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illustrator/animator Blanca Martinez de Rituerto Showreel Inspiration Blog Bluesky I do not give consent for any of my work to be used for AI purposes. Generative AI goes against the very essence of art, wasting energy and water to create derivative pap for content and kudos.

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Oz Illustration Masterpost

OUTSIDERS:

Billina the Yellow Hen

Dorothy Gale of Kansas (1, 2)

Eureka the Pink Kitten (1, 2, 3)

The Nome King of the Underground World, a.k.a. Roquat the Red, a.k.a. Ruggedo

Princess Langwidere of Ev

The Wizard of Oz, a.k.a. Oscar Diggs

PEOPLES OF OZ:

Bungle the Glass Cat

The Cowardly Lion (1, 2, 3, 4)

Miss Cuttenclip

Glinda the Good (1, 2)

The Good Witch of the North

The Hungry Tiger (1, 2)

Jack Pumpkinhead

Jellia Jamb

General Jinjur

Kalidahs (1, 2)

The King of Bunnybury

The King of the Winged Monkeys

Mombi (1, 2)

Ojo the Unlucky

Princess Ozma (1, 2)

Dr Pipt, the Crooked Magician

The Queen of the Field Mice

The Scarecrow

Scraps the Patchwork Girl

The Tin Woodman a.k.a. Nick Chopper

Tippetarius a.k.a. Tip

The Wicked Witch of the West (1, 2)

The Wildcat

The Highly-Magnified Woggle-Bug, Thoroughly Educated

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Blanca Mz (@escapecomplex.bsky.social)

animator / illustrator Tumblr: https://blancamz.tumblr.com/

I caved and got a Bluesky account. I haven't used Twitter since the rat killed the bird. Will probably be posting more sketchy stuff there, and keep the tumblr for more finished stuff, since it's kinda functioning as my portfolio.

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difficulty drawing still

blobs to calm down

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no ideas time for teeth

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Agdon "The Scarf Stays On During Sex" Longscarf, from The Wild Beyond the Witchlight.

My players encountered him last week and it wasn't sexy he and his crew were taken down like a buncha chumps

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We got some new stickers made for MCM Comic Con London 2025!

See ya there!

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Ernest, the calliope-playing, button-loving monkey from The Wild Beyond the Witchlight D&D campaign. A pretty minor character (unless the players Do Something and he has to Show Up for Reasons), but I just really like drawing baboons.

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‘Cancel Netflix’: Elon Musk leads rightwing backlash over trans character in kids’ show

Resurfaced clip from Dead End: Paranormal Park led Musk to encourage his followers to cancel their subscriptions

So apparently the world's richest baby is throwing a fit over Dead End. He and other transphobic jerks are spreading the hate, and I just want to say that Dead End was one of the best projects I've ever worked on.

I've been reading Dead End since it was DeadEndia! The animation team I managed was really nice, the producers were really helpful, and the creator Hamish Steele is actually somebody I'd worked with previously on many other little projects. I was super happy when this show got greenlit and I got to work on it.

It was my first TV show to work on, having previously mostly worked on advertising, music videos, and the occasional film. It was really great to work on something where I got to see the characters develop and grow. I was a bit wary of being in a more manager-y position as lead animator, because I thought it meant that I wouldn't get to animate as much. But my duties were pretty evenly split between reviewing and managing my team of artists, then animating on my assigned shots. It was a perfect balance, really.

At the wrap party I got to do a bunch of karaoke to the songs for the "Phantom of the Theme Park" episode (singing in a demon Pugsley voice does a number on your pipes i tell ya)

My only regret with Dead End is that Netflix didn't give it a third season. And that most of the animation had to be done during the COVID lockdown. Everything else was golden.

Needless to say, transphobic and any other kind of lgbtq-phobic people are not welcome in my circle, or in my blogs. The world is not a worse place because trans people exist (and have always existed).

P.S. Also Dead End's been out for a couple of years now. Way to be timely with your hate.

