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HERMIT A DAY MAY - MASTERPOST

Everyone x Everything

A collage of all the current hermits, each drawn in a different style from a cartoon, video game, book, comic, etc. The background is a screenshot of Magical (Cherry) Mountain from Hermitcraft Season 10.

Here it is, my final post for Hermit A Day May (posted a day late in June because I had to watch MCC Pride). Below is a the list of all my entries for the month with links to the original posts.

Day 1: VintageBeef VintagBeef x Bob's Burgers

Day 2: Xisumavoid Xisuma x Metalocalypse

Day 3: ZedaphPlays Zedaph x Professor Layton

Day 4: Keralis Keralis x Lupin the 3rd

Day 5: TinFoilChef TFC x The Lord of the Rings (1978)

Day 6: iJevin iJevin x Slime Rancher

Day 7: Mumbo Jumbo Mumbo Jumbo x Don't Starve

Day 8: xBCrafted xBCrafted x Futurama

Day 9: Skizzleman Skizzleman x Archer

Day 10: Stressmonster101 Stressmonster x Cucumber Quest

Day 11: PearlescentMoon PearlescentMoon x Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Day 12: Friends of Hermitcraft Jono x Cowboy Bebop

Day 13: Cubfan135 Cubfan x Courage the Cowardly Dog

Day 14: Docm77 Docm77 x Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

Day 15: FalseSymmetry FalseSymmetry x Fullmetal Alchemist

Day 16: Welsknight Welsknight x Knights of the Zodiac (Saint Seiya)

Day 17: EthosLab Etho x Yu Yu Hakusho

Day 18: JoeHillsTSD Joe HIlls x Where the Sidewalk Ends

Day 19: Favourite "Alt" Hermit CuteGuy and HotGuy x Batman Beyond

Day 20: GeminiTay GeminiTay x Over the Garden Wall

Day 21: BDoubleO100 Bdubs x Stand Still, Stay Silent

Day 22: Iskall85 Iskall x Adventure Time

Day 23: TangoTek Tango x Yu-Gi-Oh

Day 24: ZombieCleo ZombieCleo x Junji Ito

Day 25: ImpulseSV Impulse x Samurai Jack

Day 26: Groups and Collabs Hermit PVP at Gem's Beach Arena x Pokémon

Day 27: Grian Grian x Doug

Day 28: GoodTimesWithScar Scar x Treasure Planet

Day 29: Hypnotizd Hypno x Gargoyles

Day 30: SmallishBeans SmallishBeans x Mononoke

Day 31: ReNDoG Ren x Borderlands

Looking back over May, I am so proud of myself for not only completing this challenge, but drawing every entry in a different style. I learned so much in just 31 days and exercised artistic muscles I forgot I even had.

I want to say thank you once again to the organizer of Hermit-A-Day May ( @as-if-unreal ) and the artists who pledged their time and effort to provide incentives for the Gamers Outreach fundraiser ( @rendiggitydog and @belmarzi ) as well as everyone else who helped run this project.

I also want to say a huge congratulations to everyone who participated in the Hermit-A-Day May challenge for raising a total of $1,222.00 for Gamers Outreach.

Thank you for helping the kids and thank you for enjoying my art!

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elodee

1 year ago

The venn diagram of Ethoslab fans and YYH fans is at least 3 people so far

HERMIT A DAY MAY - DAY 17

EthosLab x Yu Yu Hakusho

Minecraft youtuber EthosLab in the style of Yu Yu Hakusho. He has a fox tail and ears and his eye scar is glowing, along with matching scars on his forearm. His hand is enveloped in spiritual energy that is reminiscent of redstone because I color picked an image of redstone to make it. The rest of him is also glowing with a red aura. Above him is his name in a white, handwritten font that is reminiscent of an ink stamp on a swirling blue background.

For Etho I chose the #1 favourite anime of my childhood, Yu Yu Hakusho!

I sincerely considered rendering Etho in the style of Naruto because I thought it would be funny if I literally just drew Kakashi with a maple leaf patch. However, I actually don't like Naruto very much so I couldn't use that style for this challenge.

So instead I picked YYH because it is by far my favourite shonen anime of all time and still one of the favorite anime in general (possibly my top fav to this day). Plus one of the main cast is a fox demon so, y'know, perfect chance to represent the popular kitsune!Etho fanon.

If you want to learn more about Yu Yu Hakusho and see my style references, continue below the cut!

