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♦ The Kostrov Traces Excerpt - Grief ♦

EDIT: Fixed up some grammar errors and oversights haha, istg I could check these a million times and still end up missing things xD

I genuinely couldn't decide which bit of the books I should give out first since there's just SO MUCH happening, so I'm offering a bit of Rick and FJ, a bit of grief, a bit of sadness, a bit of everything haha

For the first time ever, this is a full excerpt, A LONG ONE, With CONTEXT gasps

Some background: this is somewhere at the...

♦ Ripstead Rains ♦

HEYAA! The time has come for me to FINALLY share my favorite Illustration of 2024! <3 And honestly, this may just be my favorite illustration I've done, period, and I am yet to live up to it haha it's just so cozy, I love drawing rain <3

In retrospect, I wish I messed up Rick's hair more hahah, he should be SOAKING, but I'm pretending he just gelled it up to heaven here lmao

I'm gonna be sharing more stuff next week I hope, I'm currently speedrunning the crow dance animation...

♦ Ice - 1974 I 1987 ♦ Colorpage WiP ♦

Colorpages are coming in noicellyy hehe

Every time I tell myself "I'm gonna make a super quick thing" it ends up taking so long to finish, I'm doomed ahahha but these are so fun :D I'm also soo close to finishing linework for the crow dance animation!

♦ Creator vs. Character ♦ Process renders ♦

Our semi-monthly process renders of the latest animation! I hope you all enjoyed this one <3

♦ Creator vs. Character ♦ Animation Breakdown ♦

Here we go fellas! A full breakdown of the latest vid <3 There's a super simple tutorial on the spinning backgrounds too!

♦ ORDERS UPDATE ♦

To everyone who ordered their goodies from the shop, thank you SO much for your support 😭❤️ it truly means the world to me!!

I just got home after dropping them off at the postal office so I'm really hoping they get to their homes safely and quickly 🥹❤️ I've left each of you a few freebies inside that I thought you may like based on what you ordered, so I really hope you're gonna enjoy those as well!!

All of you should have recieved your tracking numbers by now and...

♦ SHOP LAUNCH ♦

Here's the long-awaited baby hahaha I hope everyone who wants some goodies enjoys it!! <3

I sent all of you your OWN PERSONALIZED DISCOUNT CODES IN YOUR PATREON DMS! - If anyone who wants to get something from the shop didn't get the dm for whatever reason, please reach out and I'll send it again! You can either contact me through dms here, or shoot me a message to thegrimportshop@gmail.com and I'll get it ...

♦ Ice - 1987 ♦ Colorpage WiP (part 2)♦

Sappy old stupidly cute men ARH D,: I love them sm it's actually unreal

This is the second part of that ice skating comic! <3 Rick actually got hurt only like a year or two after part 1 (he was shot in the back close range on the field back when he was still working for New Rosea police, saving his partner Lisa), which is when he got the cane and things started progressively getting worse </3 it wouldn't be until 1981 that he had that car crash, and only a few years after ...

♦ Ice - 1974 ♦ Colorpage WiP (part 1)♦

These guys have such needlessly complicated lives that I lowkey forget they have hobbies and jobs beyond the chaos they live through haha, so lemme share some random factoids about them <3

So, Rick didn't really have any friends back in USSR, partially because he was an odd sort of being - too big and rough-looking to be accepted by the kids as gentle as he was, yet too soft and too interested in the things kids his age shouldn't like for any of the rougher boys back in...

♦ Disaster Dads ♦ Sticker Designs ♦

Ok I'm hoping this is officially the last shop thing I'm sharing before I actually open it hahah

I'm spending the day just printing and wrapping the last prints and the only things after that I gotta do is publish and test if everything works well, so hopefully we'll have the shop up by the mid to end of November!

I'm desperately hoping to get back to drawing tomorrow though haha I've been falling asleep at like 4 am for the past 3 days saying "this is the day I finish everything...

