Topic: The Gonzo has art.

[Mirby]

That looks almost like a Martha Stewart sweater... lol

[The Great Gonzo]

Heh.

I don't think consistency is one of Castlevania's strong points.

Not the games or the gameplay, but some of the character designs. Dracula has an excuse for having a new design every game, but people like Simon and Maria? Maria's got about seven versions of herself running around (some from supposedly the same event--contrast Rondo of Blood!Maria with DXC!Maria), and Simon around fifty.

This wasn't really meant as a commentary on that; I just wanted to put my own spin on some of the characters.

* Simon: Well, I don't think anyone's given him purple hair before (or at least not that shade of purple)...

* Hector: This was based on my first impression of Hector back in '05, when I saw a magazine ad for CV: CoD. Not being a CV fan then, I didn't pay it much attention.

I was a bit iffy on giving him a wing, since Kou Sasakura's manga made a big deal about Hector remaining human (even though Isaac looks very human as well...), but it was one of the things about the ad that I remembered--even though it was just Dalcy (default name for the Bird-Type Innocent Devil).

* Sonia: Based on what I saw of her in-game sprite from a magazine blurb about CV: Legends. (Couldn't find it again, but I think it was generally positive about the game) Dunno where the stick came from.

*Osca: is Maria's pet owl. Osca is there to fill space. That's all I can say about Osca.

* Maria: I wanted an excuse to change Maria's hair colour. :/

* Reinhardt Schneider: Nobody cares about this guy. This version of him was based on footage that X-Play showed of CV64 (or CV: LoD)--or what I thought of it at the time, anyway.

For some reason, my dim memories of CV64 are interspersed with this old game Mom tried to play once, of some guy walking around a moonlit garden and punching hostile creatures that bled neon blue. :/

* Dracula: While I tried not to look at anyone's official art as I drew them, I ended up doing that for Drac here, simply because I was at a loss as to how I'd design him. I did have some of Anne Rice's vampires in mind, despite her being responsible for the, uh, over-romanticization(SP?) of vampires (with Meyer responsible for being an example of why, say, your vampires should always have more in common with the original monster than Anne Rice's vamps).

* Alucard: He is not happy. Probably because I just winged it here.

Posted on: September 10, 2010, 02:05:02 PM

Partners in crime? Looking for Mima?

Hataraku is the same, personality-wise; ~lilirulu offered some costume help, and now he looks slightly more male. "Slightly" being the keyword.

Scoithin is a new guy, created in the Walfas Touhou OC Maker. (I modified the result slightly) His name is Irish for "blossoms"; his power is de- and re-constitution into indestructible flower petals. He doesn't like it much, even though it has a fail-safe (he cannot be stuck in that form for any reason).


I was told that male Touhou OCs automatically trigger some fans' Gary Stu red flags. :/

More...

Human!Tails has to be able to fly SOMEhow.

Yep. :/

Mega's gone from bat, to bunny, to raccoon. He gets around.

Proto kept part of his US name so that there wouldn't be three kitties with names starting with "B" running around.

[Align]

...Karlsson på taket?

[The Great Gonzo]

...Possibly?

Attempted Kojima-esque redesign of Kid Dracula, who may or may not be a young Alucard (I think there's a lot of evidence suggesting that he is).

Time warps are a [sonic slicer], aren't they, Death?

[Blackhook]

Well, atleast they have the precious UMBRELLA!

[The Great Gonzo]

Heh.

Yep, there's a Nun class. On an unrelated note, nunsploitation creeps the living [tornado fang] out of me.

Everyone's MND status is raised significantly (i.e., less amage taken). Megaman also hopes that no one realizes that he's a boy under that; I'm pretty sure that men wearing the nun habit is punishable by bad things.

~MegaManModelT101 requested that I transfer Ch. 3 of his fanfic, "The Children of Destiny", to comic form; this is what we settled on instead, since I didn't have the energy to do that.

The lady on the left is Carrie Fernandez, Legacy of Darkness version; on the right is Sarah, a Numan character created by Mr. 101. They fight crime skeletons, Medusa, and vampires over the course of Ch. 3.

Only one of these people will walk away in good shape, and their name starts with "Re".

