Hermit-a-Day May, Day 17: EthosLab. Today's Style/medium Is The Mobile Game Crossy Road. I'm Gonna Be

Hermit-a-Day May, day 17: EthosLab. Today's style/medium is the mobile game Crossy Road. I'm gonna be honest, this was my backup style and mostly a joke, but my first choice was not working out and I didn't have time to fiddle with it. Crossy Road is essentially just a modern Frogger, so it fits what Etho's been up to this season (at least, I think--I've never actually played the game). Details and references under the read more!

Materials/software: Blockbench for most of it; I exported the image to Krita to add a background and clean up the details.

References: I primarily based Etho's features on two of the developer insert characters from the Australian update, Ben Weatherall and Andy Sum. I borrowed the play button from a screenshot of the game and hand-wrote the font pixel by pixel, referencing several different screenshots.

This was my first time using Blockbench and I went in completely blind, but it was actually pretty intuitive! I was pleasantly surprised. I'm realizing now that I made Etho's legs a bit too short but it's fiiiine. I think that's... about all I have to say, actually. This piece was mostly a "do it for the meme" kind of thing, but I am proud of how much it looks like the source material.

♦️ Etho for Hermit-a-Day May #17 ♦️

He’s a god, he’s a man, he’s a ghost, he’s a guru.

Back again with this color palette for him. I just love the idea of him with redstone all over his fingers. 👀 Bonus points if you can guess the song!

(Shh, I haven’t done any of the others for Hermit-a-Day May, but my amazing partner @roosterblue gave me this brilliant idea that I couldn’t get out of my head.)

False! The whole river came from her briefcase!

got a new fineliner pen (it's brown!!) who cheered

Ethoslab :3

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And here's his full portrait without the text and background: