Stickymon - Kotobukiya Jason Voorhees

Original lineart here:  Lady Voorhees

This commission here was something I made to Stickymon back in October.  The idea for it is that it would be a Halloween commission but the fault was on my part in that I made the commission too close to the holiday and Stickymon had a lot of others ahead of me.  So I think next time I’ll try to plan ahead better. 

Anyway, since it was done for Halloween, what I wanted to do was something that I learned about from my friend who did a cosplay of Jason Voorhees in this style.  From what she told me it’s based on a figure that the company, Kotobukiya, had done.  On it’s face value, it does look like a genderswap/fem/Rule 63 version of the character, but from what I was told it was essentially a different person who took up the name “Jason Voorhees”.  At least that’s the explanation I heard and try to tell others like how I tried to tell my closest friend about it who brushed it off.  Her response was, “It’s just mindless fanservice to sell figures”, which I’ll admit to but I don’t really care because I love the design of it. 

In the creation of it, I suggested to Stickymon that it should be “sexy” and he came up with a few ideas such as it was him who suggested that she have her machete inside her shirt ready to essentially cut it off of herself.  The next part that he suggested was for her lips, that she be biting on her lower lip like she is really anticipating her next action. 

What resulted was a look where she looks like she either wants to kill the viewer or have sex with them….or maybe both since this is “Friday the 13th”. 

Anyway, coloring the piece was fairly easy, although the really tough parts came when I was working in a “blood splatter” to both the machete as well as the body of Voorhees.  After that, the real challenge began: creating a background.  Since I knew that this was “Friday the 13th” I had to put in something that would have a connection to the location; Crystal Lake.  So, I went through various screen caps from the movie and focused upon the sign for Crystal Lake and worked that into the picture. 

After that, it was a case of essentially painting trees and shrubs of which I thank Bob Ross and his show, The Joy of Painting.  Although, transferring the techniques of wet on wet oil painting to digital painting is a feat in itself because the difference between the two is this:  when working with oil paints and brushes a lot of the work is done by the brushes themselves.  With Digital, you pretty much have to monitor everything: paint brush size, shape, the color you’re using and so on.

Essentially you have to control and keep an eye on everything.  I know it may sound nitpicky to go into detail about this, but I wanted this to be the best of what I can do. 
So after, all that was done and giving it all a light blurring toe give it a background look, I felt that the picture was finished. 

Note:  All character(s) depicted here are 18 years of age or older.

© Jason Voorhees figure - Kotobukiya

© Jason Voorhees - Friday the 13th - Paramount Pictures