Platypus of Truth

  AI and drawing from the AI. Working in reverse this time.

  Heiratic versus dynamic here. Both are drawn in ballpoint pen and colored in with marker. The first is more original, drawing from a number of references and modifying them all to some degree. I just added some razzle dazzle to the second one. Looks like Deedlit's sis or something. Pen forces you to cover your mistakes and make as few as possible to begin with. It took several years to prefer pen to pencil, but I do now. I need to go figure out why.

  Finally saw one in the wild. 3 footer being chased by a 8 footer. Not sure i want to see the 14 footer this close.

  Putting famous malefactors into the Bathhouse of Spirited Away. 

  I just finished a back-to-back of Tolkien's Battle of Maldon and Beowulf. After realizing I could plot the entirety of Sellic Spell as a D&D one shot and buy all the props in five minutes on Amazon, Etsy, or Ebay, I thought of Frank Frazetta. Frazzeta has a few pictures, especially Night Stalker, that are particularly Beowulf-ish. Frazzeta's Italian relish for voluptuous bodies of both genders is mostly at odds with Beowulf's Northern sensibility, but the two illustrations I've attempted to reproduce here (and bowdlerized a bit) do the trick.