#truffulajam

[swoneler]

just so you know, that art was drawn by the now defunct sketchler blog -- truffulajam didn't mod that.

Oh, yeah, I know. I forget to update credits a lot LMAOO. Thanks for the reminder, tho ! <3

[miru667]

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.

[cupofteasant]

@ask-swag-oneler @ask-one-swagler I am on a frenzy right now, let’s go Oven Boys

edit: @truffulajam I saw you’re awake so I guess this is relevant.

[anotherler]

5 cute facts! Exactly what it says on the tin! Do not reblog. Repost and tell your followers five cute things about your muse then tag five people to see what cute things their muses do.

Tagged by: @bubblemagician 

Tagging:@yoyo-illuser, @medlie, @truffulajam, @traveling-madness , @theonceler(Dudes, if you’ve done this before no need to reply but you can go again if you want ^^)

1. Cheap has a really strong sense of determination. He never gives up and I think that’s really admirable and rather sweet :” )

2. Cheap’s jacket is his “safety blanket”. It’s actually very very special to him and he’d be devastated if it ever got destroyed. It’s also actually rather well worn by now and feels soft and is very comfortable to him.

3. He has a very strong affinity for handcrafted things (including things other people had made), even if they don’t look great. He just thinks it’s amazing when anything is made by hand and when he had more money he payed extra to have people hand craft certain things for him. (If you can guess what these things were I’d be compelled to reward you.)

4. One of the habits Cheap has always had, primarily in his childhood was chewing on objects. He had a string of buttons he chewed on by just holding it in his mouth like a candy necklace and to this day he catches himself chewing on plastic pens, much to his disgust. Can someone get this kid a pack of gum?

5. Cheap adores rhyming. When he hears someone else rhyme or listens to rhyming lyrics he can’t help but smile and get little fluttery feelings. It makes him feel good to rhyme too. It’s very natural to him.

(Honestly he does a load of cute things and I can’t even cover it all in 5 facts...I keep thinking of things jkglsjgl what a cute guy....hehe)

[istheoncelerfandomstillalive]

ive been in this godforsaken fandom since march 2012 and i want a way out god please maybe a license will help me attempt to cross the border out of here in exchange i can give you this this weird glowing housemaid named swone i picked up on the side of the road love truffjam ps. i can't believe it's almost 2016 i'm furious

[thegoddamnknightshade-blog]

this was supposed to be for a christmas present but a: it sucks b: i don't have tumblr user juniorbizarre's address so i'm going to just post it HAPPY CHRISTMAS IF I HAD UR ADDY I'D GIVE U TEA

[thneedvillesymphony]

And I do want to show you I will run to you to you till I Can't stand on my own anymore I cross my heart and hope to die

Submitted by clockworktyranny. Art by Junior.

[snockpuppet]

For real, though, it’s the best feeling ever when you commission an artist whose art you adore and they tell you that they love your characters or find them cool or cute.

[adachimerica]

bein bloges

[penitenza]

One of my favorite things is when mods cosplay their characters and are perfect. 

Swone | LQ

[miru667]

5 cute facts! Exactly what it says on the tin! Do not reblog. Repost and tell your followers five cute things about your muse then tag five people to see what cute things their muses do.

Tagged by: @pennydreadfuljournal

Tagging: @miaoumint, @cutthroatcompetition, @truffulajam, @cosmicoffee, @lyzardy

(i,,,dont even have any muses that are thoroughly developed lmao so im gonna use multiple muses)

1) i never got to show this on her askblog but Audrey volunteers at the Thneedville hospital and i like to think that she would sometimes bother the elderly patients and ask them about trees.

2) Audrey developed a celebrity crush on the Once-ler after reading an old newspaper article that talked about how the onceler loved nature so dang much (the PR ppl were lying but she doesnt know that). The fact that she has a crush on him is a secret though so shh!

3) The heathen brat was given Bount’s business card with his number on it in case she ever gets in trouble. She keeps it on her at all times. They are bros.

4) I once wanted to do a Miss O’Schmunce-ler askblog; you would’ve only ever seen her arms but Miss O’Schmunce-ler was gonna be a total hot babe who had a collection of shiny bracelets and was attending college. Hmm she was prolly an intern at Thneed Inc.

5) This one time while skype rping with Oods I told Poppy to go to his room as punishment so he just walked over to his popcorn cart and sat down next to it cuz that was the only thing he owned, he didnt have a room or house kfjddfjkgf

[owlapin]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEORGIER HAVE A MERRY BIRTHMAS

an we all know who tha queen is

[anotherler]

Ugly Christmas sweater for @ask-swag-oneler! So naturally, the theme is a Christmas feast! Its not the only time Swone has been subjected to an ugly Christmas sweater...

So. The wine glass actually has one of those little see through plastic packets with liquid in it. You know what i’m talking about, right? It can pretty much slosh around freely for that full effect. The carrot slices on the plate are just orange buttons , the mashed potatoes are cotton balls and the turkey leg is felt with little beads sewn on it to symbolize spices. There’s also a doily sewn around the plate just because. The top parts are sewn patters and the cutlery is embroidered with that silvery looking thread. The lower sleeves are just a strip covered in red sequins you know...like cranberries and definitely not because I figured his sweater needed some unnecessarily glittery bits.

[lunarcrown]

I WAS SERIOUSLY SCREAMING THIS SONG LAST NIGHT WITH THOSE LYRICS oh no i may be in love ( i kinda sorta tried your style t-jam i hope its ok)

[thneedvillesymphony]

I eat boys up, breakfast and lunch Then when I'm thirsty, I drink their blood Carnivore animal, I am a Cannibal I eat boys up, you better run

Submitted by Sunnyinorlando. Art by Truffulajam.

[theodore-wiggins]

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