Well, I wasn't happy with the quick ink sketch for the Pride Month, so I decided to make a proper Dorzma Artwork for the last day of June. Specifically, a remake of my first Dorzma art I ever did. Now with my personal versions of the characters.
That Dorothy Animation exhausted me for a good period, so I don't have much for Dorzma artworks compared to last year. So here's a quick ink sketch I made today.
"Someplace... Somewhere... AWAY FROM THESE HET'ROSEX'ALS!!" - Dorothy L. Gale (Yellow Brick Ramble).
Well, traditionally I would only do Dorzma artworks in the month of June. But Dorothy Gale from @yellowbrickramble has some of the funniest and most expressive faces I've ever seen that I had to do a fan animation to see it in action.
The animation was done in about a week or two on Procreate Dreams 2.
This iteration of Dorothy Gale belongs to @gastrophobia
"It happened that, as I was watching some of the little people bathing in a shallow, one of them was seized with cramp and began drifting downstream. The main current ran rather swiftly, but not too strongly for even a moderate swimmer. It will give you an idea, therefore, of the strange deficiency in these creatures, when I tell you that none made the slightest attempt to rescue the weakly crying little thing which was drowning before their eyes. When I realised this, I hurriedly slipped off my clothes, and, wading in at a point lower down, I caught the poor mite and drew her safe to land."
Chapter VIII "Explanation", The Time Machine
Well, like with the Conan piece, this was also another digital illustration I did for Illustration class this year. And honestly, I've learned a lot about inking, lighting and model references in that class.
This artwork, I feel very proud and accomplished with because of all the hours I put into this.
If you're wondering what I've been doing in April and May, this is why. This artwork I did for a Digital Illustration Class assignment.
The subject is Conan the Barbarian and the pirate lady Valeria looking at the ruined lost city known as Xuchotl, which is illuminated by the light of the moon.
Valeria's pose was based on a pose from @adorkastock complete with the swords.
Conan was based on a low-poly model lended to me by the teacher (as we had no big muscular figure for reference).
And I used Cinema 4D to figure out where the lighting of the moon would hit these characters and what kind of shades would emerge from said lighting. The overall artwork is ultimately done in Procreate.
Well, CinemaCon showed Disney's Hexed and unfortunately changed the protagonist from a boy and his mother to a girl and her mother. It's rather a pity since we rarely get mother and son movies (The last one I remember was Elio, but that was a boy and his aunt rather than a mother for some reason).
With that said, the protagonist's smirky pose and magic seems to be a remnant of the original idea. Very tomboyish to say the least.
And thus, I couldn't resist but use the pose to draw my take on Tippetarius (Tip).
Well, it's the start of March and that means spring is around the corner. In the meantime, I decided to advance the next stage of whole Barbara Ivy AU side project. Whereas the past artworks were simply redrawing Barbara in screenshots as a plant person, this one is not based on any screenshots and instead have Barbara and Pamela Isley in new and original (or at least based on a pose I found on the Internet) poses.
It also gives me the chance to show the full body of Barbara Gordon for future references. Namely that her plant clothes are almost a symmetrical mirror to Poison Ivy, and while her plant straps are in the same limbs as Ivy, they're positioned differently to reflect Babs' wristband and Stephanie Brown's leg belt. Two peas in a pod.Now I still don't know what codename Barbara would take in this AU scenario. But I do know is that she will have to fight Poison Ivy at the beginning due to being more moral and sane. But in the end, the two would reconcile and rekindle their strained friendship (possibly blossoming into a romance). Whether it be Pam reforming or Babs turning to the dark side, I'm not entirely sure. They just look well together.
And I do hope one day there will be a completed fanfiction of this scenario one day. I am not a fanfiction writer mainly because I hate writing dialogue.
General Jinjur. A Munchkin woman who witnessed the Wizard's departure and Scarecrow's ascension to the throne, Jinjur feels that Emerald City has become weak and frail due to the Scarecrow's honest truths (such as Emerald City never really being made of emeralds) and lack of intimidation (since Scarecrow doesn't possess any magic on his own). Jinjur decides to take matters into her own hands and form a woman army known as the Army of Revolt to overthrow the Scarecrow and put women (namely Jinjur herself) in charge of Emerald City and Oz. Of course, this puts her in conflict with Tip, especially after Jinjur recruits Mombi into her ranks.
Jinjur is both easy to conceptualize and difficult to design. Naturally, it was easy to figure out what kind of uniform she would wear (a military outfit) and what kind of characteristics I want her to have. She has to have this young and uptight soccer mom feel to her. Someone who looks on the surface to be inspiring and reasonable but, when you truly get to know her, is actually tyrannical and arrogant to a fault. I used the Sour Kangaroo from Horton Hears a Who as my main inspiration.
The hardest part was the colors. Jinjur is from Munchkinland, which primarily uses blue. However, the Army of Revolt is composed of many women from all sides of Oz, and the revolutionary colors that stereotypically signify tyranny taking helm is red.
So I experimented on many color patterns (and use greyscale) to find the right combination of colors that A) Highlights Jinjur coming from Munchkinland, B) Showcase her Army of Revolt's diversity, and C) use enough red to visually clue in viewers that she is revolutionary, not a typical army soldier.
I also made the Army of Revolt logo to be a pair of scissors positioned in a manner where you can see an abstract A and R. After all, if I recall correctly, they used sewing tools (including scissors) to fight against the men in the books.
As 2025 comes to a close, I decided to make a collage of all the Dorzma artworks I've made for this year. I haven't hit all the months to make artworks, but I have made enough to warrant this showcase.
