The New Day is a Great Big Fish

All right, Batch #1 of Monstrous Regiment stuff!

( Click here (and on the other cuts) only if you've read the book! )

The Duchess - the person, not the inn. The way she's described in the book makes it hard not to imagine Queen Victoria, so I kind of drew on that but didn't look at any specific reference in order to not make her look exactly the same.
A Rough Lineup - my main purpose to doing all these drawings is to finally do what I've wanted to do since I read the book last year, which is to make nice a lineup of the Ins-and-Outs. Here's a sort of rough version of it, with what may be my favourite Maladict drawing yet.
Polly - This'll be her pose in the lineup.
Shufti and an alternate head - I keep trying to get this pose right but it never works.
'Johnny', Johnny, and more 'Johnny' - ( Insiders... )

I'm not teribbly good at drawing utter cads as they don't interest me much, but he really stood out in my mind so I thought I'd stretch my comfort area and try drawing him. It's a shame the Borogravian army is so tough on facial hair because it would be easier to give him a stupid little goatee and be done with it.
Thome Igorth - Where would the thquad be without their truthty lurching medic? ( ... )

Tonker - looking a lot like my drawing of Bigmac from the Johnny Maxwell series ... kind of the same character but not quite. I like my earlier one better... I'll have to cut the hair to canon length though. (And change the darn filename...) Please ignore the aborted Lofty in the background.
Lofty - ... because this one is better. ( ... )

Wazzer - Possibly a little too strung-out looking even for Wazzer. Possibly.
Wazzer in action - A pose that's significantly more in character than any design I've drawn.
Corporal Strappi - he never really stood out, visually, until this last time reading it, when he looked like somewhere between Clayton (from Tarzan) and the creepy bitter guy in the café in Amelie. He had to have at least one little gross stringy bit of greasy hair hanging down in his face, but it was a challenge not to make it look dashing instead of repugnant, so I think I ended up with neither, which really doesn't work.
Flashsides - Maladict goes to ground. (This'll be coloured too, because I can't help myself.)
You are my little lads, and I will look after you - Jackrum and some of the company when they set up camp after the incident with the Zlobenian prisoner. I'm going to colour this one (so much of the description in the book focuses on colour) but for now I've just very roughly shaded it, mostly to separate the lines of the characters from the mess of lines that make up the background). ( Tealin Rants About Accuracy and Staging )

( And the other reason I like drawing from this book is... )

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