J.V. Echobear

I watched the recent peanuts movie recently with my grandma, and I enjoyed it a lot. I’m sure plenty of people might not for various reasons, but it was a fun movie and it seemed like they put a lot of effort into it. Even if animation studios should be trying 2D styles for some movies to get the right aesthetic, the team did at least do a really good job trying to translate the comic style and animation of the older cartoons into the 3D style. I probably would have liked to draw Fifi, and I might attempt it later, but life has been a bit too busy so I went with snoopy for now since his design is a bit simplier. 

This has been a really fun anime to watch so far, it’s got great world building for it’s own version of a super hero world. Probably my favorite setting for super heroes by far so far. The characters and story are really good on top of that. Tsuyu is such an enjoyable character, level headed even in a crisis and cute enough to be a palate cleanser after some of the really dark places the series goes to. 

So like probably most people I learned about this cute little guy’s existence when they made the game Epic Mickey. It was one of those issues where the company someone worked for kept the character when the writer/artist went off to work on something else. Disney ended up getting the rights to the character back when they were making the game though so that’s nice. If history went a little differently this guy would basically be our Mickey Mouse. Those sort of what ifs makes me really want to peak into other dimensions. 

Vibri, from Vib-ribbon. I never played this game but it looks pretty cool, nice aesthetic, it had levels based on whatever music you used, and the character is cute. 

I wasn’t planning this for this week’s fan art friday.... until I realized this year 4/13 is specifically friday and I would be KICKING myself if I didn’t do anything for homestuck and even if I got to the series later than most I”m still a huge fan of it so.... I put the bunny back in the box.

Max, from Sam and Max Freelance Police. I ended up just doing the head because I wasn’t a fan of my attempts at the body, maybe I’ll try at it again some other time. He cracks me up. 

One thing I really enjoyed from the PS1/N64 era were all the girls with attitude in the games I played. They felt strong, and it wasn’t about gender. Spyro had an attitude too. Characters were just themselves. That’s a good way to write people I think. Elora is a cute/beautiful character and I haven’t played much Spyro since the PS1 titles, but I wouldn’t mind seeing more of her if she’s in the others, or if they make new ones with her. 

Oh, and in case you were wondering, I was one of those kids that for the longest time mistakenly thought Blue was a guy. I actually had a terrible time mistaking character’s genders when watching cartoon at that age. 

Krillin from the dragon ball series. DBZ is one of the shows I grew up watching and when I was older and looked back at the original dragon ball that was fun as well, and kind of interesting to see how different it was. I like quite a lot of characters on the show and I figured I’d give Krillin some love. If it wasn’t for how the power discrepancy in the series basically backseats way too many characters that aren’t ‘the top 3 strongest’, he would be a force to be reckoned with since he seems to be pretty cleaver in the attacks he comes up with. I haven’t watched super yet but I”m going to soon so hopefully he gets some moments to shine. 

I thought of different stands that might be fun to draw out, and at first I was going mostly from earlier parts, the parts from the anime. Then it struck me, one of my favorite designs was from the more recent part. Not only do I like how this stand looks, it’s also a bit simpler for me to be able to actually do it well compared to some of the more complicated designs. So win-win as far as fan-arting goes. The whole series is amazing of course and I look forward to more.

So I ended up having a bit of an unexpected hiatus with my drawing, holidays and general life stuff to be done and the few drawings I did get done I forgot to scan for the longest time. Then I also had some scheduling hiccups and more just day to day things pop up that have delayed me getting back to uploading my stuff like I wanted to. Things have settled down enough that I feel comfortable uploading fan art friday stuff again, hopefully followed by other things, like creepy cute tuesdays, and maybe even other projects that I’ve been working on that have been taking up the other parts of my time during the winter. 

As of drawing this I have not personally beat it but I am working towards it. I hope if I ever make rage games that they’d be as good/evil as this masterpiece of video game torment.