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HERMIT A DAY MAY - DAY 30

SmallishBeans x Mononoke

Minecraft youtuber SmallishBeans (aka Joel) drawn in the style of Mononoke. He is in a traditional Japanese outfit which is light pink and green with sakura blossoms along the sides. He is wearing red face paint reminiscent of a tanuki and long green nails. Behind him is a painting of cherry blossoms. The entire image has a papery texture. Next to Joel is a rectangle with a green-yellow-red gradient which has his YouTube handle written vertically inside it in black. This text looks like its been painted with an ink brush.

For Joel I chose the gorgeous anime mini series, Mononoke!

I chose this for Joel because Mononoke is the most beautiful anime I have ever seen. Others have come close, but Mononoke is number one for me. The bright colors, detail, and texture variation remind me a lot of Joel's base.

The show is animated with a paper texture and looks like a moving Edo era ukiyo-e woodblock print. Still images don't do the show justice, so please go watch it.

Do note, however, that the show is technically horror. The series is beautiful but very eerie and touches on dark topics. It also has a lot of surreal imagery that could be upsetting to some people, so discretion is advised.

To learn more about Mononoke and see my style references, go below the cut.

@hermitadaymay

(Gamers Outreach fundraiser)

Mononoke is the story of a nameless person known only as the Medicine Seller who wanders Edo era Japan. The enigmatic figure seeks out restless spirits called mononoke who bind themselves to negative emotion and haunt the living. The Medicine Seller finds ways to get close to the spirits and learns their purpose for lingering in the human world, then attempts to exorcise them. Every two to three episodes follows the story of an new exorcism.

The draw of the show, in addition to its beauty, comes from unravelling the mystery behind each mononoke, since the Medicine Seller can't perform an exorcism until he understands what happened to cause the spirit to become attached to a specific place or person.

The show feels almost like a detective story, but a really creepy one where you're not really sure what's going on half the time. Mononoke is unique, and definitely not everyone's cup of tea. However, even if the genre isn't your vibe, it's definitely worth watching at least some of it for the visuals alone.

Style references:

The Medicine Seller from Mononoke. He is an elegant looking man with large pointed ears and long, light brown hair. He has pale skin, purple eyes, and red face paint that surrounds his eyes and highlights the bridge of his nose. He is wearing a purple bandana over his hair and is dressed in a light blue traditional Japanese outfit (I am sorry, I don’t know what its called, it looks like a kimono to me but I don’t have much knowledge about this). In this image he is staring down the viewer and holding up the palm of his hand in a ’stop’ gesture. Behind him is a painted background of cherry blossom trees. The entire image has a papery texture.

The show has a papery texture behind the animation, making even very simple shots look really detailed and beautiful.

The medicine seller viewed from a low angle. He is inside the most colorful building you can imagine with busy patterns along all the walls and the stairwell above him. The ceiling is checkered, there are blue columns with floral patterns, and behind and to the sides of the Medicine Seller are what appear to be giant aquarium tanks populated by goldfish. These tanks also have a floral pattern on them. The dominant colors in the image is light blue and a muted red and the entire scene has a papery texture under it.

Some episodes reach hyperpop levels of colors and patterns, though still using paper-like texture throughout. The results are stunning - I remember pausing episodes on my very first viewing just to take in some beautiful scenes.

A chaotic and colorful image that looks like a collage of Edo era woodblock prints that have been brightly recolored. In the centre is a rectangle with a green-yellow-red gradient that has the name of the show written in Japanese inside it in a large ink brush font. The text is written vertically and beside it, also vertical, is the name of the show in English letters in a small type face that looks like it came from an old typewriter. On top of the rectangle is a cat in human Edo-era clothing. To the right of the title is the medicine seller, who is standing in a 3/4 view and looking at the viewer. The rest of the image is a chaotic collage which includes a crowd of people on a yellow bridge, a red god or demon of some kind that I don’t recognize, an old Japanese building, and a wave that resembles The Great Wave of Kanagawa, which is a famous 1830s ukiyo-e woodblock print by the artist Hokusai.

The title design in a piece of art for Mononoke.

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HERMIT A DAY MAY - DAY 25

impulseSV x Samurai Jack

An image of Minecraft youtuber impulseSV drawn in the style of Samurai Jack. He is waving at someone out of frame and smiling. Above him is his own name in a white, futuristic font. He is on a purple background painted with a rough brush texture. Behind the purple is a solid black canvas.

For Impulse I chose Samurai Jack!

Samurai Jack takes place in a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk future, so I thought this would suit Impulse well given his build theme and skin this season.

To learn more about Samurai Jack and see my style references, look below the cut!

@hermitadaymay

(Gamers outreach fundraiser)

Samurai Jack is a 90s cartoon created by Genndy Tartakovsky. The story follows a samurai prince from a fictional version of Japan who battles a shapeshifting entity of evil named Aku. Right as Aku is about to lose to the samurai, he tears a hole in time and throws the samurai into the future.