Glinda of Oz, based on L. Frank Baum's final Oz book cover of the same name. Featuring Princess Ozma, Princess Dorothy, and Glinda the Good Witch of the South. All in my designs on the characters (except Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, I didn't have time to add them).
UPDATE: Managed to get enough time to add Scarecrow and Tin Woodman. Plus fixing a few issues and adding colorful planets.
I mainly did this because I realized that I haven't done more with Glinda outside of the initial character design. I wanted to change that AND showcase just how tall she really is compared to everyone else.
You can thank Wicked For Good for prompting me to do this rather continue with Nomes for NomeVember. I needed a reminder of who Glinda really is from the books with everyone else talking about Ariana Grande's Galinda "Glinda" Upland from the Wicked films. She's really the polar opposite of what people usually think of Glinda thanks to the MGM adaptation.
The recently appointed General of the Nome Army: Guph. And the only reason he got the job is because that his hatred for the good and happy people outweighs any rational thought (which got his predecessors, well... discharged from service permanently). Through his hate, he was able to come up with a plan so bold and insane that even the Nome King doubted it would work.
An alliance with other wicked tribes neighboring their kingdom to form one huge army to overwhelm the forces of Oz. Yes, it is without a doubt that they could conquer the Land of Oz. But the tribes of Whimsies, Growleywogs, and Phanfasms hate each other as much as they hate Oz. And all were planning to backstab each other for dominance after conquering Oz. Guph is aware of this inherent treachery and plans to backstab them all by stealing the Magic Belt and then banishing them away to their home countries again so that only Nomes shall conquer Oz.
Out of all the Nome Generals featured in The Emerald City of Oz, Guph stood out as among the rest due to having a substantial role that wasn't "Your Majesty, this invasion is impossible" and then being executed by the Nome King. For one thing, he has a personality that is distinct from Roquat and Kaliko. Whereas the Roqaut embodies greed and Kaliko embodies servileness, Guph embodies hate.
Hate is all too real in our world. Hate drives normal people to do horrible things, often in the name of righteousness. Hate is completely irrational. It demands that everyone sacrifice everything, including lives, for a gamble that may not even pay off. It makes dangerous alliances with factions that you don't understand. And it will not end with just the specific target. It will seek new targets to fill in the void. I knew exactly what I wanted when drawing Guph here. It can be seen in his military uniform.
Guph was designed with Danny DeVito's Lorax in mind, namely being short and having a giant mustache and eyebrows (as well as the voice). He also has a lot in common with Yosemite Sam too, having a very short-tempered and is trigger-happy. I even gave Guph red eyes just to emphasize how rage-filled he is.
Now, according to the book, Guph is described to be a very old Nome with long whiskers that needed to be tied around his waist just so he can walk without tripping.
That was a pain to do since I have no real reference as to what it could look like and be animatable. Guph's design in Marvel's Oz series at least trimmed his whiskers to just touch the floor with no need to tie them down. But I wanted the whiskers to have that same feel as the book's description... and I managed to get that by having the mustache wrap around his legs.
For the color of his skin, I went with a bleached out rock and muddled with the tone give a sort of pale look to him. I really wanted him to look old. Additionally, I had hands be fur colored to really emphasize that this Nome is extremely old even by Nome standards.
Overall, I do like how he came out. Truly an angry old Nome that stares into your soul for this Nome-vember. I'm not sure if I can do more Nomes right now. Three is a good number. But if I have time, I'll try to tackle the other Nome Generals.
Kaliko: "Your majesty! What are we planning to do tonight?"
Roquat: "Same thing we do every night, Steward. Try to take over Oz!"
I couldn't resist. Kaliko is the Chief Steward for the Nome King. He theoretically acts like a grand vizier or advisor to the king. But in practice, he's just a glorified butler following orders, recording meetings, and cleaning up his majesty's mess. Occasionally, he does serve as a contrarian to the Nome King, but only because Nome King knows that Kaliko is a suck up at heart and can be easily cowed into submission. This is why he hasn't ordered his Chief Steward's execution despite executing other subjects for far less.
Still, Kaliko is a competent and reasonable Nome. Which is why he takes command of the Nome Kingdom whenever his majesty goes absence for a period of time.
If Ron Clements is the inspiration for my Nome King, then it's logical to have John Musker be his Chief Steward. A fairly simple process since his caricature drawings of himself feature him with a long, pointed nose, a mustache, and glasses. That was the easy part. The hard part was designing the rest of the body and his outfit.
The book illustrations show Kaliko has being tall, lanky character with a rather butler-esque outfit. That would be simple enough if it weren't for the fact that the Nomes in general are described to be fairly round and short. So I gave Kaliko a pot-belly. As for his outfit, trying to draw a fancy jacket was a pain, so I made an outfit that was similar to the Nome King's and reduced the butler aesthetic to just his pants and a vest with a high collar and tailcoats. I also gave him a golden chain since that was described in the books too.
The colors, I gave him a red shirt since he is part of the Nome King's inner circle, but I didn't want him to overshadow his king. I gave the Steward more grayish and muted colors around the red. And speaking of gray, the Nomes are described have skin colors of rocks and look like they were chipped away from the mountains. Thus, all Nomes have gray-ish and muted hair colors to look like they've been carved from stone.
Yeah, the Nomes do center their lives around rock carving. You can see Kaliko holding a stone cutter tool just to write down the words of the Nome King on that tablet.
Next up on Nome-vember is General Guph, a Nome who hates everything.
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