CUPdate 96: Return to Mr Marcus World

To take a break between projects, my brother and I spent a day just doing random activities with our characters. One in particular that we call Return to Mr Marcus World. It's where we do various prompts with our characters in different mediums.

The first one we did was sculpting our characters in Donkey Kong Bananza! I started with Pigger.

Then I sculpted Cimc.

After that, we went back to our animation roots with Mario Paint. I made a little animated sequence of Doge and Ted eating a snack of Oreos together.

Then I used more of the copying frames features with the next animation. This is from Mikey's perspective where he thinks Gojo is his best friend.

The next activity was drawing pixel art versions of Hannah and Subeebia in the style of old Pokemon Red/Blue sprites with the same limited palettes.

Then continuing along with the Pokemon theme was Pokemon fusions between two characters. The first one was Mooth fused with Spectrier.

Then I drew Scott fused with Lombre.

So we did all of these on a Saturday after finishing Macca Masquerade, and it was fun to just do some little low-key drawings and things that didn't have to fit into anything. These kinds of projects always help rejuvenate me and keep me feeling creative.

Gen 8 Doodles

With lots of Pokemon news and the game coming out later this year, I did some doodles related to gen 8!

I figured I would doodle some Gen 8 starter evolution predictions before it's too late. I'm guessing they're gonna be class-themed to go along with the Sword/Shield fantasy theme.

There was a lot of cool stuff in the Pokemon announcement trailer, and I'm pretty excited that they're bringing back new region-exclusive forms. Galarian Linoone looks pretty cool.

Movie Fanart Sketches

Some recent fanart I've done after watching movies!

I saw Detective Pikachu awhile back and really enjoyed it! It's definitely my new favorite video game to live action movie adaptation. So here's Mr. Detective Pikachu himself for FanArt Friday!

I rewatched Code Geass to prepare for the new movie in May, and I'm remembering how good of a character Lelouch is!

Gen 8 Drawings

Some recent Pokemon drawings I did after watching the Pokemon Direct! Perfect timing, considering E3 showed some cool stuff yesterday too.

I'm gonna have to wait to see the final evolutions, but right now I'm kinda leaning towards Scorbunny.

Corviknight was my favorite new Pokemon that they revealed at the Pokemon Direct earlier in the month.

Fun Times at Work

I've been able to do a bunch of little sketches at work during some of our workshops and other various activities!

We had to design a mech off of an object, so I chose bubble tea! This is a flying airship basically that runs off of bubble tea. I took some reference from the machines that make bubble tea.

We did some learning at work when I first started and I got to learn about how to make a DnD character and some other things! So much fun.

Old Forgotten Posts of 7 Years: Part 1

So I was looking through my Blogger drafts and realized there were a lot of blog posts I started, but never actually published. This goes as far back as February 2018! So I decided to shed light on some of those old drafts that never got published so I could clean out my drafts. Be ready for some old content that could be up to 7 years old! I'm breaking this out into a few posts so it can be by year essentially.

I made this post live in 2025, but I set its publish date back in 2019 for authenticity. 

More Character Interactions! (January 8, 2019)

I've been enjoying drawing multiple characters interacting recently.

So this was what happened with Lonny and Topaz while they were playing video games in Shelter 128.

Nay Collabs (January 7, 2019)

I did a few collabs with my brother, where we drew our characters wearing clothes fitting for the background environments.

The first finished one was in a snowy environment!

Various Sketchbook Doodles (October 13, 2018)

Sketchbook drawings that I never uploaded here!

Inspirational Music Mania Drawings (September 14, 2018)

It's been awhile since I've just sat and listened to music for a long time while sketching.

One of the best ways to motivate me is to listen to inspirational music while sketching my characters.

So I blasted some of my favorite songs and just sketched my characters for an hour.

Pokemon Drawings (September 13, 2018)

I was gone for a few months, and when I come back, my parents are able to name off a bunch of the Pokemon that they know from Pokemon Go. 

So I sketched the next one in my on-going draw every Pokemon project!

Here's a quick Togepi drawing!

Lists, lists, lists! (September 11, 2018)

I LOVE making lists of games I've played and ranking them in excel, but I decided to create a more visual version of one of those that I could share. This was really fun, so I'd love to do more of these in the future (and add to it whenever I play new games).

These are all of the games that I've played from 2016!

Comic (June 5, 2018)

Here's another comic page! I drew that first panel awhile ago back when I was still doing strips instead of pages, but I went ahead and drew the whole page now. Last time I worked on the comic, I also roughed out the whole first chapter, so it was much easier to draw this page with a layout already in place. And Zandra and JrTr have finally been officially introduced as of this page!

Art Trades (May 3, 2018)

Recent art trades I've done with other people!

It's been 3 years since I did an art trade, so I decided to change that and participate in one over on deviantART! This is DoodlerBee's OC, Raven. You can read up more on their character here.

Nays Clothes Chambers (April 9, 2018)

This was a fun project that was based on an old one. We would pair The Nays up randomly and they had to draw themselves wearing the clothes of another Nay. I also used a brush that had more of a traditional feel to it, since we used to always do this original project on paper.

