I Draw Grunder A LOT

SO I draw Grunder...I mean a lot. I've not given enough time here to really talk about stuff I've developed about him since I created him. It's easier to talk about his personality and his actions rather then where he came from. Be forwarded, he is a very offensive dude and if this bothers some people then feel free to stop reading at any point. If you're ok with it, then keep on reading.

Grunder is mostly pure rage, but the range of his expressions are from lazy to mischievous, and over all just grumpy. Grunder can’t feel sadness or joy or any feeling associated with innocence. He’s completely lost the memories of how to feel that way. The pleasure he feels is mostly through sexual means or just being a smarmy ass. You might be able to find moments where his past self shows up and starts to appear normal, but he returns to his usual personality before his brain hurts from once having a conscience.

Grunder is smart…and strong. If you actually find a way to trick him you better watch out. He might not be able to get his revenge the 1st time, but he is very aware of his surroundings, and his behavior is like that of a crow or a spider. Just wait long enough, and they will let their guard down. People have lost an eye when his fingers have plucked them out…they didn’t see it comeing.

Grunder doesn’t like to make empty threats. When he says he’s gonna do something he plans on doing it. Even if you can’t see him, he’s watching you and judging you with his eyes. Don’t spit, don’t litter, and certainly don’t loiter in his stairway. Only a few times he’ll do what Milly says, which he explains that it’s because she’s the owner of the hotel.

For the most part his hands are actual hands…The claws are not his finger nails, but his whole finger morphing into a sharp blade. Like bone stretching out and becoming solid and sharp. They make a great self defense against demons, but against mortals it’ll be like being cut by a splintered piece of wood. The real damage you feel is from him choking you with his vice grip crushing your heart. He'd managed to kill several elderly and fat people by crushing their heart, which doctors can only report as the victims dieing of a heart attack.

Grunder is a dirty asshole. Snot, piss, farts, cum, blood, if he can do it he'll wipe it on you. Yet because he's dead and doesn't have a body to physically produce those fluids, all you get are just the feelings and the smells of what he does to you. You'll feel a weird liquid hit you, but you won't be wet. Or you'll feel his tongue slide along your arm, but it'll just raise goose pimples. Some people reported that they smelt bad for a week after meeting him but could never figure out why.


That doesn't mean he doesn't have desires of his once living body. He remembers fondly needing to smoke or needing a drink, yet has lost the need to eat or the need to drink after being dead for so long. The feelings he has left are the ability to physically touch someone or something and being able to describe it. His sense of smell is still very acute and can smell death from a mile away. His vision is in question as he can see things that living humans can't see (Like a beating heart) while at the same time not being able to make out details of real world items. The images on a flat surface come out the clearest, such as being able to see what is on Milly's laptop, but not words on a t-shirt or a crumpled newspaper.  Everything he can describe about the hotel is based on memory alone.

 Grunder's few moments of kindness show up in odd ways, such as when he's in the presence of Asian women. But young girls need to be wary, he has no limitations for his attraction to a girl who wants him.  He also has an interest in spiders, and gets angry at those people who squish them.

His kindness to Milly shows up later, after he's gotten to know her better, but he never explains to her why he chooses to obay her requests all the while still harasses her. He does it mostly for attention.

Some Facts About Milly

SO a few Facts about Milly… the problem with her is that I’ve only really developed her future. I’ve kept her past a mystery, cause she is a bit of a "put yourself in her shoes" sort of character. Rather bland on purpose, but that’s NEVER a good thing to do. It’s certainly something I don’t like about those types of characters, so why would I MAKE one like that?…Honestly she is a small avatar for me, so I should try and make her more of her own person.

So some facts.

Milly likes crazy electronic music, including Dubstep. She uses it once to mess with all the ghosts in the Hotel cause it bothers ALL of them and she can walk around like it’s no big deal, because she listens to it all the time. It’s a bit of a means of fucking with Grunder, and unfortunately everyone else has to suffer cause he was being a dick.

Milly inherited the Hotel from a long distance cousin who died. The family threw it on her cause they knew the hotel was cursed and thought the only way to deal with the deed was to throw it at an unsuspecting American. Milly never really meets these people cause they were all related through marriage, so she has no means to contact them other then to say ‘thanks’ ironically. How her cousin came of the hotel is a longer story.

Milly is a shut in, and while I’ve honestly never figured out why she takes the deed, she doesn’t have knowledge of where her parents are at. Apparently they’re explorers, and go around the world just looking for cool new stuff to discover. Sometimes she gets a post card from them where they last set foot, but they always say she should leave the house more often and they love and miss her.

