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DIRTY PAIR saucy schoolgirls

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Behold, an old Dirty Pair illustration I stumbled upon whilst digging through a vast pile of original artwork.* I think this was originally a commissioned sketch for somebody, but I liked it enough to hold onto the piece and use it as a back-cover illo for one of the issues from the Dirty Pair: Run from the Future miniseries I wrote and drew for Dark Horse Comics back in '99.

In the actual miniseries proper, we do actually see Kei and Yuri in flashbacks set during their days as schoolgirls, but sadly enough, they didn't actually wear sailor-suit Japanese uniforms in AD 2137... I'd have to presume that this tragically lost opportunity thus gave me the idea of depicting them in said outfits, albeit as grown-up 19-year-olds** wearing the iconic skirts and blouses. Plus, the issue in question may have featured the wacky scene in which Kei uses a blinding, stroboscopic "panty flash" from her smartcloth uniform to induce seizures in some unsuspecting targets; hence, a panty flash of a more conventional nature may have seemed thematically appropriate. (Or not.)

Odd character design note: This illo may, in fact, mark the first time that I used one of the great Bruce Timm's chara design flourishes, the so-called "fish mouth" seen here on Yuri. I'm not 100% certain why this is called the "fish mouth," save perhaps that it kinda looks (very) vaguely like the mouth of Charlie the Tuna, the 70s-era cartoon mascot for Chicken of the Sea.

You can see more of my Dirty Pair work here: [link] ...which, coincidentally enough, includes this rough sketch of the designs for their "real' schoolgirl outfits, as seen in Run from the Future:


*I dug up a rather startling amount of old work I'd forgotten, which I'll be posting here over the next month or so... including a brand-new addition to my long-neglected dA feature "Failed Project Friday," wherein I show artwork from my many, many defunct pitches. Yay! (Damn, I'd forgotten that I actually pitched something to Vertigo...)

**Terrifyingly enough, I was actually younger than Kei and Yuri are supposed to be when I first started doing Dirty Pair artwork, back at the Kubert School. Since then, needless to say, they've stayed the same age, Dorian Gray style, while I have aged enough for all three of us...
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excellent work.  enjoyed the Dirty Pair comic greatly. still have it in my collection.  was a fan of the movies and OAV series from japan for years as well.