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Description Sbebby was a Mock Dullahan - a slime that traipsed about in a suit of armor. She had discovered this armor under a pile of dead leaves she was eating and assumed it to be the discarded moltings of one of those knights she had seen on occasion. She crawled into the shell and found that the armor acted as an exoskeleton, enabling her to walk .

Sbebby found several things soon after. The first was that after much time and practice, she could run and evenΒ jump, and was able to cover much wider areas for foraging. The second was that she no longer needed to fear owls because of the protection the armor afforded her. The third was a sword! She found a sword.

She wasn't very good with it since she didn't have the proper musculoskeletal system, but she found she could make a pretty wicked chop just by slinging it around in a wide arc (an easy task without a spine or elbows). She accidentally decapitated herself several times doing this until she figured it'd be less trouble to just carry her head in her other arm. In this configuration, humans mistook her for a Dullahan and kept well away from her, which is just as well since she was equally terrified of them.

With her sword and armor, she could probably hold her own against a human or two, but she feared gaining the attention of a human community, for those were notoriously sensitive. She had eaten tomatoes from their fields once, and thereafter found her forest teeming with hunters. She was rid of them only after dumping slime-o-plasm into their traps to fake her demise. Luckily, no human in their right mind would try to hunt her now that they believed her to be a Dullahan. Only happy times from here on out!

...right?

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The concept for Sbebby came about from hearing someone profess their love of slime girls and dullahans. This sounded to me like a challenge to combine the two natures into one subject.

While I'm not all that into the decapitation thing, I did really want to try drawing a slime in an armor! Goop is fun to draw. This is actually the second try at this, the first being a less ambitious artwork with a more modest design. The second time around I shortened the skirt for mobility and exposed her midriff to show more slime. I also tried restyling her hair to look more melty/goopy.

My favorite part of her anatomy is probably the pseudo radius & ulna in the slime arm. But my least favorite part of the picture was probably trying to figure out how the shadows on the ground would work with her hand right under the light source. In the end I resorted to mocking up the scene in 3D to see how the computer would light it, and then painting the shadows based on that.

Tough work, but fun!

Made in Clip Studio Paint
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HiruJin [2022-10-28 16:31:49 +0000 UTC]

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Lapzidorus [2022-06-14 14:47:36 +0000 UTC]

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Fushigi-Okami [2018-08-27 03:16:25 +0000 UTC]


I think I found a character inspiration for you *w*

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AnAdminNamedPaul In reply to Fushigi-Okami [2018-08-28 10:32:01 +0000 UTC]

interesting...

*tosses a dog treat to you*

Circuit: *sees me throw the treat*...what the heck?

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Fushigi-Okami In reply to AnAdminNamedPaul [2018-08-28 17:19:20 +0000 UTC]

Me: *catches the treat in my mouth.* :3

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AnAdminNamedPaul In reply to Fushigi-Okami [2018-08-29 13:11:30 +0000 UTC]

Circuit: I _ I ... why was I drawn by a weirdo who's friends with other weirdos...

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Fushigi-Okami In reply to AnAdminNamedPaul [2018-08-29 16:35:33 +0000 UTC]

Me: *eats the treat.* You like weirdos =w= it could be worse.

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CeleriaAzure [2018-02-03 18:42:33 +0000 UTC]

Fun and cute

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AzabacheSilver [2017-12-19 22:30:06 +0000 UTC]

Fun idea!

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RoboPika20 [2017-12-19 04:33:13 +0000 UTC]

Oh, she looks so cute and excited!
I love this concept
and your design is beautiful

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E-M-E-R-L [2017-10-25 20:53:44 +0000 UTC]

I love Slimes. I love Dullahan's. And this is the cutest mix of the two I've seen (Only one for that matter but who cares) x3 Now I need to debate with myself which folder to save this too, cute or awesome x3

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PG1224 [2017-09-17 00:14:58 +0000 UTC]

What a cutie! Wait, Is she coming to kill me?!

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Loksuven [2017-09-13 04:04:20 +0000 UTC]

Ha ha, this is great. I really like the story too.

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Faithfeather [2017-08-18 10:49:37 +0000 UTC]

super cute x3 I love how excited the face looks

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happypiggy [2017-08-03 12:49:51 +0000 UTC]

The lighting is amazing; I can't believe you put in so much effort just to get it right. I'm super impressed. :'D

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Alugee [2017-08-01 21:08:16 +0000 UTC]

I love you johnsu

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0-DarknesShade-0 [2017-07-31 08:45:40 +0000 UTC]

GREAT concept!

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Rein-Shiki [2017-07-08 17:50:35 +0000 UTC]

That is an adorable take on the usual Dullanhan design I've usually seen. Love this and the way the clouds circle around the moon and the bright colors of the armor.

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Superjustinbros [2017-07-08 16:50:12 +0000 UTC]

Excellent art!

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TalkativePencil [2017-07-01 04:20:29 +0000 UTC]

I'd love a book like this!

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Snafubared [2017-06-27 16:19:40 +0000 UTC]

I...AM...IRONGOOP.Β Β Β  Dun, dun, Dullahan....

(God dammit, I am so lame.)

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Voiii [2017-06-14 04:26:54 +0000 UTC]

Really cool looking, makes me think of Ragnarok!

