Wednesday, October 27, 2010

8-Bit Calavera



This is my piece for the 8-Bit Calavera show. I tried to loosely tie into the death theme by thinking about what happens to patients in Dr. Mario if you lose a round. Do they die? Just stay sick? ...Or does Dr. Mario even have any patients? I think the plumber's legal ability to practice medicine has been in question ever since the game debuted. At any rate, Dr. Mario is one of my favorites so I decided to draw the virus characters from the game and display them by cutting a special skull-shaped mat for the front of the cartridge.

Here's the digital artwork of the viruses for a better look:

4 comments:

Lawrence Hugh Burns said...

yes!! the viruses are some of my favorite characters in the Mario universe. Smart thinking with the mat too, I love this one.

Jules said...

Love it! Simple, clean, and awesome.

jim bradshaw said...

Very fun idea.

pw! said...

wow that came out superb

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