jayelleanderson:

ladylaguna:

nanitecity:

“You know what, I can’t keep hiding from this page and I think it’s long past time that I stopped being so damn apologetic about it.

It’s a bad page. In fact, it is a TERRIBLE page for numerous, insurmountable, cumulative reasons but you know what, I didn’t write it. And it’s not bad because I didn’t write it, it’s bad for other reasons many of which I helped contribute to. This page single-handedly encapsulates what was wrong with the Sonic comic both verbally, artistically and editorially (yeah, I said it) back in the day.

 I was told to draw Sally slapping Sonic, so that’s what I did. I was a freelance artist. I get paid to interpret scripts via art. If the script tells you to draw a character like they are blacking out and slappin’ the taste out of someone’s mama’s mouth then you draw that character slapping the taste out of someone’s mama’s mouth and then some.

I remember putting my all into this page and trying to really convey a lot of force into that slap. And its weird too, ‘cause outside of the electrical force coming off of it — that’s all I drew in that panel. Given my penchant for overdoing everything when I first started, that nothing is was shown there is a very small and glorious miracle.

I guess I must’ve succeeded in spades with that scene because somehow the entire Sonic comic community cracked itself in half, launched itself into the sun and then collapsed into itself like a black hole because I still see the colored version of this image along with Sally’s crazy-cat-lady-style tirade get posted up everywhere like the fandom equivalent of a scarlet letter. But you know what?

I wear that scarlet letter proudly because, regardless of the motives behind it, regardless of the fervor it caused and regardless of the rancor it still incites Archie Sonic fans with to this day — that, in the end, is what art (bad or good which is subjective depending on the eye of the beholder) is supposed to do. It’ll make you care about the characters. And the results of this page either made many fans either realize they’d stopped caring altogether OR made other fans realize that things needed to change and soon. So I guess that’s exactly what this page, warts and diarrhea and abnormally giant head-eating Sally and all accomplished and still does.

(OR some just kept reading like nothing ever happened — and that is just fine too.)

The perspective is weird, Sonic’s arm turns to rubber in one panel for whatever reason, Sally’s boobs are pronounced and looking like they’re about to lactate like there’s no tomorrow — SO MUCH WRONG WITH THIS — but, for me, the focal point always keeps going back to that slap. That’s the key focus on this page and, for better or worse, it did what it set out to do and then some.

And when people make fun of it online, I ain’t mad at that either, ‘cause now I know better and deep down, I make fun of it too.”

-Jon Gray

I always thought that was some crazy overreacting on Sally’s part, but I never blamed you, Jon. We love you Jon. :) (and are jealous of you cuz we wanna draw for the comic and get mocked mercilessly by people who don’t bother to understand us or our work either)

I was one of those people that stopped reading the series because of this scene, as did one of my close friends (who I didn’t know at the time). It wasn’t the art’s fault, it was very much the writing. I was just done. The whole Sonic in space, Mina Mongoose has a boyfriend and is a pop singer, everybody is now unrobotisized just really made me give zero shits anymore. No matter who drew it, it still would have pissed me off. We stopped buying the comics and just never went back.

It was like a giant slap in the face to people who had been reading the comic from the start. What ever editorial or writing choice the year leading up to this was a real pisspoor one.

(Though somewhere I do have this edited where Sally is screaming “DOUCHECANOE” …. because it is funny.)

I don’t think I even got this far in the comic before I just lost interest in it. It no longer had the drama and dystopian feeling the series used to have. While I thought his style was a bit too cartoony it’s not his fault for drawing this page. My main love of Sonic was the old SATAM cartoon and not much after had the same impact for me.

Hey Google wished me a Happy Birthday! That’s pretty cool! =)

MLP FIM guys by *MaryBellamy

So everyone was talking about Princess Tiana being Disney’s first African American princess but whatever happened to AIDA? It could have been something cool. Did Prince of Egypt coming out with Dreamworks cause this to be shelved? No one even talks about it.

Part of Mom’s Mother’s Day bouquet. Happy Mother’s Day!

Dead World ATC by *MaryBellamy

These were the cards I liked the best from the Dead World set I did last year. I don’t often get to draw zombies, demons and things like that so it was fun to do something different.

Walking Dead ATC set by *MaryBellamy

Female Persuasion 3 ATC by *MaryBellamy

Some artist trading cards done for 5finity’s March of Dimes charity. I only did these 12 cards this time around. Top half is Dean Yeagle’s Suzette and the bottom are just sexy girls. I wanted to draw Chinese take out on that second one. XD And I’d never done a drawing of a girl under water, so there’s that.

GDG Pin Up Citria Revamped by *MaryBellamy

Another older image revamped. I took out the cheesecake reference from this one as I just wanted to focus on the character. I changed a few things and thinned up the line art. You can see the old one here… [link]

GDG Cherry Cheesecake Revamped by *MaryBellamy

So 3 years ago I did a few pin ups for the Girls Drawin’ Girls anthology book. There were a few things I wanted to revise so I just did that today while waiting. Here’s Cherry Cheesecake. Here’s the older one for comparison. [link]

Sisters of the Moon Menolly and Deliliah by *MaryBellamy

So I had all these doodles from reading the Otherworld/Sisters of the Moon series by Yasmine Galenorn but never had a chance to finish them. These are most of them. I had one of Delilah eating junk food and just after she wakes up from being her tabby self but I didn’t finish those. Also, Maggie is a calico but I wasn’t sure exactly how she’d look so I just went with my idea.

Mop and Quintopus by *MaryBellamy