Well hello there! Long time no see! Meet my friend, Viral!

Hooooly craaaap!  It's been OVER A YEAR since I updated this art blog!  I may very well be a terrible person, or at least terrible at keeping up with these things.  I won't promise to be better about posting on the regular, only because I know myself all too well...  but I can try...

Despite how long it's been since my last blog entry, I actually have been been working on different derby-related designs fairly consistently.  So I do have quite a bit that I can update with.  It's just a matter of knuckling down to write about it.  Eh?  Eh?  See what I did there?

...Look, I haven't slept much in the last couple of weeks...this is about as sharp as my wit is going to get.

Anyway!  Let's finally get to the next long-awaited featured drawing :)

Then: #H1N1, Viral Temptryss
Now: #99, Viral Temptryss

This is Viral Temptryss!  Viral is just about one of my favorite people ever.  She's so laid back and mellow and consistently has a positive attitude.  She's always nothing but supportive of her teammates and always, always gives it her all.  Oh, and she has HIPS OF DOOM.

I really cannot emphasize enough how amazing Viral's hips are.  In general she's truly is a skilled skater (I wish my footwork was half as good as hers!), but she has this sort of signature swerve that is both beautiful and deadly if you're on the receiving end.  

Oh lawd, it's funny how old I can tell this drawing is.  Even if I hadn't drawn it myself, there are a few giveaways.  Like her skater number.  When this drawing was done, her skater number was H1N1 (VIRAL Temptryss...H1N1...get it?  Or are we just dating ourselves here?).  However, in December of 2015, WFTDA officially made it a rule that skater numbers could no longer consist of a combination of both numbers and letters.  So since then, Viral has been skating under #99.  

There are a couple more giveaways, but they're pretty hyper-specific to my league, and therefore completely uninteresting to just about everyone else.  Ha!  

   

Moving along, how's about we get some detail shots up in here?  

The original sketch complete with scribbly notes.  If you zoom in you might be able to read some.

SO many of us all wore this same skate model (Riedell 965 boot)

Sure, showcasing a detail shot of a thigh might be kind of weird...but I had to!  See, back in the day Viral would wear this combination of one colored fishnet layered on top of another solid-colored tight--and the effect was actually really cool.  It sort of gave her legs this luminescent quality. 

Really good strategy actually--Blind your opponent with your glowing rainbow glory before knocking them to kingdom come with a hip check :P

While overall I'm fine with the drawing, I do wish I would have done a better job with certain things, like proportions and foreshortening.  Because her hip swing is just such a characteristic part of her, I wish I could have better depicted that sort of "wind up" here.  I just wanted to do her hips justice, haha.  

Welp, that about wraps up this entry!  Stay tuned because there's more coming!

I mean, if I get around to it I guess.

;)