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So I play and occasionally DM games of D&D. Those of you that play the game know that sometimes there's an NPC that's supposed to be fodder of some sort, no character portrait, maybe a name at most. And then sometimes that Nothing NPC, though character action, develops a personality and becomes a Something NPC.

That I feel is the case with Jekked from Wild Beyond the Witchlight. She's just supposed to be an underling for the brigand Agdon Longscarf, but a confrontational interaction with the party, a shorn tail and a TPKO have made her a little bit bigger in my mind.

I think I'll repost this to the Dungeons & Drawings tumblr blog, @dungeonsanddrawings. I ain't posted nothin' there in a dog's age.

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Eureka v. the Cowardly Lion, results as expected. But would you really want to tangle with anything as ruthless as this:

Oz Masterpost

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The witch Mombi in her form as a griffin! Which she used to bravely run away.

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Though she doesn't really have it as a title, Mombi could be considered the Wicked Witch of the North. Though she doesn't really have power in the same way as the Wicked Witch of the West or East did, otherwise the Good Witch of the North would have long since taken her down. At the beginning of The Marvelous Land of Oz, her domain includes one cottage, a six-horned cow, and a boy servant by the name of Tippetarius, who she received from the Wizard.

Her main magical ability is shapeshifting, but she also trades potions with the Crooked Magician. That's how she got the Powder of Life that was later used to animate Jack Pumpkinhead, among other constructs.

Further attempts at Oz domination by allying with General Jinjur's Army of Revolt were stymied by that meddling Witch Glinda though. So it goes.

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I feel the Hungry Tiger (insatiable hunger) and Eureka the Pink Kitten (infinite mischief) would make a pretty dangerous combo.

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Originally hailing for Gillikin Country, Jellia Jamb is the head servant in the palace in the Emerald City, as has been present for the rule of at least four Rulers. She's fairly good at her job and doesn't really make waves, but she's probably smarter than the average Ozian. Which isn't saying much, because boy they ain't too bright.

Once she was brought in to act as translator between the then-Ruler-of-Oz Scarecrow and Jack Pumpkinhead, because they were convinced they couldn't communicate with each other because they were from different countries in Oz. She was able to mess around with them for a little bit before they caught on. Thank goodness the Scarecrow's got bran and pins in his head otherwise those shenanigans could've gone on for hours.

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Been struggling a bit drawing stuff lately and I've finally done something I feel kind of ok with. I guess this counts as a study rather than a fully original illustration, since to take some of the thinking out of my brain, I decided to copy the boar illustration from this board game from @sovietpostcards.

I like boar. I think they're neat.

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Possibly the most clever citizen of Oz is the Woggle-Bug, also known as Mr Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, Thoroughly Educated. He has humble beginnings as an ordinary Woggle-Bug who lived in the fireplace of a schoolhouse, passively absorbing knowledge whilst nestled in his little hidey-hole. One day Professor Nowitall discovered the Woggle-Bug and decided to do an impromptu lesson for his pupils on this particular species. He used a magnifier to project an image of the bug on a screen, and during an opportune moment the highly magnified Woggle-Bug stepped off the screen and to sweet freedom.

(Wait. Does that mean that this Woggle-Bug is the projection, or is it the original Woggle-Bug made large? Is there still a small, unmagnified Woggle-Bug hiding somewhere in a classroom? Um...)

Since then, the Woggle-Bug has achieved greater status. After helping the gillikin boy Tip on his journeys, and returning Ozma to the throne, he received a good position as head of the Wogglebug College of Arts and Athletics. He's something of a chemist too, having invented School Pills and Square Meal Pills, allowing all his students to receive a full education and nourishment in seconds, so they can focus all their energy on what really matters when you go into higher education: sports.

(He's also a prosecutor in Ozma's criminal court. See the case of Oscar Diggs v. Eureka the Pink Kitten.)

Anyway, I think we can agree that the Woggle-Bug is much, much more clever than the Scarecrow. What's the point in having Brains (even if you get them from a Wizard), if you're not also Thoroughly Educated?

P.S. Also his puns are very funny and if you don't get them then I guess that's a skill issue on you buddy.