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Starfire is very emotional, and she has no problem showing that.  What makes this interesting for me is how distorted she was drawn throughout the episode.  And my challenge was to catch those same extreme over the top drawings.  I’m used to drawing her with the same basic layout, but here I had to throw that away, and relearn how to draw.

These sketches are shown in the order they appeared in the episode, not in the order that I drew them.

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Killer Moth introduces himself and stops Robin and Starfire dead in their tracks.  Really simple, but this is just a warm up.

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Thwack!  You show her, Star! 

My logic bone exploded on this one.  Star takes off her gauntlet and slaps Kitten a good solid shot.  But look closely at that gauntlet.  Her hand is still attached to it, but her other hand is where it belongs.  Does that mean she wears gloves?

I had to redraw Star maybe three times to get their positions right.  Look closely and there are about 6000 lines surrounding her.

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Star just loses it.  She’s jumping all over the place, waving her arms.  She also has a bit extra (er, not quite sure how to phrase this…) (perhaps), bounce?

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Temper gets the best of her and goes up in flame!

I drew Star three times.  The first to have the matchstick shaped correctly, second as the match, and the third I liked the pose so much I redrew it just to show it off.

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Robins first meeting with Kitten.  Robins smile just kills me.  Sure it killed him also.

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I kept thinking of sharks.

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I like Kittens cool calm reaction to Starfire.  I can just hear Kitten thinking “Really?”

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A treat!  This is a blink and it’s gone moment!  Near the end Cy, Beast Boy and Raven are in Killer Moths basement as the moths start to revert to their un-modified state.  Whenever Cy is in a frame he fills about three-quarters of the space, and this is no exception.  The larvae also fill a good-sized chunk which leaves this BB/Raven gag crammed into a tiny corner.  Beastie pops out from underneath Ravens cloak, and she doesn’t seem to mind.

But it’s there!  I don’t dare make up that kind of stuff.

I like this episode.