The Gallery of Stormy Adler

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Original DA upload date: October 19, 2019

Before I upload the artwork of Fashionista Gilda, I had to get this piece out of the way, because some clowns think they’re being funny by telling the same joke over and over again.

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I’ve come out of retirement from Loud House fanart, just so I could make this little work addressing a joke a lot of the TLH/Casagrandes fanbase… or hatebase (hard to tell at this point), has been making. You know the joke, the one comparing The Casagrandes to The Cleveland Show. It may have been funny back when the show was first announced last year, but it has long since stopped being funny. Even I haven’t used Joshscorcher’s “NOM NOM NOM MONEY TASTES GOOD” as much as the Loud House/Casagrandes fandom has used the Cleveland Show joke. In fact, after being subjected to the joke over and over again, it’s clear that people think the two shows are comparable just because they’re both spin-offs of highly successful shows, and focus on a family of color. Which is about as flimsy a comparison as you can make.

The Cleveland Show is for adults and composed of 22-minute episodes, and has a main cast entirely composed of dated and unfunny black stereotypes, as well as jokes that feel like table scraps even Family Guy didn’t want. The Casagrandes is for kids and made for 11-minute segments. It’s only an episode and a half in as I write this, and, thanks to the development the family has received through their appearances on The Loud House, they’re already more fleshed-out and likable than the Brown-Tubbs family ever were. I dare even say that the show has the potential to be better than The Loud House. Why?

Well, for one, The Casagrandes has a better sense of continuity than The Loud House. I’m not asking for BoJack Horseman continuity, but do the Loud family seriously not know Lucy likes popping up out of nowhere after eight years of her being alive? Whereas on The Casagrandes, it’d make sense for Ronnie Anne not to know stuff about the city or the Casagrandes’ traditions, since she’s relatively new to living in Great Lakes City (in fact, we’ve seen her family move there). And second, the Casagrande-Santiago family feels better connected than the Louds, they have a better sense of… you know, family. Not to mention the franchise has also already established a good sense of what the supporting cast, the apartment’s inhabitants and the Mercado’s customers, are like as characters. It’s four seasons into TLH, and we still don’t know much about characters like Girl Jordan, Mrs. Johnson or even Pop-Pop beyond some very basic things. And all of those characters have been around since season 1!

Also, Sid Chang is adorable. I already love her more than Clyde. She’s the Mabel Pines of TLH/Casagrandes.

Now to the art itself!

Not much to say here, other than Ronnie Anne’s asset was traced from her appearances in Save the Date and Relative Chaos. I did also attempt a paper pulp look with the background, but, while I do think it looks better than the transparent spray I used in my ArtStudio days, it… still needs work. It still looks more like something out of the real TLH than any other time I’ve drawn the characters from the show, though. Maybe I can do more in this style, it’s a fun style to work in.

Thanks for coming to my editorial, and why those jokes have become about as fresh as the water in Flint, Michigan*. Post in the comments below what you think of this!

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Grunvale – Chapter 11, Part 2: Now Available on DA!

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The Loud House/The Casagrandes is owned by Nickelodeon.
This artwork was made at 4K resolution, in 1.85:1. However, it is presented here at a maximum of 1080p, to keep consistent with the Loud House franchise.

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* Sorry, Jesse Coffey of Twitter, your quote was just too good not to use!

Be-Hynde Closed Doors, They Are Not a Happy Couple

Original DA upload date: November 22, 2019. Description below updated November 21, 2022.

This is the artwork I mentioned in the description of Glorious Spheal. It’s been about a month since I finished this piece, but I’ve only now gotten around to releasing it, due to my current workload in my college classes, and also playing Pokémon Shield. And yes, Korvat Isles¹ is part of the college work, believe it or not. I’ve always wanted something to fall back on just in case Grunvale doesn’t get seen as my magnum opus, and a college assignment about passion projects was the spark that really set the idea into motion. The Korvat Isles comic will be uploaded tomorrow, I just wanted to get this out first before I get to uploading it.

¹ Oh, right, the working title of that thing with the human character Rowan Rudyard I never use. I… I still have something for her. It’s just that OTOG has taken up so much of my creativity.

Anyhoo…

I gave Sally a slight redesign for this one; since she’s pregnant during the events of the story², I reflected that here, with her showing an enlarged stomach through the navy blue dress she’s described as wearing in chapter 11. The hardest part about this was getting the lighting on Harry³ right. The room he’s coming out of has a green light, while the one he’s entering has light coming in through the left side (where Sally is headed). I experimented with combinations of several gradients to come up with lighting that looked accurate, and eventually came up with what you see here.

² She was pregnant in the abandoned web novel. Those in the future reading, she is not pregnant in the graphic novels.

³ Harry with glasses, now that’s a blast from the past too. Considering he doesn’t wear them in his current incarnation, and Margo does. Geez, it feels like so long ago that even Margo wasn’t a glasses-wearer.

At some point, however, I messed up the blurring on Harry’s asset; one part shows high-resolution pixels (which no artist should want unless they’re doing pixel art), and the other shows 10px gaussian blurring clipped onto 5px gaussian blurring (which is what I want). Oh well, at least it still has the cinematic feel I want for my Grunvale artwork. The goof’s only real noticeable if you view it on full resolution.

Not much else to say here, other than stay tuned for Korvat Isles‘ DA debut. As for this piece, post below what you think.

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This artwork was made at a resolution of 5076×2160 (aspect ratio 2.35:1).

The Art Show

Original DA upload date: November 28, 2019. Description below updated November 21, 2022.

Like Margo with the light blue dress and August with the pink shirt and tie, I’ve pretty much decided at this point, that Gilda’s 80s-style shoulder-padded suit doubles as her semiformal outfit¹. It’s the kind of thing she’d wear to… well, not family get-togethers (since her family is broken) or school dances (since she’s homeschooled), but more stuff like, say, interviews, speeches, and in this case, an art show opening. Seems only fitting. Plus, it fits her retro-geek personality well.

¹ Aaaaand they don’t wear said outfits anymore after the web novel was abandoned and I developed a new art style.

Most of the behind-the-scenes stuff involved with this work can be found in the description of ‘Crosshatched Gilda’ above. However, that doesn’t mean there isn’t anything to talk about here. Since an animation I’ve been working on intermittently in ASP features her wearing green nail polish with this outfit², I experimented with that here. Which I think was a pretty successful attempt. I also experimented with 3D-style lighting on the gold of her earrings, which… I think could’ve been executed better, but it’s a start. I have an idea for how to execute the lighting differently next time I draw her in this outfit. But I’m not sure if it’ll work. I may be better off with just flat colors like I usually do (before applying the gradients for lighting effects)³.

² I was working on an animation? When? Because the last time I animated Gilda was to Ronnie Anne’s voice.

³ Sure enough, flat colors were what I’d go on to use. I guess the animators behind Klaus know something that I will never.

And that’s all for this one. Post in the comments below what you think, and Happy Thanksgiving!

Grunvale/OTOG is owned by me. You’re free to draw fanart of it, as long as you credit me as the creator of the series.
This artwork was made at a resolution of 5076×2160 (aspect ratio 2.35:1).