It’s that way-overdue time again. Here’s my latest video and the art I made during it! It’s a big video, over an hour long and took five months to make, so there’s a lot of art to post. But enough stalling, let’s get to it!
THE VIDEO
STORMY’S GALLERY SNIPPETS
The first three of these I uploaded all on the same day, Pokémon Day 2026. The 30th anniversary of the franchise.
Pombon the Fiery Good Boy
The answer is, some people just have the time on their hands, and the drive to be the first to make fanart. In my case, I whipped this up just a half-hour after the Pokémon Day Direct. Got the hair wrong because of a bad angle of the ref I used, but still, it was fun to claim the title of ‘first Gen X fanartist’.
This was one of four artworks I uploaded to Bluesky on February 27. It was going to be three, a Pokémon-themed one (because Pokémon Day), a retro-themed OTOG quickie (because National Retro Day), and one combining the two, with this being the Pokémon-themed one. But I wanted to be the among the first to make fanart of the Gen X starters, so this ended up sharing its title with…
Nicole Used Tickle!
Zigilda Zagrime – Decades Template
In all of these, Zigilda is posed with a lemonade can, which, keeping with this being in the Pokémon universe, is shown how the games depict lemonade. And in all six, Gilda is singing a different song by an Italian- or Italian-American singer, as a nod to her heritage: “Nel blu, dipinto di blu” (aka “Volare”) by Domenico Modugno for the 1950s, “Walk Like a Man” by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons for the 1960s, “You Don’t Mess Around with Jim” by Jim Croce for the 1970s, “L’italiano” by Toto Cutugno for the 1980s, “Eat the Rich” by Aerosmith for the 1990s, and “It’s My Life” by Bon Jovi for the 2000s.
Part of the reason I made this was to have a do-over with the Decades template for Gilda. I came to become less impressed with how some of the outfits came out. So I decided to make a second version with her Galarian Zigzagoon counterpart. The 1960s one came out adorable, it seems like something Gilda’d actually wear, whether in the 1960s or as a retro-dresser. And the 2000s one also came out great, better than the original. I love the way the face came out on the 1980s one; the squiggly eyebrow adds so much character.
This wasn’t the only series produced during the five-month stretch. Because I also uploaded, on the canonical birthdays of each of the four girls…
The Oddball Tetrad – 10 Years Later
Wendy Wyler
April Lowry
Gilda Grime
Margo Hynde
…yes, Gilda and Holt end up a thing, bonding over their love of the oldies. It’s a queerplatonic relationship; Gilda, as I’ve stated before, is aroace, and Holt respects that. He’s just happy to have a girl with the same interests as him, who turned out to be a better match than Nicole.
Now with those out of the way, let’s get to the art that isn’t part of a series.
Dimples and Raspberries (600 Bluesky Followers)
Wendy has dimples in her cheeks when she smiles, a trait inherited from her father that she also shares with Dolly and Nicole. Gilda finds this trait endearing, and she likes to cheer Wendy up even further, by poking her dimples. Sometimes, if Wendy’s feeling in a silly enough mood, she’ll also blow a raspberry. Of course, at this particular moment, Wendy was indeed feeling in that kind of silly mood.
Nicole also likes to poke Wendy’s dimples, as well as boop her nose. Gilda refuses to do the latter, however, due to her own nose trauma.
This is a partial remake of a piece from January of 2020.
Zkunky Zally
This is fanart of Zally Alley, the main character of Joey Waggoner/WaggToon’s comic, Think Ink. I’ve read all that he has publicly available for free of his comic so far, and I find it quite entertaining. And Zally is an adorable ball of spunk. So I decided to draw fanart of her for Wagg’s birthday this year.
Zally’s hair reminds me of a skunk, so I decided that she’s be most fitting as a mephitine. I think it fits. Colorful outfits go well with grey fur.
Dolly’s Childhood
Made for Autism Acceptance Month. Dolly as a child unfortunately had a school life typical of a neurodivergent. This is her at age 11, among many of the insults hurled her way in middle school. Keep in mind she didn’t even know what was wrong with her at this point in her life; she wasn’t diagnosed as autistic until after Nicole was.
City and Country
The still version of the background to my Chip Whistler video, inspired by the ending to “Unplanned” and the orange sodium vapor lights that used to light the world before LEDs. Since I’ve been saying that the Oddball Tetrad are represented in an abstract form in since I posted this, and nobody has asked where they are, time to spill the beans… it’s the constellations. If you look closely, you can see, from left to right, Cancer, Taurus, Pisces, and Aries, the signs for Margo, Gilda, Wendy, and April, respectively. They’re also faintly glowing in the Tetrad’s signature colors. In the video, the constellations also cycle in the birth order of the Tetrad.