Once in the future, the samurai, given the nickname Jack by locals, must find a way to travel back to his own time to defeat the immortal Aku and prevent the future from being shaped under Aku's malicious control.

Samurai Jack is a fantastic, imaginative cartoon that deserves to be called art. Not only are the character designs fantastic, many of the episode concepts themselves are interesting and thought-provoking in a way not achieved by many other shows.

The show originally ran for four seasons and was not concluded. Twelve years later, an fifth season aired that completed the story. The first four seasons are suitable for all ages, but the fifth season is significantly more mature. I highly recommend watching the entire series, including the fifth season, which is a fantastic conclusion to the story.

Style references:

A samurai in a white robe holding up a sword. He is facing the viewer and glaring with flames roaring behind him.

The samurai from Samurai Jack

The samurai speaking to three citizens of the futuristic Aku City. These three people are the ones who give him the name "Jack". Jack is dressed in a white robe with a sword. The three people he is speaking to are colorful young people with dramatic designs. The one closest to Jack is dressed in all orange, with red hair and has a slumped posture. Behind him is a very short bald guy in all blue, and the last person on the right is a very tall guy with a leaning posture dressed in all green. He seems to have a lava lamp on his head. All four of them are standing in an urban setting where all the buildings are black with glowing red windows.

Characters in Samurai Jack are colorful and have strong shape language

The words SAMURAI JACK in a bold, futuristic white font. Behind the text is a red brush texture over a drawing of Jack"s eyes. The entire image is on a black background.

The Samurai Jack title design

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Samurai Jack is one of the best cartoons I've ever watched At first I didn't want to give it a chance as a kid because the concept seemed so weird but once I finally watched it I was like dang this is incredible actually Impulse's theme this season reminds me a lot of Aku City from the show but with a purple and black theme rather than red and black impulsesv hermitcraft hermitaday

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elodee

1 year ago

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elodee

1 year ago

HERMIT A DAY MAY - DAY 31

ReNDoG x Borderlands

Minecraft youtuber Rendog in the style of Borderlands. he is wearing a yellow environmental suit over his usual outfit and has a bright turquoise visor with metal frames that resemble pointed dog ears on the sides of his head. On his belt is a bad that has the GigaCorp colors. Behind him is his own name in a large, all caps yellow font that spans across the image on a slight diagonal. The font has a weathered texture and a thick black outline. The entire image is on a pale purple gradient background.

For Rendog I chose the first-person looter shooter video game series Borderlands!

Ren's base this season reminds me a lot of Borderlands (at least so far). With its desolate landscape, eccentric naming conventions, and industrial buildings put in place by a morally questionable mega-conglomerate, it would fit right in as a setting in one of these games.

Borderlands is an incredibly fun (and funny) game series that I highly recommend playing if you've never picked it up before. However, the games have a lot of adult humor and are very violent, though the violence is played for laughs. If you're familiar with the character Deadpool, Borderlands has a very similar energy.

To learn more about Borderlands and see my style references, continue below the cut.

@hermitadaymay

(Congratulations on crushing the Gamers Outreach fundraiser goal!)

Borderlands is a series of first person looter shooter games set in an open world with a procedurally generated weapon system. The plot of the games follows a group of protagonists with various abilities who complete missions and explore the planet (usually a place called Pandora) in order to find and unlock a fabled treasure trove called a Vault. These Vault Hunters (shoutout Iskall) are not exactly heroes, but as the player you have the option to help people along the way.

There is a lot more to the Vault Hunters' adventures throughout the games that just looking for treasure. Each game has an engaging plot and memorable characters, but the the core gameplay for the entire series is this: shoot, kill, loot a badass new gun, rinse and repeat.

Borderlands is a blast to play and no two playthroughs are exactly the same. It's also great fun to play with your friends and has an excellent multiplayer mode. The series also has a unique aesthetic that makes it look like you're playing in a 3D comic book. The effect is really cool.

Style references:

A screencap of a Pandora setting from Borderlands 3. In the foreground is the player character, who appears to be a young woman in big chunky armor. In the background is a gas station that looks like its bolted together using rusted junk from various other gas stations. The building is sitting in the middle of an orange brown desert with large jagged rocks sticking up from the ground. There does not appear to be anything else nearby.

The games take place mostly on Pandora, a desert planet which has a lot of abandoned industrial buildings and machinery from various intergalactic corporations. Most of what the companies left behind have since been looted and incorporated into ramshackle towns populated by the locals.

An image of Handsome Jack on a grey background that has the texture of splattered paint. Handsome Jack is a well kept man with clean clothes, an expensive looking watch, and shoes that look like converse. Picture a fintech startup guy but put him in a scifi western setting. Notably, Handsome Jack is, in fact, handsome, but his face is a lifelike mask of his own face bolted in place on his head. You eventually find out why he has a mask for a face in the games.

This is Handsome Jack, the primary antagonist from the second game. The games use hand-drawn textures for the characters, which create the comic book-like feel.

