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Ink Drawing Challenge 2021 Day 11: Desert Enemies
EPSON MFP image I couldn't decide if I wanted to draw the Angry Sun or the Fire Snake, so I drew both. And then I tossed in the Fire Bro,…
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Ink Drawing Challenge 2021 Day 10: Ludwig “Kooky” Von Koopa
Today is Koopaling Ludwig Von Koopa, also known as Kooky Von Koopa in the Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoon. While the story goes that the animation team and…
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Ink Drawing Challenge 2021 Day 9: Koopa Troopas
Maybe the most prolific enemy in the Super Mario Bros. series? Arguably the most iconic. I always preferred when the Koopa Troopas would walk on all fours like in the…
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Ink Drawing Challenge 2021 Day 8: Bob-Omb
Who needs pencil sketches? This Bob-Omb was drawn directly in Sharpie, and then refined a bit with a roller ball pen. And he's about to blow you away.
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Ink Drawing Challenge 2021 Day 7: Larry “Cheatsy” Koopa
Larry Koopa is the Koopaling that Mario (or Luigi) will meet at the end of World 1 in Super Mario Bros. 3, and therefore he's kinda become the Koopaling I…
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Ink Drawing Challenge 2021 Day 6: Princess
It's the Princess! Whether you remember her as Princess Toadstool or just call her "Peach," either way, she's as important to the Super Mario mythos as the titular character himself…
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Ink Drawing Challenge 2021 Day 5: Luigi
“Could you draw Luigi?” My roommate asked. And so… I did.
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Ink Drawing Challenge 2021 Day 4: Flame Chomp
Also known as the Fire Chomp, these guys are one of very few video game enemies that I'm legitimately afraid of. They're floating black balls with SHARP TEETH, and they…
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Ink Drawing Challenge 2021 Day 3: Goombas
The Little Goomba is the first enemy that you see in the very first Super Mario Bros. game. In Mario 3, Nintendo introduced two new variations of Goomba: The Micro…
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Ink Drawing Challenge 2021 Day 2: Roy “Bully” Koopa
The Koopalings (or, Koopa Kids) actually weren’t named when they debuted in the Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. 3. But that wouldn’t stand in the US — So Nintendo…
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Ink Drawing Challenge 2021 Day 1
Welcome to to my 2021 Super Mario Bros. October Ink Drawing Challenge. Apparently, there’s maybe some legal issues around the word “Inktober”? I don’t know or care, so I’m just…
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Friendly Fridays: Griffen’s Android
Back in 2015-2016, I was trying to get a regular thing going with Phoenix-area artists at a local coffee shop that I called "Caffeinate and Create." Sometimes there would be…
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Transformers Siege G2 Sideswipe Custom Toy
Back in late 2018, Hasbro started releasing toys for the first part of their WAR FOR CYBERTRON toyline, SIEGE. I saw Hound and at the store, and basically immediately fell…
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Unfinished Minotaur 2019
I was doodling this off-and-on between projects at work back in March of 2019, but never got around to finishing it. One of my coworkers walked past my desk, and…
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Marvel Comics’ December 1991 Cool-O-Meter
Back in the early 1990s, Marvel Comics' identity was transitioning from the kistchy clubhouse that Stan Lee's Soapbox columns presented in the 60s and 70s, to a more corporate-minded entity.…