If I had a nickel for every Spies are Forever character that I've drawn in this series, I would have 36 nickels. That's a lot. And I'm not done yet. Im drawing every saf character daily until I've drawn all 55. That's how bad my brain rot has gotten
Today's drawing is Irene, one of the nerds in Barb's entourage, Day 36/55
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Cowboy Jed gets behind the wheel and rides to victory in Super Mario Spikers! This is far and away my deepest cut yet for this roster, and I'm really happy with how he turned out. He was so deep of a cut, in fact, that when I alluded to his addition earlier today, no one was even close to guessing who he was.
Normally I'd dedicate the rest of the tweet to talking about all the things that went into Jed's art, but I really feel like I should actually explain who he is first. Cowboy Jed was the star of some commercials for Mario Kart Wii, advertising the game and its karts for sale at his store, the Mario Kart Emporium. Yes, he's ridiculously over the top, and yes, it's glorious.
So while Jed's obviously not in Mario Kart Wii, it's kind of funny to consider him as such, as he was from adverts made for the game.
While not the first non-game character to join the roster as I already added Hooded Robin from the Super Show and the Penguin King from the movie before (even though I don't think I've shown the latter off on tumblr yet), he IS the first "live-action" character. I wouldn't get used to these. I'd consider real-life people, such as people who appeared in games like Mario's Time Machine or Mario is Missing, and the live-action guest appearances from the Super Show, to be really, really low on the totem pole, if you know what I mean. But Cowboy Jed is so cartoonishly hammy that a character like him would fit the Mario universe like a glove. I like to think the Cowboy Jed ads are actually in-universe advertisements for the Mario Kart tournaments going on in Wii, and his emporium is where the characters get all their karts. That's what I point out in the bio, at least.
Now onto the art itself! I didn't change too much about Jed's appearance, mainly because for the more obscure characters I don't really have to. Still, I did take a few design liberties. I gave him some nice shoulderpads, along with tassels(?) along his jacket, just to kind of break up the color pallet more and make him more fancy. I also put a blue band around his stetson for similar reasons. To my knowledge, we've never seen Jed below the waist, so I decided to give him white boots. Also, those spokes are actually based on the three-star ranking from Mario Kart Wii! Thought that would be a cute touch.
Probably more immediately noticeable than his outfit is the fact he uses a Wii Wheel to drive an invisible kart around! This is obviously based on the game's boxart, as well as the game's intro where Mario and Luigi drive around with Wii Wheels. The motion controls were a pretty big part of this game's identity, so having that represented in someone who is decidedly a "Mario Kart Wii" character fits perfectly. I also based Jed's pose off of this shot from the opening.
The wheel is also Cowboy Jed's team icon. His super spike is another reference to the wheel, being based on the golden one you can get in your rankings if you're masochist enough to use motion controls enough to unlock it.
I always enjoy adding extremely obscure characters, and there's very few who are as obscure as this. Jed was a really fun one to bring to life, and imagining him take on the likes of Bowser or King K. Rool is probably what pushed me to draw him in the first place.
My tweet of him is gaining a lot of traction on Twitter too, moreso than most of my other characters. So others seem to like him too! I have to wonder just how many people had no idea he existed before they saw my art of him though.
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so I’m on yet another rewatch of Headless and what captured me this time around was how Kat acted throughout the show. I have one main question: how much of this is in character for Kat?
Like, in terms of the story, nothing feels out of place. But when compared to her personality before death, how much would she do? What actions stem from who Kat actually is, and what is caused from outside pressure, either from her situation or from her father? Which ones are a mix of both? Did something with the revival process change her? I’m so curious it’s eating me alive.
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#1 in "Lil Guy" series of drawing my friends as lil guys @renthony
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cuz omar little the wire is the only relevant gay black male chara i can think of in an episodic series & even then he was a butch queen top who took on (relatively) typical roles expected of him within the pigmentocracy. dark skinned r.n. beatin da block v. lighter skinned frail relatively irrelevant lovers had v few scenes of intimacy w em (RIP MKW everyday) n omar’s role was largely the vigilante the terror of the streets the reckless unreliable informant omar comin go n run n hide from him yall his sexuality is secondary to the moves he makes u can honestly ‘forget hes gay’ until stringer or prop. joe or a straight guy call him out his name (& its always a black guy being homophobic for some reason?? never da good ol boys in blue. v funny choice) ldpdl amc is in a gothic horror series & the pigmentocracy is argurably subverted whe
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I rewatched SAF again today and because the stair scene is slowly but surely starting to not affect me, I could actually pay attention to Curts little end speech thing. In that speech he says something along the lines of "If a man can learn to trust those around him, he can learn to trust himself again" and goddamn that hurt. Yet again a long winded way of saying the saf parasite is strong, so I'm drawing all the Spies are Forever characters
Today's character is Mary Kate Wiles's fancy Russian lady from the peace convention
Day 34/55
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