Oh, joy, my pre-Grunvale artwork. 😶
At least this piece is one of the better artworks from those days. Hence why I’m preserving it. So, uh… let’s get this over with. 😅
Original DA Upload Date: June 17, 2017.
[Stormy is working on updating his WordPress in the year 2022]
Stormy: “Damn DeviantArt, what were those guys thinking? Implementing an AI program! Do they not realize some of their users are dead?” [sighs] “Alright, guess I’m moving my uploads to this site Newgrounds. Time to update my WordPress with the links to it so I can move on from DA. Starting with my pre-Grunvale art, of course. Which to pick?”
[Stormy goes through the DA uploads from 2016 and 2017]
Stormy: “Hm, a lot of Loud House stuff. Let’s see. Eeny, meeny, miney…” [sees fanart of the fanfiction Burning Secret, “Off to the Country Club”, drawn similarly to a shot from the segment No Guts, No Glori] “You.”
[presses download on OTtCC]
Stormy: “And of course, I gotta copy and paste that description I wrote so long ago. And make some annotations to comment on my 2017 self and how cringe they were.”
For those of you that don’t know1, Burning Secret is a fanfiction by Samtastic-V3, that I’ve been reading ever since he posted the first chapter. I remember Sam himself telling me it was partially inspired by the South Park episode Butt Out, but personally, it reminds me more of the King of the Hill episode Revenge of the Lutefisk, due to it having what I consider to be a similar plot.
1 Hey! 2017 me! They don’t know! Especially if they’re reading this on WordPress in the years after!
The plot of the fic is, Lincoln accidentally starts a fire that burns down part of Royal Woods Elementary. Although he’s hailed a hero for pulling the alarm and getting everyone to safety, everyone believes that the fire was arson, and thus Lincoln feels guilty for it. And to make matters worse, someone knows he started the fire, and has threatened to report Lincoln to the police for the so-called arson if he doesn’t do as he says. It’s a pretty awesome and intense fanfic, right up there with Requiem for a Loud and Syngenesophobia2 as one of my favorite Loud House fanfics. And I recommend anyone who hasn’t already read it, to read it3. And watch Sam for his awesome work. You won’t regret it.
2 Wow. I actually read Brawl in the Family and No Such Luck fics. I’m embarrassed already. No offense to the original author, of course. I’m just commenting on how cringe the Loud House fandom was then, getting Mr. Enter levels of angry about cartoon episodes.
3 Any way you can, of course. Which may involve going to DA.
Anyways, without giving too much spoilers, the seventh and most recent chapter4 of Burning Secret has the Loud family going off to Lord Tetherby’s country club, as Lincoln has been named Guest of Honor for the ‘Hero Party’. Before the limo arrives, Lynn Sr. has all the Loud sisters get in line, oldest to youngest, and state the expectations for their behavior at the Hero Party, one by one, as he taps a pool cue on their shoulder.
4 At the time this was written, only seven of the nine chapters of the fanfic had been posted to DA.
I don’t know if I’ve ever said this, but I’m a sucker for cartoon episodes where the characters are dressed in formal outfits. I don’t know why, I just am. So of course with the kids dressed in formal attire (and also having an opportunity to draw Lynn Sr., who I’ve come to love as a character thanks to Fed Up and Fool’s Paradise), I felt the need to draw my own interpretation of the scene, re-reading the seventh chapter several times just to make sure I was drawing the sisters’ outfits as Sam had described them. And then my brain basically filled in the blanks as to what their hair and makeup and jewelry would look like. Oh yeah, and I used the scene with Lori dressing and acting like a drill instructor from No Guts, No Glori as a reference for this, of course.
I’m… somewhat impressed with how this turned out5. On one hand… I drew Lisa’s ears way too big. I guess I wanted to experiment with what her hair/wig6 would look like if it was neatly brushed for a formal event, but I fucked up on figuring out how to draw the ears to go with it. That, and I had to do a lot of last-minute editing to this thing in MS Paint7, because I missed a lot of color gaps with the paint bucket tool in the ArtStudio8 app, and Lucy’s colors turned out way too… not black, to put it simply, when I saw how the image looked on my laptop. And yes, I know MS Paint is the worst thing ever, but… you probably wouldn’t have known I used it here, had I not told you. Besides, I did do like 99% of the rest of the drawing in ArtStudio. And I wanted to draw Lincoln and Rita in there, but because I didn’t have enough room to draw them in, I had to omit them. So, to compensate, I’m just gonna say that this drawing is from Lincoln’s POV.
5 Yes, this was very impressive by my standards at the time, wasn’t it?
6 Wow, what a loser I was. Actually paying attention to continuity in The Loud House of all things. Didn’t I also get angry at one point about House of Lies showing Leni with red hair when she said she hated how she looked as a redhead in Anti-Social? Wow, so many layers of cringe. I’m glad I outgrew this show.
7 *laughs in GIMP user*
8 Oh, right, this artwork is that old. Made in regular-ass ArtStudio. I switched to the Pro version in 2018.
On the other hand, though, other than Lisa, I like how the sisters and Lynn Sr. turned out in my drawing. Don’t know how Sam feels about me swapping Lana and Lola’s places (since Lana’s the older twin), but I think I managed to fit everyone in pretty well. I might need a little practice with drawing Lynn with her bangs back and her widow’s peak exposed.9
9 The widow’s peak she had in Linc or Swim but not in Head Poet’s Anxiety. Wow, I really took the continuity of this show too seriously.
Anyways, post in the comments below what you think of this drawing. I hope Sam likes it.10 He did love the work-in-progress version, after all. And read Burning Secret if you haven’t already. It’s awesome.
10 He loved it. Sam, if you’re reading this, sorry I moved this artwork to here, if that bothers you. I just can’t support a site that wants to make AI of dead people’s artwork. And doesn’t do enough to protect artists’ work from becoming NFTs.
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