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August Patreon Sketches

Wednesday, August 12th, 2015

007 + Q = 00Q sketches by Amy Crook

007 + Q = 00Q sketches by Amy Crook

My wonderful $5+ Patreon patrons get to ask for a sketch from me every month, and this time 3 of them left prompts!

Kim asked for Q in a sweater, and so we decided of course on the warm jumper from the Spectre trailer. Then Blaine asked for Bond to go with Q, and I decided on the tactical turtleneck from the promo shots, and their eyes meeting across the boundaries of the sketches. And, of course, posing 007 like a Bond Girl. It’s only fair, really.

Jeff, being of a less shippy mindset, asked for something meta: a drawing of a Minion drawing a Minion.

Drawing of a Minion Drawing a Minion by Amy Crook

Drawing of a Minion Drawing a Minion by Amy Crook

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Not That Kind of Dwarf

Friday, September 26th, 2014

Not That Kind of Dwarf, parody comic by Amy Crook

Not That Kind of Dwarf, parody comic by Amy Crook

“Hi Ho, Hi Ho, to Erebor we go!”

“I’m not that kind of dwarf!”

The last of my friends’ silly sketch prompts, though I admit to taking liberties with the intent of “Thorin and his minions.” This is sort of a three-way crossover, with the Disney song sneaking in a third fandom. Because reasons.

You can get Thorin and his Minions on a card at my Etsy shop, to add a bit of surreal pop culture to the day of a very deserving friend.

Not That Kind of Dwarf, 7″x5″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper.

Not That Kind of Dwarf greeting card by Amy Crook on Etsy

Not That Kind of Dwarf greeting card by Amy Crook on Etsy

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Short Friend

Thursday, May 15th, 2014

Short Friend, a Sherlock parody comic by Amy Crook

Short Friend, a Sherlock parody comic by Amy Crook

Sherlock apparently underestimates John’s height and level of jaundice in this silly little Despicable Me crossover. He tells the audience, “I took the precaution of a long* coat and a short friend,” while gesturing to the wrong short friend. Poor John!

Well, perhaps Sherlock will remember this next time he wants some tea and John pretends he can’t hear him.

Short Friend, 5″x7″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper. Available as a blank card on Etsy, of course.

Short Friend, a Sherlock/Despicable Me card on Etsy by Amy Crook

Short Friend, a Sherlock/Despicable Me card on Etsy by Amy Crook

* I know, I know, the quote is “good coat” but c’mon, this is cuter.

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Minion MWAH!

Thursday, September 5th, 2013

Minion MWAH! fan art comic by Amy Crook

Minion MWAH! fan art comic by Amy Crook

Inspired by this ridiculous gif, I felt the need to do some Minions all on their own. I swear I was going to start holiday cards, but I couldn’t resist! I suppose you could put some mistletoe above him and call it a Christmas card, heh.

I thought he was too plain all by himself, so after I penciled in the giant MWAH! I decided to add some extra Minion shenanigans across the top. My favorite is the one sticking is tongue out, of course.

You can get one to send to all your friends here at my Etsy shop.

Minion MWAH! blank greeting card by Amy Crook on Etsy

Minion MWAH! blank greeting card by Amy Crook on Etsy

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Scotty Gets Minions

Friday, August 30th, 2013

Scotty Gets Minions, mashup fan art by Amy Crook

Scotty Gets Minions, mashup fan art by Amy Crook

It’s another Minion mashup! This time Keenser gets to enjoy not being the shortest guy in Engineering now that he’s found these useful little yellow guys to assist. Scotty isn’t so sure about this.

Scotty is probably right.

You can share his sentiment on a card from my Etsy shop, of course.

Scotty Gets Minions, blank greeting card by Amy Crook at Etsy

Scotty Gets Minions, blank greeting card by Amy Crook at Etsy

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Mischievous Minions

Wednesday, August 28th, 2013

Warning: This blog post will contain spoilers for Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2.

this is a sneak preview of future minion artIf I had to choose a single word for my feelings about the Minions from Despicable Me it would be delighted. They’re not particularly good, or particularly competent, but something about them just makes me smile.

In fact, the best phrase I came up with to describe them was, “innocently evil.” They’re so gleeful when they’re trying to one-up each other, but they love ice cream and bananas and silly costumes. They’ll punch and poke and push one another just to amuse themselves, but they also don’t seem to much mind when they meet with misfortune. They just grin and go along with it, though blowing one another up will be met with glares and possibly a punch in the arm from the soot-stained, injured party.

The TARDIS has MinionsThey’re so wonderfully juvenile, too. They giggle over “Ramsbottom.” They’re totally unsympathetic with one another. They slap-fight and swipe things from each other and ask for goodnight kisses. They’re like a little yellow refinement of childhood, with all the boundless enthusiasm and none of the screaming tantrums. And just like kids*, Gru remembers each and every one of their totally mundane names, while to everyone else they pretty much all look alike.

Even Gru’s occasionally mystified by them, like the scene where they’re working on antigravity serum and Gru looks up and there’s a bunch of them happily stuck to the ceiling, waving down at him. I love how Nefario’s all, “Oops, I meant to close that,” when the one floats off, and yet, no one does anything about rescuing him, though he shows up several times later. But the one that gets shrunk has his BFF that holds onto him the whole time and is very happy when he’s full size again. And there’s the one who gets his head in a jar in the 2nd movie, and wears the jar the whole rest of the movie.

Also, they're fun to draw!Not to mention the fact that they react to kidnapping by building a bar and serving drinks on their little desert island.

They also speak their own language! And how cute is it when they sing familiar songs in Minion-ese. There’s not much of that in the first one, but there’s more in the sequel starting with the Banana song preview. Boyband mockery! YMCA! And of course the giant off-hours ice cream party complete with a drinking song. Everything is just funnier in Minion-ese.

In conclusion, Minions are awesome and fun to draw. Also, despicable.

*okay, maybe that’s just me and other people’s kids

Mycroft's Minions

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Mycroft’s Minions

Thursday, August 22nd, 2013

Mycroft's Minions, parody art by Amy Crook

Mycroft’s Minions, parody art by Amy Crook

It’s more Minions! Am I the only one who sees these wee pill-shaped dudes and thinks of that old Naprosyn slogan, “Little. Yellow. Different.”?

After pondering the idea of crossing Despicable Me over with some of my favorite fandoms, I couldn’t resist the idea of Mycroft having actual Minions with his own little M logo on their overalls and everything. And then, when trying to figure out a scenario that would be fun to draw, I couldn’t help but imagine Mycroft in my favorite scene from the first movie, down on one knee smooching the Minions goodnight one by one.

This is another one of those ideas that had to be a card, but isn’t really for any occasion specifically, just to put a smile on someone’s face. Unless you know someone who’s actually got Minions, in which case it’s kind of a sympathy card.

Banana?

Mycroft's Minons, blank greeting card by Amy Crook at Etsy

Mycroft’s Minons, blank greeting card by Amy Crook at Etsy

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