There's this Touhou fangame called "Scarlet Symphony" by Frontier Aja, which is a hybrid of Touhou and Castlevania (not sure if it's "Classic" or "Metroid"). I can't play it as I have no money, so I have to settle with the character redesigns by Banpai Akira; they're very nice, though I don't think I'll be drawing CV!Reimu again anytime soon. x_x

Accompanying her are Hataraku, Rin Satsuki, and Wriggle Nightbug. Rin is a canceled character from the sixth game; Wriggle was thrown in to balance out the picture.

Drawn 8/28/10.

Skunk!Mega and Lepe (THE BUNNY GIRL HAS A NAME NOW). That's about all I can say about this.

Drawn 8/28/10. 'Tis Splashy.

I was happy with this; then I read the comments.

Drawn 9/10/10.

Kalinka and her adoptive sister, Tia, about to take a shower. Presumably.

The nice thing about the MMXXX oekaki is that, going by the other pics, no one will mind if the BG consists of swaths of colours or fog.

[Flame]

Tia looks uncannily like Carly Nagisa.

[The Great Gonzo]

*looks up Carly Nagisa* ...Huh. :/

Proto/Rock/Ran, perhaps?

Seems Werewolf came up a bit short.

Based on the cover of Dschingis Khan's debut album. Would their singing "Moskau" or "Hadschi Halef Omar" negate or intensify SotN's narm?

* With the exception of the Librarian, everyone's colours come from their sprites. (The Librarian's original skin tones made him look incredibly jaundiced at best)

* Richter is still brainwashed. Just in case anyone goes "WTF".

[borockman]

A proper lady shouldn't sit like that! 

and the Librarian is evil?

[The Great Gonzo]

Well, he WAS hesitant to betray Count Dracula...

This was drawn specifically for my GB thread over at MMXXX; 'tis male Kalinka and Roll.

Hopefully, Kalinka has longer pants on.

A.k.a. "RADIX Cannot Draw Lathered Soap". Drawn 9/15/2010.

Next time, Rock will shower alone.

Drawn/finished on April 29th, but I kept forgetting to submit it. :/

The boy with the Wolverine claws, Jan, is facing a problem. This village has been occupied by extraplanetary humans who wish to farm for resources in the areas surrounding it. Jan is afraid not only for the villagers and the land, but also that the invaders will expand to other settlements and do the same to them.

He has no realistic way of driving them out by himself, however, so Jan--after bidding farewell to everyone--sneaks out to find someone who can.

There are rumours that, of all the devices used for summoning fantastic creatures and heroes into the physical plane, one is still active. Jan decides that whatever it may bring forth is worth braving the hostile environments that his people did their best to avoid.


Unfortunately, Jan wasn't quite stealthy enough, for he has one of the invaders trailing him--Andraste. She seems to be far too young to be in their military, yet she can fight and command as well as any of the adults. As she didn't have enough time to inform her companions of the escape, Andraste pursues Jan alone.

Her people didn't invade the planet out of pure dickishness; it was the one planet in the solar system where the needed resources could be safely gathered. Too bad that the man in charge of the expedition failed to convey this to the head villager (and is something of a douche), leading to rejection of their offer, leading to force.

As much as Andraste tries to convince Jan that they're not the "bad guys", he refuses to listen. That's fine by her--she hasn't had a good fight in years.


...eh.

Posted on: September 18, 2010, 06:40:27 PM

The final Class in MPW, the White Mage, allows the user to heal themselves at the cost of MP. (Should your buddy be using it, they'll heal you instead)

The robes are also easily stained.


* Went off several pre-existing White Mage designs. (The hood with the cat ears technically belongs to a Seer, but I've seen classes dubbed "White Mage" with that kind of hood)

Technically, a robot, a lady, and an android.

Two people that Proto meets in China (still dunno how or why he went there; just wandering?) are Bulma Briefs, a Capsule Corps. scientist, and "18", an alleged android. One of them repairs him, the other fights him.

