went thru my reposts on my moth!mumbo hc that he used to be a caterpillar and saw this gem. Losing my shit

mumbo. k. jumblio design doodle for the next animatic

have a random mothbo to cure your ouchies

GRUMBO WEEK DAY 3 - " Nightmare " @grumboweek

"read more" at your own discretion. messy+wordy explanation of the concept coming:) .

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pardon me for being late but i really couldn't stand leaving this looking unfinished so. had to spend a bittt more time on it (might even post for grumbo week even after the event's over if thats okay!!)

we all got over the progression from their friendship to their betrayal of eachother in Last Life too soon. i need people to mourn with me

"Nightmare" made my mind immediately jump to the series that waffle duo really got their share of angst from, Last Life. How an unbreakable bond of friendship strengthened by literally passing eachother something as valuable as a life so quickly crumbled into them both betraying eachother in the end, a Nightmare scenario that the two of them would've never even considered for sure. even grian, who upon turning red was still clinging onto the hope that their bond was so strong that mumbo would join him as a redname. (concept) even red mumbo, who in his last ditch desperation tried reigniting post-red yellow life grian's humanity by giving him the spyglass, the southlander's physical embodiment of their friendship, only for grian to crush it mercilessly ,,,,,,,,,

anyway for this piece i tried real hard to cram in as much symbolism and imagery and intent behind my lines and colors as possible, so heres some of it! (theres more but thats on you to figure out!)

Composition + just some of the details : the main concept that i really wanted to drive home is the use of the SPYGLASS as symbolism for the progression of their bond throughout Last life, up until the end. yellow-side grian holds up a spyglass, looking towards the right

day4 past and future concepts ahead the spyglass extends through the past to the present, like a solid line of sight into the future before its unfortunately crushed by red-side grian (him shutting down any friendship or reconciliation from mumbo) mumbo, back against the future, faced twoards the past, reaching his spyglass out looking for who his friend was, only to see a cracked figure of him staring back grian, faced towards the future in both drawings, but also looking back at mumbo, with different emotions but both with the same desire to move forward, one with adoration and another with the desire to move on from mumbo's dead body and focus on self-preservation. he knew he had to move on, and he was right.

SOUTHLANDERS BADGE: mostly for visual interest! but also unlike the spyglass, is an unremovable physical reminder for post-red grian (literally lodged deep into his shoulder)

CLIPPED WINGS: i felt like i had to mention that they're supposed to look clipped in the second drawing:) "HE NEEDS TO LEARN" was a real quote that was directed at both jimmy and mumbo, but we gotta adapt pfft ,,, this post is long. LOng long. i should stop. special SPECIAL thanks to my dearest @justrelaxhere for their hours worth of dissection of my drawing! god i could always count on them to squeeze every drop of symbolism out of my work. without them i wouldn'tve been able to fully articulate my ideas! okay thanks for reading people:D

Normalest parents ever!!!

I HATE this drawing but whatever the sketch is fine but I HATE BACKGROUNDS GRAH

some more stuff 

SLEEPY BOAT LADS

DTIYS for @homiu-l !

I've only ever done 2 DTIYS' and both were for the same artist. I missed doing these, so much! Also, can you guys tell I've never really made a full design for Pearl, Scar, or Impulse? hehe- oops.

OO- hybrids tho!

Grian is a Scarlet Macaw

Mumbo is an Owl-Moth

Pearl is a Luna Moth

Scar is a Phantom

and Impulse is a Sliverfish! :D

I love all of em

Mumbo angst??? That's like all I write now?? Anways have some Moth Mumbo angst that I might make longer later

Mumbos wings didn't work well, now, he wasnt sure why or how it started, if he were to guess though, It would most likely have been because of a redstone accident in his testing world. All he knew was that he couldn't fly with his wings and needed help from an elytra, his wings that he's now grown a hatred for because of that fact. He couldn't remember the last time he actually likes his wings, but anytime he sees someone who had wings that worked, that didn't need to use an elytra, he couldn't help but feel jealous, he couldnt help but wish he wasn't born with wings that were utterly useless.

Maybe making a that was in the air probably wasn't a good idea, now that he thought about. He had no way to get into it, well except for death or the 'piller of shame' and this wouldn't be the case if his bloody wings worked. What kind of Moth can't fly, pearl cab fly and she the only other moth, Grain can fly and hes an avain, Impulse could fly and he was an Imp, Skizz could fly and he was an Angel, and this list was getting far to long for him, gut the point is that every other hermit born with wings can use their wings without any problems, and he just doesn't understand why he isnt the same. And it wasn't like he didn't try to figure out what was wrong, he has! He's asked Xisuma to check them out, ask pearl if his wings looked weird to her, even tried to just force his wings to work, and nothing. Nothing even happened, which means he wasted his time and his friends for a lost cause. And if that didn't feel horrible he didn't know what would. Well he probably did, but that really isnt the point. The point is that not being able to fly really fucking hurt. And he hated that so so much.

I hope that The Mothball will spark more Moth!Mumbo, because I need more Moth Mumbo in my life.

Cinnabar moth mumbo doodles for the soul! Bit messy, but oh well. Lost all of my wips as my phone broke so..... We'll see what happens.

moth!mumbo au except when he was younger he was literally just a caterpillar. I imagine a conversation with grian, scar, and him going something like this:

scar: “mumbo, if youre a moth, what did you look like as a baby?”

mumbo: “Oh no worries i have photos!” *a fucking caterpillar*

grian: “aww just like pearl”

scar: “am i the only one who didnt know about this???”

grian, having a moth sister, is automatically just like. yeah he was a caterpillar. hes a moth?? I thought elves were in touch with nature??

Silly Mumbo! Your wings haven't dried yet, remember?

(It's the beginning of the season, so maybe a moth!Mumbo's wings would still be all curled, as if he's fresh out of the cocoon again - like the picture below the cut. Meanwhile, he just keeps forgetting he can't fly just yet...)

(asks are always open!)

Pony Town skins 8/11 -💮

From left to right:

Vampire! Mumbo, moth! (Season 10) Mumbo, Hatsune Miku! Mumbo, dressed up Mumbo

MOTHBO FROM WILDWESTERN CHAIN HAS ENTERED THE CHAT

I am so tired

some sketches i never posted 

Just a little mombo inspired moth wip

How do I draw fluff properly-? T-T