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Del pad is so

/aff

WAIT YES. 😭

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Human delpad drawing, yea, Della had 2 dresses she wore at her wedding! And.. yes Launchpad wore sneakers to the wedding..

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If I feel like it you guys will get a delpad drawing today (I'm sick today)

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proud dad - thx for commissioning me ✨

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So, I tried to draw my favorite unofficial pairing in DuckTales. Yes, according to my profile, it should be clear that this is Della and Launchpad. It seems to me that this pair of two pilots is the most logical pair at the moment.

But who knows?

♡ ♡ ♡

See what came out below:

Also in color (I tried):

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(I was going to just reblog this update from the original post, but I think worthy of having it's own.)

When I first noticed the piece of paper on the plane's dash, I thought it was a map. But now, I'm starting to wonder if all of the three items featured here, are meant to hint toward the Spear's blueprint and the family photo!

The triangular shape I originally saw as a patch of land, could definitely pass as a simplified rocket. I thought I saw gridlines too, but I went back to check this scene on a TV and didn't see any. I guess my brain tricked itself after deciding it was a map. 😅 Whatever this really is, I still personally believe that Della could have been wanting to go to some kinda island-like destination and that's where she secretly want to go when she proposed the idea of Space travel.

(I mean...in "Moonvasion", she did claim to be doing one thing, when she really had a whole 'nother plan in mind...and we've been given examples of both Scrooge and Donald misinterpreting her actions...she never explained why she took the Spear, just that she was sorry for taking it. We only have Scrooge's point of view, so, who's to say this isn't yet another case of him making assumptions? 🤷🏾‍♀️)

Heh, something else I thought months after making my original post, is that this supposed map was of Ithaquack, before the episode aired. I had more recently compared it with other mysterious places (elsewhere) and wondered of a possible connection between them:

It was fabled like Hazel House and sorta like The Ramrod, with its entries to fantasy dimensions

It's uncharted like Falcon Island was pulled from maps

And all of these places had an element of avoidance when it came to visiting them

The paper on the dashboard is really difficult to make out in full...it looks like it's a ripped piece of something bigger, but I dunno, it could just be a little rolled up at the corners. This reminds me of the missing photo piece that Dewey was after in "Last Crash", which I think, was highly reflective of a potential desire Della had to find HDL's Father.

As for the family photo having a chance of being hinted at, there was a Polaroid version of it on Della's desk as she's drawing the Spear in Scrooge's flashback. The "Lost Crown" riddle from "Secret(s)" is there too, underneath the blueprint and could also be hinting towards Della's possible search.

A different copy of it is taped to the right side of the Spear's dash, much like the placement of the unknown photos in the plane.

If a couple of these items are meant to be literal earlier versions of the blueprints and the family photo, what could the second photo be? Because of my speculations, I think it's more than likely to be another family-related one...I thought that maybe it could be a copy of the birthday picture with Donald from "Dime Chase".

...But what if it's one of HDL's Dad? The show ended on a Plan B involving a father reveal and three kids. If we were ever meant to get HDL's Dad in Plan A, I think it's very likely that a photo of him would have been shown at some point.

If the dashboard items are a bit more figurative, could the two photos be meant to represent a parallel between what drove her to Space and what drove her back home?

If Della's goal in Space was to get Dad "in the picture", he would have been placed on the right side of it, next to her...

Since I'm talking about Della's portrait:

In the earliest installment of my "Association" essay, a Google search helped me realize similarities between Della's portrait and LP's "Family is the greatest adventure" scene in "Woo-oo!".

Pilots with planes, a sunset sky, a lot of shared colors...the hula girl bobble figure on the dash just like the items in question; it's even placed on the same side! Its design has changed multiple times and one of those, include wearing teal and green like both of the pilots.

Because of this, and her hair-length, I previously considered the possibility of the figure representing Della. The longer hair feels a little reminiscent of what Della looked like on the Moon, and the shorter hair reminds me of how she cut it when she came back home. The hula girl could have been earlier expressions of these concepts before they were finalized.

What's also worth noting is that this figure was featured during moments like Dewey's chase in "Last Crash" and the arguing that occurred after the flashback. It was on LP's half, where he kept cutting into all the blame being placed on Scrooge. This combined with the plane tipping forward, could indicate that Della's disappearance had much more to do with Dad than Scrooge building the rocket for her.

And the shot of the hula girl as the plane falls from the peak, could definitely represent how Della fell to the Moon after the lightning strike.

Something that could draw an even stronger connection between the pilots through this figure, is that it's more than likely to be Launchpad's. He already owns a DW one for the limo.

It's not too hard to believe he'd have another one for the type of vehicle he prefers to be in.

And while this probably doesn't mean much, Issue #3 of the IDW DuckTales comics, seemed to suggest that the hula girl may not have been there prior to him taking over as Scrooge's pilot.

But, yeah! Della's Dedication Room is full of hints towards her disappearance, so...the dashboard items in her portrait could very well be part of that.

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Aw! So cute.

I definitely think Della would be the type to get jealous, though. She's a known hothead and has gotten upset at girls flirting with LP before. ;p

Some shipping chart stuff I did

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(Commission) Drawn by Rain1940

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Art by @rain1940

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Delpad Weekend Day 1: Gaming

Everything has to be a competition for Della, even games that are supposed to slow you down a bit, huh.

(and yes, I just combined my two obsessions don’t judge me)

@delpad-weekend

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Second Delpad commission from the talented Kathren from the Ducktales Amino

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"You deserve to have the best mom, and I'm going to be the best mom."

🖼❤️💙💚💞🩵🦆🩵💞💚💙❤️🖼

Sometime after making my Houseboat Hug piece with LP and the boy, I thought of possibly making a Della equivalent for Mother's Day at some point to match up with it. 

I had the original pencil drawings saved in a file, ready for the right time, and decided to come back to it five years later. (oh my gosh 😳) Ha...I was NOT loving the finalization process. 🫠 I started to regret the poses...they seemed a little too complicated together. And I couldn't figure out the best placement for Della's hands. It didn't feel like the proportions were correct...and worst of all, the composition was feeling really bland to me. 😕 I wondered if it was the way I did the wall photos that was creating this sentiment, but I didn't want to spend time doing more accurate recreations; not at the moment, I was running out of time to complete the piece for the day of...(Spoilers: I did not. x_x )

Despite how I was feeling about it, I told myself to work on making it more appealing anyway. I'm glad I didn't give up! I think it looks much better now. 😊

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I cannot tell you how long I waited for a Tom Kenny character to put this with. Audio is from Dr. Katz.

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Since finding out the Della’s voice actress is Elise from Dan Vs. I had to make this. My first animation!

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I have a need to continue to spoof as much as I can with Ducktales!

….send help. I have a problem.

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"she wanted to give you boys the stars"

DELLA, HUEY, DEWEY & LOUIE MOODBOARD for meg!