(Donating to Gamer's Outreach is cool and neat)

Yu Yu Hakusho is a 1990s anime based off of a manga series by the same name. The story follows a delinquent teen named Yusuke Urameshi who opens the show by immediately dying. However he wasn't meant to die, and so he is granted a second chance at life. In return for this second chance, he agrees to become a spirit detective under the lord of the Spirit World, Koenma.

As a spirit detective, it is Yusuke's duty to track down spirits and demons who make their way into the human world and defeat them so they can be returned to the demon realm. Along the way he makes new friends, unlocks powers, and uncovers insidious plots that he must defend the human world against.

The show follows a typical shonen arc (fight bad guy, get defeated, train, power up, fight bad guy again, etc etc) but characters have continuous arcs throughout as they get to know each other and learn more about themselves. The charm of this show comes from the main team of detectives, Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama and Hiei, and their chemistry together and with their other friends.

If you like shonen anime but get a little bored of the filler, I highly recommend Yu Yu Hakusho. It has all the best parts of shonen while keeping your attention with fun characters, unique fights, and, at times, surprisingly high stakes.

Style references:

Four young men standing in a row. The tallest one on the left, Kuwabara, has red hair and is shirtless under a brown trench coat. Next to him is Yusuke, the protagonist, dressed in a blue tank top and ripped blue pants. Beside Yusuke is the shortest member of the team, Hiei, who has spikey black hair in the shape of a flame and is dressed head to toe in black. The last in the group is Kurama, who has long, pretty red hair and is dressed in a dark red tunic.

The gang! From left to right are Kuwabara, Yusuke, Hiei, and Kurama. This is one of the many promo art pieces the creator has released that make them look like a boyband. I used this as a style reference for Etho's clothing, but I rendered him in the style of the show itself rather than the promo art.

An image of Kurama in his natural demon form. As a demon, he has golden eyes, fox ears, and long silver hair. He also has a fox tail but he is only visible from the waist up in this image so the tail isn't pictured. He looks concerned about something in this shot and is standing in a swirling fog.

The show has the same design language but simpler shading. This is also Kurama by the way, he's the kitsune.

Yu Yu Hakusho written in an font that looks like white ink stamped onto background of swirling blue and turquoise smoke. Yu Yu is at the top in a big font and Hakusho is beneath it in a smaller font. The entire image is outlined in a thin white line.

One of the Yu Yu Hakusho title designs from the anime

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elodee

1 year ago

HERMIT A DAY MAY - DAY 25

impulseSV x Samurai Jack

An image of Minecraft youtuber impulseSV drawn in the style of Samurai Jack. He is waving at someone out of frame and smiling. Above him is his own name in a white, futuristic font. He is on a purple background painted with a rough brush texture. Behind the purple is a solid black canvas.

For Impulse I chose Samurai Jack!

Samurai Jack takes place in a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk future, so I thought this would suit Impulse well given his build theme and skin this season.

To learn more about Samurai Jack and see my style references, look below the cut!

@hermitadaymay

(Gamers outreach fundraiser)

Samurai Jack is a 90s cartoon created by Genndy Tartakovsky. The story follows a samurai prince from a fictional version of Japan who battles a shapeshifting entity of evil named Aku. Right as Aku is about to lose to the samurai, he tears a hole in time and throws the samurai into the future.

Once in the future, the samurai, given the nickname Jack by locals, must find a way to travel back to his own time to defeat the immortal Aku and prevent the future from being shaped under Aku's malicious control.

Samurai Jack is a fantastic, imaginative cartoon that deserves to be called art. Not only are the character designs fantastic, many of the episode concepts themselves are interesting and thought-provoking in a way not achieved by many other shows.

The show originally ran for four seasons and was not concluded. Twelve years later, an fifth season aired that completed the story. The first four seasons are suitable for all ages, but the fifth season is significantly more mature. I highly recommend watching the entire series, including the fifth season, which is a fantastic conclusion to the story.

Style references:

A samurai in a white robe holding up a sword. He is facing the viewer and glaring with flames roaring behind him.

The samurai from Samurai Jack

The samurai speaking to three citizens of the futuristic Aku City. These three people are the ones who give him the name "Jack". Jack is dressed in a white robe with a sword. The three people he is speaking to are colorful young people with dramatic designs. The one closest to Jack is dressed in all orange, with red hair and has a slumped posture. Behind him is a very short bald guy in all blue, and the last person on the right is a very tall guy with a leaning posture dressed in all green. He seems to have a lava lamp on his head. All four of them are standing in an urban setting where all the buildings are black with glowing red windows.

Characters in Samurai Jack are colorful and have strong shape language

The words SAMURAI JACK in a bold, futuristic white font. Behind the text is a red brush texture over a drawing of Jack"s eyes. The entire image is on a black background.

The Samurai Jack title design

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Samurai Jack is one of the best cartoons I've ever watched At first I didn't want to give it a chance as a kid because the concept seemed so weird but once I finally watched it I was like dang this is incredible actually Impulse's theme this season reminds me a lot of Aku City from the show but with a purple and black theme rather than red and black impulsesv hermitcraft hermitaday

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elodee

1 year ago

HERMIT A DAY MAY - DAY 31

ReNDoG x Borderlands

Minecraft youtuber Rendog in the style of Borderlands. he is wearing a yellow environmental suit over his usual outfit and has a bright turquoise visor with metal frames that resemble pointed dog ears on the sides of his head. On his belt is a bad that has the GigaCorp colors. Behind him is his own name in a large, all caps yellow font that spans across the image on a slight diagonal. The font has a weathered texture and a thick black outline. The entire image is on a pale purple gradient background.

For Rendog I chose the first-person looter shooter video game series Borderlands!

Ren's base this season reminds me a lot of Borderlands (at least so far). With its desolate landscape, eccentric naming conventions, and industrial buildings put in place by a morally questionable mega-conglomerate, it would fit right in as a setting in one of these games.

Borderlands is an incredibly fun (and funny) game series that I highly recommend playing if you've never picked it up before. However, the games have a lot of adult humor and are very violent, though the violence is played for laughs. If you're familiar with the character Deadpool, Borderlands has a very similar energy.

To learn more about Borderlands and see my style references, continue below the cut.

@hermitadaymay

(Congratulations on crushing the Gamers Outreach fundraiser goal!)

Borderlands is a series of first person looter shooter games set in an open world with a procedurally generated weapon system. The plot of the games follows a group of protagonists with various abilities who complete missions and explore the planet (usually a place called Pandora) in order to find and unlock a fabled treasure trove called a Vault. These Vault Hunters (shoutout Iskall) are not exactly heroes, but as the player you have the option to help people along the way.

There is a lot more to the Vault Hunters' adventures throughout the games that just looking for treasure. Each game has an engaging plot and memorable characters, but the the core gameplay for the entire series is this: shoot, kill, loot a badass new gun, rinse and repeat.

Borderlands is a blast to play and no two playthroughs are exactly the same. It's also great fun to play with your friends and has an excellent multiplayer mode. The series also has a unique aesthetic that makes it look like you're playing in a 3D comic book. The effect is really cool.

Style references:

A screencap of a Pandora setting from Borderlands 3. In the foreground is the player character, who appears to be a young woman in big chunky armor. In the background is a gas station that looks like its bolted together using rusted junk from various other gas stations. The building is sitting in the middle of an orange brown desert with large jagged rocks sticking up from the ground. There does not appear to be anything else nearby.

The games take place mostly on Pandora, a desert planet which has a lot of abandoned industrial buildings and machinery from various intergalactic corporations. Most of what the companies left behind have since been looted and incorporated into ramshackle towns populated by the locals.

An image of Handsome Jack on a grey background that has the texture of splattered paint. Handsome Jack is a well kept man with clean clothes, an expensive looking watch, and shoes that look like converse. Picture a fintech startup guy but put him in a scifi western setting. Notably, Handsome Jack is, in fact, handsome, but his face is a lifelike mask of his own face bolted in place on his head. You eventually find out why he has a mask for a face in the games.

This is Handsome Jack, the primary antagonist from the second game. The games use hand-drawn textures for the characters, which create the comic book-like feel.

The word Borderlands in a big, blocky, all caps font. The font is on a diagonal across the image. The text is bright yellow and has a weathered texture. The letters all have thick black outlines.

The Borderlands title design.

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I adore how this one turned out it was very difficult and I am really proud of myself I am especially proud of how I was able to incorporate the yellow GigaCorp environmental suit into his design in a way that looks good with his red shirt and bright turquoise visor plus I even managed to include the dog ears without giving him actual dog ears since in a Borderlands setting they would have likely been something like an actual dog's ears stapled to the sides of his head and that would have been much too grim for Ren anyway this one of my favourite pieces for this month Thank you to the organizers of Hermit-A-Day May This challenge was loads of fun and I definitely learned a lot rendog RentheDog hermitcraft hermitaday

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elodee

1 year ago

Artist announcement for TCG Season 2: Luigra!

