I’m curious! What do you guys think?
Some days at work are harder to get through than others. We all know it, and Pim and Charlie clearly know it too. There's nothing too dramatic happening here, just them both commiserating in the break room together during one of those horrible days.
Sometimes you just gotta let out a few stress-tears with your pal and motivate yourself with the reminder that the work day will be over soon enough. Especially with the Smiling Friends, who we all know have some of the MOST STRESSFUL work shifts of almost any cartoon I've watched lmao
Pour up (drank), head shot (drank) Sit down (drank), stand up (drank) Pass out (drank), wake up (drank) Faded (drank), faded (drank)
I can't believe season 2 is already over! I loved all of the new episodes so much! (Except for the alien one that I couldn't watch because of all the flashing lights, ugh.)
Anyways, I wanted to fit at least one more Charlie/Pim drawing in before Pride month ended! So, here ya go! They're so much fun to draw! Also maybe one of these days I'll find a consistent way to draw Pim's eyes, but who even knows at this point lol. For this one I tried to make it look a little closer to the show's original style.
Good Lord season two really was full of Pim trauma wasn't it
See the joke here is why the hell are they both getting so flustered when all Charlie’s doing is helping Pim with his stupid tie lol what dorks
Sorry tumblr absolutely killed the quality of these sketches but idk, I just felt like drawing some CharPim with my favorite trope of "person A has to act super fast/risky to save person B in time during a fight/confrontation" or something like that. I might render them at some point for the fun of it but they can stay sketches for now!
Oops, my hand slipped! Of course by that I mean that I had this idea stuck in my head for a hot minute so I decided to sketch it out.
Pim and Charlie get a call to a certain hotel from a spider fella who needed some extra support. While Pim is pouring all of his heart and soul into comforting Angel, Charlie's heard enough and is about to hunt Val for sport LMAO
"Now let's go out there and make people smile!"
Ok so anyways, I got the idea in my head to make this little 2 page comic about Pim the other day, and I finally got around to actually drawing it! Hell yeah!
Pim clearly has a lot of genuine passion for joy and helping others, and I wanted to highlight that! It takes a lot of strength to stay kind and optimistic in a world this cruel, and he knows that and keeps fighting the good fight for hope. Pim's a very admirable character, and I wish I could give him a big ol' hug! :]
Don't have much to say about this one, just some critters chilling in the break room! The season 2 hype is still very real lol
I know this show isn't that deep, but I've been thinking a lot about Pim's character and how much pressure he puts on himself to always be the helper/people pleaser. He's always putting others first, and he's constantly surrounded by people who are not only less-optimistic, but most of the time downright miserable. Not to mention what Pim's home life was like, and how screwed up his family is from what little we've seen of them in canon.
Basically, I just wanted to draw him finally letting some of those walls down and having a good cry with the critter he trusts so much, Charlie. His literal goal in life is to bring happiness in spite of how awful the world is, and that can really take a toll on anyone. Sometimes the helpers need help too, and sometimes even the most optimistic need support to lean on.
Don't mind me, I just wanted to draw Pim being the adorable and optimistic fella he always is! I love this stupid little gumball man so much lol.
I ended up making two versions because while I originally made his eyes closed, I really liked the idea of his eyes being open too, so yeah! Ya' get two now lmao.
Smiling Friends really out here with a character who came from an abusive and unhealthy background/childhood who joined an organization to bring happiness and help to other people who are struggling because he know’s the struggle of depression and trauma and feelings of worthlessness himself and made it his life mission to fight against crippling hopelessness with optimism because otherwise life is too bleak to continue in and in this way he’s constantly proving to himself and others (the best he can) that love will always bring hope and happiness into life despite all the darkness and will be the first one to try and help others without question because he wants to be the person he needed most growing up and will fight to prove that life is always still worth living when there’s something to fight for
AND THEN HAVE HIM LOOK LIKE THIS
Sometimes two kings just gotta snuggle up with each other on a nice pile of pillows you know how it is
Why do I find comfort in the weirdest things WHY are my comfort characters never anything that makes sense lol anyways here have a sketch