Thank you to Catidot for releasing such a beautiful book 🥹💕💕 thank you to the 50 artists for your hard work, the illustrations came out so wonderfully, I’m so happy I get to keep this fandom with me even when I’m gone. I was especially excited for @miru667’s work, the print quality did not dissappoint! It looks just as good as your digtal release. Congratulations @justmarrik!! We’ve never talked actually, but I was a silent fan of yours’ back then ^_^ Your style is very recogniseable and I remember you being a small artist before, so I was shocked when I saw you in it.
I know everyone already has their credits in the book, but for those who couldn’t buy the book but still wants to see who participated, here it is! All the lovely artists 🥰💕💕💕 I can’t take pictures of the WHOLE book, but there is a section near the end where Catidot writes a blurb with regards to the Onceler stageshow, it’s really well-written and super heart-warming. I really like the editing in the book. The pic collage is so cool and proffessional… I forget this is a fanbook, hahaha.
I ordered some merchandise, those turned out very well aswell!! I love the two-sided keychain, I was really impressed by how good the quality is. You cannot see it in yhe pocture but even though his hair is black, you can still see the black lineart?!? As for the stickers, I’m really happy someone made fanart for the stageshow musical ver. 🥰 I think his design there is very unique, and I’m happy someone with such a perfect art style was the one who drew him. He is equal parts Seussian with his subdued and vibrant palette ♪(๑ᴖ◡ᴖ๑)♪ and very modern with the triangular and clean shapes.
I THINK I TALKED ENOUGH NOW! Soooo… Chop chop! I’ll go now!
🎉 Happy 10th Anniversary to the Once-ler fandom!! It's hard to express just how much this past decade has meant to me. For all the inspiration, the inside jokes, the hard-earned wisdom, for all the precious memories and self-discoveries, for an oc I love with my whole heart, and for all the wonderful friends I’ve made—thank you, Once-ler fandom, for my life! And of course, happy bday to Dr Seuss. 🥳
This is my piece for the cover of @oncelerzine, a project that I’m so grateful to have been a part of. Downloads for the full zine, as well as merch pre-orders are now LIVE until April 2022. Check out their page for links to the stores! Click [here] to read more things I have to say about this piece.
I can’t believe I waited this long to post the illustration for the @oncelerzine that I did. I regret not posting it sooner, but I wanted to give people a chance to buy the full thing first and see it in there! ❤️ Feel free to check out the whole project before it’s too late!
Anyways, if you haven’t heard, this was a project dedicated to celebrating the 10th anniversary of The Lorax (2012) movie. As much as I love drawing the Once-ler in his iconic biggering phase, I knew from the moment I saw this project I wanted to dedicate a full piece to his aged design. And nothing struck to me more than the scene at the end of the movie. I worked on this on and off for months and I can happily say I’m very proud of it.
As odd as the fandom was in it’s peak, I have many fond experiences and still feel drawn to it. I see art on my dash sometimes or a new Once-ler ask blog pop up and get excited. Glad y’all still exist and are as chaotic as ever, ✌️
A video of wips for my onceler zine cover piece! This drawing took me 6 months to finish haha. Click the readmore if you’re curious to learn more about my process and all the refs and inspos I used (transcribed from [this twitter thread]). [CLICK HERE] to see the finished piece.
I guess I’ll go from left to right? :>
7212 is my #1 ship in the fandom so of course I had to include some interaction for them..I purposely shaped that piece of confetti into almost-a-heart 9.9
In this interaction OG onceler is sizing him up to be his poster boy. It was inspired by this joke hc from junior: https://miru667.tumblr.com/post/43633972614/truffulajam-you-there-me-sir-ive
The hose is from one of the lorax mini-movies but more specifically its from the nightblogging event in 2012, here’s an archive of a lot of the hose memes we created that night: https://oncelerswaterhose.tumblr.com/
He doesn’t actually have suspenders in the movie but they were a popular headcanon for him in 2012 plus they’re hot so I included them. It was important to me to include this transitional onceler in between vestler and suitler to remind us all that this is the same guy going thru different stages of his life.
Gloves in the back pocket is from concept art: https://miru667.tumblr.com/post/146926446017/early-once-ler-sketches-by-eric-guillon-part-5
I really love the way I drew and coloured the folds of his coattails here too, as well as the moss I added last minute onto the truffula tree trunk.