♦ Halloween ♦ Long Speedpaint ♦

Long speedpaint of this dramatic fella <3 The suit was sooooo fun to paint here oh my god, I loooove the patterned things T.T I feel kinda bad he doesn't wear that stuff on his usual suits cause they're such a fun thing to render!!

♦ Halloween ♦ Short Speedpaint ♦

Speedpaints of the newest illustration!!

I'm so beyond glad you guys all liked this one :D <3 I genuinely nearly didn't post it, idk why but I though people wouldn't enjoy it as much as I did haha but I'm so glad I was wrong! <3 I just yesterday tested the prints and they came out soooo good oh my gawd

Anyway, back when I first painted this, I already had the background done for one of the animations I didn't end up using, so I used it here! He also held a fork in the first ...

♦ Dancing With the Crows ♦ Animation WiP - Keyframes ♦

Old men doing old men things and making me cry 'cause gAWD i love them so much T.T I'm currently writing the part of TKT III where they're essentially both going through like a mild nervous breakdown 'cause they just found out who wrecked Rick's health back in November 1981, so this is such a godsend to work on while that depression is going on </3

♦ Scruffy Insomniac Colorpage ♦ WiP ♦

Rick brings out in me the same cuteness aggression as puppies dude, he's such a cutiepie T.T And I fully know that's just an OC parent blindness thing, but will that stop me from drawing like 8 million colorpages of him and totally ignoring the chaotic mess that he is?? Heeell nooo

Side note but I took my first day off in like... Months gahaha I feel like a healed human and I'm neearly done with the keyframes for that crow dance animation aaaa ❤

♦ Halloween ♦

Leave it up to me to forget about every holiday to ever exist, DUDES I offer you a random Halloween illustration that I've cleaned aaall the way up for instagram, but you get it in its full bloody glory. I thought I'll be posting the Grimport Winter one but we shall leave that up for some other week <3

This was supposed to be more symbolic at first but it turned out to be such a self-indulgent angsty vampire wardrobe thing that I cannot in good consciousness call it canon HAHAH, not...

♦ Grimport Winter ♦

You can definitely tell who came to Grimport from a cold country and who came from fuckin' Sandcrest where the weather is always so nice and warm T.T <3 To be fair, it's not exactly FJ's fault since Grimport seriously isn't for the weak haha, the weather is absolutely disgusting up there

Grimport is a little New Rosea borough on the eastern seaborder of USA, up there near Canada, but it's located in such a poor spot and the cities are built so nonsensically that any and all mi...

♦ Nothing's Changed ♦ WiP ♦

I blame Rostya for everything T.T Everyone in the books is kinda fucked up in their own right but Rostya, as sick as he likely was, absolutely started this chain of destruction for Rick and this poor baby deserved better </3

This is a scene set during very early times in Fiasco Elite (which is a timeline set right after the ending of Kostrov Traces) and it always makes me wanna sob T.T I don't wanna spoil the ending of TKT so I'm keeping it zipped but once the books are out - I'm hop...

♦ Psych Exam ♦

Long time no Bella! Some of the older followers might remember her, but she's Rick's super sweet half sister from their mother's side <3 We learn how they met in the first book of the Kostrov Traces, while it isn't the most pleasant experience and for either of them, and their meeting completely changes how both of them felt about Donna (their mom), it sparked a lifelong bond neither of them could have imagined a life without <3

Rick had spent his college years (though with a bit...

♦ Dancing With the Crows ♦ Animation WiP - Sketch ♦

Might just be my favorite animation ever hahaha <3 I was planning to do a different thing first, something silly where I'd play around with perspectives and hand-held camera in 2D, but this one was too irresistible T.T <3 There is this cute sound going around tiktok so it had to be done, and it turned out to be SUCH a brilliant posing/movement practice!

Since Rick is disabled for the majority of the books, he rarely gets a bunch of these super fun action shots people usuall...

