Rainbows! Didn’t really know what I wanted to wear today and ended up with this. Dress is thrifted, corset belt is Shein, necklace is Hot Topic and boots are YRU. My allergies are going crazy today so I think I’m going to just hide inside for the most part. I made the mistake of re-watching the old Gossip Girl and I got totally sucked At least I’m finally on the last season.
Inktober Day #16 is Laetitia Bowers from the Nickelodeon animated series, As Told By Ginger. As Told By Ginger is a weird one for me because I still remember when I first saw the show, I thought it was one of the most ugliest looking shows from an art perspective I had ever seen. But fast forward 10 years and I gave the show another chance and ended really enjoying it. Anyway, there was an episode that featured a Darkly-Inclined girl named Laetitia who was a new student and found her first day at school wasn’t going so well since a lot of the popular girls were spreading rumors about her and her father what with them believing her mortician father did things like murdered his wife and embalmed a corpse who was still alive. And considering how on her first day to school, she had a plastic skull with her, it only made people even more suspicious. Obviously all of these rumors were not true and the main character Ginger and her friends befriend her and they all get along very well.
I was so sad that Laetitia only appeared in that one episode because considering how well she got along with Ginger and her friends, she would’ve joined their friend circle. She was just so down-to-earth, sweet, and chill and I was so upset they didn’t make her a recurring, regular character. Just another missed opportunity characters (Seems to happen a lot with these kinds of characters doesn’t it?) Anyway, she was quite fun to draw. :)
Inktober Day #15 of Darkly-Inclined characters Inktober is Malaria from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. Malaria is a bit of a mixed character for me as while I wouldn’t call her a “Goth "character since they didn’t give her any Goth music references, she definitely was another lovable dark character because despite her being afraid of who Grim truly was (the Grim Reaper which was understandable), you could see she really did like things dark and eerie (hanging out in cemeteries and not being afraid of bats despite one smacking right into her face lol).
I wish she could’ve been a recurring character in the show. She could’ve been a friend for Grim when he wasn’t hanging out with Billy & Mandy (when they were at school) because while she was initially scared of him being the real Grim Reaper, she could’ve gotten to know him more and not be so afraid of him and became friends. Nonetheless, she was fun to draw. :)
Inktober Day #14 of Darkly-Inclined characters is Andrea from Daria. I love the cartoon and still kick myself for not watching it sooner but anyway Andrea… She was a pretty underused characters to be honest as she was only a seen a small handful of times and it’s such a shame because it would’ve been cool if she interacted more with Daria and Jane as I feel they would’ve synced well together.
Inktober Day #13 of Darkly-Inclined characters is Kylie Griffin from the animated spinoff series of GhostBusters, Extreme Ghostbusters. I honestly didn’t know of this show when I was a kid and didn’t learn of it till about 2009 and even then, I still hadn’t watched it. I ended up watching a few episodes the day I drew the character just so I could get a feel for her character as while I had seen pictures of her, I didn’t know what kind of personality she had.
I gotta say, I feel like I maybe would’ve been into the show as a kid had I watched it. Anyway from what I saw of Kylie, she’s actually pretty cool and was quite the interesting character. However her voice surprised me as for some reason, I thought she was gonna be voiced by Cree Summer and was very surprised to see she was voiced by Tara Strong LOL. Anyway, she was a lot of fun to draw!
Inktober Day #11 of Darkly-Inclined characters is Debbie from American Dad. Debbie is a pretty underrated character in the show and it’s a shame she’s not a daily recurring character with Steve even if they could’ve just been friends since they broke up so many times lol.
I was also pleasantly surprised that in the episode where Steve and his friends are trying to escape their school and run into the Goth group that Debbie is a part of, they actually played a Joy Division song, it was such a pleasant surprise as I was initially thinking they were going to play some Emo or Metal type music which always happens with these “Goth” characters and obviously, it’s just false since those are not Goth music.
So the fact they actually got it right was just awesome and it made me like Debbie even more. Hopefully we see more of her in later episodes. :)
Next up in the Inktober Challenge of Darkly-Inclined characters is Ingrid from Disney’s Fillmore! Fillmore was a show I didn’t really watch all that much as it came out when I got into watching more cartoons on Cartoon Network at the time. I caught a few episodes and only remembered a little bit of it but I remember thinking Ingrid had such a cool design. There’s not a whole lot I can say as I haven’t seen the show in a long while and I’ll need to give it a watch sometime later but I really enjoyed drawing her. :)
Inktober Day #9 of Darkly-Inclined characters is the hilarious Henrietta from the Goth kids group in South Park. Henrietta is just freaking hilarious and she’s easily a big fan favorite when it comes to animated Gothic characters. She along with the other Goth kids have so many funny and memorable quotes but the best thing about them is that Trey Parker and Matt Stone actually know what Goth music is as in the episode where the Goth kids burn down Hot Topic, their theme song actually sounds Goth/Post-Punk which was just a total treat to the ears.
Anyway, Henrietta was so fun to draw, I loved drawing her teased up hair. I was originally gonna draw the whole group but I didn’t wanna overload myself but I’ll definitely draw them all together in the future :)
Next up in the Inktober challenge of Darkly-Inclined characters is Gwen from the Total Drama series. I still remember when Total Drama Island was being hyped up for it’s debut and thinking how stupid it was gonna be and while it was pretty stupid, I actually enjoyed it quite a bit and I naturally took a liking to the token Gothic girl Gwen. Again, I wouldn’t consider her a “Goth” because of the lack of implication of her liking or listening to Goth music but still, she was quite the memorable one and I really liked her down to earth, sensible personality.
It’s unfortunate that her character got ruined in the later seasons where she went from sensible to annoying but I’ll always love the way she was originally portrayed in the first season Total Drama Island. I’ve been wanting to draw her for awhile now and this was the perfect opportunity to do it
Next up in the Inktober challenge of Darkly-Inclined characters is the first animated Gothic girl who paved the way for Gothic-type characters who came after, Lydia Deetz from the Beetlejuice animated series from 1989. Truth be told, I never watched the series as a kid, I remember catching a bit of an episode but never actually watched the series. That said, I did watch a few of the episodes last Halloween and I adored her so much and I can see why people loved her so much, I became an instant fan. :) —————————————————————————————————-
