TUFF PUppy OC Sketch Dump

I never did a sketch dump before. But lately I found it's an excellent way to let out as many ideas at once. When you got too much you need to do sometimes the best way to do it is to draw the ideas out on one picture.
This sketch dump has characters and a few BGs. And it's all from Butch Hartman's new show 'TUFF Puppy.'
I guess what I like about the show is the ability to expand the premise a bit and involve different locations other than Petropolis. In this case I created a new place where other villains live: a spooky haunted domain called 'Petsylvania.'
Petsylvania obviously takes the name of two places: one of course being the horror themed domain of 'Transylvania' and the other being the state of 'Pennsylvania.'

The main inspirations behind creating such a place are indeed varied. Among the most prominent you might notice is 'The Nightmare Before Christmas.' It obviously is a sort of 'Halloween Town' so to say. I included a few BGs to emphasize this. One being the town itself where you see the grinning crescent moon. The other being the pet cemetery where the more round pumpkin like moon grins over the tombstones. Not how there are different pets like dogs, cats, fish and even snakes and mice for the headstones.

Another influence came from one of my all time favorite video game series Castlevania. You'll notice on the far right the huge castle with the moon behind it. This is where my main OC lives. Also down in the bottom left you'll see her throne. Surrounded by the candelabras. And of course the bat piece on top of the throne.

And who sits on the throne in that castle that rules over Petsylvania? My OC Lady Malmsteen. She is a vampire bat of course. Towards the center are some sketches I drew of her whether solo or interacting with different TUFF Puppy characters. Near the two BG scenes on the left there are some expression sketches of her: one being flirtatious, one being innocent, and one being very angry.

More towards the right is her interacting with some of the characters. mostly the one under the title I typed 'Bat Romance.' The premise is two of the shows main villains have fallen for her though she particularly doesn't care for them. However she decides to pit them together in a contest to retrieve something very vital from TUFF for her. The winner will get to "marry her." (I put it in quotes because It's a Tra......well you know.) Originally it was going to be Snapptrap and the Chameleon competing over her. But lately I figured it might be better to have Snaptrap and Birdbrain fighting over her. Hence drawing the three characters as a sort of thought process.

More proof how she is manipulative is seen below where she appears to be petting Dudley Puppy and putting him under a sort of hex. She obviously uses charm and allure to get what she wants. I'm still toying with the notion if she should indeed be a true vampire and bite his neck to make him her slave.

BTW: as you might have guessed, the title 'Bat Romance' is obviously a take on the Lady Gaga song 'Bad Romance.' Essentially it's what Lady Malmsteen is; a mix between Lady Gaga and Elvira.

Now near the top we see Kitty Katswell too. she is strapped in a chair staring into a large pink crystal. This is Malmsteen's prized possession: a large crystal that drains the essence of young, pretty and very fit women and makes it drinkable. The essence of course keeps Lady Malmsteen young, and it what has been keeping her young for years. This of course is a reference taken from 'The Dark Crystal.'

Lady Malmsteen is over 400 years old; but she keeps the look of her age (21) when she received the crystal and used it to look how she does for years. Without it she would age. The title of that particular story where we are introduced to her would be something like 'Eternally 21'; a take off the title of the store 'Forever 21.'

But aside from being evil and manipulative, she does have a girlish motherly side to her. And that comes in the form of her minions. Her minions of course are bats. And she has swarms of them. They do her bidding and she can even organize them to form various shapes. But mostly she thinks of them as her 'children' or 'babies'; as seen in a pic next to the one of her and Dudley. She's hugging her minions and they in turn enjoy it as much as she does.

So with the setting and the character in place; I thought it would also be fun to add some denizens of this 'Petsylvania' Halloween type town. They are pretty much takes on the classic monsters from film. So of course when we have a lady vampire, we have male vampires. And three of them even have specific names.
Bela La Goosey is a vampire goose. His name obviously is a take from one of the most famous actors to play Count Dracula: Bela Legosi
Next to him is a tall leech in a cape named Christopher Leech: an obvious nod to another actor who played Dracula Christopher Lee.
And the last one is a vampire ferret names 'Nos-Ferretu'; obviously taken from Nosferatu.

Farther to the left are some mummies who live in the town too: all three named after Egyptian gods. Since the show features animals; it only seemed fitting to have them named after Egyptian animal dieties and look the parts: Anubis being the jackal, Sobek the crocodile and Bastet the cat.

And just for the heck of it; I added more ordinary citizens for 'Petsylvania.' Amogn them is a fish-man named Gillbert. And then we have a zombie rabbit, cat and dog. Next to them is a silent scary little cat girl named 'Le Noir.' You know..like Poe's Lenore. A skeleton dog who just lost his head..literally...and some ectoplasm with heads of different animals. And what animal themed scary town would be complete without werewolves? A male and female werewolf. The male also kinda looks like a hunchback. The female seems to be channeling a bit of Danny Phantom. Anyone recall the Empress She-Wolf? ah well..long time ago.

So that's my TUFF Puppy OC sketch dump of the Petsylvania settings, Lady Malmsteen, some of the show's characters and some of the town's denizens.

I really outta do these more. They take a long tiem but they're fun.

Lady Elizabeth Tepes Malmsteen is (c) to me shinragod.
The concept of Petsylvania is also (c) to me shinragod
All parodied vampire characters are also (c) to me.
Dudley, Kitty Katswell, Snaptrap, Chameleon and Birdbrain are (c) to Nickelodeon and Butch Hartman