Grid Gala 2025 - Blog Posts

2/? I guess i’m just going at my own pace with these 😅 (this has been a real rough few weeks for me my dudes, debilitating health anxiety sucks!)

N e ways, here’s Aisha! She was always my fav as a kid (My first introduction to MMPR was through my older sister who grew up with it and showed me the 95 movie on vhs- i watched it religiously and as such Aisha, Rocky, and Adam were THE yellow, red, and black rangers to me).

As per the “Heavenly Bodies” theme, Aisha’s look is inspired by the Ursa Major constellation. While she did initially pilot the Griffin Thunderzord, I will never not associate her with the Ninja Bear Zord cuz of the movie. Her hair is done up to have the two little buns on top look like bear ears, and also kinda looks like a big teddy gram on the back of her head lol. I feel like a big part of Aisha’s character is how compassionate and caring she is, so I gave her a heart neckline, and the frills and pattern on the dress are kinda just meant to look fancy and regal. The big see through parts are supposed to look like big honey bubbles/globules bc bears- the crescent moon earrings are also meant to evoke bears. I always associate moons with bears but that might just be because of Ursaring from Pokemon. And finally the necklace is based off of the silver muzzle thing the Ninja Bear Zord has in it’s mouth all the time- with the colors representing the Stone Canyon Trio 🖤💛❤️

Big shoutout to all the other Aisha Campbell stans out there I can’t be the only one.

✨My Grid Gala 2025✨

Welcome to the unveiling of my Grid Gala 2025 designs, event hosted by @itmethanh, like last year I had so much fun but the Heavenly Bodies theme really gave way for more brainstorming and man it really paid off👌🏾✨

Attendees this year: Tommy Oliver, Theo Martin, Shelby Watkins, Hayley Foster, Hunter Bradley, Dustin Brooks, Conner McKnight, and Jarrod

Messiah for Tommy💚😇

Maacahbre for Theo💙🦇 and Maacahbre: Ascended for Theo🩵🪽

Ramiel for Hunter❤️⚡️and Leolzebub for Dustin💛😈

Satanael for Shelby🩷✨ and Ō-Inari for Hayley🤍🐺

Lucifero for Conner❤️😈 and Mugenryū for Jarrod🖤🐉

@jadendoes-stuff @augment-techs @skyland2703 @ajgrey9647 @infinitysgrace

my finished Grid Gala design!!

Uh I don’t have a name for the design or anything, but I guess I’ll talk about some design choices I made etc

sooo I wanted to go for a kind of corrupted angelic-being vibe because well, duh, it’s Drakkon 😒 so I mainly stuck to really light colours and really dark colours for a contrast to symbolise said corruption

I used mostly black, red, white and a very light green, with black and red representing Drakkon and the white and green representing who he could have been, the Tommy we know and love 😖

the gold accents are there to low-key symbolise this man’s god complex 😟 because he defo has one

some of the markings on his chest/arms mirror parts of his armour and I took inspiration from most of the versions of his suit

thank you @regaliasonata for introducing me to the gala and @skyland2703 for helping me make a few decisions that I was stuck on 💜 I appreciate you both 😖

And while I’m here, thank you to everyone who’s supported me and my art on here since I joined in March, it genuinely means so much to me 🫶🫶

anyway that’s enough of being sappy, I’m happy with how this design came out, he looks soo 🤤

1/? For my Grid Gala 2025 ✨

I was gonna finish Aisha’s first but her dress ended up being very detail heavy and my brain hurts so I decided to finish up Zhane first because drawing tig ol’ bitties is my happy place and my anxiety has been wrecking me as of late. The whole idea with the “Heavenly Bodies” theme I had was constellations, so all of the fits are inspired by constellations. Zhane’s is Polaris/The North Star, which made me think almost snowy vibes and I for some reason specifically came to an Emma Frost inspired design- at least in spirit. The silvery bits are meant to evoke swirling galaxies/star systems like you always see in those nasa photos- overall a kind of regal, starry, snowy, icy vibe. And all of the colors bar the ice is just the colors from Zhane’s ranger suit. I didn’t fully realize until recently that the squares on the silver ranger suit were like, green and not just the normal colors on the other suits.

Also meant to post this earlier in the day but I got completely sidetracked binging Abbott Elementary ☠️

Tbh I don’t think I did too good of a job at getting Zhane’s likeness but oh well, guess that just means I need to draw him (and his boobs) more teehee 🙈