#urbab

AAAHH!! REAL MONSTERS!

I absolutely love drawing these guys. Despite it not being my favorite Nicktoon (still loved it, but it could never compete with something like Ren & Stimpy) I find it to be the most fun to draw fan art for. The characters had such wild designs, yet simplistic designs, so there’s so much room for interpretation. And they’re the perfect cartoon for Halloween art.

The first batch is the main 3 students. Ickis, the trouble-making, self-doubting son of the greatest scarer ever in the academy, Oblina, an expert at scaring and pulling out her own guts, and Krumm, an expert at just being disgusting. I love and hate Krumm’s voice. I love it because it’s so unique, like deep and grumbly while also being squeaky and cracky. I hate it because I can’t possibly imitate it, lol. Actually, all of the main characters in this show have super unique voices that are pretty much impossible for me to imitate.

The second batch is monsters from the Monster Academy. Random students, Snav, Urbab and Kriggle, the main professor, the fabulous Gromble, who I here took inspiration from Tim Curry from Rocky Horror (ironic, because...), Zimbo, the one legged bee monster voiced by Tim Curry and always eager to scold the students, and the dreaded Snorch, who is the monster officially tasked with punishing students who do wrong. I kind of wish I made the Snorch’s tusks bigger.

And the third batch are the Monster Academy cheerleaders. I think they were only shown as cheerleaders like once or twice in the show, but most secondary characters only got to speak once or twice in the show. I think that was one of the show’s biggest missed opportunities in retrospect - they never really developed the supporting monsters much. These girls could have been like the Pink Ladies of the show (any Grease fans getting that reference?) but were mostly just background characters. They are Horrifica, who seemed to be regarded as the prettiest monster in the academy, and the apple of Krumm’s creepy, disembodied eye, Dizzle, an ugly little zit of a monster, and Hairiette, a bug-like monster who could separate the segments of her body.