#gary chalmers

[tampire]

"It's the Northern Lights"

[quix5gg]

cover art for my upcoming simpsons illustration fanbook :]

[birbwell]

courghs

[flowerbloom-arts]

Grade School Confidential 2: Judgement Day

[fauchart]

In-character letters I sent my friends... >:]c

This was back in february and almost all of them arrived on time for Valentine's Day which was a very funny timing. I love sending physical mail so much and all the more when it allows me to haunt my friends with their favorite characters addressing them/their OCs directly...

I changed the handwriting for each character, trying to adapt it to the kind of person that they were (I didn't go fishing for canon examples of it, just made some up myself hgbgh), wrote using pens, pencils, fountain pens or printing depending on what I felt fit each of them best, and also varied the kind of medium they used: actual proper letter paper, or printer paper with graphic elements on them, or crappy notebook paper... And it was all so fun to do ;v;

Bob for @claraknight The Flanders family and Meyers for @cherryberg The Lovejoy family for @salcreus Kent Brockman and Chalmers for @birbwell

Closeups of the Springfield Elementary Flyer:

I suck at graphic design and in this case? It at least felt very befitting for Springfield Elementary. Look at this catastrophically gaudy thing, printed on crappy cheap paper, and tell me that's not on-brand.

And the Itchy & Scratchy 'totally real' Animation Cel Meyers sent alongside his letter:

I genuinely made it the traditional way, on a plastic cel on which I drew the lineart on one side, and painted the colors with gouache on the other... It came out much better than I hoped it would and I'm so happy about it :] ♥

[popnpog]

WEEK 1 of inkhomerrr 2025! Trying all-physical this year. GONNA KEEP AT IT!

[voidvinn]

they have really good chemistry actually

[bluebeerg]

the chalmers and the colour purple

(bonus + rambling under cut)

HI. HELLO. i hoped you liked this. i've had thoughts about this for forever + drawing this kicked my ass ^_^

its not really that in-depth, it's just a series of noticing things . like the purple in rosemary's old photos, how it's something she wore and how gary would match with his tie, but then noticing the lack of purple in most any of his outfits. and then i noticed shauna wearing a purple sweater to the funeral when 36x10 "The Man Who Flew Too Much" came out.

now, shauna isn't a character who goes to church - she's jewish and also a rebellious teenager (in 31x19 "Warrin' Priests", she and jimbo go to church just to make out) - so this isn't exactly an environment she would be in. so it's curious as to why she's wearing this, specifically purple and not a black one in mourning like everyone else. is this her winter wear? no, she wears a jacket for that. her formal attire? she's also wearing this to a funeral? like, the only time she's worn this? hah ... well. #myinnerthoughts

anyway, that's my loose connections, my. clutches head "what could this all mean". you can make this about chalmskinn if you want, thats partially what i tied it back to when first thinking about purple being a (former) chalmers colour(?), but in my mind it's also about the constant reminder of rosemary as the both of them carries through their lives. if i care enough, i'd make a more whatever follow-up that kind of illustrates my point better, but ehhhhh

thanks for reading anyway :] erm. i have lots of feelings about the chalmers !!!