"The funniest thing about Invader Zim is" no, the funniest thing about Invader Zim is Jhonen Vazquez's repeated insistence that Gaz was intended to be the normie sibling to Dib's baby's-first-cybergoth and that he genuinely never intended her to read as goth herself.
Many, many, many, many, many hours later, my capstone project is complete: a mall full of my favorite guys!
Not gonna wax too poetic about my creative process because that's what the artist statement is for, but I will say that this was the most involved, ambitious, and creatively fulfilling piece I've ever gotten to do. OCs, cartoon characters, video game protagonists, DnD player characters, we've got it all here! Each of these characters is special to me in one way or another, and I had an absolute blast cramming them all into one canvas.
Tumblr got nowhere near displaying the full image so I had to condense the hell out of it to get the whole thing on there. If you want a closeup of any character in full resolution just sent me an ask! I would love to hold my little guys up to the camera for you :)
And yeah I'm gonna tag every piece of media represented. If you're seeing this in your tag, one of your fellas is in here somewhere!
@banana-zim wrote -"attached to the hip" in the tags which remined me of this thing i made like 2 months earlier XD
thanks for reminding me cuz i completely forgot to post this here.
I spent too many hours on this and I can't show anyone but you guys because I could never explain this shit to a normal person
Dib noms on Zim in an upcoming chapter and it's not as cute as this, but yes, Zim definitely secretly likes it. Dib's vampire amnesia can be helpful sometimes.