♦ Husbands ♦ Sticker Question ♦

Edit: The people have spoken 😌🙏 circular bloody stain design it shall be! I'll be giving the old designs as freebies along with some orders ♡

In attachments, you can see the holographic sticker I made with these two beans, but I was wondering - Which background do you prefer? The simple pink one, or the new one with this bloody coffee stain?

I also have another silly design that should be in a collection with these, so this decision will likely affect that sticker as wel...

♦ Husbands ♦

Ok so I threw that background together in like 5 mins because that's all the freedom I get today, but I think it kinda slays?? I'll leave a poll up for Visitors and Residents to help me out in a lil bit with this specific work since it's also a sticker design haha <3

♦ The Grimport Shop ♦ Pins and Charms Reveal ♦

THEY ARE HEERE <3

Y'all there's so much love and trial/error put into these lil things, I feel like each one is my child bAHaha

My buddy Arion_Design and I spent the past few months just going through so soo many ways to make these and make them look exactly as we wanted them, and genuinely I could NOT be happier with all of this <3 I thought it was also cool to let the pins have these custom backs which now have the little Grimport Misfits heart logo and it's soo cut...

♦ Character vs. Creator ♦ Animation Stills ♦

Eyy I changed the concept a lil bit hahaha

I tried doing the whole idea with a bunch of merch added to my slides, but man it turned out looking really shitty :,D I only left out the little stickers on the sketchbook, but pretty much all merch looked sliiightly out of place when I tried to add it in a similar way, so I ended up scrapping that part sadly. It didn't match the animation style because of all the little details, and when I added the simplified versions, you just couldn...

♦ Misery With Attitude ♦ Process Renders ♦

Process renders of the latest vid!! I hope y'all enjoy it :D

Edit: Inbetweens weren't inbetweening at first, they were, in fact, keyframing :,D Thus, a new upload haha

♦ Misery With Attitude ♦ Animation Breakdown ♦

Full animation breakdown of the latest animation! It has some smaller tips and tricks I use when animated explained slightly more thoroughly <3 I'm hoping to eventually make full tutorials for TV Paint and animation in general, as soon as I figure out how to make them interesting enough haha

I hope you enjoy!

♦ Rick and Justus Colorpage ♦ WiP ♦

YOOO

Ok SO! Lots happened this week but everything is half-finished so far and thus, I can only share some more sketches for now. I've been trying to finish this colorpage for Justus and Rick for like a week now (it'll be sort of like a comic x flatcolor thingie) but I keep getting distracted by 7 million other things aah, but I think I'll finally have it done sometime next week!

Good news is that the merch is FINALLY done!!! My wonderful merch colleague and I have finally figured...

♦ Evil McMean ♦ Short Speedpaint ♦

Oh Rick... you would have made a great villain if you weren't such a damn sweetheart </3

♦ Evil McMean ♦ Long Speedpaint ♦

Mister's long speedpaint for this week since we have an animation coming up Sunday <3

♦ Bliss ♦ WiP ♦

A little thing I started, to "test the brushes" I said. In retrospect, a poor excuse to draw a millionth Rick portrait :,D It's his fluffy era, though, so it's a bit more excusable haha, I don't draw nearly enough of Rick during the whole fall of the Underground saga

He had many points in life when he was just generally not okay, but the ending of the Kostrov Traces is by far the top two scariest Rick moments for me in the entire series. Not because of what he did specifically, but bec...

♦ Evil McMean ♦

I love drawing Rick looking like a cartoonishly evil mustache twirling villain here and there hahaha, he's got a face for it, plus I can't really always draw him crying T.T </3

Anywho, another one of these little extra patreon illustrations! I really love doing these black and white drawings on red backgrounds, they're honestly my absolute favorite <3 they always look so vibrant and they're quite fun to craft! I hope you'll enjoy his evil mug hahah