I'm So Touched That My Challenge Has Been Part Of The Inspiration Here!!

🥹 I'm so touched that my challenge has been part of the inspiration here!!

Hermit-a-Day May Day 7: Mumbo Jumbo. This is the first day I've actually finished (sort of) on time, but I'm hoping to catch up with the ones I've missed eventually.

I'm trying out doing each of this month's pieces in a different art medium and/or style, partially inspired by @elodee's cartoon style challenges. Today was my normal style, but in the medium of colored pencils! This was a ton of fun and I'm really proud of how it turned out, despite me feeling out of my depth the entire time.

I love how he seems nice but the skin melting away from his face, revealing an skull with an empty eye, really reminds you of how deadly the sea is

Hermit a Day May: Day 6, Jevin, God of the Sea!

Here's his full portrait :D

HERMIT A DAY MAY - DAY 6

iJevin x Slime Rancher

For iJevin I picked the video game Slime Rancher! Specifically, I drew Jevin in the style of the art in the Slimepedia from Slime Rancher. This one was a challenge because the slimes from the Slimepedia are just stylized blobs, so I had to take the design choices from that and imagine how it would translate to a humanoid character.

I chose this for Jevin because, well, slime, but also because Slime Rancher is a very cute, cozy game and I thought that aligned well with his build for this season. The game is like a cottage core farming sim but on another planet and with little slime creatures instead of farm animals. If you would like to learn more about Slime Rancher and see my style references, please keep reading below the cut! (And also, keep up the donations to Gamer's Outreach! If we get to $300, belmarzi will do a 20secs of animatic!)

Slime Rancher is one of those games you play when you just want to do something that makes you smile. It is an incredibly cute farming sim where you are tasked with catching, caring for, and protecting a collection of adorable slime creatures. As you progress in the game, you unlock new areas and meet new slimes, which are added to your in-game encyclopedia called the Slimepedia. The art in this encyclopedia is so charming that I decided to base Jevin on that instead on how the slimes appear in the game. Plus, I wanted to avoid doing 3D characters. When you feed the slimes, they produce colorful gems called plorts (which are 100% just slime poop) that you can sell in order to buy upgrades to expand your farm and collect new slimes.

I could play this game for hours and hours. From the adorable aesthetics and charming lore to the relaxing gameplay and soundtrack, Slime Rancher is just joyful through and through.

Style references

Various slimes as they appear in the Slimepedia

Slime Rancher also has human characters - I used Ogden here as the main reference for Jevin's shape

Slime Rancher title design

Wow your style is so good!!!

Day 5: TinfoilChef

here's to the god of stone!

I'm so glad I translated this because I didn't know that and you're right, that makes this way funnier, thank you

HERMIT A DAY MAY - DAY 7

Mumbo Jumbo x Don't Starve

I drew Mumbo Jumbo in the style of the spooky, open-world survival game Don't Starve!

I chose this one for Mumbo because he reminds me of the default protagonist of the game, Wilson, who is a gentleman inventor that creates fantastical science and alchemy machines.

I also just thought he would look great as a Don't Starve character. And I was right, he looks fantastic! This was one of the most satisfying pieces I've done so far because he just fits the style so naturally.

To learn more about Don't Starve and see my style references, please continue below the cut!

(Also, check out the Hermit a Day May fundraiser for Gamer's OutreachI)

Don't Starve is a spooky, yet cute, rogue-like survival game that takes place in a randomly generated open world.

You play as a character that has been dropped into an unforgiving other world. Your goal is to survive and, when you enter story mode, try to find and defeat the entity that has trapped you there.

The game is very difficult as you only have one life to gather supplies, build tools, and try and live as long as possible. Nearly everything tries to kill you, and you have to also monitor your sanity, hunger, and environmental conditions, which can also kill you. When you play this game you will die many, many times, but it is always fun to restart and figure out ways to survive more successfully the next time.

The style of the game is heavily inspired by Tim Burton and the gameplay itself is fairly reminiscent of Minecraft on hardcore mode. The world of Don't Starve is strange and at times a little unsettling, but also full of funny moments. Overall, the game is a delight to explore, just expect to die a lot. And anyway, there are always mods (lots of mods) if you want to make the game a little more forgiving.

Style references:

The style is very sketch-like with lots of points and spirals. The palette is muted with most (though not all) player characters being primarily red, white, and black (like Mumbo).

I made Mumbo a little taller than the average Don't Starve character since I imagine him as very tall in Minecraft. There is precedent for this in-game since the guy that brings you to the other world, Maxwell, is very tall.

The Don't Starve title font. I downloaded a font called October Crow to make the title for this piece, so it isn't exact, but I think it looks really close.

HERMIT A DAY MAY - DAY 8

xBCrafted x Futurama

I drew xB in the style of Futurama!

So I was unsure of what to do for xB and played with a number of different ideas. But then I started fusing him with a guardian and I though if he is a guardian hybrid, wouldn't he only have one eye?

And you know what style definitely works well with a cycloptic character? That's right, Futurama!

Disclaimer: Futurama is an adult comedy cartoon. While it does have a lot of different kinds of humor, it frequently features adult jokes/themes and is definitely not PG.

I had a lot of fun designing this one since Futurama has a lot of non-human characters, so I really felt like I could really lean into the hybrid elements of this xB design.

If you want to learn more about Futurama and see my style references, please look below the cut. (Dont forget about the Gamers Outreach fundraiser! If you donate $50 tumblr artist rendiggitydog will draw a hermit for you.)

Futurama is an adult comedy about a delivery guy named Fry who accidentally gets cryogenically frozen and is awakened again in the far flung future, where he promptly ends up with another job as a delivery guy (but this time on a spaceship with aliens).

The show is one of my favorite western adult animated comedies. It is pretty clever for the genre and has a lot of really likeable characters. The character I referenced heavily for xB is Leela, Fry's love interest and a cool one-eyed spaceship captain.

If you are a fan of scifi (like me) you would probably really enjoy Futurama since it parodies a lot of well-known scifi. It frequently makes fun of Star Trek in particular (with love, of course).

Style references:

Various characters from the show - Fry is the redhead and Leela is the lady with one eye.

I really like Leela :)

Futurama title card