When in doubt, trace!

Work on the wallpaper is underway! Step one: Trace the design everyone liked. No reason to reinvent the wheel here.

I'm going to try drawing this piece in parts, using photoshop to combine them later. This is one time when I wish I had a tablet and manga studio to work with, as it makes stuff like this easier. (Not that I have the skill to use those programs.)

Breaking the image up also allows me to pick and choose what I want to show - which is good because I'm not sure of what else to include at this point! I'll have to sketch a bit more tonight to decide.

Tiffwitch for the people! (Eventually!)

Oooh, I'm gonna cut this one close. Today was a comic and Copper Road day (it'll go up soon!) and no time for wallpapering appeared. At least this bought me a few days of freedom that will allow me to wallpaper it up! (In theory.)

The *other* Halloween project

Hey, guess who forgot he was also doing a Halloween Copper Road? If I was on the ball, it would have been up today. I am not on the ball, so expect it on the 1st.

I'll start work on the wallpaper tomorrow - hopefully. It looks like the giant TIFFWITCH is the winner., but there's still time for the other options to rally!

Choose your wallpaper

After checking the calendar, I see time is running out for me to get this wallpaper done. That means I need a final direction, and for that I turn to you!

Thanks to everyone who suggested wallpaper ideas! Now it's time to choose. Look over my recent posts and tell me what you'd most like to see, and how I should expand upon those ideas. Did you like Tiffany as a witch? The campfire stories? Supervillains? The horrific Rocky Horror mistake? (If so, what is wrong with you!?) Let me know what you want!

Hey, know your vote will count. Not many people will be giving feedback, so your voice could push one idea to the front of the pack! If I see a clear majority, I will follow it. Otherwise, I do what *I* want... which totally defeats the purpose of asking you guys, so SPEAK UP!

Also, I apologize for not getting to every suggestion. Some proved a bit harder to sketch than anticipated and others just got cut for time.

It's witchcraft

After yesterdays horrific sketching accident, I decided to play it safe today and go back to the Tiffany witch idea. This time I twisted her shrinking spell. That's fun and all, but what if we went the other way? GIANT TIFFWITCH!

I'm going to have to settle on an idea very soon if I want to get the wallpaper done by Halloween. Time to look at what I've done and narrow the choices down...

Rocky horrified

It only took one sketch before I realized this classic game of dress up was just not suitable for 9 and 10-year-olds! Hot patootie, bless my soul...

Costume Fantasy Tactics

Here we have a tribute to my favorite of games: Final Fantasy Tactics. (Pick any from the awesome series.) Bud is the ever-mysterious black mage. Tiffany is sweetness and light as the white mage. Autumn is the spiffy and spunky red mage. Jacob... Jacob is a moogle. Kupopopo...

(Click the image for embiggenation)

Give us the candy and no one gets hurt

One of the suggestions for the Halloween wallpaper was to have the kids rely on their supervillain identities. A villainous ploy to procure candy? Sounds about right!

Here we see Dr. Oven sorta playing Dr. Octopus with his many arms of doom-bringing. Just give him the candy, people. You have 30 seconds to comply.

I didn't get around to drawing the others, but I can see The Scarlet A wielding a super soaper (filled with who-knows-what) and Chaotic Butterfly... oh, man, I have no clue. All I know is Target Man (or mild-mannered Some Guy) must do all he can to keep them in line. (Or at least keep them out of the back of the police car.)

I'm probably not going to use this idea for the wallpaper, mainly because I'm planning on using something like this for the Halloween Copper Road. That reminds me, I need to get scripting on that!

Nesting dolls

This idea takes on the Et swarm in costume, with my choice of having them depict Russian nesting dolls!

I struggled to find an idea for what the doll design should be, and then it occurred to me: Themselves! It doesn't come across well in sketch form, but I want the designs to be simplistic, painted versions of their normal attire. If I pull it off, it can be cute!

What do you guys think about including the top parts of the dolls? I included two to show how it would look. The other tops can always be put in the background.

A good witch or a bad witch?

Man, I nearly forgot to post this in time! I did the sketches early, thought "I can make some more" and then got distracted by shiny objects for the rest of the day.

Anyway, this is based on an idea from Alan, in which Tiffany goes witch and curses her friends. I had trouble figuring out what curse would work, but I think shrinking them works well enough.

The other sketches are me trying to do costume designs without checking source images! Autumn is a Swiss Miss type and Bud is, duh, Superman. Note to self: Next time USE THE SOURCE IMAGES! I am powerless unless I have a reference!