Original DA Upload Date: July 15, 2021
Hey, did you know I have an Instagram account? No? Well, I do. And I recently crossed the 100 followers mark on it.
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My Instagram account has been up for a long time, but I don’t post on it very often. I mostly stick to DA for posting my artwork, and Twitter for actually growing an audience. Instagram on the other hand, is basically a bit of a third wheel. I don’t use it nearly as much as Twitter or even DA, which… may be for the best. Sure, the long descriptions I use for my DA posts aren’t there, nor is it an in-depth look into my view of the world like Twitter is. But it’s also much less cluttered, and I mostly show the work I’m actually proud of there, none of my cringe old stuff from 2016 and 2017. But of course there is the somewhat cringe 2018 stuff from when it was the web novel I was working on, and notthe graphic novel OTOG. I did start that account up in 2018, after all.
Finally, though, I actually passed a bit of a milestone on Instagram: 100 followers. Which I decided to celebrate by drawing this piece of Gilda sitting on a C-shaped couch! ‘C’ being a reference to the Roman numeral for 100, of course.
Now to the piece!
It’s established in this version of Grunvale that Gilda lives in ‘the Redfeather Commune’, a 12-acre (522720sqft/48562sqm), permaculture-focused farming commune established in the late 1970s (on the strict timeline) by several hippies who pooled their money together, choosing Ralph Redfeather as their leader and namesake due to his Native Amareican heritage. And since it is a farming commune led by someone of an ethnicity often portrayed as having a deep connection to nature and treating everything as sacred, I figure the commune would have a lot of earthy tones throughout, like brown and green. Easy with Gilda since she already wears green, but the brown hues and tints on this piece I feel really sell the idea that this is a community of farmers.
And since this would’ve been the 1970s that the Grime/Griswold house was built, I gave the carpet a 1970s-inspired pattern and color scheme. For the record, Gilda’s grandmother, Sharon Griswold, is imagined to have been born in 1955 (again, on the strict timeline). So old enough to own a house around the same time as the commune was founded, albeit probably barely. To be fair, though, Redfeather is imagined to be the one who actually owns and pays for the commune, with the money from the crop output and everyone else’s rent. Sharon’s just living there, growing the lemons and… some other crops I haven’t assigned to her yet.
BTW, Gilda’s grandfather is dead by the time the story takes place. While expressing his anger about Theodore leaving Gretchen to restart his film career, he had a fatal ‘widowmaker’ heart attack, and has since been preserved in a secure freezer in the Griswold/Grime family basement, as per his wishes to be revived or cloned when the technology is made and/or refined.
The text around the couch was supposed to be typed in Englishman’s Teeth font, but when I found warping the text to be too difficult due to how the warp tool in ASP works (the top portion of warped assets often bend in directions you won’t want it too, including onto the rest of the asset), I decided to just mark where all the letters were to be, and then wrote the text by hand.
Also, once again, I’ve attempted a hand-drawn look. Not just by filtering the colors and overlaying a paper texture as I’ve done with previous attempts, but this time, also with a brush of my own creation meant to imitate pencils. Which is proving to work very well for my artwork lately; the entire girl group series except for Wendy’s was done with said custom brush. So far, while of course nothing beats actual traditional animation, this is the closest I’ve come yet to making digital artwork look traditional, thanks in large part to the use of the pencilesque brush. As for the portraits on the wall, in addition to them being used to make the scene look more authentic, they’re pixelized versions of a fake logo I made for The Conjuring: It’s a Full Moon and I’m a Werewolf, Bitch!, a joke sequel title thought up by Animated Antic of Twitter, and a color-distorted version of girl group Gilda, as a reminder of the scope of the 50000th tweet special.
And to tie the scene together, we have Gilda doing one of her cute smiles for the camera, complete with flashed teeth and rosy cheeks. I swear, Gilda looks infinitely more adorable and goofy when her cheeks turn red. I oughta have the Tetrad tease her about it. In a friendly and playful matter, of course.
Anyhoo, that’ll be all for this one. Thank you to all who helped me cross the Instagram milestone, and until next time, take care.
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Grunvale is owned by me. You’re free to draw fanart of it, as long as you link me to it.
The Conjuring is owned by AT&T through WarnerMedia.
This artwork was made at a resolution of 5076×2160 (aspect ratio 2.35:1).
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