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1 year ago

HERMIT A DAY MAY - DAY 8

xBCrafted x Futurama

A drawing of Minecraft youtuber xBCrafted in the style of Futurama. He has been fused with a Minecraft guardian, so he is blue, has webbed fingers, gills, orange spikes on his head, and a tail, and he has one eye. He is on a blue background with his name above his head in red blocky lettering with yellow outlines.

I drew xB in the style of Futurama!

So I was unsure of what to do for xB and played with a number of different ideas. But then I started fusing him with a guardian and I though if he is a guardian hybrid, wouldn't he only have one eye?

And you know what style definitely works well with a cycloptic character? That's right, Futurama!

Disclaimer: Futurama is an adult comedy cartoon. While it does have a lot of different kinds of humor, it frequently features adult jokes/themes and is definitely not PG.

I had a lot of fun designing this one since Futurama has a lot of non-human characters, so I really felt like I could really lean into the hybrid elements of this xB design.

If you want to learn more about Futurama and see my style references, please look below the cut. (Dont forget about the Gamers Outreach fundraiser! If you donate $50 tumblr artist rendiggitydog will draw a hermit for you.)

Futurama is an adult comedy about a delivery guy named Fry who accidentally gets cryogenically frozen and is awakened again in the far flung future, where he promptly ends up with another job as a delivery guy (but this time on a spaceship with aliens).

The show is one of my favorite western adult animated comedies. It is pretty clever for the genre and has a lot of really likeable characters. The character I referenced heavily for xB is Leela, Fry's love interest and a cool one-eyed spaceship captain.

If you are a fan of scifi (like me) you would probably really enjoy Futurama since it parodies a lot of well-known scifi. It frequently makes fun of Star Trek in particular (with love, of course).

Style references:

An image of the main cast of Futurama. From left to right is Dr. Zoidberg (who is a lobster alien), Professor Farnsworth, Hermes Conrad, Philip J. Fry, Turanga Leela, Amy Wong, and Bender (who is a robot). They are all hanging out on a couch. Fry has his arm around Leela and it is cute.

Various characters from the show - Fry is the redhead and Leela is the lady with one eye.

An image if Leela. She is smiling and holding up a framed photo of herself that says "Turanga Leela, Space Captain". Leela has purple hair, which she keeps in a ponytail, and one large eye in the middle of her face.

I really like Leela :)

The word Futurama written in blocky red text with yellow outlines. The word is written in an arc across the top of the image. The background is blue and light blue, with the light blue radiating up from the bottom like stage lights or search lights.

Futurama title card

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I actually really like the way xB turned out even though I was really lost with his design for a while I think he seems like he would be a fun one off character in an episode that Fry would be really jealous of for literally no reason other than that xB is cooler than him hermitaday xB xbcrafted hermitcraft

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