#retroquarium 2020 2021 archive

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OLD HIGH SCHOOL MOTHER SERIES SKETCHES JUMPSCARE

(there's a lot so I'll put them under the cut you got lucky)

I like explaining things too much so each of these will have notes on them in their descriptions :)

these first ones I originally put on twitter, everything underneath is stuff I've never posted

yippee!!

there's still some sketches but that seems like overkill right now, maybe one day they'll be shown

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I was looking through my old high school sketches and found the first time I drew the Earthbound and Mother 3 casts lmao

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I want to start posting some of my old Mother art from like 2020-2021 for archival purposes since I posted most of this on twitter a while back and if twitter keeps going downhill well I won't be there anymore lmao

I really wanna redraw this one, I love the concept and it would be fun to see the differences now :D

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continuing the archive with one of my favorite girls

this one's still cute :)

since I did these in class and had access to photoshop I made other color variations that I'll put under the cut

these colors were based on the Happy Happy cult

a nice pink pallet

and oversaturation

colors are fun :)

plus these could probably be used for a piece for her with a fun pallet

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the concept of leaving your humanity behind to save the world is such a terrifying one, especially for someone so young

anyway we love the 2020-2021 archive :)

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I did NOT realize how much 2020-2021 Mother backlog I had to archive, so I'm gonna do my best to split it up while still giving each its own attention

these guys are honestly still adorable and hold up pretty well with my headcanons today. I love the giygas beateruppers + tony <3

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face your fears

this was honestly a cool concept from younger me, maybe it'd be worth revisiting

this should be the final digital Mother art from this archive, I have some pencil sketches I'd like to share too because 2020-2021 me was obsessed with only drawing Mother art lmao

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LET'S KEEP GOING WITH THE 2020-2021 ARCHIVE WHOOOOOO

there's a LOT to unpack with this one

made this as part of my Mother AU that explains how all of the games are connected. I like the concept and I plan on revisiting it later on, especially since I want to explain more of my AU this year :D

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more archive!! but this time I'm gonna use it for a bit of a comparison :)

the first one is from 2020 and the second is from 2023

I like my Lucas headcanon and seeing how he and my art have evolved :D

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I seriously underestimated the amount of archiving I had to do, and now with the potential tiktok ban?

hey at least I have things to post

I got to play around with Illustrator in class (if you couldn't tell, all of these digital archives are from a computer art class I had in high school) and made this. As with most of these, this could be fun to revisit :)

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LET'S FINISH THE 2020-2021 ARCHIVE TODAY (at least the digital stuff)

yeah I have a few more archive posts to make but I'll finish the digital ones today

anyway here's one of my favorite mushrooms and butterflies :)

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2020-2021 archive continues, this time with my version of the Mani Mani Statue

this was my first attempt at more realistic lighting and shading digitally as well as a slight redesign of this damn thing. I think it should be more menacing looking

I have SO much to share about this thing but maybe I'll save that for another time teehee

extras under the cut

I like the idea of its eyes shining the same color as Ness's, makes more sense as to why it wormed its way into his mind

I remember this thing took me a while so I did doodles on the side and I think they're cute :)

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MORE 2020-2021 ARCHIVE!!1!

this time's Giygas. I think it's neat when people combine aspects of Gieuge into his design as Giygas so boom

more variations under the cut bc this was done when I was bored in class and was messing around with photoshop

these colors are kinda kickass, if I draw this fuck again it'd be fun to reference these old ones

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continuing the 2020-2021 archive with these boys

they were actually a redraw from a piece I did like a few months before, so here's that too

still pretty cute and kind of impressive to me now since I did these both with a mouse lmao

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while going through these to archive I realized I did a lot more earthbound art than mother 3 art in 2021, so here's some more mother 3 art

This would be fun to revisit :D nothing like a boy having a bad trip on shrooms and imagining his whole family hates him