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Under the Mango Tree

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This was an assignment for art class. We had to incorporate an animal, a game, and a plant all into one image. (On a side note, ~Haruo is in the same art class as I am, and therefore did the same assignment. She may post her take on it soon).

I took advantage of the assignment to do fanart for a very unsung fandom, that of the crazy works of Christophr Moore. I had just reread The Stupidest Angel (A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror), which featured several characters from some of his previous books. One of these was Island of the Sequined Love Nun, a tale about a pilot named Tucker Case who, through the aftermath of a horrid accident involving a lot of whiskey, a pink jet, and a whore, ends up on a tiny island in Micronesia with a pair of twisted doctors and a village of airplane-worshiping natives.

This is Tucker playing poker with the talking giant Micronesian fruit bat, Roberto. At least, it's supposed to be poker. If it doesn't quite work, blame it on ignorance. In fact, there are a lot of things in the picture that I realized later probably don't work (talking bat excepted). Mango trees probably can't grow that close to salt water. Roberto's neck is too long. One of Tuck's arms is too thin, his shoes are too clean, and his face bugs me. And you can't bet mangos in a poker game.

I'm sure each of you has a piece like this, where you start drawing, thinking, "This is going to be sooo awesome!". Then you get to a certain point where you realize that the piece is far more complex than you'd originally anticipated, and then you say, "F**k", because you wonder what you got yourself into. I do this on an all-too-frequent basis, and this piece is no exception. The waves coming onto shore, the number of mango leaves, and the shadow of the tree are the elements that made me freak here.

So, yeah. 11X14 Prismacolor on Bristol board, way more complicated than it needed to be.

Critique your brains out.
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BoiledEngel's avatar
OMG Thank you so much i love tuck and roberto (when i was done with the book i started again haha)
arg i want more storys from Tuck and roberto.
hey go on make more pics from them ^_ ~