Original DA Upload Date: August 14, 2021
Just a cute filler piece I drew showing Wendy surprising Dolly by cosplaying as her.
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For a while, Wendy’s parents have been the only Tetrad parents that I haven’t thought of names for. There’s been Theodore and Gretchen Grime (Gretchen’s maiden name being ‘Griswold’), Harry and Sally Hynde (Sally’s maiden name being ‘Ketcham’), and Johnny Lowry and Carol Moss-Lowry. However, now I’ve thought of names for the Wyler parents, both of them: Donovan Phillips, a Siberian chipmunk geologist born ‘Phil Dong-hoon’ from which the sisters get their Korean ancestry, and Judy Wyler, an Eastern gray squirrel homemaker from which the sisters’ French-Jewish ancestry comes from.
Donovan and Judy live in a high-crime area on the border of Grunvale and Albaneigh, where Donovan runs a meth lab in the Wyler’s bomb shelter, mostly selling his drugs to Asia and the Pacific Islands. This, along with his racist anti-European rants, have made the Wyler sisters feel uncomfortable around him; Dolly and the twins Roz and Maddie have moved out, and Wendy and Nicole mostly stay at one or the other’s place. Nicole prefers the twins’ place for all the technology they’ve made and have installed, such as robot servants, but Wendy prefers the Voronovs’ for its warm atmosphere, and because she finds Dolly fun and relaxing to be around.
Anyhoo, because it was a cute idea that came into my head, I decided to draw this simple piece of Wendy cosplaying as Dolly in front of her. What’s the in-universe reason? I’d like to think it’s because Wendy knows that Dolly understands that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and Wendy’s way of showing appreciation for her eldest sister is by imitating her style for her to see.
Production notes!
A keen-eyed viewer will notice that the black part of Wendy’s dyed hair is ever so slightly lighter here. It’s a yellow-tinted black (as Wendy herself is a natural blonde), and the hex value is 1A1304. This will be a permanent change; I’m putting out a character note sheet on Wendy, and I feel like choosing a more off-black than the nearly-completely-black 0A0700 I’ve been using, will make her easier to draw, as the black outlines will be more visible. However, I still used the old hex values for the curls in her hair, mirroring how Dolly’s curls are darker than the rest of her hair.
The portrait in the background is a minimalist representation of all the Wyler sisters, shown by blocks of the colors that represent them. The blue box, representing Maddie, is twice as wide as the others as a reference to her obesity, and, at full resolution, all the boxes’ heights in pixels are their height in inches times ten. Of course, Wendy does get taller than 4’11” (I imagine her being as tall as Dolly [5’3″] in adulthood), so it’s not going to age well, but hey, at least it’s accurate to the regular continuity. It’s like a family portrait, albeit in a different sense.
Anyhoo, that’ll be all for this one. Until next time, take care, and if you’re not vaccinated already… get vaccinated, you stupid dipshit.
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This artwork was made at a resolution of 3996×2160 (aspect ratio 1.85:1).
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