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HAPPY SUMMERWEEN OF 2025!

I had long wanted to do an update of the folklore & cryptids group I'd done for Summerween in 2019, and a variation done later that year. This time, of course, expanding the cast.

Counter-clockwise from Stan, reprising his Jersey Devil costume, we also have: Soos as Bigfoot; Melody as the Flatwoods Monster; Wendy as a Western gunslinger Jackalope (don't worry, that's a water-pistol); Dipper once again as the Pterodactyl Thunderbird; Mabel as a selkie, with mer-pig Waddles; Fiddleford as the Gobblewonker; and Ford once again as Mothman.

I wish I'd gotten it shaded, but decided I'd better get it put up while it was actually still Summerween!

(A couple of other small notes: the green skin of Soos's Bigfoot is explained here; and all the related pics I've done of Bigfoot are linked from here. I did find some Loch Ness Monster costumes for sale that look very much like what Fiddleford is wearing here, with a big plushie head on top. The Flatwoods Monster has many depictions, but in the end I went with a version of the costume created by Andrew Smith, director of the Braxton County WV visitor center and founder of the Flatwoods Monster Museum; see article and pics here, with a good history of this particular cryptid!)

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☕️ 🫖

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Y'all wanna think about how Ford and Fiddleford were living in Gravity Falls together during the Golden Age of Arcade Video Games?

Couple nerds coming into town with stacks of quarters?

How long do you think their names were on highscore screens all over the arcade? Maybe there's just that one machine left with the initials SIX and maybe another FHM that just can't be beat, but no one remembers who they belong to anymore?

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When bro comes over, but you gotta make sure he's actually your bro and not one of your omniscient muse's goons sent to steal your eyes

Frame redraw of this btw^^

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Okay, I've wasted enough time on this...

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June 18, 2025

I’m already underpaid. They can’t keep doing this to me (and why don’t I get PR packages!) Anyway, happy birthday Alex and Ariel. Congrats on stealing all my damn money.

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lunch break alyx

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puppet hour was brutal

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lunch break gordon

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I did more.

they needed a second opinion.

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My brother and my pig he didn't want

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HERE IT IS ALL FINISHED!!! AHHHH!!!!!

THE FAMBILY...💖

I've been planning this illustration for over a month now - in April, I had the patreon folks vote on a theme for a big gravity falls print, and camping was the winner. Even just planning the general composition took a while, figuring out where I wanted all the characters to be. Once I shored up a good thumbnail, I made it tighter twice before putting it on paper, and working in pencil. The pencil drawing part took me four sit down sessions of drawing, and then coloring the scan took another couple of days. I worked SO DANG HARD to finish this monster before mc3, and by some miracle, I did.

Overall, I'm really happy with how this illustration turned out! I feel like it does a good job of expressing my love for the show. I'm really glad people were enthusiastic about it at the convention - I had a lot stop and look at it with these really awestruck, sad wet goo goo eyes expressions LOL! They did this: 🥺 with an actual human face dskjhlsdfkjh!!

Here's a link to my bigcartel store, where you can get one! Also, info to keep in mind: members of my $5 patreon tier get 15% discount on their orders when they use a special code.

Also, side note: thank you to my expert names and wordplay consultant for giving me the name "nitelite moth." YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE :)

Under the cut: Uncolored pencil version, and sketches.

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Would you let your favorite character hold your drink at a party?

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The boys are fightiiiiing~!! (but not each other for once)

Happy Staniversary, my fellow grunkle enjoyers! 🫡

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13 years ago today, a brand new cartoon aired for the first time on Disney Channel. It would eventually spawn 2 incredible seasons, 17 hilarious shorts, 3 NY Times bestselling books and become the first Disney TVA cartoon to be sold on Blu-ray.

Happy 13 year anniversary of the premiere of Gravity Falls! The show is now as old as Dipper and Mabel were at the end of it. And yet despite all the years, it's more alive than ever! As Jason Ritter said, Gravity Falls is real and it will NEVER die!

To 13 years of Gravity Falls! 🌲🌠

2012 - 2016

And of course a very happy birthday also to the two best Grunkles ever!

Happy birthday, Stan and Ford!

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Happy birthday to the best grunkles in the whole world!

many many birthdays apart and a million more together