#paper mario gijinka

[spritesitrus]

thinking about them

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pmtok anni countdown / artfight attack for

@sodaposting and @fangedlamb

[sammywolfgirl]

“I probably won’t make any of my legion of stationary gijinkas Refs in time for artfight this year” I said, like a lier

For real though hole punch might be the only ref I finish in time for art fight, all the other designs are still unfinished and this was the only guy of two I had a solid color pallet idea for.

But anyways here’s my funky boy look at him go

[willowisapillow]

🌈🦋 Pleasant Pixl 🦋🌈

Hope you guys had a great Thanksgiving! Y’all’s turkeys have probably digested by now, but have some more gijinka art from me.

Last year, I made a human design for Tippi, one of my absolute favorite Paper Mario partners, but looking back on it, I don’t like how the design turned out. So I wanted to redesign it. I didn’t give her a specific ethnicity and just made her look vaguely Hispanic/Latina, but with this redesign, I made her Native American as a celebration for both Native American Heritage Month and Native American Heritage Day (even though both were last month, ik I’m very late to the party 😭).

I myself don’t have one iota of Native American blood, so I had to do lots of research to make it look accurate to the tribe that her whole new look is based on while taking a few creative liberties. So I apologize to anyone who is part of the Hopi tribe or part of some other Native American tribe if Tippi’s design doesn’t look the greatest. 

However, I would love it if some of y’all would kindly comment or dm me on how I should fix my design if I somehow screwed something up. I don’t want to come off as disrespecting your culture at all, so don’t be afraid to tell me your honest opinion on it so I can learn how to improve my design.

The tribe I based Tippi’s new human design on is the Hopi Tribe. The butterfly is seen as a positive and comforting symbol within a lot of Native American tribes, and it’s very prominent within the Hopi Tribe. Since Tippi takes the form of a butterfly when she’s a Pixl throughout the entirety of Super Paper Mario, I thought it would make sense to base her on that tribe. The butterfly represents change and balance, and they have a kachina (spirit) based around it in their mythology.

The kachina is called the Polik-mana, or Butterfly Maiden. The Butterfly Maiden was one of the main inspirations for Tippi’s human redesign. According to the Hopi Tribe, the Butterfly Maiden is said to pollinate the fields and flowers and give rain to the Arizona Desert once spring rolls around. There’s even a whole traditional dance based around the kachina called the Butterfly Dance, where the young girls of the tribe basically give thanks to the Maiden for her spring dance.

Her necklace is inspired by a cute Hopi necklace I found on Google, but her earrings aren’t really inspired by anything, I kinda just made them up myself. Her dress is heavily inspired by the manta, which is a traditional knee-length garment that the women of the Hopi Tribe wear. At first, I wanted to draw her hair in squash blossom buns, which is the traditional Hopi hairstyle, but I settled on leaving her hair down to match her silhouette at the end of Super Paper Mario.

And ik this is super random, but I would also like to include a few headcanon voice actors that I think would suit the role of Tippi if Super Paper Mario was fully voice-acted like Sunshine. I kind of came up with this while digitally drawing the picture, so sorry for how random and out of place this is, I’m just currently bored out of my mind lol;

• Voice Actor: Christine Marie Cabanos - Voice Inspiration: Filia (Skullgirls)

• Voice Actor: Nicole Oliver - Voice Inspiration: Princess Celestia (MLP: FiM) or Queen Calissa (Barbie in a Mermaid Tale)

• Voice Actor: Stephanie Sheh - Voice Inspiration: Kayo Hinazuki (Erased) or Flora (All 3 of the Winx Club Movies)

• Voice Actor: Irene Bedard - Voice Inspiration: Pocahontas (Pocahontas 1995)

• Voice Actor: Cree Summer - Voice Inspiration: Kidagakash “Kida” Nekdah (Atlantis: The Lost Empire)

I imagine Tippi having a collected, soft-spoken, but serious-sounding voice, which is why I chose these voice actresses and some of the characters they voice as inspiration.

🌈 ✨ 🦋 ✨ 🌈

[smugcuddz]

Woah it’s that origami king man again!!!!! (I can’t stop drawing him) 👑✨ ~~~~

[angelfoodscake]

bomberto

[starburstdragon]

I’m feeling the appreciation for the Paper Mario series tonight. (I know Doopliss isn’t a party member like the others, but you must understand that he is very shaped)

[lotus-pear]

finally got around to doing 2/5 of the color palette requests :')

[maddiebrj]

Lineless Art Practice

[hyliabeilschmidt]

"Just as no one can ease the tempest that rages in my suffering heart.."

I really like @peachiecure 's Blumiere design

[chaossmith2]

Bobbery being the only party member who doesn't fall asleep during Luigi's stories was always such a nice detail to me lol

I would headcanon it's because he loved to listen/share tall tales with his crew to pass the time during his sailing days

[spritesitrus]

my little guys <3

I've been meaning to actually draw Huey for a while after playing Color Splash a few months back and I have been replaying Odyssey as of late so I drew Cappy too

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pmtok x splatoon

fanged flingza

[sammywolfgirl]

Artfight attacks so far!

[forksthousands]

mayreeo sketches!!! i am firmly of the mind that smb characters look best either as real-ass people or lil bean fellas a la paper mario or superstar saga

[smugcuddz]

An older doodle of the SILLIEST French guy 🎨(This account will slowly be taken over by my stationery gijinkas, be prepared)