#matteldritch

I've been rewatching The Owl House for the first time in over a year and since it was the 10th anniversary of the Cartoon Network classic, Over the Garden Wall, I had the idea of combining the two properties for a piece of fanart. I was inspired by the works of another artist, @dazeddoodles, specifically the way of how they can imitate TOH's artstyle yet also avoid copying it by adding their own flair and style to it. It wasn't too difficult to pick who would play the leads in this little alternate universe of mine, since I felt that both Luz and Hunter were quite similar in personality to Greg and Wirt, respectively. It also helps that both pairs are siblings of unconventional relation (Greg is Wirt's younger half-brother and Hunter is informally adopted into the Noceda family). I'll eventually make some screencap redraws of the original OTGW series for this AU, but I haven't really planned out who'd be who here. Belos would obviously be the Beast, but the rest of the cast is up in the air. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I actually hadn't known that this year was the anniversary of the first Super Mario game, I just really wanted to draw Mario and Luigi in the art style of the Paul Rudish Mickey Mouse series because that's the show I would model a hypothetical Mario cartoon after. The show utilizing designs from the golden age of animation is also why I chose to base Mario's outfit on his sprite art from the first Super Mario Bros game and Luigi's outfit on artwork from the original Mario Bros arcade game. I also gave them hairstyles based on their very first live action performers, Captain Lou Albano and Danny Wells. The Mario Bros game having a pitch black background with a brightly coloured foreground lead me to making a variant where the brothers were painted with bright neon colours in order to resemble a black light poster or a theme park dark ride. I might branch out and do this type of redesign with other Nintendo characters such as Link, Samus, Captain Falcon and Fox McCloud.

I'd like to give special thanks to an artist friend of mine, Honey Ham, for all the help they provided when I struggled with the lighting and shading.

I didn't like the way The New Batman Adventures redesigned the Mad Hatter's appearance with such a drab colour scheme, so I wanted to do a little redesign of a redesign by making him look a touch closer to how he looked in the show before the big fancy makeover. This might sound odd, but I think that his colour scheme in TNBA made the Hatter look more like just some guy from Victorian England while his old look of neon green, neon blue and navy blue made him stand out as something otherworldly, essentially someone who would fit in the world of Wonderland. Anyway, while I wanted to give him his old look back, I also didn't want to disrespect TNBA's production team's choices. Therefore, I gave him a colour scheme that was evocative of his pre-TNBA appearance but that could also fall in line with the aesthetics of TNBA.

*I kept the general shape of the gauntlets she wore in the two-parter series beginning and also kept the hair colour, skin tone and eye colour out of respect. * Her top is based on the Livewire of the original DC Animated universe, with the lightning bolt acting as a reference to the original's leotard and it's incredibly deep neckline. * The lightning bolt emblem is a reference to the Zero-Hour Reboot Legion of Superheroes where Lightning Lad, going by the codename of Livewire, sported a similar design for the lightning bolts on his costume. * The wires around the gauntlets are meant to invoke the wires used in cranial electrostimulation, or CES, to treat cases of depression, anxiety and or insomnia. I wanted to suggest that she could have a sympathetic backstory or that her equipment radically alters her personality and she's become addicted to its power.