Stormy’s Art Roundup – Summer 2024 – The Gallery of Stormy Adler

I apologize for my lack of updates since May. I had been incredibly busy building my YouTube this summer, and most of my art productivity from June to September was dedicated to the three videos I put out during those months. I did still squeeze some in some art in my free time, however. But before I get to those, I feel I should cross-promote my YouTube account. Both because they too represent my work (in fact, nowadays, the majority of it), and also so any potential clients who want to hire me as a video editor can be confident they’re getting quality work out of me.

And yes, the thumbnails for the videos are my own creation, too.

Mega Man’s Gloriously Stupid Furry Episode – An Analysis of ‘Curse of the Lion Men’

Uploaded June 15, 2024. This episode of the blue bomber’s Saturday morning cartoon spin-off deliberately disobeyed all common sense.

As a fan of the classic Mega Man video game series, I’m of course familiar with the cartoon the creators of Scooby-Doo made out of it in the mid-1990s. Its most infamous episode is ‘Curse of the Lion Men’, a concoction of a nonsensical story and cheap animation, that together results in a major source of ridicule from the franchise’s fanbase, and one of my personal favorite so-bad-it’s-good pieces of media.

This is my most popular video on YouTube as of this blog post, as well as the one I’m most proud of.

The Top 10 Best Simpsons Memes

Uploaded July 27, 2024, a date intentionally chosen to mark the 17th anniversary of The Simpsons Movie. This is a top 10 list counting down what I feel are the best memes to come out of The Simpsons. A dank meme embiggens the normiest town, heheh.

High Seas Havoc is a Phoque-ing Blatant Sonic Knockoff

Uploaded September 19, 2024. Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for this seal in this mascot platformer from the developers of BurgerTime and Joe & Mac.

This is the first entry in a series called ‘Arcade-ological Discoveries’, where I talk about retro games that aren’t as talked about as their more popular contemporaries. I chose High Seas Havoc to kick off the series, as I thought its status as a Sonic clone and its bizarre connection to the bootleg video game development scene, made it a worthy candidate for discussion.

Now with those out of the way, here’s the artwork I managed to squeeze in during the months I was working on these videos.

The Oddball Tetrad – Magical Girl Forms

Gilda Grime (Verde Ghiacciata)

Margo Hynde (Blu Affamata)

Wendy Wyler (Viola Elettrica)

April Lowry (Turchese Rovente)

Uploaded June 18th (Gilda), 20th (Margo), 23rd (Wendy), and 30th (April), 2024. I drew these in preparation for 2024’s Art Fight, expecting to compete on team Seafoam. However, due to being busy with the *Simpsons* video, which I gave myself a deadline to upload by the end of July, I ended up not participating.

These artworks are an expansion on the idea of the Tetrad performing together as a 1960s-style girl group, with their stage selves imagined as magical girl-type superheroes, like from *Sailor Moon* or *Miraculous Ladybug*. In-universe, it’s Gilda who imagines them this way, hence the Itacavallian/Italian names. She often writes stories and draws comics of them as these alter-egos, initially with herself/Verde Ghiaccata as the lone hero, and later with her leading the rest of the magical girl Tetrad after meeting them.

And yes, Margo/Blu Affamata’s power is sandwich ingredient summoning. Margo may be Gilda’s friend, but she’s also rich. And someone who’s wealthy and has a non-joke superpower, well, that’s too broken.

June Chen in: Solving the Puzzle

Uploaded June 3, 2024. Another piece of *TGAMM* fanart, featuring June Chen after vandalizing a negative symbol for autistics, the puzzle piece, with a positive one, the golden infinity. Around the time I drew this, I ordered a plush of her whose proceeds went to an autism advocacy group. Said plush finally arrived late in September, and I love it. So nice to finally have a plush of a character I share my condition with.

A Visual Guide to the Pride Flag

Uploaded June 5, 2024. A more graphic design-oriented piece from me, showing what all the colors of the most recent revision of the LGBTQ+ pride flag mean. Featuring my Englishman’s Teeth font, of course!

Gladys Fioletowski – Lutrine Librarian

Uploaded June 10, 2024. I realized I hadn’t created a lutrine character yet, so I figured I would finally get to that, and created this sow. Her name is Gladys Fioletowski, and she’s a Porpolish/Polish-descended librarian who works as the librarian at Marc Davis Junior High. Also one of the few staff members at MDJH that Margo has any respect for.

As it was Pride Month at the time I thought up this character, let me just say now that, yes, I did envision her as a transgender sow. Suck it, you Trump-loving snowflakes.

Vicky’s Realization

Uploaded June 28, 2024. Seeing politicians not caring about climate change and instead funding Benjamin Netanyahu’s genocide of Arabs (especially Palestinians), inspired me to draw this piece featuring Margo’s cousins, Vicky and Ellen Ketcham. If you’re wondering why they’re dressed as lawyers, it’s because they like role-playing as them. They’re also part of the Eric Larson Middle School mock trial club, and like to watch courtroom movies together. Are they too young for them? Their aunt Sally doesn’t think so. After all, she’s a lawyer herself, and was about their age when she first saw *My Cousin Vinny*. She welcomes another generation of Ketcham does getting into the legal system.

This artwork is featured in the closing credits of The Top 10 Best Simpsons Memes video, linked above.

Princess Daisy – Game Boy-Style Redraw

Uploaded September 15, 2024. Every other *Mario* fan was drawing Princess Peach in the NES color palette, and I drew the superior princess in the Game Boy’s grayscale, at four times the resolution of her original sprite. She came out a bit *Peanuts*-looking due to me sticking to the original proportions, but I still feel I captured her spunky tomboyishness.

I can’t stress enough how big a fan I am of Daisy. She was my reason for being excited for *Smash Ultimate* and *Super Mario Bros. Wonder*, even more so than every character from the series being playable in the former and the Wonder effects of the latter. Any game Daisy is in, she is my main.

The Oddball Tetrad & Baseball Pentad – Low-Budget 1970s Style

I am admittedly cheating a bit here; the Oddball Tetrad one was originally uploaded to Twitter on September 13, 2023. However, the Baseball Pentad one was uploaded a year and three days later, September 16, 2024. Last year in September, the big art trend was to draw the two characters from the 1970 ‘Special Barbie Weekend’ ad in one’s own style, or other characters in the ad’s art style. I’ve seen similar art styles on cartoons of the time such as *School House Rock*, so I decided to call the style the ‘low-budget 1970s style’, and draw the Tetrad in said style.

I always wanted to draw another artwork in the style, but never got around to it until a year later, when I decided to draw another group of my characters, Wendy’s sister Nicole and her friend group, the ‘Baseball Pentad’. The Tetrad only required a 2.35:1 aspect ratio for the canvas, but the Pentad, due to depicting one character more, required a 3:1 canvas.

Both of these artworks are featured in the end credits of the *High Seas Havoc* review, linked above. As this is Margo’s in-universe art style, said video also features an animation of herself drawn this way.

And that’s all for now. Hopefully I can find time to make more artwork, and thus a post such as this one. Chapter V is almost complete at the time of me writing this blog post; it will be uploaded when finished, and to coincide with whatever video I complete around the same time. But until that time… take care, stay safe, be good to each other, keep AI out of the creative process, stand in solidarity with the animators and video game voice actors, and have a good one.

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