That Joko Didn’t Land
A flashback piece, featuring Wendy at age five and Nicole at age seven, as they watch The Powerpuff Girls. Wendy even at that age knew the whole ‘Yoko ruined the Beatles’ narrative was bullshit, and wasn’t impressed to see the show peddling it in the segment “Meat the Beat Alls”.
Nature-Loving Tomboys
Adler makes Loud House fanart in 2026?!
Well, kind of. Drawing this was my way of making up for not knowing when best princess’ debut was. For Earth Day, the day following Super Mario Land‘s anniversary, I drew Princess Daisy princess with another nature-loving tomboy, Lana Loud. I could easily see Lana being Daisy’s sidekick in a world without universal boundaries.
Picture Frame – Big City Greens Style
The chapter bookmarks screen of the Chip Whistler, featuring humanized, BCG-ified versions of several of my characters. Clockwise from top-right: Gilda Grime and Wendy Wyler, Nicole Wyler, Holt Klug, and Murray Rose, the Lowry twins (April and Auggie), and the Hynde triplets (Margo, Paddy, and Molly). In the video, I added a dust effect, which was achieved by generating perlin noise in ArtStudio Pro.
And before you ask, no, perlin noise is not generative AI. It is a generative technology, but one that’s been around since almost as long as computer graphics themselves have been around, and is commonly used to generate clouds, fire, and other effects that would be impractical for a human to try and make on their own. I refuse to use genAI in my videos, it is a disgrace to art and a tool of fascism, that I still to this day feel disgusted with myself for having got roped into the hype around in the early days of the technology’s public availability.
The Most Overqualified Tetrad Mother
You might’ve noticed my work focuses more on female characters than males and wondered why. Well, to quote a certain film that the Wylers no doubt have seen as it’s one of staple films of Jewish cinema, “I’ll tell you… I don’t know.”
Anyways, for Mother’s Day, I found it only fitting to draw the five Wyler sisters with their mother, Judy. She’s… a bit overbearing, as you can see. But they still love her. After all, she was the one that birthed them, and, as a home ec teacher, she always goes above and beyond in creating delicious meals.
Side note, yellow is a better color to represent femininity than pink, I dare even say objectively better. Yellow’s literally the compliment of masculine-representing blue. Whoever chose pink to represent femininity, I don’t think they understood color theory.
Kit Bodega, or: The Feline the Internet is Falling Feet First For
Peteena. Lola Bunny. Carmelita Fox. Kitty Katswell. Every generation has their defining anthropomorphic animal lady, and for the 2020s, that lady is Kit Bodega. Since Bodega’s design reminds me of 1960s fashion, I went for the feel of a 1960s pinup photo for this artwork, referencing an image of Jane Fonda. As such, I also provided an alternate black-and-white version, available on Newgrounds.
A Hatred as Old as Analog
When my parents and I hosted my much-younger cousins at our place back in June, the power went out, and I decided, to pass the time until the power came back on, to draw them this Gilda with pencil on paper. I’m mostly a digital artist in this day and age, but I still have it in terms of traditional.
Yes, that is cotton candy in the bag. I left it with light sketching lines to better sell the illusion of it being such.
Hair Trigger
Another entry in the saga of the Tetrad failing to take a good group photo together, this one canonically a promo photo for their 60s tribute band, undone by April getting triggered by one of the loose strands of Wendy’s hair, and the photo itself being taken in the split-second before she sneezes.
These are some of my favorite outfits to draw the Tetrad in at this point. The doll-like eyelashes, the rosy blush, the colorful hoop earrings, the white gloves, the application of color theory (their outfits are the same level of brightness and appear as the same shades in monochrome), the card suit symbols tying into their personalities (which I decided to hand-draw this time instead of copying and pasting the texture into the linework). They’re subjectively adorable and a great use of color-coded, coordinated clothing.
And yes, the pink scenery is inspired by the opening to My Best Friend’s Wedding. The Tetrad would definitely want to re-enact that opening when one of them gets married. Who I don’t know, maybe April since she’s the most feminine one.
And… that’s all for now. See you next time I have a video to cross-promote; which will be the MLPFIM Season 2 video. Until that time, take care, stay safe, be good to each other, reject the billionaires’ attempts to bring the world down… and have a good one.
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The Oddball Tetrad of Grunvale, New Pork is owned by me. You’re free to draw fanart or write fanfics of it, as long as you credit me as the creator of the series.
Big City Greens is owned by Disney through Disney Television Animation.
Gameoverse is owned by Glitch Productions.
The Loud House is owned by Skydance though Nickelodeon.
Super Mario Bros. is owned by Nintendo.
Pokémon is owned by The Pokémon Company.
The Powerpuff Girls is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery through Cartoon Network.
Zally Alley is owned by Joey Waggoner/WaggToon.
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