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phantom-inker — The Cauldron Explodes

Published: 2013-12-16 02:42:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 31874; Favourites: 349; Downloads: 0
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Description They weren't the best students in the magic school, but they'd gotten by so far working together, together they would persevere.  This homework project surely would be no different.  And, in truth, they worked well together to get this homework spell utterly and completely wrong.  Bri didn't fully understand the spellbook and named the wrong ingredients for the other two.  Melany was obsessing over boys and wasn't paying attention when she measured the quantities wrong.  And Courtney may have poured the ingredients in right, but she really shouldn't have knocked in the bottle of green pixie dust that triggered the cauldron to explode.


The administration debated afterward whether to expel them, but they concluded that there were few punishments worse than what the girls had done to themselves, and if at the end of the year, they wanted a professor to change them back, that could be arranged.  In the meanwhile, the stares of every one of their fellow students — and their parents! — was punishment enough!


So...  lots of hours drawing a strange idea I had months ago.  I did this in bits and pieces in the interim, resulting in the finished lineart you see.  As usual, all done with CorelDRAW and a mouse.


I'd feel sorry for them, but it's pretty awesome, isn't it?

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Comments: 23

CobraFreek [2023-10-19 11:40:39 +0000 UTC]

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Danason [2017-02-13 22:44:10 +0000 UTC]

Yes!

Awesome indeed! Love it!

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bluegill [2016-02-09 15:29:09 +0000 UTC]

cool pic

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SIERRA-116 [2014-05-03 14:25:51 +0000 UTC]

Who says all those stares are bad? Scorpion girls are sexy. Sadly, she doesn't have claws to hold me down.

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bobbytf [2014-02-24 12:46:26 +0000 UTC]

I feel envy, not sorry for them

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Tenkokukutiw [2014-01-09 06:04:34 +0000 UTC]

deverias hacer secuencias mas largas historias me gustan.

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phantom-inker In reply to Tenkokukutiw [2014-01-10 04:54:57 +0000 UTC]

¡Gracias por el +fav!


(I'm sorry, but I don't actually speak Spanish.)


I usually have a story for most of my drawings; I just don't often include their complete detail when I write the comments.  But I'm glad you liked the drawing.  More drawings are coming soon!

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MatejCadil [2014-01-07 14:52:14 +0000 UTC]

Awesome drawing and nice story behind it!
But poor mermaid girl - at least the other two are still able to walk, but what about her?  

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phantom-inker In reply to MatejCadil [2014-01-08 12:47:42 +0000 UTC]

Magic self-propelled wheelbarrow?  I'm sure they work out something for her.


That said, I think she's the only one who ends up eventually getting herself changed back:

  • The centaur girl meets a very nice centaur boy, falls in love, drops out of school, and eventually is a happily-married mother of six, with no regrets.
  • The scorpion girl graduates and goes on to become a very capable sorceress, but she keeps her body because she meets a talented boy who thinks she's the bee's knees just as she is; they start a major sorcery profession together, and although they never get married, they're inseparable all their lives.
  • The mermaid girl is fawned over by all sorts of people who think mermaids are wonderful, but she doesn't really get close to any of them; she's an isolated celebrity.  After she graduates, she goes on a swimming tour of the world to find out what she really wants out of life, and she concludes that she misses being human and has herself changed back; but she still uses a temporary mermaid spell on the weekends to relax at the pool or the beach.  I don't think she stays in sorcery as a profession, but I don't know what she ends up doing.

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MatejCadil In reply to phantom-inker [2014-01-08 16:55:57 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the detailed explanation!

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MensjeDeZeemeermin [2013-12-17 04:26:12 +0000 UTC]

I very much like the energy and effective, daring poses of this one.  Great expressions, and a nice integration of the shock of the change with the way their bodies would respond after it.

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uglygosling [2013-12-17 01:32:54 +0000 UTC]

I wonder if the potion affected the students in the dorm rooms above!

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snakeman830 [2013-12-16 20:03:01 +0000 UTC]

Probably an improvement on all three of them

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MadelynHimegami [2013-12-16 05:44:38 +0000 UTC]

They messed up one homework assignment and were at risk of expulsion?

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phantom-inker In reply to MadelynHimegami [2013-12-16 18:38:02 +0000 UTC]

Well, it wasn't so much the one messed-up homework assignment as the giant gaping hole in the ceiling of their dorm room, the dorm room above them, and the dorm room above that.  >_>

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MadelynHimegami In reply to phantom-inker [2013-12-16 22:18:05 +0000 UTC]

Ahh, that makes more sense.

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Rogue7 [2013-12-16 05:43:31 +0000 UTC]

Awesome pic, love the added touch of the story

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Agent505 [2013-12-16 04:24:19 +0000 UTC]

Scorpion girl's a nice touch - glad to see a mermaid in the mix too
Neat action scene!

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joshpoint0 [2013-12-16 03:59:38 +0000 UTC]

Instant fave X3

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af-s772 [2013-12-16 03:23:36 +0000 UTC]

Love this! 

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InfernalRavager [2013-12-16 03:03:41 +0000 UTC]

I honestly think this needs colored. It came out great and colored would make it amazing.
Awesome work.

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The-Hip-Death-Goddes [2013-12-16 02:44:25 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, the centaur came out great!

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CentaurWorks [2013-12-16 02:43:27 +0000 UTC]

Amazing Job as always! I really like how the mermaid & centaur came out.

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