Artist's Commentary
Well, this is easily the most schizophrenic artwork I've created. It
started as a joke piece to help balance out the
male-sexism-to-female-sexism ratio in Sketch Artist, and was intended to
provide nothing more than a quick laugh. But once I added the background,
it ended up looking a whole lot nicer than I had intended, with an almost
watercolor-like appearance... but at the same time, it also looked like
exactly the kind of chauvanistic drawing I typically make fun of. So I
toned down the fan service factor and ended up with a pic that I'm actually
almost happy with. Although I probably wouldn't show it to my mother.
I think this gives me the distinction of having one of the first (if not
THE first) Shadow Madness fan artworks on the Internet. SM is much better
than pre-release criticism would suggest, and I particularly enjoy the
haunting, creepy atmosphere of the game. I tried to capture a bit of that
in this pic. Hopefully viewers can pick up on that despite the rather
tawdry nature of the artwork...
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