thats neat:)

Oh gosh, these are super cute!
At first I thought these were FanGamer stuff, but you did them all yourself?
Heh, you must've had a fun time doing them if you did all of them in one day!

Thank you. <3 They were really fun to work through once I got going with them. Originally, it was only going to be the playable characters plus a few items, but then the nostalgia took over and it just spiralled out of control from there.

Cutting them out must have been a pain! Especially the big flame guy!

I do remember him, and the cactus guy, being extremely fiddly. These were cut out using small scissors, though a craft knife would've been a far better option if I'd had one. :,V

This is so adorable ^u^
They all look great!

I still want to see Nintendo try to attempt putting Bowser & Wart in the same game.

Frankly, Bowser has been the main villain in enough games already. When I saw the first trailer for Super Mario 3D world with Mario, Luigi, Peach and blue Toad, I though for sure we were taking a trip back to Sub Con and Wart would be the main villain again for a change. I was so pumped! Nope, instead we got "Meowser".

I love the big adorable turtle kappa dragon ox thing as much as anyone else here on FA (even you, Langdon) but it's time to give him a fucking break, don't you think? Let him chill in his castle and do nothing for the next game, ya know?

For the next Mario game on the 3DS, my fondest wish is to have Daisy kidnapped again so we have an excuse to return to Sarasaland, a world with environments unlike those of the Mushroom Kingdom. It would be refreshing to be able to use the Super Muffins (they were supposed to be mushrooms, but they looked like muffins in Super Mario Land) and the Rubber Flowers again, and put up with challenging enemies like the Ponpi (the zombie martial artists who would just get faster if you jumped on them). Tatanga could be the main villain again, and perhaps we could even tie in elements from Super Mario Land 2 like having Wario be an antagonist. That would be fun, I think.

these are amazing and all in one day too? jeesus talk about being an art machine. would you ever consider offering commissions similar to this?

Thank you. <3 And yeah, I probably could! Still got tons of coloured pencils and pens, and lots of this type of card left. I imagine they'd be easy to ship, also.

welcome and I just think they would be so neat on my computer desk!

Nnnnghh!! I love everytime when you draw a super mario fan art, its amazing, you're a great artist man

Thanks, dude. Got tons of fond memories from these games, and I like to channel that feeling of nostalgia as much as I can.

So beautiful

You're so talented

- and a giant nerd.

Nerds are the best kind of people.

They're really nice and freely express themselves

Very cute. :3 I like your sense of nostalgia.

SMB2+Paper Mario=this

Dude on the farrrrrrr right has some cool flamin' hair

Pantene - for hair so healthy, it shines.

These would look fantastic in one of those thick frames that lets you layer stuff in it. All it needs is something to give it a background, and boom, done!

Ah, sort of like a diorama frame? That would be neat, and much easier to incorporate a background than like how they're set up here.

One thing I didn't consider while making them is that, because of the stand, they're not reversible (i.e. Mario will always face to the right). If I were to do these standing ones again, I'd like to find a way to make them stand up /and/ be reversible, if possible. Maybe make two identical but opposite cutouts, and sandwich a slice of foam or lightweight wood between them, near the bottom, and glue the bottom edge of the foam to a small circle of card as a base.

Ah I love this! One of my favorite games <3

Awwwww, these are adorable!! Not gonna lie, I loved Super Mario Bros 2 when i was a kid ...

Me too, (well, clearly) I think it's severely underrated. While it was a slight deviation from the usual formula, which I don't think is a bad thing by any means, it had some interesting designs and music.

When I was little, that bird head ('Hawkmouth', supposedly) thing scared the bejeezums out of me when it detatched itself from the wall in 7-2 and started flying around. I had to get my dad to defeat it. :I

awww, i remember these!
for some reason, they actually remind me of that orchestral band thing you did x03

Oh! I remember these! When I saw this pic, I immediately wanted my own set. XD

So very awesome. ^.^

Toad come back with that.

Oh my gosh, the colors are just colored pencil? They emulate the bright style of the game art really well, yet have a wonderfully muted quality - these are absolutely gorgeous, and expertly shaded! Good god, I would pay money for these... but even more, I want to try something like this!

They're great fun to do! It's difficult to tell from the photo, but I used hatched shading using a brown felt tip, which I could easily scribble over with the pencils for the colouring. I do remember having to fiddle with the colour levels and contrast on this, as the camera was pretty basic even for its time, but I got them as true to life as possible. Markers would be a good alternative, also.

I thought I noticed a crosshatch shading, which just adds to the charm of the style. I'm still amazed that this is colored pencil, as it has the soft hues of pencil but also the smooth, even color of markers. I may very well try it with the prismas I have! Thanks for the response. ^^

LOL dear god these are adorable! Reminds me of the old Paper Mario commercial X3

My first ever video game

seeee awesomeee

Aw man! This is magnificent! I love the style to it all; everything just looks perfect!