The Rymahites

 

Sometimes I change my opinion on what my favorite characters I created are, but something about Srobel Ghann just makes it the most unique, distinctive, newly original character I ever made. If you don't know Srobel is the yellow mask. 

I first sketched him back in 2021, he was sorta different and more charismatic in a way that he could be more hilarious or charming, but I liked him more mysterious. It fitted his design clearer.

Just recently, I wanted to give Srobel Ghann a family. A group known as The Rymahites. There is a current total of 6 masks. Who knows when there might be a 7th.

These are sets of diamonds locked in precious safe places to protect them from danger. So far, Srobel Ghann and Dohl Whinn have their own diamonds. They're used for their special spells.

This entire idea was inspired by my love for crystals back when I was in the 5th grade. By then, I started to begin learning about spiritual activities like journaling, daily cards, affirmations and chakras. It was Mom's interest and I enjoyed the experience myself. I still have these sets of uniquely shaped colored crystals I still hold my heart to nowadays. 

Making something so creatively inventive and out of the ordinary makes the franchise more iconic. Looney Tunes mostly had a human and animal cast yet they have Marvin The Martian, Aqua Teen had anthropomorphic food, Toy Story has toys that come alive etc. 

Now let's get onto the 5 other masks, the names and straightforward info. 

Below is basically the same, but there's more details added.

Rags To Riches

 

Here's something big I've been working on lately. My creativity has been improving and I'm coming up with new ideas almost every single time I experience something new, and it's working. 

I'm sure everyone who's a fan of this blog knows that I'm not into animated shorts anymore. But what settled this into existing in the first place is this random Color Rhapsody called Lucky Pigs (1939). I remember watching this film but barely remember a thing about it, but I do like this idea of a rich pig family, it's just that 7 minutes was short for this premise to work. When I was caught with The Three Stooges, and feature length movies, I could understand more depth and structure to them.

Cartoons interested me in ways I never thought would be in real scenarios whatsoever, which is why I believe that younger audiences are appealed to fictional characters more than typical human interactions. I mean I wasn't a "cartoon" kid. I liked Seinfeld, and Malcolm In The Middle, but I did like more imaginative and interesting franchises. 

The first obvious principle is the characters. At first, I was just sketching a bunch of pigs with specific live acting. I also tried to simply create the characters as distinctive as possible. That means their faces should be different. Characters like The Lost Boys from Peter Pan, as much as I like them, don't have unique likeabilty to each of their designs. All of them have the same facial features. 

The title is based off another cartoon I grew up with called Wags To Riches. I didn't knew that this cartoon was supposedly a pun to "Rags To Riches". I thought it would be the decent title. 

This is some of the other characters.

 

As much as I trust and respect other people and their differences and cultures, it's upsetting that people are only excepting things to be white-washed and re-written completely. I researched into different types of pigs so I wouldn't draw the same typical pink pig. Lil' River, is a Kunekune. Notice his black patches. Olly is a black pig, and yes I had to search if there was and to be honest it's kinda cool. And finally the last unique character I made is Charlie Sprout, whom is legally blind. He serves as the helping hand for Jack Marson.

This is our main antagonist. Mayor Machfield. He's the ultimate convict of greed, isolation and selfishness. We're supposed to feel discouraged for his actions. As he thinks that money is the only way for him to be secured and protected. 

You'll notice that I already created quotes already for Machfield to say.

As he rips his suit to shreds, he realizes what his other authoritarian members have to say about his wealthy ego. This makes him finally say something gullible and informative. 

Machfield - "If you really think that it isn't the only important thing in life, then what is there to not lose?"

He consists a statue of a piggy bank with a sinful smile. Filled with all his promises with coins and hard cash. 

I like a little villain backstory sometimes. I wished more films could have this. Machfield explains what made him overly driven to only concentrate on quantity and finances. His overly selfish and doubtful personality started when he got his official job as mayor. His supposed action is to act exactly like his preferable occupation, and he doesn't succeed by being isolated and secretive. His sustainability has been described as unimpressive and keeps trying to ban certain cash shortages like the penny as it was heavily inspired by the discontinuation of pennies that happened this year while also terminating nickels, dimes, and quarters. 

If more temperamental and overly excessive, he loses almost everything he has.

I still believe that animation should aim at an audience that relates to real-life or moral values. Such as one of my inspirations in art mediums like animation and old movies. Obviously I have a different taste to these films. Some people like them because of the nostalgia, and performance. To me I'm an old soul. I like to gain knowledge from deeper understandings so the films I usually watch often involve more maturity and sense. 

Machfield is sorta a resemblance of grouchy, rough elderly characters. Angus MacBadger from Disney's Wind In The Willows, while he turns out to be a good character, he shows off as rather busy and annoyed at the start.

I absolutely enjoy the acting and story-telling from the Disney movies. And to me the old hollywood movies from the 30s-50s do the same, except there's more incredibly fun dialogue and acting. 

