#fanfic: blazin' trails redux

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WIP

Finally got around to drawing Punkin's maw 😀

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WIP

Every time I try to draw Drag-a-Long, another character forms instead. This is Darrell Coyote, his uncle 😅

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WIP

Had to doodle Dixie's partner in crime 😁☺️

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Used up extra time on my lunch break to come up with a design for Ricochet's great-grandmother Reece.

I REGRET NOTHING

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Salvador Barnes

@blazing-shadows is going to bombard me with messages now XD

I'm getting around to finishing those WIPs I started in September and one of them was one of my buddy's original characters, Salvador. He's the son of my OC, Spike, who's the second in command of Red Scorpion, and a fearsome outlaw in his own right. What sets him and his father apart is his moral compass, which his father tried to destroy multiple times. Following a harrowing betrayal and escape from the law, Sal ends up being in the company of Roxanne Falconeri-Rabbit, who was assigned to capture him. Through a string of incidents, he's let off the hook and assigned to be Roxanne's deputy. And slowly but surely, something starts building between them 😉

That's all your gonna get now, alright? 😁

Drawing Sal was a fun challenge. Aside from Wally Gator, MAYBE Godzilla, and the dinosaurs from the Herculoids, Hanna-Barbera doesn't have a lot of reptilians im their library, so I had to look up different types of lizards. And then when I drew him, I got the WRONG ONE (for context, he was supposed to be a Texas horned lizard, but I ended up using the Australian thorny devil), and by that point I put in so much work I didn't want to redraw him. So I combined it. And then I went nuts doing the scales 🤣 The only real issue was doing his scale color. I had the right markers, but they kept running out except for my illustration pen. So I did my best to use my dying markers and then blend it in using my illustration pen. And it resulted in a two tone color that looks ABSOLUTELY STUNNING 😍

Not sure what my next Blazin' Trails art will be, but just know it'll be on the same quality as this one 😉

Enjoy 😊

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Hello all! I'm making a list of chapters from the original Blazin' Trails to include in Redux, but I'd like to hear your feedback on which ones you'd like to see get an upgrade (or keep in its original form) in the remake.

Below are chapters 1-3, 5-7, and 10-12 (the reason why some are skipped is because I've tapped these for an overhaul in Redux), listed in order of publishing!

And for those who haven't read the original Blazin' Trails, the original fic is up on my profile on FanFiction.Net. I'll probably migrate it over to AO3 soon, though, as well as Redux.

Enjoy, and happy voting!

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Bad Boys for Life

No, I won’t apologize for this title. XD For all intents and purposes, they fit this description perfectly. ^^

Finally got around to coloring in these two, who have been occupying my brain as of late (and I’m ALL FOR IT) alongside their equally awesome great-grandsons. Don’t worry, a pic with Ricochet and Droop-a-Long will show up, but I have a few other ideas I want to try out before I doodle them ^^

This is the first time I’ve actually colored in Great-Grandpa Ric, and he turned out pretty cool! I know that he technically wears mauve, but I didn’t have a good matching color to use, so I made up a different one on the spot. And if you ask me, it looks a lot better on him than the original color they used in the cartoon! It bounces off of his grey-blue eyes well.

As for Olivier, his shirt is a reference to Matt Dillon’s outfit that he wears in the color versions of Gunsmoke. That, and well, I didn’t feel like pulling out yet another army of markers just to find the colors for his OG outfit.

Enjoy!

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WIP

Hey! It’s more old dead people! *gets shot*

Got hit with Blazin’ Trails brain rot again after so long, and these two are the first ones to pop into my head. I love Ric I and Olivier so much 🥺

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WIP

Trying to get in the habit of drawing something for twenty minutes, and of course, Denise came to mind ^^

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WIP

I finally got around to that sequel to Ric I and Olivier’s pic :D

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Loving the Skin She’s In

Not pictured: Droopy drooling XD 😝

As I said in the last WIP, just wanted to get a quick picture down for developing a drawing habit, and Denise came to mind. I was going to put her in an actual outfit, and then decided to do a quick study of her body type. ^^ And this, in a way, kinda became a body positivity post ^^

