I don't have any new final art to share (and still none of these have spiders in them...) but it had been a while since I posted a batch of random PV sketches and I figured the board could use the post. A quick rundown of what we're looking at here:





1. Okay, not sure what this one was going to be. It's in with my Parodyverse stuff, so obviously at some point it was PV related. I think maybe it was going to be Muffy Framlicker in space? Yes, let's say that.

2. Odoona, Vizh's right hand on Caph.

3. "Mr. Excitement". I think I envisioned him as an adversary to CSFB and the Juniors. The general idea was an adrenaline junky who, after running with the bulls or something, found that he could feed off the adrenaline surges of others. So naturally he likes to cause mass hysteria and panic in crowds, making him super-tough.

4. A little sketch of Vizh's lighthouse.

5. "Liberty Valance", Mary Pranster's arch-nemesis.

6. A further along portrait of Odoona.

7. A doodle of a scene I was planning in the "Ambassador Vizh" storyline, where the Emir seats Vizh with some of the stranger dignitaries since he's not all that fazed by genderless blobs of protoplasm after Yo and the Shaggoth. His fellow ambassador there could squeeze "her"self into vaguely humanoid shape but needed a holographic screen to approximate facial expressions.

8. Midori, Akiko Masamune's #1 asset.

9. C'mon. It's not like he hasn't had it coming for a while now...

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I'd say so too, since Yuki isn't quite that tall.





Also right hand on the doorway.





He looks a bit like Casey Jones from Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles. Interesting concept, can't wait to see him in use somewhere.





It's bigger than I thought it would be.





I didn't know she had one.





This one says a lot more about her, if you remember that Caphans would dress in shiny objects like that to show their status in society. Perhaps Odoona is showing off her new status in her new society.





Is that the same one where in one of my stories he ended up jailed for insulting someone and Mumph had to go and fetch him?





Shouldn't she be dressed in a green suit? Or at least a green shirt?

Funny thing about Midori, I didn't know of her existence when I formed the whole close friendship between the Psychic Samurai and Akiko Masamune. Once I found out, I had to wonder if Midori was a little jealous of that close friendship. But then again maybe not, because the circumstances that formed it was never an opportunity open to Midori.

A little trivia I figured out a little while ago but never quite squeezed into a story:

It's pretty obvious that Akiko uses Chiaki whenever she can as a cover for legitimacy. Chiaki allows it as long as no one's getting hurt, because she feels that if she didn't allow it, Akiko really *would* be hurting someone else who has less self esteem and strength.

And guess who is close enough to use and hurt pretty frequently? So in a way, Chiaki may well have been protecting Midori all these years by sticking around and maintaining contact.

Interesting twist, eh?





Is that what you meant by "final art"?

1. Okay, not sure what this one was going to be. It's in with my Parodyverse stuff, so obviously at some point it was PV related. I think maybe it was going to be Muffy Framlicker in space? Yes, let's say that.

Looks a little Kinki to me...


4. A little sketch of Vizh's lighthouse.

I tend to visualise it as one of the Eddystone Reef lighthouses. In fact, given most of the arcane things happening to it, several of them.


9. C'mon. It's not like he hasn't had it coming for a while now...

It's the fact that he's smiling...

It dates to around the same time as the Kinki drawing I did, so it's possible that this one inspired that one. However, this skin-tight spacesuit is far too modest for Kinki. She'd need a whole different skin-tight spacesuit.




I think I actually based it on Disney's Haunted Mansion, only a more humble version, for much the same reason. Plus, you know, with a lighthouse attached.





Must have been in a mood that day.>

Would Yuki even need a spacesuit?





No immediate plans to use him. I often sketch up characters and ideas before coming up with the stories for them, and I'm not sure this guy ever went beyond the concept phase.





The Necromancer General needed some space to operate.





They've only really met once, although Mary did steal her outfit for her attempt to join up with the Purveyors when they were pretending to be heroes while the Legion was missing.





She's in charge of the House of Visionary's presence on Caph, as well as the Earth's Embassy. Along with being a local folk-hero with the rest of her sisters, she's doing pretty well now.





Probably not, if I ever post more than the first chapter I put up a while back. If not, then sure... why not?





I don't get the "green shirt" reference...

I'm not sure Midori was around when Chiaki was still working for Akiko, but they definitely have different areas of expertise. Midori handles Akiko's schedule... she's not a physical asset like Chiaki was. Akiko tends to cultivate whatever relationship she needs to in order to get what she wants out of people... and I suspect what she wants out of Chiaki hasn't been fully explored yet. I know we haven't yet delved into Midori's story...

Great work V-man.