Original DA Upload Date: June 29, 2021. This was written prior to Auggie being revealed to be genderfluid.
Whoever’s playing the sax over this scene also plays at bar mitzvahs.
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I’ve been going through the Tiny Toon Adventures franchise on-and-off lately, as I await the HBO Max reboot. I’ve watched a large chunk of season 1 so far, as well as played some of the video games Konami made of Tiny Toons during the show’s original run. And generally, I’ve found the show to be a lot of fun. As a sequel/reboot/successor series to the original Looney Tunes shorts of the Golden Age of Hollywood, the writers certainly understood what made the original series work so well, and made the humor translate well to the zeitgeist of the early 1990s. Shirley the Loon was my favorite character early on because of her valley girl personality and the fact that she’s literally psychic, but as the show progressed and… decided not to have her as a major character, Babs ended up becoming my favorite. I’ve said before on Twitter how I consider her to be the true successor to Bugs despite the show mustly focusing on Buster, but I haven’t gone into detail of just how well-written and funny and gosh-dang adorable she is. On top of her having Bugs’ style of humor down to a tee, Tress MacNeille’s performance as Babs is enough to hold a candle to Mel Blanc as Bugs, almost every scene with Babs as a focus has me either laughing or applauding her, and… her relationship with Buster is just adorable, and reminds me of my own characters Margo and August.
Which is why I drew up this artwork, which doubles as a redraw of a scene from what is, of what I’ve seen so far, my favorite episode/segment of the series, Prom-ise Her Anything. In particular, this screenshot.
Why is Prom-ise Her Anything my favorite episode of the show? Because it features all the show’s principal characters at their funniest, and their best-written. The episode somehow even managed to make Li’l Sneezer and Elmyra, characters I usually can’t stand, funny, or at least tolerable. And on top of that, it even establishes continuity between this show and the original Looney Tunes, by having Buster learn his dance moves from the 1948 Bugs Bunny short Hot Cross Bunny. While I have been disappointed with how Buster is written to be more of a fan of Bugs than a successor, this time I actually didn’t mind it. In fact, I think the episode made great use of his admiration for Bugs, and if this is how he’s gonna be written, then I think I’ll get used to him being a Bugs fan, especially if Babs is who the show’s writing as Bugs Junior.
Anyhoo, since Buster and Babs’ relationship remind me so much of that of August and Margo, and I found the screenshot to be such a good visual representation of what my own characters are like together and as characters on their own, I decided it’d be the perfect inspiration for this piece.
Once again, not much to say production-wise. It’s just a redraw of a Tiny Toons screenshot. However, that doesn’t mean I have nothing to say this time, because there is something I’d like to go over that some of you might find interesting. I tried out a new technique for the scenery, inspired by a pixel artist on YouTube I’ve been watching a lot of lately, Brandon James Greer. Greer recommends, at least for pixel art, drawing objects and scenery that have a lot of detail, in monochrome/black and white first, then overlaying the color. That way, if a poor choice of color is made, it won’t require the sprite/tile to be painstakingly recolored pixel-by-pixel.
I decided to take that monochrome-first advice, and apply it to this piece for the scenery. With the exception of the night sky in the far background, the skewed layer of grass that Margo and August are standing on, and the flowers on the patch of grass in the foreground, the entire scenery was done in grayscale first, and then I overlayed the colors onto them. Some may argue that it’s just adding an extra step, and I could just use adjustment layers to get the desired color. Well, what if sometimes, you want more than just a uniform color overlaying everything? Adjustment layers are powerful tools, but they can’t just make colors appear from nowhere. They’re not a substitute for coloring. So that’s why I went with that method this time. Maybe it is more useful for pixel art, but it doesn’t hurt to try it on something more complex. Besides, that famous Santa Claus MS Paint speedraw started out in black-and-white before the artist added color, so there’s obviously some use for the monochrome method.
Anyways, that’ll be all for this one. Until next time, ALOOOOOHAAAAA!
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This artwork was made at a resolution of 5076×2160 (aspect ratio 2.35:1).
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