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1 year ago

HERMIT A DAY MAY - DAY 10

Stressmonster x Cucumber Quest

A drawing of Minecraft youtuber Stressmonster101 in the style of Cucumber Quest. She is young lady with rabbit ears and a pink and purple flower crown and she is holding a chubby cat that is struggling to get out of her arms. The cat is grey and white with dark grey stripes and light green eyes. Stress is talking and in her speech bubble she is exclaiming her own name. The entire image is on a light purple background.

For Stressmonster I chose the wonderful webcomic Cucumber Quest!

I chose this design for her because I thought her colors and aesthetic would work wonderfully with the art style. I also think she would probably appreciate how cute the comic is if she were familiar with it.

This one was very difficult for me and I'm still not entirely satisfied with how it turned out. The rendering for this comic uses a very different style than what I'm used to, and I had some trouble reverse-engineering how the visuals are created, so it didn't turn out as on model as I would have liked. But, that being said, I think she looks adorable anyway. I also totally made up how the kitty would look, since as far as I can remember there aren't any kitties in Cucumber Quest, so I came up with her design from scratch.

To learn more about Cucumber Quest and see my style references, adventure below the cut! (The funds are still raising for Gamers Outreach!)

Cucumber Quest is sweet, beautiful webcomic by the artist Gigi D.G. It follows the adventures of a young rabbit boy named Cucumber and his sister, Almond, as they go on a quest to defeat the Nightmare Knight. Unfortunately Cucumber Quest will not be finished as a comic, due to changing circumstances in the authors personal life, but the story will eventually be concluded as an illustrated script and every one of the over 800 pages of the comic is more than worth reading.

I cannot say enough good things about Cucumber Quest. It has a charming, engaging story, beautiful art, and fun, memorable characters. Please give it a read if you have the chance, you will not regret it. Style references:

Four panels of the Cucumber Quest comic. 1. In the first panel are two vegetable themed guards making dumb faces while a beautiful woman in a strawberry themed dress speaks to them, facing away and apparently upset. She is speaking a mix of French and English, saying: C’est vraiment dammage...And I was just thinking... 2. In panel two she turns to face the guards again, with hearts floating in the air behind her, and flirtly says: I would give une bise to my savior. 3. In panel 3 the male guard, who has a tomato shaped helmet, stares at her dumbly. 4. In the fourth panel he tilts his head and says: Bees? to which the frustrated woman replies: A KISS, imbécile!

The comic uses a lineless style and soft color palettes. The shading changes drastically with the lighting, but I tried to mimic the style as it looks with flat lighting (such as in most panels of the above example).

A drawing of the Cucumber Quest character Peridot. She is a smiling young rabbit girl with green hair and a green dress. She is wearing a big green witch hat and riding a giant star shaped wand as a broomstick, since she is a witch. In her hand are some stars which are floating up and away from her palm. The stars are glowing, illuminating her face from below with a yellow-white light.

Here's an example of a character rendered with more dynamic lighting (this is Peridot, she is a witch)

One of the title banners for Cucumber Quest. The entire image is on a light orange background. This banner features Cucumber, looking unsure, while he stands next to his obliviously confident father Lord Cabbage. Cucumber is a young rabbit boy with red hair and a green shirt and Lord Cabbage is a wealthy looking rabbit man with hair that looks like cabbage leaves. Lord Cabbage is speaking and in his speech bubble it says: Cucumber Quest!

Cucumber Quest title banner

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I think one of the issues here is that I do not know the best brushes for this style but I am still glad I attempted it since I love the art in this comic so much I also think the original artist might block the characters in with shapes then add detail over top which I am not very good at and do not have much experience in since I am a big sketching and lineart guy lol And yes the kitty is a Jellie cat hermitaday stressmonster stressmonster101 hermitcraft
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