#remind me and i can draw a brief timeline of calvins hair since im not able to find any previous ones

[battle-of-alberta]

Does Cal often do hair flips? I mean... why not? (Is this a ploy to see more of Cal and his hair? Yes, yes it is)

I had actually animated this ages ago and put it on the back burner because I wasn't happy with it, but I looked at it today and realized it wasn't that bad, haha.

So! Funny story. Calvin was originally based off of hockey boys I knew (and couldn't stand) circa 2005-7 in rural hellberta school. At the time mullets were out of fashion, but the contemporary hockey hair of the day was usually on the longer side and seemed almost deliberately cut so that anyone sporting it would have to twitch their head every couple of minutes in this particularly spastic, annoying af way in order to see anything. This animation was based on me trying to mimic it (though of course I don't have 2000s Hockey Hair lol, I'd say it was maybe an inch or so longer than zac efron's was during that time and would curl up slightly at the ends, if that helps- or more accurately it was a lot like that chad dylan cooper guy!) (this said, it was NOT like emo/scene hair, which was considered an uncool "gay" haircut despite being quite similar in retrospect).

In Calvin's first design (ca. 2010) he had short hair with long bangs that grew into that 2005 hockey hair and eventually into the full 1970s hockey mullet you see today, partly because the blond mullet is kind of a Calgary stereotype and partly because when my friends would draw fan art of him they drew him with longer hair!