The frame started out as just a plain brown rectangle and I thought, now that's not very seussy, so I referenced the Too Big To Fail frame in the movie. I believe it took me two whole days to draw just the frame. :,) And the seuss portrait I just referenced from google images but it was a challenge too; I had to completely redraw it near the end to make him look more accurate.
Lorax holding up a portrait of Seuss and using it to guilt the Onceler was inspired by a gag in Osomatsu-san where the characters would apologize to a portrait of their irl creator Akatsuka when they felt like they were being a bad adaptation of his original work 😂😂😂 loved it.
But it was also inspired by a very powerful comic drawn by my friend Rachel: https://miru667.tumblr.com/post/92807755387/tsg I would say Rachel's art has been the biggest inspo for me in the past decade in both style and emotion, so I'm really happy I could include her influence into my piece like this.
I was SO happy I thought of a way to include these 2012 refs:
-Complaint Box
-☄☄☄ Waterballoon fight nightblogging event
-gent's marriage to the fandom
-ed helms finding out about oncest
-Thneedville/Thornville High AU
-WHO IS SWAG/askblog identity crisis nightblogging event
-You Only Live Once(ler)
-tiny chat parties
-Camp Weehawken AU
-tumblr anons/magic anons
-normaler
-Shakespeareler/"I must keep biggering" nightblogging event
-Stay stupid, baby!
I wish I could've included more cuz these are still just above-water stuff in the fandom iceberg imo. If anyone wants me to explain more about any of these refs, feel free to ask!
The flip phone is from the deleted scene, "YER ALL GOIN TO JAIL": https://miru667.tumblr.com/post/153925999832/truffulajam-youreallgoingtojailmov-from
The bottom fake button on his suit is canon: https://miru667.tumblr.com/post/615761075955187712/miru667-you-know-your-life-has-hit-a-new-low
This is my fav interaction in the piece...you can see it as either aftermath onceler taking the hat off of biggering onceler to foreshadow his fall, OR you can see it as aftermath-ler taking off his OWN hat to crown biggering-ler as the fool, because he's learned what a fool he's been. And actually a 3rd interpretation is aftermath-ler telling biggering-ler "yes enjoy your happiness while you can, king" 😂
And then with old onceler's hand on aftermath onceler's back, an act of consolation...I think it's very important to be able to forgive ur past self for the stupid things you've done, or else how can you continue? How can you grow? I can guarantee that 10 yrs ago we ALL did stupid things in the fandom. I originally drew aftermath frowning but changed it to a smile because he's thankful for the lessons and he can still look back on things fondly. I feel the same as him and I hope others do too. For this interaction I was inspired by Pearl fanart, she's a comfort character of mine and has helped me thru so much: https://asteroidhyalosis.tumblr.com/post/188267156772 https://asteroidhyalosis.tumblr.com/post/623806330932805632
Biggering onceler’s side profile gave me THE HARDEST TIME. It was already January and I just COULD NOT get it to look right and I was ready to go take a 5 hour depression nap because of it but then my friend Edu saved the day ♥
Edu: @hybridkilljoy
Another friend contribution was the yellow bg. it was originally a boring flat gradient so Clara said "lmao what if I just gave you a yellow bg I painted to toss into ur file" because she had a rly good brush for it on procreate (and I was using paint tool sai and had nothing). i replied "oki" and then she just DOES IT..🥺♥
Clara: @clarabellumsart
idk where i'd be without my friends
I’m REALLY proud of this little area of my zine piece. The hand and blood is a ref to Truffula Flu, our zomb apocalypse AU. I had to redraw it twice to get it right. And I’ve drawn many a onceler chain but this is the BEST onceler chain I’ve EVER drawn. It took me many redraws to get it to look this way. Look at it just reaching out at you so fluidly..!! The lighting and the rust! Proud of me!!
The fallen truffula tree in the back...I really just thought "hey let's experiment with PAINTING" and went for it!! 😂 I wanted to pay tribute to my all time fav onceler fanart: https://miru667.tumblr.com/post/27320592159/ask-drawn-onceler-money-in-the-trees-lol-hey
Whoever the mod of ask-drawn-onceler was, if you see this I hope you're doing ok!!
