Dated 30/05/2012

It's not easy being young like Diddy Kong. Sometimes you can feel pressured by your elder, bigger relatives.

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And so falls another panel of 'The Great Unfinished Collection'...



Picture three of my 'June 2012' batch happens to be teaser 12 of the aforementioned submission in my scraps, though not without a significant amount of reworking. A frustrating cockup with my layers in the original version shown was the reason for the piece being unfinished as such - and for well over a year, no less.

Despite the absence of any prior material in my gallery, I am very fond of ape feet, so Donkey Kong very much falls within my paw fetish radar. My single biggest attraction to ape feet is their gripping capacity, especially if they are gripping onto their other foot - with something, or someone, between them...



As with the previous batch picture of Mike Wazowski, Donkey Kong was another character I had never drawn before. Thankfully his simplistic 'computer game' design made him reasonably easy to pick up, as was Diddy Kong as his little victim. Again, I wanted to stay faithful to the original style, so I'm pretty pleased with the end product.

However, there was one aspect of my interpretation which did require some artistic license based on the original design - namely, DK's feet. I didn't want to give him realistic gorilla feet, but I also didn't want them to look purely like a second pair of hands, so I tried to create something inbetween - with a nice dollop of foot musk thrown in.

Aside from the initial ballsup with the layers, the most frustrating part of producing this picture was not drawing or colouring the characters, or even doing yet another jungle background. It was actually the construction of the images onto one page without making the details too small or cropping away half of each panel - a problem which #43 on my "Sixty Things That Piss Me Off" journal will demonstrate is all too common in my experience...



So, after 18 months, there you have it - apologies to those of you who saw DK in my scraps and were patiently waiting for this piece! Still, at least I got there in the end, right?



RRRex