This was round 1 of the first four!

Yu Yugi Chan King Z - Continued! (March 11, 2018)

Recently I decided to continue the Revival of Yu Yugi Chan King Z project, so I did some more drawings!

So this was part of the Revival of Yu Yugi Chan King Z project that we started with The Nays a few months back. For this activity, Rabiah had to join an IRC server and ask for a request/pose that Satsuto would be in (since he was the character assigned from Scott). Shout out to the people of #BDI*OOC on DarkMyst for coming up with this idea to have him washing dishes with an apron on over his ninja gear! This was a fun little activity and went a lot more smoothly than I was expecting!

Pixel Art (February 7, 2018)

I decided to do some quick little pixel art drawings of my characters since I've been working in GameMaker recently.

A run cycle of Piko.

 

Conclusion

And that's it for now! I have even more old posts to show, so that'll be for next time. I hope you enjoyed seeing these lost posts that never became public until now. Stay tuned for the next post!

Digicember: Greninja & Rosalina + Luma

Here are more Digicember drawings!

Digicember Day 15: Scott & Punchy as Greninja

Digicember Day 16: Vhan & Mar as Rosalina & Luma

Digicember: Pichu & MegaMan

Some Digicember drawings!

Digicember Day 14: Jibu & Zitca as Megaman

Digicember Day 13: Goatmilk & Cimc as Pichu

Pokemon Fusions

For this activity, the Nay would use a random number generator to find a number. That number coordinates with a Pokemon that they must draw themselves fused with.

Doge as a Walrein


Clove as Passimian

Pokemon Fanart

Some Pokemon fanart!

Some of the original unused Pokemon Gold/Silver designs got leaked. I took this opportunity to draw four of my favorites!

Here's Cleffa!

Chinchou & Lanturn

I've been playing Pokemon recently, so I decided to do some sketches of them.

Here's the next Pokemon in order for that Pokemon of the Day project I've been continually doing.

Lanturn's shape was really hard to draw for whatever reason.

Top 10 Games of 2017

It's finally done! I started this in 2017, but it took longer than I expected, so I finished it in 2018.

But these are my top 10 favorite games from 2017. There are still a few games I haven't tried yet that I really want to, but this is this list from what I have played. Overall it was a very good year for games. My top 4 of this year are probably ranked very high on my list of best games of all time, so that's saying something!

And here's a quick process for a few of the images:

The sketch!

The lineart!

The final!

Pokemon Week!

Since Pokemon Ultra Sun came out on Friday, and I went to see the new Pokemon movie in theaters on Tuesday, this has been a bit of a Pokemon week! So naturally I drew some Pokemon.

169: Crobat

725: Litten
(skipped ahead a few hundred)

Pokemon & Digimon

There's that rare occasion where I actually feel like drawing fanart sometimes.

It's been awhile since I drew any Pokemon, so here's a Mismagius!

Purchase this design as a T-Shirt & More here!!

Since :devnimbusstev: started playing Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth again, I got back into a Digimon mood. Gabumon's always been my favorite.

Mr Marcus World 2.0!

Me and my brother decided to do a Nay Event, and since the Return to Mr Marcus World was the most fun one we've done in awhile, we decided to do a modified version of it. Here is the post where I talked about this event initially. 

Rather than posting all of the events in one post, I'm going to split it up into a few posts. This post will include all of the various ones that didn't have very great results, but were fun to do.

Mr Marcus World Tests! 

Basically they had to draw from random prompts like a family member or friend, which were chosen by picking a random card from another separate deck of cards.

Kicky drew his partner for the event: Chozu!

Ralphie had to draw his favorite World Leader, so he chose Arashi.

Pokemon Fusions!

For this activity, we used a random number generator to pick a number between 1 and 802. That number corresponded to the Pokemon's number from the National Dex. From there, the Nay would have to be fused with whichever Pokemon was chosen. Some interesting ones were chosen.

Kai fused with Silcoon

Rabiah fused with Purugly

Oekaki Drawing with the Mouse!

A very difficult activity. We had to draw on this Oekaki Board (which limits the file dimensions to 300x300 pixels), using only the mouse to draw. The prompts were chosen from this site, using a random number generator to randomize the prompts.

Piko had to draw himself with live snakes in his pocket.

Amber had to draw herself at her desk with everything that's on it.

Blind Drawings!

This one was quite a challenge. We had to keep a pure black layer at 99% opacity at the top of the file and draw the partner on a layer beneath. So it was very difficult to see where you had left off last, meaning it is basically drawing blind, ESPECIALLY for the colors.

Pun had to draw Scroll

Johnny had to draw Vhan

Left-Handed Challenge!

Just as the title says, this challenge I had to draw using my left hand. I'm right-handed, so it was very challenging!

Pubby drew himself

Mikey drew himself

Illust Maker Portraits!
The Nays had to recreate themselves using this Illust Maker website. I used to ALWAYS use this site when I was in grade school, and I'm surprised it's still around. But this was a funny little event.

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