portfolio review guys at ComicCon a couple of years ago insisted there was never a snake skin hooker in X-Men. She's like this weird dirty supa-sekrit screw-up they'd rather forget, so I'm going to have the original made as a wall hanging & sent to the NYC office along with a boquet of condoms one day.

Stacy & Kesia from when I was still bothering to hand-ink stuff

Scott & Stacy, because the muse wanted something that just looked 'sweet'

Remy, Lyssa & Scott where I have to apologise because the anatomy got all distorted

Some random, rather bland Paige, drawn around the time Mel first said Malice could have at her. It was part of an attempt to picture how Malice would perceive her. Probably wont ever get a chance to do it at this rate though.

Future!Stacy, drawn during a bizaare episode when I went to see an ex and ended up locked in a bedroom with nothing but my sketchbook, pencil, bed and Take A Break magazine to keep me amused for 18 hours.

Lyssa & Mari, a tribute to the midgets in residence.

Lorna & Alex who I ended up drawing becase they were sooooooooo cute when Alex & Kristie wrote them.

A weirdly smug looking Kes

Battle!Kes drawn while I was talking to someone on the phone about Milla Jovovich, hence some faint scrawl at the side about Kes kicking UltraViolet's arse...

Electric Eve, from Stacy's memoir thread (Snakes & Ladders). I'd fleshed out my own ideas about the Chicago Morlocks character waaaay before Heroes came up with Elle Bishop

Ms Marvel & Malice in Carol's body, a stoopid idea I'd been playing with a few years ago until Martin pointed out to me that DEM's Ms Marvel was dead. *facepalm*

Malice in her original body with an accidentally long neck

Malice in Bedlam

Rahne & Stacy which I have a feeling was probably posted here before, but fuck it. There's probably no one reading this anyway

The Marauders drawn after a period where I'd watched waaaaay too much Sopranos. I liked making it look like mouldy old paper from a 70s tru-crime comic. Left to right starting top left: Vertigo (with, as with so much of my stuff, the feet got cut off when I ran out of page *sob*), Scalphunter, Arclight & random victim, Riptide, Sabretooth, random graveyard, Sinister & Harpoon, Morph, Scrambler & random victim on fire.

Rogue & Lorna

Rogue, Shadowcat & Psyloke

Madelyn Pryor haunting Scott

Blindspot another of those random X-Men characters no one else remembers, like Stacy & Courier, who I love! She was an old friend of Rogue's turned weird lesbian stalker

Some random little X-Men Character Sketches of Rogue, Nightcrawler, Juggernaught, Psyloke, Madelyn Pryor, Bishop, Marrow, Gambit & Longshot (and unfortunatley the way Remy's holding a card near LS's crotch looks unintentionally dodgy)

Rogue sketch

Lorna sketch

Rogue/Remy hybrid as seen in Ultimate X-Men a few years after this was drawn.

Rogue & Stacy where Stacy's neck seems to have dissapeared. The text would have been something like...
Stacy: So is that another gun in your pocket or...
Friends of Humanity thug: Keep walkin', mutie.
Stacy: Yeah, yeah.
Rogue: Ah see y'all brought a party home.
Stacy:Yeah, the fun never stops.
FoH thug: You need to send Grayton out right now or the snake-bitch gets her head blown off.
Rogue: Now that ain't such a good idea shugah. See, the snake-bitch has a super-strong bullet-proof friend who can fly. Whad'a you got?
FoH thug: Um... Kevlar.
Stacy: Oh, you dumbasses are in a world of shit now!

Last but not least, NSFW!Stacy (as she's got a serious nipple on here). I like the way the snakeskin looks in this, & it's so much easier to render the scale highlights when she has greater stretches of skin showing.