Week 268! (Sep 19 Monthly Drawing Suggestions) (Patreon)

THIS MARKS PAYMENT FOR THE WEEK OF 9/22-9/28.

Last update for September, which are another set of three groups of chibi/toon drawings, two groups of which are suggestions from Patrons! Like I said last month, I'm doing this new thing where any patrons are free to suggest drawings of the FH cast (or other characters maybe it really depends) they'd like to see each month, to both involve you all more and be more creative than before when I just put up more script pages instead.

The first set was a suggestion by Ulthar, who wanted to see "Max ting to seduce some wolf daddy like he mentions". Now the "like he mentions" part caught my eye and I actually went back in the FH archives to see where he actually mentioned that, and I think I found it on page 205, where Bruce and Connor arrive at Bruce's house to work on their report, and Max walks in holding two pairs of underwear, asking for Connor's opinion on which would be better. However, it turns out he asks about which a "cute little wolfboy" would like rather than mentioning a daddy. So, while I made this random wolf boy still taller and more muscular than Max, he's still rather boy-ish at the same time, for a mix of the two.

The second set was a suggestion by Michelle Bender, who, since Halloween is next month, asked about some of the cast being in costume. I've long since given up on doing special Halloween comics where the cast are in costume in whatever form, as years of doing it led to my well of ideas for costumes becoming very dry, but something quick seemed fine if given ideas or references. I was only told the broad idea of doing sci-fi characters, so I just decided to do the two big franchises here, Star Wars and Star Trek. I thought about what characters in the cast would like each of these, and I came to the conclusion that a high-fantasy-loving LARP-participating desperate-for-action-and-adventure person like Bruce would most likely be the one into Star Wars, and a more computer/coding-interested, logical, diplomatic, wants-the-best-of-people sort like Kale would most likely be the one into Star Trek. So here we have Bruce dressed up obviously as Luke Skywalker in his big baggy clothes from Episode IV as well as holding one of those classic toy lightsabers, while Kale is dressed up in a Star Trek command uniform from the end-of-DS9/TNG movie eras and holding out the classic tricorder. I imagine Bruce would be the type of fan who loves the original trilogy, ironically hates the prequel trilogy, and legitimately hates the sequel trilogy (and will argue with you all about everything), while Kale is probably the type of fan who loves TNG most and might generally respectfully engage others about underlying philosophies and themes and such in whatever episodes and series get brought up. If you want my actual opinions, I don't really care about Star Wars at all, and DS9 is my favorite Star Trek series. :P

Finally, since there were only two suggestions last month, for the third picture I decided to draw little kid versions of Lupin and Gus, with Lupin confidently marching somewhere while Gus follows eagerly along (and Lupin pleased to have said follower). I realized after drawing Max last month that the other 'main' character we haven't seen in an extremely long time was Lupin, so I wanted to draw him this time. However, maybe drawing Lupin just standing there would be a bit boring, so I decided I wanted to draw a cute puppy Lupin developing his ego instead. Naturally a cute kitten Gus would follow both literally and figuratively, of course. One last thing I realized during drawing this: before this, I had almost literally never, ever drawn Gus's legs or feet. I think over 10 years ago, in preparation for the New Canon being started, I drew a reference sheet on notebook paper of Gus's markings all over his body. While I'm sure that picture is 'somewhere', I didn't want to go searching for it just to have markings for Gus's lower half for this... so these are his new canon fur colors and patterns for his legs and paws I guess! :P

Alright, now like I said before last month, any of you patrons are free to make any drawing suggestions for next month as replies to this post! These can just be suggestions or requests of the FH cast doing something or being portrayed in one way or another, or they can even be questions asked of the cast members and you could get an answer from them! They'll most likely be chibi/toon-style like these ones and the previous month's, although maybe a sketch of some sort could also be done if it feels right.

Thank you all for your help this month!