Fun fact: Denise was initially inspired by Bunny Hug (Ricochet’s sweetheart in the original cartoon, who is one of my least favorite characters of all time), design-wise. When I redesigned her, she became taller with a figure kinda inspired by Lola Bunny, but she’s got a rectangular shape, whereas Serena’s body type is closer to Space Jam Lola. Within BT and my other H-B stories, Denise has a bit of a complex about her body—for years, she believed that she wasn’t quite as beautiful as her sister or other does, either. She would later come to unlearn that rhetoric as Ricochet, Droop-a-Long, and her friends would help her realize that true beauty comes from within, and that she’s already beautiful the way she is. And over time, she comes to love the skin—er, fur—that she’s in, hence this picture. And it’s something that I had to learn myself, too, so in a way, this is a bit of a healing post for me as well ^^

For the ladies in my fics, this is the order, from biggest, to smallest: Edith, Clarissa, Serena, Melissa, Cat, Emilia, Felicia (Baba Looey’s girlfriend who I have yet to design, haha XD), Denise. Just as a point of reference ^^

Enjoy 😉

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Reece Rabbit (Concept Sketch)

Don’t be fooled by this pose. She’ll clock you over the head with a beer mug in a minute. XD

A rough coloring of my OC, Reece Rabbit, that I shared a few days ago. I’ll do a proper picture with her in the same vein as Don and Edith as soon as I get the chance.

@blazing-shadows suggested that I give her brown hair and amber eyes, and I gotta say, I like the look! And yes, she’s one of the few members of the family that has a white/lighter coated underbelly—a trait that her son, Rico, would get. For the colors, I decided on doing a three tone green dress for her. I am thinking that lilac would be a cute color for her, though! And Looney Tunes can be thanked for her design for her ears—I remember that Lola’s mom in TLTS had a cute updo with her ears, and used that for her ears. I think I might draw her with a Lola-style look for her ears when I finally get her design down. ^^

As for her hair, I modeled it after Kitty Russell’s from Gunsmoke, although it’s a bit messier than Kitty’s since I was trying to figure out what to do with her hair, lol.

I hope you like this one!

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Happy 6th Anniversary, Blazin’ Trails!

A little doodle of my boys Ricochet Rabbit and Droop-a-Long Coyote in celebration of Blazin’ Trails’ 6th anniversary. I’ve drawn Ricky and Droopy so many times for so many years, it was easy work. And yes, this references on of my other pics where Droopy does the bunny ears behind Ric’s head. He’ll get chewed out for it, but it’ll be worth it. XD But yeah. It didn’t occur to me that yesterday marked the story’s 6th anniversary until I looked at the date!

As I noted on my profile, if someone had told me a few years ago that I’d be working on content for Ricochet and Droop-a-Long this long, I might’ve called them crazy. This series originally started as a one-shot that started with the idea, “What if Ricochet and Droop-a-Long actually were good friends?” The ideas just wouldn’t stop from there, and I had to keep writing. The result: an anthology that held my brain for about two years, developing an obsession with Westerns that led to me discovering Gunsmoke and other great shows, and eventually dragging my good friend @blazing-shadows into the colorful mix that is the Hanna-Barbera fandom (because when we weren’t talking about Fiery Heart, Broken Soul, or DKC, or Star Fox or Mario things, I was constantly hammering out H-B content, haha ^^’’)! Even my brother was into it for a while!

While this series has been a wild ride, with so many things being added and changed, I wouldn’t change a single bit of it. This story is probably right up there with Super Readers’ Biggest Adventure and Hugs and Kisses as one of my favorite fanfics of all time. To read the comments on the story and to hear that the character development that I’ve given Ricochet and Droop is one of the highlights of the story fills me with such incredible joy and warms my heart. It really inspires me to both develop them further, and to continue developing more characters within the Hanna-Barbera fandom, such as Touché Turtle and Dum-Dum (as seen in For Love and Glory Relance).

This got kinda long and winded, but I guess what I’m trying to say is, I’m happy with how things are with this series, even in its disorganized state. And I’m excited to work on Redux, even though it won’t be out until August XD

Thank you all so much for enjoying this story of mine, and thanks to my buddy for creating both timelines and original characters—as well as sticking with me through this hyper fixation of mine, haha. You all rock!