#splongebobby does art

here is some fun things i added or did, why i did them, etc etc; just some behind the scenes stuff

- this is supposed to be in the time frame where miss peregrine was kidnapped/kept in bird form. it is so terribly heartbreaking to think that she most likely assumed that the wights had taken them all, or even worse, they had been killed. she'd have no way of knowing until her saving.

- the order of apperances from the wards if you could not tell (though i would hope you can lol): emma, olive/claire, millard, bronwyn, horace, hugh/fiona, enoch, jacob. the only one that was deliberately placed was jacob, the rest are randomized mostly picked in the spots they are due to colors.

- speaking of jacob, if you noticed, he is slightly blurried/messed up compared to everyone else. that is because since miss peregrine is kidnapped early on in the series, she wouldn't quite trust or understand jacob, but she would still care for his safety just as if he had been with her for years.

- bronwyn has a slight green spot floating behind her (with an even lighter blue glow inside of it). that is victor, more specifically, his spirit.

- i wanted to really try to give them all different running looks to them based off how i do think they would run. example, horace looks more loose and not as controlled compared to emma, given he does not frequently run or enjoy running. i did accidently give olive/claire and hugh/fiona basically the same pose though.

- some musical info here so im not sure if this will make complete sense to everyone lol, but the song is in 3/4 and each rhythmic restart in the main melody highlighted has exactly 8 main beats with 3 minor beats in each main, which is repeated twice (why each character is shown twice). while i do think miss p would think individually of each, in order to satisfy this pattern, i had to double up a few, and it made the most sense to do that to olive/claire and hugh/fiona.

- the small doodles took me longer to draw that the intricate peregrine. i kept messing up on the colors, mostly bronwyn and millard, in which i had to redo both of them 3 times.

so in the movie, the monster is known as a "still life", and basically it is made off of the memories of a person; it takes all of a person's worst qualities, regrets, fears, etc etc, and comes out as its own entity/"person". so clark's is dressed like his pirate persona because of a combo of all the things said above lol (regret and fear and all that). i wanted to incorporate horace's peculiarities in these designs as well, and i ended up with two; one much more abstract and one much more human.

the abstract one is something i think you'd see more in the series that are on youtube while the more human-esque one is more the movie's style. though id like to think the movie has monsters in the backrooms similar to what the series of videos has (like the lifeform), they just werent shown because we didn't explore too much outside the base level/level 0.

the more abstract still life of horace has half a star/star-esque shape as a head to represent horace's peculiarity, while the mouth coming out from the side represents a hollowgast. i like to think the this "horace" creature, as well as most persons, can't actually see that part of it, and instead it just looks like a jagged hole. the creature itself however can feel it. the same applies to the arm on our right side, which is a hollowgast tentacle. it is covered in various wight eyes with only two of them being normal (front of face, our right hand). it's upper left arm is more whispy, an homage to the all seeing eye in which that ties into horace's prophetic abilities. it keeps the suit and tie that horace commonly wears. there is a broken halo that hovers in between the points of the star and a glowing cross-like piece on top of it all. this part i shouldn't have added tbh, but i thought it tied in more with horace's thoughts about his peculiarity more than the peculiarity itself, being that he should be able to help more than he actually is capable of given that he can see the future's of so many people. finally, i gave it deer legs/hooves, that represents the fragile and weakness that horace is often associated with.

the more human horace has a normal human head and hair, though wears a large hat that covers where they eyes would be. it's mouth is now an eye, representing horace being shunned for speaking out about his fear and being only used when his peculiarity is in play. his clothes are still his common suit and tie, yet they are tattered and ripped in various places, given that horace takes pride in his appearances. he's even missing a shoe. he has one good hand and one bad hand, representing the good that horace wants to be, but the fear he has keeping him back, which is seen as cowardly, "bad". on his back is a large hourglass, though you cannot see much of how fast the time within is going or how much is truly left. this represents that although horace can see many futures of people, when he does at the off chance remember the dream, he has no way of knowing if they will come true or when they will come true; a mystery that only time can tell. it also never looks away from you, as in, you can never see it's back turned.

and here they are side by side, with a little height comparison for horace