Round 5: Puzzles
"Puzzling Haunted House"
Rounds 3 and 4 were somewhat of a rough patch but I can say this is another one of my favorites from this tournament. When I got the prompt, Papyrus almost immediately came to mind as something I should include, so it became a somewhat Undertale-themed scribble. The actual direction, however, was heavily influenced by RHG's own prompt of Haunted Woods, inspiring me to go with a general spooky theme for team synergy (although mine is a lot more lighthearted while RHG's leans towards actual horror). The giant skeleton in his was my suggestion, since we might as well both have skeletons. We also both ended up having our scenes illuminated by a single light source which was more coincidental than anything, so that's neat (and uh, there's wood in both I guess?).
So with the spooky theme, I ended up on the idea of Papyrus doing a jigsaw puzzle in a haunted house with a ghost eating the pieces. Originally I thought, well, what if the ghost is Gengar, but I decided against it since the mixing of properties didn't really make sense, and it transformed into a generic sheet ghost (not Napstablook or any of his ilk, though). The ghost was also bigger and sitting in a chair at first, which I ended up not liking because it made its presence too obvious in relation to Papyrus being confused about the missing pieces. You could say the ghost is invisible but it felt too hard to communicate visually that Papyrus couldn't see him, so it ended up being smaller and somewhat hidden by the table so the joke works in either interpretation. Also, it has the

face!
As for the skelebros themselves, I've actually drawn them before but it's been a hot minute. They look a lot better here than in the stuff I've done before. More importantly, I had the perfect palette to work with between RHG's Fire Brick for Papyrus and my Grape which was close enough for Sans. I'm pretty sure fonts are banned in Scribble, so I typed up the dialogue in their signature fonts, eyeballed it, and then recreated it by hand. Quite possibly the worst thing I've ever subjected myself to doing in Scribble.
Also, I know I said I didn't want to mix properties but this doesn't count because it's a cameo. I figured with the relation to puzzles, it would be fitting to have Professor Layton as a spooky little haunted house portrait! Originally he had his eyes and mouth, but I decided that looked too friendly so I got rid of them and added some crosshatching for shading underneath his hat. Crosshatching is such a good effect man, I love it. The only other thing I have to say here is that I played around a lot with the lighting to hopefully sell the candle effect since I had the time, and I really like how it looks on Papyrus' black bones specifically.