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Organis [2017-06-13 23:10:42 +0000 UTC]

Besides the awesomeness of the girl (her colors remind me of Madoka) and the backstory (I love this one too, as usual)...

...there's a manga known as "Dungeon Meshi" (or "Delicious in Dungeon", it is available for reading online in English) where a group of adventurers descend into the dungeon while low on provision, so they capture, and cook, and then eat all they can, while learning of the nature of dungeon and its inhabitants as they go (instead of mindlessly slaying them all for XP as most dungeon adventurers do). The cooking and the learning are the (brilliant) cornerstones of the series.

So they meet a pack of Living Armor which is normally thought of as of regular empty pieces of armor animated with evil sorcery. With a certain amount of struggle they find out that the (indeed, just regular plain old) armors are occupied with a colonies of soft (and tasty - of course they made a soup afterwards) shell-less mollusks that hold armor pieces together and collaborate to imitate the human-like movements of the armor (and sword fighting too).

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JohnSu In reply to Organis [2017-07-29 02:16:35 +0000 UTC]

Dungeon Meshi is a masterpiece!

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RevTakko [2017-06-13 19:01:36 +0000 UTC]

Cute concept!

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Slippery-Frog [2017-06-12 21:24:57 +0000 UTC]

You always come up with such vibrant, unique, and interesting characters. Do you ever revisit older characters?

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DresdenQ [2017-06-11 06:32:38 +0000 UTC]

Love it!

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krazedkazoo [2017-06-10 18:23:24 +0000 UTC]

Pretty smart lighting technique. What program did you use for the render?

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JohnSu In reply to krazedkazoo [2017-07-29 02:16:02 +0000 UTC]

it was Blender, the free open-source 3D program!

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krazedkazoo In reply to JohnSu [2017-08-18 04:57:41 +0000 UTC]

Thanks very much! I haven't used it before, but I should give it a shot.

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Dagger-13 [2017-06-10 12:32:08 +0000 UTC]

This is great! Β I love how your work teaches me about myths and legends I'd never heard of before, and also how you include little extras in your comment, like your process drawings. Β Really interesting

Great character, too! Β You're so creative!

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invisible-chan [2017-06-10 03:37:20 +0000 UTC]

Oh no, I love her too much! I need to see her animated and in action after that QWOP elaboration on how she walks. >A< I think I definitely like the midriff showing more slime.

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Yokaiou [2017-06-09 22:53:30 +0000 UTC]

Now that would be a cool SoulCalibur character

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NullNoMore [2017-06-09 15:06:15 +0000 UTC]

Now I want to see all the companions she collects in her happy times, forming an unlikely band that SAVES THE WORLD. The detail and thought in this, wow.

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Meow1726 [2017-06-09 11:29:30 +0000 UTC]

Trying to imagine the unnatural, omni-directional movement that each joint can make... O_o

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crazy4anime09 [2017-06-09 07:40:39 +0000 UTC]

She looks awesome and so cute!!! I love the colors and her story! fav ^^

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GoldMageAce [2017-06-08 16:01:45 +0000 UTC]

Awesome design; always loved concepts drawn from those RPG-fantasy universes, especially syntheses of those ideas.Β 

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Greeny21 [2017-06-08 14:12:18 +0000 UTC]

... Shebby .. marry me!

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Nazgul100 [2017-06-08 14:06:35 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow John Sbebby is so damn adorable, she is Definately one of my favorite characters that youve ever made, and that says a lot considering how good you are at that.
Looks like you went though a lot to get her done. Your dedication is very good.

PS. In your older art: Confrontation, with the Gulliver Group vs the Sheriff, the links youve provided, to imageshark, of alternate configurationsΒ only lead to the websites front page.

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JohnSu In reply to Nazgul100 [2017-07-29 02:18:09 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

And damn! That's what I get for relying on archaic image hosting sites...

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Raja-Ulat [2017-06-08 10:07:09 +0000 UTC]

It is certainly a unique concept/fusion.

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Demosthenes-101 [2017-06-08 07:56:00 +0000 UTC]

Sbebby is going on ADVENTURE!!!!!!!!!! Β At least that's what I'd like to think she's doing. Β No point in asking why you came up with her, so I will ask HOW you came up with her. Β  Β It's a brilliantly mad idea John.......and you ARE a brilliantly mad artist.......is THAT how you came up with Sbebby?????Β 

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shockaLocKer [2017-06-08 05:57:50 +0000 UTC]

Seen something similar before.

I still like it tho.

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Jon-Smitten In reply to shockaLocKer [2017-06-08 07:19:28 +0000 UTC]

Seen another slime girl from another certain Jon-S hmmm? >

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shockaLocKer In reply to Jon-Smitten [2017-06-08 09:02:27 +0000 UTC]

how'd the hell you pop up here O_o

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Jon-Smitten In reply to shockaLocKer [2017-06-08 10:38:57 +0000 UTC]

You gave me the link here, you retard

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shockaLocKer In reply to Jon-Smitten [2017-06-09 04:12:11 +0000 UTC]

Okay stay here, lemme get a bucket of bleach for myself.

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Emperorkarsa [2017-06-08 05:40:02 +0000 UTC]

She is so cute!Β  I really like her design too.

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Ururuty [2017-06-08 05:08:50 +0000 UTC]

nice

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