Comics blog #7: The Guard or "Me trying my best at being Clive Barker, take 2"

So, I knew these "Crown of Thorns" guys will have some creepy looking ladies at their disposal. And I wanted to add a little "blowjob to pass the face-control" cliche, but with a lesbian twist in it.

So I've started sketching to get the overall look of the lady-guard. 

This is her first sketch, it kinda nails it, but that wasn't creepy enough. The face was more of a fitness trainer-type. I didn't really like that. 

So I made her a new face: 

Now that's more like it! That went final, kinda, as you can see on the actual comic pages. 

I also wanted to make her more of an Ex-military, which she lowkey is, actually. I wanted to give her a bunch of navy tattoos, USA flag on the chest and what not, but I decided that was a little too much of a political statement. If you really want it - you can go watch "Apocalypse Now" or "Full Metal Jacket".

The "Inner american" quote is from one of those movies, I believe, I'm not really sure.

Anyway...

You can probably tell that in the actual comics she looks kinda suspicious. And there is a reason for that. 

(Spoiler alert!)

She turns out to be more than just a face-control security.

This sketch was done a couple months ago and I was pretty happy with it:

But that wasnt't for a very long time. 

A week ago I decided to work on creatures and body-horror aspects of the story and design. I started sketching some nightmare fuel just for fun and exploration:

And I thought "That looks pretty dope!".

I decided to make some kind of a boss-fight with the guard from before, to make it epic, tense and creative.

But then I went a couple pages back in my sketchbook and saw this again:

And I was like:

"Naaaaah, that's kindergarten level, that's for babies! I mean, look at this bullshit! I can do better than that!"

And so I did:

Now we're cooking!

That's what you get for being racist to a little Vietnamese girl.

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