She does like to draw a lot, and facebooks very often with her little doodles about what she does during the day or her funny ideas. She’s made more friends on facebook cause of that, then she felt she could do in real life.

Milly’s favourite foods are poptarts (chocolate), apples, and ramen…she adapted to not needing much to eat during the day. If she can’t fit it in her pockets, she doesn’t buy it. She already likes tea, and was excited that England’s teas are really that good.

 Milly likes Baloney. She’ll eat baloney and mayo sammiches, and make faces out of the slices of Baloney. She also likes a lot of juvenile activities as it’s taken her a while to grow up in her habits. She still has a pair of Jellies from the 80’s that her mom used to wear, and prefers to use them over Crocs. I do need to draw her in different outfits…that could be another sketch page.

This page was done recently when I was visting my friend Abby and she kidnapped my drawing paper and littered it with all these wonderful drawings of Milly, Grunder, and a wonderfully spooky Russle. She made Milly’s hair long in the back never occurred to me to draw, cause I’m so used to drawing everyone’s hair short in the back.

Then we just had some fun doodling faces and fucking up Grunder’s mood with Egg shitting rabbits…True fact, Cadbury Eggs didn’t exist until about the 20’s, but the company was making Chocolate drinks during the 1800’s so Grunder would’ve known was Cadbury was…just have no fucking idea why they made cream filled eggs.

A factoid from Abby’s side: Nick Archade likes Grunder…but it’s more like a folklore legend in his mind, and they’re non canonically connected. It’s the same way Bart Simpson likes Radioactive Man, Grunder is a story/comic Nick is aware of in his own world, and likes Him. He could possibly have nightmare sex fantasies about Grunder pinning him down in bed, but I’ll leave that to Abby to write.

And Spongebab…that is all.

More Art From my Fans- 2012

AH it's been too long that I've updated last but I wanted to dedicate this update to people who have been such a great help to me all last year. I got so much artwork from a great many talented people and I wanted to show them all off. Too all my biggest fans you guys are awesome.

I wonderful Eddie fanart piece with a cross over flair, of Vey-kun's character God of Death. Check out the rest of his stuff.

 Eddie Eelby ~Vey-kun

 A great artist herself Cara, did these adorable drawings of my version of Annie as a pony, Eddie and my odd little Cyclops girl. I've never officially given her a name but she does a great job at pitching her around and giving her some additional character and charm.

Anniemae pony, Enjoying a Joke and  Cutey Cyclops by killermermaid001




The two pieces of Grunder and Eddie below are from art trades I did during December 2012.  I drew their characters or a character they liked and in return I found two new great artists who did their best to do wonderful renditions of my fav characters.
             Grunder by Sennd                                           Grunder and Eddie xmas by HyperDoll

These two wonderful Eddie pieces were actually quite old, but I was surprised I never put them up around. I commissioned them from an artist on FA named microcat.  I loved his watercolor like style and I wanted to see what Eddie would look like the way he would've drawn it. The textures in these are really fun.

So a wonderful piece done by a great friend,  SpookyBurrito. This Mofo has done so many wonderful things for me as well being a great supporter of Eddie, he created a motivational poster for the eel.

Another awesome friend of mine who helps me out more then I deserve, did this wonderful peice for my birthday. Not many people draw Toby, so I'm glad she gave the little werewolf some love. You're precious to me.
Demion and Toby by Shazz

Another great piece from an artist I admire is this drawing of the three of my girlfriends and I. I'm the one on the right.

 Three Minds, One Thought by TheAnimationGod







As nice as that pic is though, we're not really that clam and relaxed. Here you can see what we're really like together.  And the rest of the art below is done by a wonderful friend of mine Abby. Like I got a huge more pile of stuff she's done for me, but here you can see the best stuff I get and I love. I got no words other then to check out her stuff too.

 

So what's up with the Haunted Hotel

Goodness it's been too long since we talked about Haunted Hotel hasn't it? Well know I'm gonna let you know why it's been so long since I've updated.

Part of the point of this blog is to post my ideas for my own record and to pitch these ideas to other people. I usually come up with an idea, a story or a new character with a background I want, and writing these bits out help me remember my thoughts. I try to keep the blogs short so I'm not writing full blown novels here, cause it is quite a chore to get people to read what I have to say. Another nice thing about blogger is that I can put pictures INTO the text and make it like reading a picture book.