...I think Bulma's descendant in the distant finale of DBGT had that hairstyle. :/

I thought using coloured pencils for this pic might be a good idea. Hahahahaha

Rock, surrounded by several versions of himself, hits off with his human counterpart quite well. L to R:

* Rock Lichtblitz: Hails from Earth-616, where allegiances are reversed; a total brat. (Surname taken from Club Nintendo)

* Rock Light, a.k.a. Megawoman.

* Rock Wright, a human boy.

* Rock Light, the familiar one.

* Final Fantasy-ver. Rock, who's technically an offshoot of--

* --RS-Rock. Don't be shy, man. :/

* KH Rock, as designed by ~KaitlinEXE.


Hurf.

Posted on: September 20, 2010, 12:27:52 AM

No, [Megawoman and Bass are] not in this pic, but Queen and her minion-bots are. (Tengu and Astro are excluded because they're just carry-overs from MM8)

* Coldwoman and Burnerwoman have elements of their .EXE counterparts.

* Piratewoman's hat was based on one found through a Google image search. She also gained a scar to make up for humanizing her face.

* I have no excuse for Groundwoman. ;_; (Based slightly off Velma Dinkley. Slightly)

[Blackhook]

Looks nice. My only complaint? You covered Magic woman's hips

[KudosForce]

To be honest, showing them off would be completely redundant.

[borockman]

Drill woman looks so nerdy there.

[The Great Gonzo]

Let's see...

1.) One theory on TV Tropes suggests that Maria Renard is Peach's ancestor, if not the lady herself in a different form (I prefer the former).

2.) Another suggests that Maria is of Chinese descent, given the nature of her attacks/magic.

Yep.

...and Pingutay.

[borockman]

Peach mom looks identical to Peach. 

[The Great Gonzo]

Laser-guided heredity?


Roll and her Persona, Arae.
One fellow's two characters.

EDIT: Second take on one of the above designs.

Posted on: September 24, 2010, 04:38:46 AMBoth takes failed, resulting in this:

Hopefully final pics of ~MegaManModelT101's characters. (Turns out the second pic of Jen wasn't accurate, either)

Posted on: September 24, 2010, 10:08:07 PM

Hopefully not of the "moe" variety.

Metroid doesn't eat as much as everyone thinks; her size is due to genetics. Mettaur is a construction worker who hates it when people think she's a guy simply because she has visible muscles. Shy Gal...well, she looks like a particularly frightening member of a religious sect. :/

[borockman]

Lol Metroid is genetically fat.

Mettaur is so muscly.

and Shy gal will be moe.

[The Great Gonzo]

LARGE FILE IS LARGE
[spoiler][/spoiler]

Three days of work resulted in this--what I hope is a currently-definitive family tree of the Belmonts, Belnades, and others.

Some things:

* Inserting the Wygol villagers was a real pain; same goes for Maxim. The original family tree that I was referencing (URL is on the pic) seems to have been made prior to OoE, and I think it discounts Maxim.

* Yes, Sonia is included here. No, I do not really care for IGA's timeline. I have the impression that any CV game not in the "main series" can be canonized, discanonized, or recanonized at will, and it makes sorting things a pain. Best to assume that any non-remake should be considered canon and leave it at that, maybe.

* The Poltergeist King is a fabrication of the American CVIII manual, as to avoid mentioning the church. Good thing Captain N gave him a character design, eh?


Now then.

MASS THEORY DUMPING TIME

* On Hector, Rosaly, Isaac, and Julia:

There's a theory that Hector and Isaac (and perhaps Julia as well) are creations of Dracula; his attempts at creating people who can stand up to the Belmonts, if you will. The proof is their superhuman durability--in both versions of CoD's backstory, they suffer horrific injuries that would be fatal to a regular human, yet live. Their Innocent Devils are fueled by hearts, which also fuel the Belmont subweapons.

As for Rosaly--my theory is that she was leftover from Julia's DNA, but possessed none of the other three construct's abilities or superhuman strength. I don't think it's infeasible that Dracula would assume that humans believe that any man, woman, or child with exceptional abilities was gallows-fodder; if he let her live among them and, say, one of his constructs quit and met her, her death would motivate them to damn humans and return to Dracula. Too bad Isaac was behind her off-screen offing. Poor Rosaly.

