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Veronica Lodge is the Queen of the "Blue Velvets":[link]
A while back I posted a picture called "Something in the Water". The premise was that there is a certain TYPE of female character that keeps recurring in comics and animation over and over again.
These are the creatures I refer to as the "Blue Velvets". They are little heartbreakers with long satin black hair and violet blue eyes. The first set I posted included Violet Parr, Phantom Girl, Trixie Tang and Paulina from DP.
It kept vexing me in the back of my mind that there had to be an ORIGINAL ARCHETYPE for this character type. It ultimately occurred to me that this could be none other than VERONICA LODGE from Archie Comics.
"Ronnie" was introduced in the April 1942 issue of "PEP" comics! She has been around for 66 YEARS!
I believe her to be the undisputed QUEEN OF THE BLUES.
This picture is her coronation. Her handmaidens are two of the newest members of her sorority:
Hazuki, the pint-sized vamp from "Moon Phase" and
Tomoyo, the fauning femme from "Card Captor Sakura".
I experimented with this picture. It is actually drawn and painted on blue CLOTH so it looks a bit different than my other works.
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Blue Velvet, huh? I like it, and I certainly enjoy this under noted archetype~. I've just got to ask... Is... That pastel on cloth? If so, it's a very nifty looks, and certainly something I'm not used to seeing. Ingenious~. As rough as the texture it's on appears to be, and, from what little I know of the difficulties of handling pastels from my youthful days in art class, you've captured an incredibly sharp level of detail. even if it's something simpler, it can't be easy to work such careful like work and intricate details into a roughly textured surface.
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THANX. I have a whole gallery devoted to "Blue Velvets".
This image was drawn in Prismacolor on a fabric veneered sheet of matting stock. Producing this image was like doing a black velvet Elvis painting. The highlights are in liquid acrylics.
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I love Tomoyo;
she's really clever, cute, bisexual and fetishist... and she's only 11!
Absolute and lovely unreal!
... and your techniques are always awesome!
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I saw only a few episodes of "Card Captor Sakura" when it aired on US network TV. Of course all of the lesbian undertones were cut out.
More of my Tomoyo art appears in my "BV" gallery:
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THANX.
This piece just hasn't found its audience yet.
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Obviously Ronnie used her Daddy's money to dally in genitics. As she would have been an adult some time in the late fourties magic must have been involved. Betty did allways call her a witch.
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Unlike the "Maleficent Seven" or "Alpha-Pi-Rho" series the "Blue Velvets" is more of an expository theme about a particular achetype.
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I thought I recognised one off them. It has been a while since I saw CCS or one off it's characters.
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You painted this on CLOTH? That is simply amazing. You're a master artist, LL!
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THANX.
I buy remnants of matte paper from an arts & crafts store that does custom framing. I acquired a piece of this blue linen matte and this picture was done on 8x10 the cut out that was left. The primary difference between this mattboard and linen canvas is the fact that it wasn't primed and gessoed. It was a bit of dry going so I was concerned about the outcome.
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