The word Borderlands in a big, blocky, all caps font. The font is on a diagonal across the image. The text is bright yellow and has a weathered texture. The letters all have thick black outlines.

The Borderlands title design.

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I adore how this one turned out it was very difficult and I am really proud of myself I am especially proud of how I was able to incorporate the yellow GigaCorp environmental suit into his design in a way that looks good with his red shirt and bright turquoise visor plus I even managed to include the dog ears without giving him actual dog ears since in a Borderlands setting they would have likely been something like an actual dog's ears stapled to the sides of his head and that would have been much too grim for Ren anyway this one of my favourite pieces for this month Thank you to the organizers of Hermit-A-Day May This challenge was loads of fun and I definitely learned a lot rendog RentheDog hermitcraft hermitaday

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elodee

1 year ago

^^^ @liauditore you get it you see the vision

HERMIT A DAY MAY - DAY 23

TangoTek x Yu-Gi-Oh

A drawing of Minecraft youtuber TangoTek in his blue season 9 Decked Out dungeon master skin in the style of Yu-Gi-Oh. He is smiling wickedly and throwing a bunch of game pieces at the viewer which resemble Etho, Cubfan, GeminiTay, Hypnotizd, GoodTimesWithScar, a trident drowned, a ravager, and a warden. Above him is his name written in white in a regal, 3-D looking font with his name written again in red in katakana behind it.

For Tango I picked Yu-Gi-Oh!!

Most people know Yu-Gi-Oh! as a cartoon and card game, but in the original story the pharoah spirit who possesses Yugi is known as the King of Games, as in, all games. So who better to represent Yu-Gi-Oh! than the creator and dungeon master of Decked Out, the ultimate game within a game?

To learn more about Yu-Gi-Oh! and see my style references, continue below the cut.

@hermitadaymay

(The King of Games would definitely donate to Gamers Outreach)

Yu-Gi-Oh! is a manga and anime series about a boy named Yugi Mutou who solves a cursed puzzle from ancient Egypt and is then possessed by the spirit of a ruthless Pharoah who has lost all his memories.

"Ruthless?" I can hear fans of the anime saying. "The Pharoah is a good guy!"

Incorrect! He only becomes a good guy later. Early on he is literally Ancient Egyptian Jigsaw.

In the manga, the Pharoah takes over Yugi's body whenever Yugi is in danger, whether he wants it or not, and manipulates people into agreeing to rigged, high stakes Shadow Games. Once they inevitably lose, he traps them in a Penalty Game (a poetic justice torture scenario) for the rest of their lives or possibly all of eternity depending on the situation. It's really messed up! Highlights of early Yu-Gi-Oh Penalty Games include:

Lighting a guy on fire

Blinding a guy

Telltale Heart-ing a guy

Driving a guy so crazy his rips out his own eye

Blowing a guy up

Envenomating a guy with his own pet scorpion

Electrocuting people

Forcing a guy to endure an illusion of eternal zombie attacks

Trapping people in hell forever

...and more!

The show is way more family friendly and follows a significantly mellowed-out Pharoah and his friends as they battle bad guys with card games that summon monsters to fight on their behalf. It's pretty fun an campy!

However, Yu-Gi-Oh! the show is fairly well known so I also wanted to take this opportunity to introduce everyone to season 0 manga Pharoah, who is literally a serial killing ghost with a gambling problem that's possessing a 16 year old.

If you had an Egyptology phase as a kid, give Yu-Gi-Oh! a watch. If you watched Yu-Gi-Oh! as a kid, go read the early manga.

Style references:

An image of the Pharoah from Yu-Gi-Oh. Technically this is Yugi Mutou's body, but Yugi and the Pharoah look pretty much the same anyway (you do get to see flashbacks to Egypt later in the show) so it doesn't matter. He is wearing full body leather with a blue jacket over his shoulders like a cape. On his arm is a machine that has a deck of cards in it and a surface to play cards - the machine is not operating in the picture but when it's on it projects holograms of monsters. Around the Pharoah's neck is a big metal pyramid charm on a chain. His hair is indescribable but I will try. Picture a guy with spikey black hair. Spikier. Now imagine the spikes are massive and basically making the silhouette of a starfish. Now imagine his bangs are blonde lightning bolts that go over the starfish arms but also have long strands in the front that are still bangs. The black starfish spikes are also outlined in purplish-red, like he has frosted tips but purplish-red. Also his eyes are the same purplish-red color. Peak anime protagonist design if you ask me.

There he is, the King of Games. The heart of the cards guides him but he also full on just, like, cheats too.

Malik, on the left, and Bakura, on the right. These two are villains from the show who are also teenagers possessed by (evil) Egyptian spirits that were trapped in cursed metal knick-knacks. Everyone in this show has Hair with a capital H.

The word Yu-Gi-Oh! written in a 3D, metallic looking font. The letters are in a silvery white serif font and are designed to look embossed and pointy in the middle, like looking down on a pyramid from above. Behind the English text is the same name written in red kanji (I assume - I can't read kanji).

The Yu-Gi-Oh! title design.

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