* On Sonia's inclusion here:

Legends's story would require a rewrite. Dracula, at that time, hadn't yet declared war on the humans, but was clearly thinking about it and was mobilizing his forces. Sonia realized that he was a clear and present danger, and set off to destroy him.

Unfortunately, her lack of dark blood (that is, Dracula's) meant that she couldn't hold him down for long. She knew this, and trained her son Trevor for the day that Dracula would inevitably return.


* On Simon Belmont II:

Well, there's a Simon Belmont III. There's no evidence that the Simon we played as in CV1 was a "II", so...

* On Aurica:

Aurica was a character from a Simon-centric CV: The Movie script; a Romani woman who discovers that she is the very image of Dracula's former lover. To me, this screams "REINCARNATION!"

(Should mention that Cristofor comes from that same script. Not sure which one contained an alleged human-on-goat scene, though...)

* On Gwendolyn:

There's not much to say about her, really. The manual for CV: B says that she was his girlfriend (I think, anyway); in PoR, Eric has two daughters. Methinks Gwen wasn't vamp'd until after having those two.

[Mirby]

Well done... needs moar Juese Belmont though.

Also, lol at Alucard again...

[borockman]

Holy that's a lot of info. 

That's one really huge image. respect.

[The Great Gonzo]

Thanks. Frustratingly, the first comment was "Sonia Belmont/Legends isn't canon"...just like on the first CV family tree I posted. >.>

One wonders how they got Van in front of a camera at all.

The kids were meant to look a bit older, around middle school age, but I don't think it panned out. And only Nikki and Van got new clothes, unlike all four of them...arg. :/

Nikki, your arm looks weird. Best to let Grandpa check that out.

The Toon Squad has a new member in Aeristh Gainsborough, a flower girl who carries around a giant steel baton. She takes a liking to Megaman. Megaman, like with most girls (and guys) he meets in any universe, is not sure if want.

Decided to only use my Letraset markers this time, since Sharpies aren't that good at the whole "soft feel" thing

I need a name for this new universe. Something French, since they've got the French flag on their drifting island and all.

This will really only make sense to the MMXXX guys, I think--the griping, anyway. There's a lot of things about porn that tick me off, mostly the the first panel.

* I have no problem with PWP--not everything can have plot. But when the porn and plot were supposed to be more or less equal, and it turns out to be a giant lie in favour of the former, I end up raging. Bonus ouch points if the plot sucks harder than a black hole made of suck.

* Third panel: Zipper abrasions, baby.

* It seems I gave Toon Aerith her non-toon proportions. Ack.

Posted on: September 28, 2010, 05:03:33 AM

Figured I might as well post this here (drawn for the MMXXX boards).


* Oh, Proto. Learn to function in society.

* That clothing sure is 90s. (I've been told that the 80s, at least, are making a comeback, but I'm not seeing it) Male!Rock probably wouldn't dress like that--it might show everyone what a skinny pseudo-uke he is. :/

* The bottom drawings all have to do with Persona RS. Amusingly, Diaz is more or less the same.

Posted on: September 29, 2010, 11:33:16 PM

Drawn 9/19/2010.

OK, so there's this series over at Pal Comix (NSFW) centered around someone's "Rejuve" universe (the only issue I've read so far is the latest and still in-progress, "Protect the Innocent"). It's fairly interesting, and unlike some of Pal Comix's other offerings, has a plot that's more than just a flimsy "justification" for woo-hoo.

Then, out of nowhere--spanking fetish.

Agh.

I'll respect other people's fetishes (unless the person in question is just right out hateful or batshit crazy), but that bit keeps repelling me. As such, there is none of that in this pic.

Kid!Proto really wishes he could sue the people who tossed him in the rejuve chamber without asking; Kid!Rock simply tries to make the best of it. (They get better)


* The "unexpected gender flip" actually does happen in the comic.

[Father and son, e]ven though they don't look it. Rock is now officially a DILF Hot Shoujo Dad.

and Van is short.

RUN AWAY FROM THE BASTARD SEMES, VAN.

How does one render "The Drifting Isle of Link" in French?


Something drawn out of boredom, or simply because I had some space left over on that "RSMM GB" page.

* The green fairy, Sprite, was Link's only companion for a while. The the others began showing up and taking residence on Link's isle.

* That IS Bayonetta down there. She wouldn't have been added if not for balance issues.

Finally got off my duff and drew a group shot of Samus Aran's team. (For reference, the last time I tried was in 2008--I think)

Though officially led by Samus Aran, she usually works alone, leaving her old friend Kid with second-in-command duty. The members of Elite Bounty are, from left to right:

* Dinan L., the negotiator;

* In'das Vtaie, the researcher;

* Akong Zsaz, the gentleman bounty hunter;

* Shanoa, the time-displaced vampire hunter;

* Miyu Lynx, who doubles as a member of Star Fox;

* Old Bird, among the last of the Chozo;

* Kid Dagger, owner of the Vulpae Minor;

* Rick Talis, bodyguard of In'das;

* Armstrong Houston, a "hot-shot" bounty hunter;

* Lumen Sinstro, who hails from a dark, icy planet;

* Megaman, the representative of Earth;

* Alarm, the noble Autobot;

* and Samus, the leader. Sort of.


The only two missing are Lance/Sword and Dagger (not Kid); I believe they were temp. members. Shanoa is an addition.

Also, Rick's original surname was the same as the name of a certain terrorist group. So changed it got.

Posted on: October 01, 2010, 03:41:40 PM

Drawn at the TMMN oekaki, while I was both tired and sleep-deprived at the same time.

]

Photoshop tried to be an ass and close without saving, but it was foiled by my use of the glorious Print Screen key. Huzzah!

Femme!Sora's design is a mish-mash of two of Sora's beta designs, by the way. Femme!Rock just had some stuff rearranged.



...just remembered that I mean to try and anti-alias this in Photoshop after completion. Arg.

Lune has a fascination with Earth rabbits. However, he has yet to discover the breed that lives in centerfolds and dresses in attire similar to his, Rock's, and Sora's.

Rock has seen them. Rock isn't amused.



Experimented with shading everyone in grayscale, then adding colour via the Color/Color Burn layers. (At least, I think it was Color Burn. My memory is [parasitic bomb])

Posted on: October 03, 2010, 01:37:13 AMSeems I keep updating this thing at the wrong time.

What will it take to defeat Dracula this time? The combined powers of Sailors Yoko, Shanoa, Charlotte, Maria, and...Soma.

This is why you don't gamble, Soma.

A.K.A. the result of RADIX wondering what a CV "harem" game's cast would look like. Hopefully, Konami would not be insane enough to make a porno out of a similar idea.

Since Drac is still dead, he can't be the guy running the ominous castle that sprang up out of nowhere. This castle is different in build than any other incarnation of Castlevania, and even seems to have a full-fledged town within its boundaries. Regardless of who owns it, bad things have been happening ever since it appeared, so Zaki and his band of hunters, in the absence of a Belmont, decide to destroy it themselves.

* Zaki: main character, thirteen years old. He fights with a sword that has been in the household ever since he can remember. It's possible that he and his sister Zabel are foreigners to Romania.

Viable options:

* Arnia: A young vampire from a wealthy family isolated from humans. His parents were disappointed to find that he wasn't a girl, so he dressed like his sisters in hopes of appeasing them. It didn't work, so he eventually left.

He's clueless about men, having never been around any that weren't his father.

* Gareth Garibaldi: A few centuries ago, his family's temple was overrun by monters and taken over by Legion; now, they still haven't reclaimed it. Gareth himself is trying to balance his magical and physical abilities, but isn't doing a good job of it.

* Daphne: Her weapon of choice is rather unusual, but no one's going to question how she got it. She's not an inherently violent person, but her experiences in Romania prompted her to greet Zaki the way she greeted everyone--at swordpoint. Once she realized everything was all right, though, she became much friendlier.

* Tyr: A young woman whose skills with the knife weren't enough to keep demons from capturing her. They said that, as long as she danced, she wouldn't be handed over to the vampires. Zaki and co. saved her, and she immediately took a liking to the blue-haired boy--perhaps too much so.

