When I was about 11 or 12, myself and 2 friends made a wildly derivative Top Trumps/Pokemon card game called (for some reason) Rakafikimon.
I found the cards last year and decided, as an illustration exercise, to work up each character into a fully illustrated design and maybe make myself a whole new pack of Rakafikimon.
The original plan was to spend no longer than an hour on the new designs, although some of them ended up taking a lot longer as I got really into them.
The originals were illustrated in Microsoft Paint – the new ones are Photoshop paintings.
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Thanks very much! Glad you like them!
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Very imaginative and excellent recreations of the original. Do I detect some inspiration from Pokemon in some of these? Very well done :)
Haha yea it was right around the height of the Pokemon card phenomenon. Glad you enjoyed them!
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It may have taken 20 years to illustrate just how scary those monster were. Where's Sully when you need him? When a kid says that he saw a monster, the cute little innocent looking monsters his parents see are not the monsters he sees. A job well done. I'll bet the night my brother wouldn't open his mouth and kept say "There's a fly in my mouth" through his clenched teeth seemed just as awful and scary to him. It took my parents a while to figure out what he was saying. I slept through the whole thing. My monsters couldn't even wake me up.
Thanks very much! Glad you like them!
Load More Replies... Very imaginative and excellent recreations of the original. Do I detect some inspiration from Pokemon in some of these? Very well done :)
Haha yea it was right around the height of the Pokemon card phenomenon. Glad you enjoyed them!
Load More Replies... It may have taken 20 years to illustrate just how scary those monster were. Where's Sully when you need him? When a kid says that he saw a monster, the cute little innocent looking monsters his parents see are not the monsters he sees. A job well done. I'll bet the night my brother wouldn't open his mouth and kept say "There's a fly in my mouth" through his clenched teeth seemed just as awful and scary to him. It took my parents a while to figure out what he was saying. I slept through the whole thing. My monsters couldn't even wake me up.
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