A commissioned piece for ~POPNDOUGH featuring his character, Peprally, the ultra powerful cheerleader given mighty muscles by a rod of uranium (or possibly plutonium, I can't remember clearly) that she mistook for a spirit stick.

This was, no doubt, a fun piece to work on. I got to be a touch silly with it which I've been dying to do for some time now -I can only be serious for so long. It took some back and forth with ~POPNDOUGH to get the layout right as we bounced ideas off of one another, but eventually settled on the idea of her protecting some football players from the monstrous Captain Mako.

Originally, the football players were going to be menaced by the shark and pep was going to be calling him off of them, but being obviously bored with the whole thing. However, the idea struck to have the big tough football players huddling in fear behind Peprally for protection and I just couldn't let it go... it amused me far too much. The rest of the piece just fell in after that.

In painting it, it did take an unexpected turn. While putting in the background the painting started falling apart a bit. Fallowing Stars suggestions on streaking in green into the sky area however snapped everything back together and started taking the painting in a slightly different direction then initially intended. It begin taking on a horror movie 9or more like teen slasher movie) feel too it. Wholly unintentional, but I like the results. And hell, a mutant shark terrorizing high school sports teams and cheerleaders... that seems like standard modern slasher movie fare to me

Medium: pen and ink and watercolor on 300lbs hot pressed watercolor paper.