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Minnie “Boom-Boom” Mahoony was the world’s greatest juggling, sword – swallowing, tight – rope – walking, daredevil of the 1890s. She was also known to wrestle gators and climb skyscrapers. Rumor had it that she studied under Houdini, learned martial arts in Peking, and worked as a spy for the U.S. government. While flying biplanes in WWI, she disappeared somewhere over the Bermuda Triangle.
30 minute ink drawing, 5 hours color in PhotoShop.
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Great Textures.
Love the pose and the dress on this Illo.
Nice!
Great story! nice drawing, well done!
Oh! Mike I love her outfit.
The colors are beautiful.
Yes, I love Houdini as well!!
Me encanta tu estilo!!!!
Muy lindo!!!
Cata
This illo rocks!!! I love colors, shapes, composition, everything!!!!!!!!! ^.^
Really interesting and a great illustration.
She’s quite the overachiever!! This is another great design – I love the palette you’ve chosen – and the background is especially nice – but boom-boom steals the show – love her head to toe – she’s a great character, perfectly rendered! Love it Mike!!
Awesome illo Mike!! Love the texture and color, especially your background and those flames are freakin cool. But definitely love the flaming hot Boom-Boom.
You’ve done it again. Great illo. You have such a wonderful style. Nice job!
Wonderful! Good composition, great texture, and love the colors. And awesome character. *Thumbs up*
Now that’s what you call talent (you ain’t so bad yourself).
what a great composition, the character is awesome…she is so beautiful and looks so concentrated in what she is doing..looks so real!
I just love how she does it with her eyes closed! She is quite the dare devil.. And umm, nice outfit! ;)
and yet another great illustration.
I just love this illo! Very inpirational style you have.
beautiful work! i love that she has CURVES!
What a death-defying and winsome lass! Exquisitely wrought!
Great Job!
Love the Design!
I`ll definitely be checking back to see what you post next!
excellent illo, as always. i particularly love this one!
it has real strong imagery.
Lets hear it for Boom-Boom! She is a voluptuous show-stopper. I enjoy all the detail you added, and the glow from the fire below lighting up her face really pushes this over the top. As always wonderful work!
sounds like an awesome Lady. This is so well done and beautiful… Brava for her and bravo for you :)
ok, that reminds me…got to get some jumbo watt lightbulbs at target. WHAT A FIGURE on this woman, mikey!
and soo talented!!!
great illio! :)
amazing work. i love how you have the time it took.
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Woah! This is amazing! You’ve really outdone yourself. Such beauty and grace. Your textures and colors are awesome! Cant stop looking at this one.
Great colors and textures!
well done…
Awesome colors and detail!
wowow! what a great illo.
love those big thighs! :D
as always, love the texture!
your writing is convincing too, if it’s not a true person (?) :)
Very cool – Love the way she catches the knifes with her mouth..
Hey, thanks everyone! Your comments and compliments are more meaningful to me than I can say. Love you all!
This illo was fun to do! And “Boom-Boom” was fun to invent. Sorry if what I wrote made her sound too real. I figured the gator wrestling and government spy thing would give it away. :)
Wow, she’s talented! :)
Great drawing… I like all of the work on the blog!
Great outfit!!
This is great. Is she for real?
Fine lady
Fine Illustration
Hello Mike!!
great work as always!! really lovely atmosphere!
Wow, she is very talented – and you did a wonderful job too!
really? what an exotic life she had! cool illo mike, love the ‘wedding’ too below!
Her bottom half looks like me! Have you been spying on me??? :) Just kidding! Nice to have a curvy girly featured every now and then. Nice work again!
amazing piece of work.. this has a really rich feel to it.. great backstory too :)
This is awesome! She has the prettiest dress on.
Wooo…great illo, Mike! I love everything about it!
This totally rocks! Excellent work, Mr. Baker!
wowee wow wow. This is incredible.
she’s a real gem. :-)
hey I’m so lucky I got a card with that image on it!!! :-) I am so in love with Suzy Sushi, by the way. Your craftsmanship and skills are amazing, Thank you!
[...] extreme marriage! In this continuing story of Minnie “Boom-Boom” Mahoony, we find her married to Captain Constantin Costache, Romanian circus acrobat, wrestler, and doctor [...]
[...] That’s it, now here’s a link to the image: Sword swallowing, fire dancing, sword swallower [...]
mike — love your illustrations. Is it okay that I used one on my blog? I linked the image to you and mentioned you in the posting.
is that a real story? the art is great, good shaping and color blend.
[...] not Minnie “Boom-Boom” Mahoony then I’ll eat a sandwich! You may recall when I first found Boom-Boom, performing death-defying acts. I found her again in a lovely wedding picture. I am now thinking [...]