Happy Thanksgiving to U.S. peeps! I hope the day is a good one and as stress-free as possible, given… everything.
Last year around Halloween I first did a piece with Stan and Ford encountering these Cornstalk Men while traveling in New Jersey. I’d wanted to do a sequel, but wasn’t able to get it done for this year’s Halloween. But, the Cornstalk Men, while undeniably eerie, are certainly a Harvest Spirit kind of a deal, so Thanksgiving seems like an appropriate time to visit with them. (In fact, I had intended to do a whole background for this, basing it on the Corn Maze location that the gang visited in Roadside Attraction, on the theory that Stan and Ford got an introduction to the Oregonian Cornstalk Men from their NJ bretheren…. but obviously I didn’t manage that. Ah well.)
I can’t take credit for the pun of Dipper’s sweater. I was googling for ideas and a bunch of shirts in that vein popped up, and I knew immediately that I had to use it.
Of course I paid a visit to the originals in October:
I would usually link to the past Cornstalk Men posts, but because Tumblr is being a butt about linking right now, I will instead say that if you go to this post on my blog, you can hit the “cornstalk men” tag to see the previous posts. (Including an explanation behind these things.)
Late, but here’s a Tgiving commemorative post from 2018. I still kinda like this. I should do more with the Cornstalk Men at some point. Alas, I did not get to see them this year; I think they’ll be gone by the time I go down there around Xmas.
It’s that time again! Time for an Art Year in Review!
Ehhhhhn. On the one hand, not as productive a year as 2020. Started out well! Went to hell in the third quarter. But I’m pretty happy with the things I did get done? Boy, I sure did draw Ford a lot! (This is not a negative, just an observation.)
49 total pieces of art; 107 individual figures.
Truly hoping to get a grip and get back in the swing of things as this new year starts!
Goodbye to 2021. I don’t think anyone will miss you. A cautious greeting to 2022. You’re on probation.
I realized today that I had nothing to show for December, art-wise. I wanted to mark the end of the year somehow, and I needed to get back into the swing of drawing, too. So, a small offering. (Tumblr will not show it was posted in 2021, but I’ll know.)
So here’s my full piece for the calendar! Monster-fighting is festive, right? SO FESTIVE. Yeah, you go ahead and fight that Krampus, guys. I’m sure there is no way that could go wrong.
(The krampus is based on several of the traditional costumes actually worn by krampus figures in Austria for the Krampusnacht festival, which was December 5th. Lots of fur, lots of alpine cow bells, I gather.)
Kick the Old Year’s Butt on the Way Out (keep clicking through for full size!)
Symbolically, anyway; being a play on the fact that this is the last day of the year, and the last day for my December calendar page for the 2017 Hunkles Calendar.
So here is an updated / sequel version, which I have been intending to do ever since finishing the official one. This is basically the composition I’d originally wanted to do, but couldn’t make fit well enough into the square format of the calendar. I figured it’d be appropriate for the year’s end.
As many folks suspected, Stan and Ford have their hands full fighting the Krampus. ;-) Best of luck, boys.
And here we have the last of the commissions I took in the fall, for brokenpitchpipe on Ko-Fi! They asked for lined half-figures of “an injured Stan bro and a worried Stan bro (u pick which is which)”.
I am a sucker for Ford being worried / protective towards Stan, so there we go!
(The second piece is sort of a bonus; once I get an image in my head, I can’t let it go without doing it, and I liked how it created a sort of storyline. In reality, you could probably read these two in either order; but my original idea was that whoever or whatever is responsible for Stan’s injury came back for round two, and that’s when Ford goes from worried to drawing the gun.) (Man I hate that gun.)
Sea Grunkle photo album! *SSIIIIIIIIGGGGHHHH* *cracks fingers, neck and back* OMG it’s DONE, it’s actually done! I’ve been wanting to do another sea grunkle album for a long time and I sketched these out over the course of the past few months and in the past week have been inking, coloring and painting. There’s a ridiculous amount of detail (don’t even know if you’ll be able to zoom in enough to see them, but whatever)
Some of @lemonfodrizzleart ‘s Artist Stan references and @artsymeeshee ‘s Chibi Stan
(Stanley’s Corner <3)
(The Titanic one made me realize that not only has Ford never seen the movie, the shipwreck itself wasn’t discovered until 1985, 3 years AFTER he disappeared and probably doesn’t know it)
(Their trip to Loch Ness might not have been all for naught)
And here we have the last of the commissions I took in the fall, for brokenpitchpipe on Ko-Fi! They asked for lined half-figures of “an injured Stan bro and a worried Stan bro (u pick which is which)”.
I am a sucker for Ford being worried / protective towards Stan, so there we go!
(The second piece is sort of a bonus; once I get an image in my head, I can’t let it go without doing it, and I liked how it created a sort of storyline. In reality, you could probably read these two in either order; but my original idea was that whoever or whatever is responsible for Stan’s injury came back for round two, and that’s when Ford goes from worried to drawing the gun.) (Man I hate that gun.)
And here we have the last of the commissions I took in the fall, for brokenpitchpipe on Ko-Fi! They asked for lined half-figures of “an injured Stan bro and a worried Stan bro (u pick which is which)”.
I am a sucker for Ford being worried / protective towards Stan, so there we go!
(The second piece is sort of a bonus; once I get an image in my head, I can’t let it go without doing it, and I liked how it created a sort of storyline. In reality, you could probably read these two in either order; but my original idea was that whoever or whatever is responsible for Stan’s injury came back for round two, and that’s when Ford goes from worried to drawing the gun.) (Man I hate that gun.)