So I've have 4 parts of the Haunted Hotel story up for about a year now and it halted a bit of a critical part in the story. I left you hanging unintentionally for a few reasons:

For starters, Haunted Hotel is different from my Eddie Eel stories, in that Eddie Eel's stories are more episodic, and events that occur in his life can only happen in that small time frame and don't necessarily effect the end of his life. Haunted Hotel does have a bit of a time line to fallow and the main thing I'm worried about is spoilers. There is a bit of a twist at the end of the lead story arch that if I spoiled it here, and I wanted to pitch it to other people, why would people want to read all the stuff in the middle?

Example: Remember when you 1st found out that Darth Vader was Luke's dad? It was pretty darn shocking and it hurt. There was an emotion that came from that 1st viewing experience that you don't get by watching the prequels or multiple viewings of the original 3 movies. If you tell a casual viewer that Darth Vader is Luke's father, they might have no reason to go in and check out the films. (Harry Potter Book 7 Spoiler) A prime example of this is that I KNOW the reason why Professor Snape didn't kill Harry Potter because Harry has his mother's eyes, who Snape had a huge crush on back in school.  I haven't even seen the 7th movie or finished reading the book, but I have little drive to do so because the internet spoiled it for me (end spoilers).

So another reason for the delay is just that, do I really want to tackle this head on? Am I prepared to produce a comic about this story? How much research should I be doing to make it seem like a real thing? What style, what direction. I have to nail down the rules for myself 1st. I can't make it into this GRAND idea and end up falling to cliches or tropes that already exist. I still feel like there is so much I need to develop and prepare people for the lead story...but in the end I think I'm preparing myself.

When you want to make a comic, you REALLY have to like making comics and that's where I feel like I'd be missing the mark. I'd end up getting lazy about 3 months in and then I give up on it cause I got a whole new idea and passion to keep me going, and I've left people in the dust again. So I wouldn't want to get into something I can't handle and writing these ideas for the blog is just enough.

SOOooo cause I've yapped at your ear long enough about it, Let me tell you what I'm GOING to do with Haunted Hotel right now;

1. The whole first story arch is written, but I won't be releasing much more of the 1st arch. I'll probably release one part and then save the ending when I think it's ok to release that. I will also go through and edit the 4 parts I've already written, and add in the new ideas I've developed, and fix up typos I've seen.
   
   
2. I'll keep posting new ideas and possibly mini comics and little gags with the characters. Just concept ideas and doodles that come to mind. If you're fallowing any of my other art accounts such as Devianart, you'll see some things pop up there. There is a sub arch about Grunder and Demion that won't really add anything to the main plot...also don't think it's a bit of a spoiler to say that he's destined for hell is it? Well either way I do a lot of art of the two of them together, so I might post some of those things around. If you see them, trust that it doesn't spoil anything from the main Hotel plot.
   
   
3. I'll possibly be writing up a 2nd story arch for HH, which would be the events in the 1970's that would explain how a lot of the ghosts and how the hotel became MORE haunted over time. This is not a spoiler by my saying there are three main arcs in the 'Living life time' of the hotel. The lead arch is Milly and her new ownership, then we jump back in time to the 70's where we learn about one of the previous owners, and then a 3rd where we fallow up on Milly and her life 4 years later. The 3rd arch won't be published on the blog as far as I can tell but writing up the events of the 2nd would help create a mythos and atmosphere for the readers that might get them interested in the 1st arch...if that makes sense.

So just wanted you all to know what's been going on with the HH story ok? I surely hope that those of you truly interested aren't too upset and will keep checking out the blog. And those new to the blog Go check out the Haunted Hotel parts that are written up now if you haven't already. Leave your comments and thanks for stopping by.
Haunted Hotel:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Spooky Postcards for Sale

That's right I designed a whole new set of post cards that I plan on selling around. Once again I used Moo.com to print these out, as I've just enjoyed using their set up and their company for their other products. These postcards have a photo glossy finish and the opposite side is empty which allows you to write or draw something of your own when you go to mail it.

As for price I'm still not sure. I can send you two for 3.00$ which covers shipping to you personally (prices may change over time). You get two designs that you choose to keep as just art cards or actually use to send through the post. I do like to consider these as art cards more then post cards, but really do what you like. I will be selling these in person as well, like at shows and events that I'm attending...If I CAN, I'll find a shop in my home town that I can sell for me. Either way, just showing you all what I got. Enjoy.