Last year during lunch in school, I was sketching after I saw `Return to Oz,' on DVD (a wonderful film which is the unofficial sequel to `The Wizard of Oz,') the prior night. I started to think of a different approach, a darker (but hopefully not too nasty), version of the beloved characters.
In the back of my mind, I was designing it as a fictional comic book cover, but I didn't real adhere to that premise during its entire fabrication.
I tried to make Dorothy's companion fairly dangerous. The scarecrow looks like he could kill you with a swoosh of his pick-axe. The tin woodsman could definitely do a lot of damage with his cannon and belching pollution. The cowardly lion is the most unchanged but looks like to has killed something (perhaps Toto?). Dorothy was intentionally drawn as a slutty tramp, she is dragging a bloody Toto and she has bunch of dynamite in her basket.
I was going to add some of the flying monkeys, but just added some eerie-looking Ozian woods. Hidden in the backdrop are two figures hung from the tree.
This image was finished digitally after the detailed pencil sketch. It's 15% of the size of the original. So you can't really see the scarecrow's gator skin-like texture on his shirt.
It was fun to do... the Oz stories are some of my favorites so this `parody' hopefully shows a smidgeon of respect and not an ounce of ridicule.
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