WridianGrey on DeviantArthttps://www.deviantart.com/wridiangrey/art/I-really-like-Paper-Mario-2-52697767WridianGrey

Deviation Actions

WridianGrey's avatar

I really like Paper Mario 2

By
Published:
108.6K Views

Badge Awards

Description

My Paper Mario 2: the Thousand-Year Door fanart masterpiece is finally done. Thanks to everyone who commented on the earlier versions I posted and gave me the idea to use sketchyness in the final version. I have no doubt that thanks to your comments, this picture is much more interesting than it would have been had I gone with my original plan of doing it all vector-based.

For those who aren't familiar with the game, a very important item is an old, worn-out map to the Star Pieces. I decided to use that as a motif for the picture as a whole, it makes a nice counter to the ultra-smooth vector style of the normal Paper Mario 2 style, and the border helps tie the whole picture together. I realize it's not the standard look, but it's pretty cool this way I'd say, even the sketchy badguys are drawn on-model, and the bottom portion shows that I can replicate the official look if that's my goal. Meanwhile, the sketchy portions show some originality and the transition from vector to pencil sketchy shows some photoshop skills.

If you want to point out that Madame Flurry or Ms. Mowz are missing, it's because I didn't really like them. As for other characters, they probably weren't important enough. Even I have my limits of how much effort I care to put in. I wouldn't have minded sneaking a Kitty Boo in there, but they never did anything remotely important, despite being cute.

Mediums:

Pencil on paper, (actual drawing pencils with different numbers and such for once,) and Adobe Illustrator, combined and adjusted in Photoshop.
Image size
840x1110px 513.04 KB
© 2007 - 2024 WridianGrey
Comments679
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
AshleyGamer1995's avatar

I always liked that first boss character in TTYD, Hooktail. Not only she's dragon, but she also made me think from the past 13 years that she (somewhat) inspired DeviantArt itself since the place used to be a lot earlier in design, from what I remember fondly. I'm not sure why, maybe it's because (again) I was so much younger at the time, didn't have an account for DeviantArt (nor did I ever came up with the idea of a username "AshleyGamer1995" much earlier on XD), and the whole gaming universe packed with iconic characters and awesomeness for such moments really blew my mind, when I played games so much and looked at many fanarts as this one on the site. :D I even used to watch some young guy on YT doing Let's Play videos of Paper Mario TTYD on his silver GameCube console with wireless controller, filming at the small TV monitor in his bedroom while he was playing the game and voicing commentary during Chapter 1. Ah, such good memories, just like TTYD itself, everything in it. I haven't played this game again for a very long time now, after story completion twice from 2009. Where have all those years gone?! The clock sure is racing on in this life, that's for sure. :O