* Coller II: A fighter who was already on her way to the castle. Proficient in hand-to-hand combat, she doesn't need any weapons or subweapons. Though a likable individual, there's some things about her that creep everyone else out.

* Felix: He claims to be a werecat, but he has no human form. Like Coller, he forgoes weapons, but it's less "punch their lights out" and more "scratch them to pieces". He's rather loud and obnoxious, and follows many typical cat mannerisms.


Off-limits:

* Maria Renard: Hoping that this new castle will yield some clues as to Richter's whereabouts, she joins Zaki's group.

* Rusty: A whip-wielding woman who defeated a crony of Dracula's, Monte Carlo, a few years ago. Her skills rival those of the Belmonts', but she has no relation to them.

* Zabel: Zaki's older sister. She prefers using dark magic to fight, no matter what others think of her for it.



Note:

* Maria's look comes from the canceled "CV: The Bloodletting" game. At least, I hope it does--all I had to go off of were a few sprites.

* Rusty comes from the PC-98 game of the same name. Like the CV series, there's some consistency gaffs concerning her outfit--it's dark blue on the box, light blue in-game, and red in cutscenes. I went with light blue.

* Coller II--or rather, Coller2--would have been in one of the N64 CV games, had she not been cut.

You should have seen them run away from the police that day.

In all seriousness, sometimes I wonder if I accidentally made RS-Rock into a weepy, submissive bottom. He's noticeably less muscular with his armour off (which in itself isn't a bad thing, I guess, but some of the stuff I saw go on in the DBZ fandom...), he's far more openly emotional than Proto, and the way I draw him, he looks like a girl (not that regular RS-Rock looked all that masculine at times...).

On the flip side, he still confronts challenges head on, is not an emotional trainwreck (at least in the timeline in which Proto survives), doesn't need Proto around to do everything, and is most definitely not a pansy. So...balance?

Eh.

Dang Travel Trees and their occasional manifestation outside of Avalon... (which did happen in one episode, IIRC)

Anyway. Jewel Riders. Even if I only saw a few episodes of it on tape, I liked that show. Thinking about it now, RS-Rock and Tamara might hit off rather well (but not romantically, unless they want to face Proto's clinginess). After all, they're both very kind and caring individuals.

Rock would not enjoy being a (temporary) Jewel Rider, though.



* Dunno about in-show, but Tamara's toy version is wearing a damned corset. It only came as a shock to me since I never noticed that as a kid.

[Mirby]

Lol @ Soma on the first one.

While it's rather simple, in Soma's mind that might qualify as a horrible thing.

[The Great Gonzo]

So *lizsama's MMTT RM contest ends on Friday. I hope Elveman is interesting enough to make it into the game.

Damn is that rug ugly.

Omria is an old character of mine; he's named after a novel (Prince Ombra by Roderick MacLeish--I misread it as "Omria") and inspired by a character design of FSc's.

The details of his story are hazy, but essentially, Omria and his friends are going through with the coming-of-age ceremony of their country/province (wherein they don suits apparently made of dead animals) when one of his friends falls into a pit of dead deer that's about to be ground up.

Oh, and it was based on a dream.

There's none of that dead-animal-suit stuff here (though the inspiration, "Mince"...holy crap), just Omria with a rather unhappy (and unusual) stag.

Omria slowly shifts from his original cute self to a vaguely smug tactician who may be slowly becoming omniscient. Such is life.

[borockman]

Whoa....

I missed a lot of arts here.

Love the mini portrait, Sailor moon group and CV harem.

and the nudity too of course.

[The Great Gonzo]

Thanks.

Drawn 8/17/2010. It seems that I forgot about this one.

When I posted this, I asked why the Alia/Dynamo pairing existed. *Jecht-Striker explained it fairly well (started by doujin groups).

Now the question is why Dynamo is holding a condom when neither he nor Alia have the parts that would make having a condom a good thing. In my fanon, anyway.

BELOW IS A NUDE AILE
[spoiler]

Drawn 10/1/2010.

Aile isn't waiting for anyone. She's just sitting nude on her bed, holding her bra. Even though this was drawn on a pornkaki.

Yeah.

[/spoiler]

Shoulda picked something else, Roll.

Better find 'em fast, Rock.