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NP-Huh. I Thought I Rigged That.

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EDIT: Normally I don't go back and edit pictures that are a couple months old, but I put more orange into the colorations and moved one of Sssidney's pupils and I liked how it looked so there we go.

Alternatively, Sssidney's reaction to the Spooky Food Eating Contest. Even he's a little unnerved...

I was gonna submit this yesterday but then I had work so that plan fell through. Ah well. My plan of drawing a bunch of spooky villains still stands even if I'm slow as molasses about it. Onwaaaard!

Might submit this to the Art Gallery even though I didn't theme this around any event on the site. I'm sure they'll take a random Sssid even if it's not Nimmo Day.

Since I'm a very particular person about my own artwork, I was looking back and my previous drawing of this guy and I really didn’t like how I drew Sssid’s proportions in the last picture I drew of him. He was waaaaay too buff for the malformed tree frog that he is. So I decided to crank up the gangly meter on him. Which made him kind of malnourished and pathetic looking, which might be an angle I go with Sssidney in the future. Can’t imagine he eats well or at all healthy; he’s a carny after all.

What's really sad is that while I was drawing and coloring this, I began to think up possible ideas for Sssidney's past. He's too deformed and crazy for me to believe that he was born the way he is, so I'd like to imagine that he used to live in Neovia with his father, who was a mortician (which is a hard job in the Haunted Woods because bodies you put in the ground don't really stay there) and Sidney accidentally ran into some Hissi Oil in his teens while he was working a part-time job in the Deserted Fairground, which back then was a completely non-cursed fairground that was going to be the best theme park in all of Neopia. He avoided the Spirit of Slumber and the whole Tale of Woe thing, but whatever happened to the fairground (all of the carnies are keeping quiet about it) coupled with the cursed Hissi Oil basically gave him a double whammy of curse that warped him mind, body, and soul. His dad probably thinks Sssidney died during the various zombie, demon, and curse attacks that plagued Haunted Woods, but Sssidney is a survivor, and his personality reflects that kind of shrewd, crooked nature that would keep you alive in a place that has werewolves and vampires and stuff. There's a reason why he's a battledome challenger, after all.

Aaaaand that's the basic outline of what I have for the Sssid. This is what I think about during break at work time. I'm an adult!

I also wanted to play with how I do cel-shading. Lately I've been feeling like I've been overshading my stuff (because I am never satisfied) so I purposely dialed back the shading on this. Really like how it came out.


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FeatherWhite's avatar
Ack, is this Neopets!? That's amazing! Excellent job on this. :D