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1 year ago

HERMIT A DAY MAY - DAY 13

Cubfan135 x Courage the Cowardly Dog

Minecraft youtuber Cubfan drawn in the style of Courage the Cowardly Dog. He is holding one of his Hermit Horns and smiling smugly at someone off screen. The whites of his eyes are bright skulk blue and his labcoat is covered in colorful stains. The image is on a muted green background and above his head is his name in red blocky font with a black outline.

For Cubfan I picked Courage the Cowardly Dog! Courage has an unusually high mad scientist per capita so I wanted to do either Cub, Doc or Zed in this style. I chose Cub because a scientist creating talking horns that mimic people and end up terrorizing a neighborhood sounds like something that would happen on the show.

To learn more about Courage the Cowardly Dog and see my style references, continue below the cut.

Courage the Cowardly Dog was one of my favourite cartoons as a kid, which probably explains more about me than I'd like to admit. It's a comedy-horror with a lot of genuinely disturbing and surreal moments.

The show is technically safe for everyone, but anyone who watches it will be altered forever by the Return the Slab guy. If you know you know.

The show centers around a little pink dog named Courage who lives with an elderly couple, Muriel and Eustace Bagge, in a farmhouse outside of the town of Nowhere. They are also figuratively in the middle of nowhere. Courage is scared of everything, but constantly thrown into life or death situations where he needs to save his family from often supernatural threats that just show up for some reason.

The visuals of the show are creepy and at times even upsetting, but the stories are nearly always about how Courage overcomes his fear out of love for his family (Muriel specifically). The show has a lot of different visual styles and even uses different kinds of animation, but for Cub I designed him in the style you would typically see in recurring characters. Style references:

An image of Eustace speaking to a doctor in a dingy doctor's office. The doctor is a wide man with eyebrows so bushy that you can't see his eyes and Eustace is a bald old man with a large chin wearing overalls and a hat. Eustace seems mad about something and the doctor seems unbothered.

The characters in courage usually have large heads and spindly limbs. The settings often look aged and discolored.

A skinny man with blonde hair is sitting on a closed toilet in an old but well-kept bathroom. He has a wide, disturbing smile with crooked teeth and the whites of his eyes are bright green. He is wearing a green suit and beside him on the ground is a white and blue briefcase.

For Cubs shape and features I pulled a lot of influence from Freaky Fred, who is a barber with severe serial killer vibes that I think might be a Sweeney Todd reference. I didn't want Cub to be that scary, though, so I gave him a normal smile.

The title is on a white background. 'Courage' is written in blocky red letters with a black outline. Below, 'The Cowardly Dog' is written in smaller, blocky green font with a black outline. The letters are all uneven, as though they are shaking.

One of the Courage the Cowardly Dog TV logos

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hermitaday I think Cub would be one of those characters that Courage is distrustful of but ends up not actually being villain also I know Cubs eyes aren't blue but I wanted to make them skulk colored because that's fun :) cubfan cubfan135 hermitcraft hermit a day may
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