Work has been kicking my ass for about a week and will keep kicking my ass for another one. This means I haven't been able to do any more drawings, let alone work on actual pages as I had originally planned. I will resume drawing as soon as possible, and while I won't make a 30 challenge drawings, there will be at least a few more.

But hey, a streak of 15 days still isn't bad. I think doing these challenges helps my creativity and imagination and allows me to experiment more, and on days when I've had time, it's been a lot easier to complete the day's challenge than it would have been a year ago.

Prompt #15: "What they'd look like if they were ten years younger". I don't know how old exactly X!Gloop is. Given that he's lived a thousand lives and we're not seeing those lives unfold in any kind of logical order, the question doesn't even make sense really. But in 1989 and throughout the early 1990s, I must have imagined him as a youngish man, perhaps 20 to 24 years old.
In fact, the lives don't follow any conventional chronological order. In one of his earlier lives, estimated to have been between #250 and #275 according to the Groth the Alternately Old And Young's Center of X!Gloop Research, X!Gloop, or Cachulip, as that incarnation was known, and his counterpart Achaz, were children living among the last surviving humans, hundreds of thousands of years in the future. Humanity was reduced to little more than a collection of specimens in the captivity of an alien species that worked hard to bring near-extinct sentient species back from the brink, through instant cloning, DNA synthesis and other means. Cachulip and Achaz were a little harder to contain than the adults in the collection, who were more complacent and content with their lot.
(Based on a story started around 1992, of which several pages were drawn and inked, and a total of 9 pages were scripted).

Prompt #14 was "In their pajamas". In his 421st life, the life in which the new (post-2015) story Xkolp, Sentience counsellor takes place, X!Gloop lived alone in a hot, muddy world where clothing only got in his way. However, on chilly nights, he'd put on a T-shirt as sleepwear. This is him checking things out after being startled by a noise from outside.

Prompt #13 was "In A Halloween Costume" and because we don't really do Halloween in the Netherlands, I thought I'd have a bit of fun with it.
You'll be surprised to hear that in X!Gloop's culture, this is not considered drag. Cultures change, and in the far-flung future in which X!Gloop lived out his 328th life, Halloween as a celebration of spookiness derived from the traditional feast of All Hallow's Eve was long forgotten. The day lived on, but it had become all about the sexy costumes, for men, women and others alike. Esokolupa, as this reincarnation was called, was pretty into the holiday and his Sexy Devil was particularly successful that one year.

Prompt #12: When They're Upset. X!Gloop is usually stoic. But on the second page of his first adventure, when his friend John Longcoat gets taken hostage by a Grismoon rider, he did lose it for a moment.
In the comic, he gets angry and sweary. I was very proud of the way I did the foreshortening at the time, but it doesn't look at all good to me now. This more polished reinterpretation of the scene is marginally better where the birds-eye perspective is concerned. But only marginally. I'll have to work on this a lot.