I can't share any card artwork yet for TCG season 2, but I'm excited to announce that @luigra will be illustrating all four of my new cards!

Here's a couple examples of the portfolio pieces that got Luigra the gig (please note that these are NOT the card designs):

fun expressions and simplicity here: https://www.tumblr.com/luigra/724314099434061824/alt-text-an-illustrated-joe-hills-sloshes-coffee

I love the intensity here, but for the TCG we'll make something less scary to kids: https://www.tumblr.com/luigra/705096715821350912/bleeeegh-p

We'll have four card artwork reveals for y'all over the next few weeks, and I hope you're as excited as I am!

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congrats luigra!!! luigra joe hills joehillstsd hermitcraft hermitcraft tcg

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elodee

1 year ago

HERMIT A DAY MAY - DAY 29

Hypnotizd x Gargoyles

Minecraft youtuber Hypnotizd drawn as a gargoyle from Gargoyles. He is a gold colored gargoyle with blonde hair. Hypno is holding his real life fluffy white and light brown cat, Max, and smiling sweetly at him as he pets him. Above him and Max is Hypno's name in a pointy yellow font on a black background with a white outline around the entire word. The entire image is on a blue and purple gradient background.

For Hypno I chose the fantastic cartoon Gargoyles!

Hypno gives me cool 90s guy vibes and Gargoyles was my absolute favourite non-anime cartoon as a kid, so I had to include it! And, honestly, I just thought it'd be fun to draw Hypno as a gargoyle. I love the way he turned out.

To learn more about Gargoyles, one of the best cartoons ever, please continue below the cut!

@hermitadaymayrmit

(Congratulations on raising over $1000 for Gamers Outreach - lets keep going!)

The story of Gargoyles follows a group of warrior creatures called gargoyles who lived alongside and defended humans over 1000 years go. Despite acting as protectors, they were feared by humans and slaughtered in their sleep. The survivors of the massacre, a group of 5 men and their pet, were frozen in stone for eternity by a curse and doomed to never awaken again.

However, 1000 years in the future, an eccentric billionaire named Xanatos found a way to break the curse and brought the gargoyles back to life in modern Manhattan.

The story primarily follows the displaced gargoyles as they struggle to adjust to the shock of waking up in an unfamiliar future as the last members of their species.

While the show has plenty of action, as the gargoyles secretly protect the humans who live alongside them, the show is rather deep, often tackling nuanced issues like prejudice, mourning, and finding your identity in a culture that is not your own. Gargoyles also references a ton of mythology and literature and is arguably, in addition to the main plot with the gargoyles, an adaptation of multiple Shakespeare plays.

If you've never watched Gargoyles, I highly recommend it! It's one of the best serialized cartoons out there and I say that having also seen Avatar: the Last Airbender so you know I mean it.

Style references:

An intimidating light purple gargoyle named Goliath. Goliath is about like 7ft tall or something. As a gargoyle, he has large bat wings, clawed hands, pointed ears, horns on his head, a long kangaroo-like tail, and digitigrade feet with large, reptile like talons.

This is Goliath, the leader of the gargoyles and the a dual protagonist alongside his human love interest, Elisa Maza (who is one of my favourite female leads in anything ever). I would also like to add that Elisa is mixed race (Nigerian on her mother's side and indigenous, mostly Hopi, on her father's side) which was really unusual for a TV protagonist in the 90s. I just think that's cool, good job Gargoyles.

Goliath smiling lovingly at a human woman who is hugging him. The woman, Elisa, has dark hair and is wearing a red jacket. Her eyes are closed as she hugs Goliath and she is smiling as well. Goliath's large clawed hand is resting gently on her shoulder. They are standing together in a room that looks like an office at night.

Goliath and Elisa - I just wanted to show you how cute they are with each other. Love is real and you can find it with this detective lady and her 1000 year old Scottish bat creature friend.

The word Gargoyles in a pointy yellow font on a black background. The entire word is outlined in white. The entire title is on a slightly off white background.

The Gargoyles title design.

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I love Gargoyles so much I think gargoyle Hypno looks awesome and suitably 90s He deserves wings and a tail as a treat And of course I couldn't resist including Max Max is his irl cat if you don't know hypnotizd hermitaday hermitcraft

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