BK - Meanwhile, Back in Grunty's Lair...

Appropriate music: youtu.be/FaYU8D-I_Rc

Sometimes, a job is just a job. You can't just flip a switch and expect things to go smoothly. Sometimes you have to recalibrate things to make sure that the beauty sucker of your design doesn't turn both a young bear and your witch employer inside-out or into giant radioactive piles of goo.
The ssstruggle...

I personally think one of the most gratifying moments in video game character development -at least for me - was seeing Klungo, just a background character you never officially see outside of cutscenes, become an important character in Banjo-Tooie, and later one of Banjo's biggest allies in Nuts and Bolts. I'm not sure if that was planned, but I always dug the big guy in Banjo-Kazooie and I remember practically geeking out as a little kid seeing that the first boss of Tooie was the fabled Klungo, rock-pusher, switch-puller, only seen during game overs or at the end of the game.

An entry for the Banjo-Partie zine being hosted by Blank Party: blankparty.club/post/136829311…
Never submitted anything to a zine before. I hope I make it in because the thought of my art being published in a physical thingy of any sort makes me all giddy and it seems like a fun little love-letter for one of the biggest influences of my art style, or at least my color palettes and their style.

Guys, if you never played Banjo-Kazooie, treat your eyes. The color choices that game makes in the levels is simply divine. Especially in the later, more industrial levels like Rusty Bucket Bay.

One of the settings that I never see get any fanart is Klungo's lab and the beauty sucker machines from Banjo-Kazooie, let alone with Tooty in them, and since I'm my own worst critic and kind of dislike all my previous pictures of Klungo (I just feel I had yet to really "nail" the character) I decided why not.

Turns out I'm not too good at drawing these things. But hey, the zine needs some Klungo in it (aka one of those characters I bizarrely liked for YEARS) and who else but me to provide it.

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