confusion
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pokémon. abra using confusion. abra scanned from pokémon card in the team rocket expansion. confusion effect created with gradient, shading, and the crafty use of curvy lines.

abra
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pokémon. same abra, different background. background balls taken from random internet images.

gir
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invader zim. gir against blue. couldn't figure out a decent background. may revisit eventually. gir taken from random internet image.

way of the samurai
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samurai champloo. mugen and jin. straight trace of screenshot from the opener. changed a major setting after completing the image; could look better.

how sweet
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mai-hime. natsuki and alyssa. picture taken from mai-hime manga; altered slightly by vexed fusion on shoujo-ai.com forums. dropped miyu from fusion's edit; couldn't make it fit the style.

hunter - black and white
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metroid. samus. i like high contrast images. scanned from nintendo power walkthrough of metroid: zero mission.

hunter - varia
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metroid. samus. get equipped with varia suit. palette swap of previous.

hunter - gravity
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metroid. samus. get equipped with gravity suit. palette swap of previous.

hunter - phazon
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metroid. samus. get equipped with phazon poisoning. palette swap of previous. wrong style suit for phazon coloring. oh, well.

mmm, eggs
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pokémon. togepi. straight trace of pokémon card in the ex team rocket returns expansion.

bowser's dungeon
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super mario brothers. mario and luigi. scanned from a super princess peach comic that came with a japanese nintendo ds magazine.

hai!
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fate/stay night. saber. scanned from a japanese fate/stay night manga. she was originally saying 'hai!', but i left that out. i don't like the way the colors turned out, but i didn't feel like i could get it any better than this.

stalker in blue - high contrast
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darkstalkers. felicia. trace of a scan i found on the internet a couple years or so ago. don't know the original artist. going for simplicity with this one. high contrast and minimal colors.

stalker in blue - pastel
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darkstalkers. felicia. same as previous. this coloring is closer to the original sketch, though quite a bit lighter.

mario, pokémon, and metroid belong to nintendo. invader zim belongs to jhonen vasquez. mai-hime belongs to sunrise. samurai champloo belongs to manglobe. fate/stay night belongs to type-moon. darkstalkers belongs to capcom. all images vectored by yours truly. images made with adobe illustrator cs.
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