#moth mumbo

Day 4 drawing Grian as birds on Pinterest. I believe this is a young Harris Hawk and today feat. Mothbo!! I’ve been wanting to draw Mumbo moth for ages, his colours and patterns are based on a cinnabar moth ^-^

Didn’t stick very close to the ref today but I was trying more to capture the vibe, and I’m pretty happy with it. I love all Mumby’s lil arms heheh they’re so adorable

GRUMBO WEEK DAY 3 - " Nightmare " @grumboweek

"read more" at your own discretion. messy+wordy explanation of the concept coming:) .

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pardon me for being late but i really couldn't stand leaving this looking unfinished so. had to spend a bittt more time on it (might even post for grumbo week even after the event's over if thats okay!!)

we all got over the progression from their friendship to their betrayal of eachother in Last Life too soon. i need people to mourn with me

"Nightmare" made my mind immediately jump to the series that waffle duo really got their share of angst from, Last Life. How an unbreakable bond of friendship strengthened by literally passing eachother something as valuable as a life so quickly crumbled into them both betraying eachother in the end, a Nightmare scenario that the two of them would've never even considered for sure. even grian, who upon turning red was still clinging onto the hope that their bond was so strong that mumbo would join him as a redname. (concept) even red mumbo, who in his last ditch desperation tried reigniting post-red yellow life grian's humanity by giving him the spyglass, the southlander's physical embodiment of their friendship, only for grian to crush it mercilessly ,,,,,,,,,

anyway for this piece i tried real hard to cram in as much symbolism and imagery and intent behind my lines and colors as possible, so heres some of it! (theres more but thats on you to figure out!)

Composition + just some of the details : the main concept that i really wanted to drive home is the use of the SPYGLASS as symbolism for the progression of their bond throughout Last life, up until the end. yellow-side grian holds up a spyglass, looking towards the right

day4 past and future concepts ahead the spyglass extends through the past to the present, like a solid line of sight into the future before its unfortunately crushed by red-side grian (him shutting down any friendship or reconciliation from mumbo) mumbo, back against the future, faced twoards the past, reaching his spyglass out looking for who his friend was, only to see a cracked figure of him staring back grian, faced towards the future in both drawings, but also looking back at mumbo, with different emotions but both with the same desire to move forward, one with adoration and another with the desire to move on from mumbo's dead body and focus on self-preservation. he knew he had to move on, and he was right.

SOUTHLANDERS BADGE: mostly for visual interest! but also unlike the spyglass, is an unremovable physical reminder for post-red grian (literally lodged deep into his shoulder)

I had a vision…

Call of the Mumbo…

There is four Mumbo/pony designs that I found in Artfight including my own. I don’t know what possessed me to draw a Mumbo “bat signal”. This has got to be one of my favorite Artfight attacks ever!

(Haha, I had another thought- The four Mumbos of the apocalypse)

Characters/Owners left to right

Character: ★ [mlp] Mumbo

Owner: eclipsedoodler (Art Fight)

Tumblr: @eclipsedoodler

Twitter: eclipsedoodler

Instagram: eclipsedoodler

Character: Mumbo Jumbo

Owner: sunhorns (Art Fight)

Tumblr: @sunhorns

Twitter: sunhorns_

Instagram: sunhorns

TikTok: sunhorns

Character: Crimson Dust

Owner: ViceConnor21 (art fight)

(I also have an instagram and AO3)

Character: Mumbo KK!MLH

Owner: KxngKasper (Art Fight)

Tumblr: @kxngkasper

Moth mumbo but he looks more like a firefly

scar: “mumbo, if youre a moth, what did you look like as a baby?”

mumbo: “Oh no worries i have photos!” *a fucking caterpillar*

grian: “aww just like pearl”

scar: “am i the only one who didnt know about this???”