I finished TTYD everything. When I visited Fahr Outpost, this composition immediately came to mind. I wanted to see what it would look like for my friends to take a break in a warm place. I finished this illustration in 4 hours and 30 minutes.
As anyone whos unfortunate enough to have known me as a child can vouch for, Paper Mario TTYD is my favorite game of all time. and its not even close. This game means more to me than i can even put into words, Every major life struggle ive been through, this is the game I can always rely on to bring me that sense of inner childlike joy that can be so hard to find these days.
Anyway. Ive always wanted to do a painting for this game, yet always struggled on subject and finding the right "time' i guess.
This is the biggest painting ive ever done, with 6 months of work, and around 60 characters, it was a massive endevor and im glad i managed to finish it.
Please play the remake when it come out, if you can. do yourself the favor of experiencing this magical game.
(separate images of each partner and rambling under the cut)
How is everyone liking TTYD Switch so far? This is something I wanted to finish by the game's release date, but I ended up putting more effort into it than I expected and it took much longer than I bargained for (plus I've been playing the game in my free time). Anyways, Paper Mario TTYD is one of my favorite games of all time and I really wanted to do something special for the remake/remaster (still haven't seen a clear consensus on what to call it), so I drew Mario with all his partners. Yoshi Kid is my favorite but I've grown fond of all of them over the years, so it was really fun figuring out how to draw them (most of them for the first time!)
I ended up drawing all the partners in full despite the fact most of them are hidden by Mario or others, so here's all the partners separately! Fun fact: all of them are holding the Crystal Star obtained in their respective chapter except Goombella and Ms. Mowz, since Goombella is from the prologue and Ms. Mowz doesn't have her own chapter. I figured Ms. Mowz should get the titular Crystal Star since I placed her in the center.
It's still so surreal to me that this game got released on the Switch at all. I know people sing praises for this game all the time but it really is a fantastic game imo, and it makes me so happy seeing others get to experience it themselves for the first time. TTYD has inspired me in so many ways and is really important to me; I hope I was able to express that through my art.
To my favorite Mario game of all time. Thank you Nintendo for the childhood you gave me in Christmas of 2004. And thank you for having me recapture that feeling with a beautiful remake.