Krunch & Pipsy from Diddy Kong Racing. I like the fan idea that they're a couple, or at least buddies.

Wanna see the last time I drew Krunch?

I was 8 years old. My grandma had this hanging on her wall for over 20 years.

Did more eye drawing Practice while i was at work and broke my head over Java script codes XD

Enjoy!!!

Krusha

I missed drawing DK-related art, so I drew a bunch of ladies from the series

Been playing dk64 exclusively for a week

At first was supposed to be a thing related to my AU stuffs, but I just really wanted to draw the King with a fluffly cape :3

If ye notice some 'details', nice~ I wasn't planning to post, but never enough arts of the croc. Enjoy! ♥

Tentative final design for my Kremling! Not sure about the pants and the hair colour but oh well.

Wanted to lean into CMYK colours, punk aesthetic, and not believing in bras, I guess.

Her name's Splatter now... not very Krem-ish but I dunno what else would work. He's a graffiti artist that got fired from K. Rool's army for preferring to draw his own stuff (and flirting with the General...)

She's friendly to Kongs but struggles making friends. Also uses any pronouns.

So this is probably really stupid to find interesting, but I watched a video about the evolution of King K. Rool over the years, and it's pretty clear to see that his golden belly armour being just that, armour, and not a part of his body is a pretty recent thing, which was seemingly introduced in Smash Ultimate. In his debut appearance in DKC, it does seem to be made of gold:

That's pretty clearly the same material on his crown, cuffs and belly, right? And as his cuffs and crown are clearly just accessories and not part of his body, it would be natural to assume that so is his belly armour. I'm actually not sure if this is the case, however, since I've never read the manual the game clearly expects you to have read, can't find a video of someone hitting him from the front to see what kind of sound effect it makes, and haven't gotten to the final boss of DKC myself yet (I'm stuck on Chimp Caverns, lol). So as far as this installment goes, with my limited knowledge, I could go either way (K. Rool experts, feel free to weigh in).

From this point forth, his belly armour remains golden for some time, and I don't believe an answer to whether it's part of him or not is given in any of the several games he appears in up until Smash Melee.

Then, suddenly, in DK King of Swing on the GBA, his belly armour is made of skin.

This change then remains consistent from this point up until Smash Ultimate, and K. Rool actually does appear in a surprising amount of games up until then, featuring in Barrel Blast, Super Mario Sluggers, and even in Brawl as a trophy.

Finally, after Brawl, his next appearance is in Smash Ultimate, in which we finally get a solid answer: it's a metal chestplate. Apparently. Despite the long string of games before in which it was clearly flesh. In Ultimate, this is even of mechanical importance, as it can be worn down and eventually broken by attacks, which stuns K. Rool and leaves him vulnerable. He can also use it to parry attacks, so it has multiple associated mechanics. This cracked texture would be kind of gross if it was made of tough skin instead of metal, so maybe that's why they made the change.

I also discovered that whether or not he has a tail, and how long it is, is wildly inconsistent. In Melee he has a short tail, in Brawl he does not, in Ultimate he has a nubby one yet again, and in DK64 he has a properly long crocodile tail longer than his legs. Weird.

idk why I thought this was interesting I just did.

Old drawing of Diddy Kong, Dixie Kong, Klubba, Kruncha, Kannon and Klomp from Donkey Kong Country 2 parodying "El Dorado"

ワニ大福（ドンキーコングアイランドのバナナを盗むワニの姿） Daifuku Crocodiles banana(Crocodile stealing bananas in Donkey Kong Island) 寝ようとしたら　バナナを加えたワニ大福が流れてきた。 I was about to go to bed when Crocodiles Daifuku Sweets with added bananas came on the X. The original Sweets' mutterings

https://x.com/bananawanien_82/status/1761740309283909838?s=20

Maybe I'll tweak the lighting on the characters, but my brain isn't helping me right now. For now I share them as is. It may stay that way, it may not.

-Quizás le modifique las luces a los personajes, pero mi cerebro no me está ayudando en este momento. Por ahora se los comparto como está.

I guess I should formally make a post here about this, even though it’s been out for a while now:

HISTORY: This project is something that I’ve been actively working on for the past 2 years and I am very proud to be able to finally present the fruits of my labor! Growing up, I’d always been a massive fan of the Donkey Kong Country titles. I remember finding “Legend of the Crystal Coconut” on VHS at my local video rental store and pleading with my parents to rent it for me. I was blown away, finally being able to put voices to kharacters- and while the overall quality of the animation and writing was rather dubious in hindsight, most of the vocal performances always stood out to me as being THE definitive voice cast. For an awkwardly-animated cartoon of the mid-90’s, the writing was fine for what it was and touched on the normal ‘Saturday Morning’ kids block tropes. However, I’d always felt that there was something more that could be brought to the table in terms of storytelling if things were more kongsistent with the games. Here’s where I come in. Fast-forward 25 some odd years and I’m now living out my childhood dream, as ko-producer, kreative kongsultant, kasting director and voice actor of my own little motley krew of Kremlings!

I hope you all will have as much fun watching this as we did making this!

ROOL

Girls Night!

I have drawn a few Kremlings from the past but Kasplat isn't one of them. As someone who likes big bruisers, Kasplat is one of my favorites from Donkey Kong 64. DK64 may not be perfect but I still enjoy the classic Rare magic coming from it.

Art © Franchesca Huerta aka Chibi Brugarou

Kasplat © Nintendo and Rareware