Realistic Rugrats!

Rugrats was one of my favorite shows as a kid, and I’d long had the idea tossing around in my head to do a piece that paid homage, but never really had the right idea or opportunity to do it. There is already tons of Rugrats-inspired art floating around out there, but it usually goes in one of two directions; either it attempts to stay entirely true to the look of the show, or it goes the route of realistic human babies dressed like the characters. That’s what got me thinking in a different direction, to draw the characters on-model (as they appear in the show) but to render them so heavily they appear lifelike, which I thought would look pretty funny given the odd anatomy of the characters. Hope you like it!