Machfield is also like Mr. Potter from It's A Wonderful Life, which is my favorite film, in fact I've been studying and visiting Frank Capra's films nowadays, and the cast of characters in his movies are absolutely memorable and realistic. I went to the flea market today and bought more of his films on DVD like Mr. Deed Goes To Town, Meet John Doe, and Lost Horizon.

I'm still kinda on my phase of musicals being added, but reasons why it's because they have good energy to them. I think 1-3 songs is perfectly fine for a movie to have.

My idea was to have a complete nightmare involving Machfield sleeping in his court house because he owns the entire place. It's run by the Sahara Desert tribe.

I've seen this sad trope happen in a couple of films and TV shows whereas someone who's terribly exhausted suffers from the dry desert looking for water for hydration. I find it horrible, but it can be done decently in fictional circumstances. I seen Road to Morocco and Disney's Crazy With The Heat with a similar gag involving dreaming and visioning food and drinks in their path.

This only resulted into serious territory as I added a severe leader who speaks out consequences to Machfield's avarice. The song is Pig In A Penalty, it's upbeat but dark and disturbing as the other pigs start dancing.

This is a jumbled list of references to use for this music segment. The leader's name is officially Okoka, and there are a total of 30 members, but I only drew 14 distinctive faces for each of the sahara tribe. 

Next is Senator Beckham Madley who is secretly friends with Machfield, but also has his own deeper thinking into subjects. However being more honest and responsible than Machfield, has more higher standards. 

His assistants Arnell and Mack Bacon.

And here's The Marson couple. Jack and Amelia.

It's hard to make the somewhat decent wife personality work well, since I want Amelia herself to progress throughout the film. She although does have a good design.

I think what makes Amelia more interesting than other female leads is that she's supportive, which is already a very inspiring and genuinely good trait to describe her personality.

Like I was saying, this is just for a draft project. I'll come up with more ideas and characters.

Gee whiz, this was the longest, hardest post I done so far. Hoped you enjoyed this one. 😆

New Drawings

 

After Thanksgiving was over, I think it was a good time to get into the holiday spirit, listening to old Christmas music, making the tree, and of course drew this.

Here's a random but fun drawing I made of a wild jungle boy laughing.

I sometimes use drafts for the poses. Also, I had to draw my own fist in order to make this sketch work. 

I'm sure in previous drawing posts you've seen this character before. This is Eduardo Gmidgets.

Above is some Wise Ol' Owl drawings, a character I enjoy drawing nowadays, and below is another character I enjoy drawing is Cauliflower.

I've been watching the first few episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force lately. It's fine but I always liked the distinctive designs of the three main characters. I would've imagined what would happen if this trio was aimed at a suitable audience. There would be more of that likeable action and mystery involved. 

I liked this Bugs Bunny drawing I made.

I was designing dogs lately and one of the dogs would've worked perfectly as a parody of 12 Angry Men called 12 Angry Dogs. I really liked the original 1957 movie, so this was fun and inventive to create.

I actually had to look into more of the characters, because it's funny that they don't have real names mentioned in the film.

Credits to Medium.

Here's more of my Donald Duck drawings in a vintage commercial art style. It's inspired by my favorite version of the character from a 1954 cartoon Donald's Diary. Also no hard feelings to Donald Duck's original actors but I seemingly like him in a more sophisticated voice.

Alright, this is the last drawing for now. Have nothing to say, just a guy. 

Owls

 

Owls are one of the most interesting types of birds. I love them myself, they're classified as being morally analytical, and solitary. I recently created a new edition to the Art-Mania Villain crew. This is The Wise Ol' Owl, he believes in the willpower of wisdom, but he can be very deceitful, and tries treacherous methods to change people's minds from becoming completely normal to geniuses of his teachings.

This is what he looks like, notice that smug, yet wicked facial expression in the middle of the sketches. This is a true glance of his devious personality.

This idea started off as I was watching the extras selection of the 2005 Bambi DVD, it's becoming one of my all-time favorite movies, and Friend Owl in particular is a very expressive character, so it's a very useful example of studying specific owls.

They actually showed live-action owls, but these are images I searched on the internet, mostly for key reference. The narrow eyes show off suspicion.

This owl is flying mid-air, owls themselves don't usually walk on ground, so it's useful that they use their feathers.

Now Wise Ol' Owl may be a little more anthropomorphic, but he still decides to act traditionally anyway.

An owl is shocked, or maybe even surprised. Their eyes are more wide open, in a cautious sort of way.

Mr. Owl isn't particularly that shocked. The film theory is that the heroes are particularly more confident at handling challenging situations than villains often do. 

There's not a bunch of owls in animation. They're fun to draw, in fact my high school mascot is an owl. Last year, I designed and promoted virtue art until I graduated.