As you guys have probably gathered by now, nothing is ever too late to change for me. If I felt like I could redo something to be better, I'd DO IT. The tree is another example, I was rly bothered that it looked like tentacles (right) so I completely re-rendered it to be more soft and fluffy (left). What made me realize that I could do better was after drawing the trees here: https://miru667.tumblr.com/post/673766406272286720/early-spring-cleaning-part-2-drew-these-btwn I realized that actually, less is more, and that I had over-rendered the tree in my zine piece.
This was actually the first time I've EVER drawn old onceler, so I worked EXTRA hard...I hope I did him justice!! Every hair, every thread, every little thneed tuft was drawn with care. I even manually drew in the shadows for the stripes on his robe so they would look indented! And if you look closely in other screenshots, I also manually added shadows to every piece of thread that makes up the onceler suit stripes.
The LET IT GROW is in seuss font, but I didn’t type it, I drew the letters while mimicking the font’s style, then added edge lighting to make it look carved into the pot. Unfortunately we couldn’t keep the zine title in seuss font as well due to copyright restrictions and I think I might have died if I were to draw the title in seuss font too LMAO
The Audrey is of course intended to be movie Audrey but it's MY zine piece and I wanted to be a little self-indulgent.....so I drew some symbols on the plant pot representing my audrey oc, Audrey Grace. 🤫😇 She means everything to me. She is a direct result of the fandom and she keeps me in the fandom.
The blue kite originates from her mainverse askblog: https://askaudtree.tumblr.com/post/71630954595/do-you-do-all-the-chores-in-the-house-hows-your
She later uses it as a marker for lerkim hopping in zomb au: https://audpocalypse.tumblr.com/post/178971798052/whats-that-blue-diamond-symbol-mean-its-on-your
She's a knife-wielding zombie slayer and also a kazoo master (the tree straightener in the pot has the same striped pattern as her kazoo): https://miru667.tumblr.com/post/629448230317490176/pls-click-for-hi-res-today-is-my-audreys
https://audpocalypse.tumblr.com/post/179181386907/have-you-ever-run-into-any-lerkims-that-were
And because of spending so much of her life in an apocalypse, she’s learned to appreciate the fleetingness of life, because who knows what’ll happen tomorrow? Every moment is precious. This is cherry blossom philosophy: https://notwithoutmypassport.com/cherry-blossom-meaning-in-japan/
I think it’s so cool that since it took 6 months, I would improve like halfway into working on this piece which made me have to go back and redo some things LOL XD. The smoke in the background from the cigar was also painted with inspiration from tofublock, whom I discovered during the latter half of those 6 months too: https://asteroidhyalosis.tumblr.com/tagged/tofublock
https://asteroidhyalosis.tumblr.com/post/668656911468625921/will-you-watch-the-stars-with-me
Look at the way they paint their clouds TTWTT so beautiful... I came across them while working on the zine and a lot of their art reminded me of my audrey so I was very taken!!
I positioned and coloured every piece of confetti with intent. The confetti idea itself I think was from Taylor Swift’s lyric video for 22 (Taylor’s Version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9boiT64sm0Q&feature=youtu.be
Again, inspiration that came to me while in the middle of working on the zine.
I composed the piece chronologically to mirror the rise and fall of our fandom experience, followed by the calmer, peaceful present days. Aftermath onceler in the piece represents the perceived death of the fandom but outsiders don’t realize we have AUs, we like characters other than onceler, we can extrapolate the story any which way...so that's all represented by the right side of the pic. We won’t stop biggering!
Thank you for reading if you made it this far.. I tried to include as much as I could into my piece so that hopefully everyone who is/was in the fandom feels seen.. Only the best for the Once-ler fandom, you know? And there’s actually so much more I can say about this piece but I’ll end it here.
Next, please welcome our guest cosplay preview for 「 Splorpo 」! The lighting. The angles. The drama! We are absolutely over the moon excited for you to see the full collage!
🌱 Twitch: @/splorpo
🌱 Twitter: @/splorpo
🌱 Insta: @/splorpo
Please look forward to the full zine launching MARCH 2ND!
Next, please welcome our next guest preview 「 MEATGIRI 」! We cannot get over just how much we love this piece. The style, the smile, the aura. We are in awe.
🌱 Tiktok: @/meatgiri
🌱 Twitter: @/meatgiri
🌱 Insta: @/meatgiri
Please look forward to the full zine launching MARCH 2ND!
