A few weeks back, I remember posting a sketch done by the wonderful Keeper of Pots. That sketch was done after I had met him of course, however the reason I had initially contacted him was for this very commission! As a quick rundown, I initially found Keeper of Pots on Hypno Hub and contacted him privately for a comic commission. His initial work was incredibly well done, especially the backgrounds. And of course I HAD to get a comic commission since it seemed that's what he specialized in.
As for the idea itself, well it's your basic "girl gets lost in the jungle and gets hypno snake'd" as per usual. The snake featured in this drawing is actually owned by a different artist known as plsgts. The reason why his snake was used instead of the standard Kaa was actually because during the time I really wanted to get a commission from plsgts, however he had already long closed his commission window. So I figured the next best thing, was to have his character show up in this comic and since he seemed to know Keeper of Pots and was a fan of him, I figured now would be the time to get a picture with me and Saalim.
As per the title of this post, this is actually the first ever comic I've commissioned of myself. Which even today, aren't as many as you may think. There are definitely more Erika comics to come in the future but this is the one that started it all! This is also actually a two page comic. I was debating whether or not adding BOTH pages to this post, but in the end I decided against it. Mostly because I'm doing my best to upload these pictures in chronological order and there was a few days gap in between both posts.. and in that time gap there was one other picture posted between the two pages, which we will see next week. This "rule" isn't absolute though and maybe at some point in the future will change. Just the whims of how I'm feeling now say "Let's do two separate posts!" and so it shall be.
Despite this definitely showing it's age compared to Keeper of Pot's more recent work, I'd say the charm was there. I commissioned him because of his great expressions as well as fantastic backgrounds, and he certainly did NOT disappoint. I do have a quote from him as well about his thoughts on the comic, but for now I'll save it for the second page's blog post. As a fun little bit of trivia For the longest time I used panel eight of this comic as my avatar on Hypno Hub. I definitely love that "in the process of being hypnotized" face. It was only replaced with a face from a different Keeper comic we will see in the future.
(Also in almost all of Keeper of Pot's drawings he has a hidden cameo of his yellow pudgy bird named Pooks. He's usually somewhat in plain sight but this is definitely one of the times where he's incredibly hidden. Can YOU find him in here? I know I couldn't without asking...)
Art by: Keeper of Pots
Commissioned by: Erika
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