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All right, here's something a bit new. Some more Captain N RESET baloney for your sammiches.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I've come to accept something. You look around Deviantart or any other art site, or at any artist's work, and you'll find a lot of art that's digitally colored. I hate to say it, because I know I'm going to offend SOMEONE, but it all looks so fake. So manufactured. Only a talented few can really make digital colors look like it was hand-painted, and even then, they're only putting in half the necessery effort. In short, I think CG art is overrated.
So what I'm getting at here is that I finally went and bought some Prismacolors. Fucking expensive. After that, I started coloring some of my pictures with them, experimenting with different color chemistry. And... you know something? Pencil or markers or paint is more rewarding than digital paint programs. After you do a great job coloring them by hand rather than by mouse, you feel like you've leveled up your artistic skill. It's far more rewarding, more authentic, and miles more artistic.

That's not to say that CG coloring or CG artwork is bad or worthless, but I just think that coloring by hand is better. The payoff is better, at least. Plus, with Photoshop, any jerkoff or hack can call himself an "artist." Countless times I've seen pictures that look like they were drawn by little kids but inked and colored in Photoshop to look nicer.

It's just as they say: you put a tuxedo on a donkey, the only thing you get is a fancy ass.

You take away the fancy CG and graphics, etc., and you'll see shit for what it is. Drawing, inking, and coloring by hand are much more rewarding for real artists, like , while computer art (while it's fantastic in the right hands) almost by itself generates untalented hacks like .
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Anyway, back to Captain N.
Everyone remembers Jill, Ken, and Sonic. Few really recall Aero, Mark, and Edmund, so I'll explain them instead.
Edmund is the nameless hero in Faxanadu for NES. I decided that it would be great for the N Team to visit the World Tree, but since the hero had no name, I went and named him after one of the four kids from Chronicles of Narnia.
Mark is from Monster Party. If you've seen him in some of my other artwork, you'd probably have already known that. He is also one seriously messed-up kid.
And Aero. We probably remember him, somewhat, as a Sonic clone. I do hope I've shed that shell of his, basing him more on his behavior from his second game. (Just so you know, he's actually kind of a jerk.)

All these guys show up at some point or another, and I hope to use them all in ways that aren't... lackluster, or rushed.

Description
All right, here's something a bit new. Some more Captain N RESET baloney for your sammiches.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I've come to accept something. You look around Deviantart or any other art site, or at any artist's work, and you'll find a lot of art that's digitally colored. I hate to say it, because I know I'm going to offend SOMEONE, but it all looks so fake. So manufactured. Only a talented few can really make digital colors look like it was hand-painted, and even then, they're only putting in half the necessery effort. In short, I think CG art is overrated.
So what I'm getting at here is that I finally went and bought some Prismacolors. Fucking expensive. After that, I started coloring some of my pictures with them, experimenting with different color chemistry. And... you know something? Pencil or markers or paint is more rewarding than digital paint programs. After you do a great job coloring them by hand rather than by mouse, you feel like you've leveled up your artistic skill. It's far more rewarding, more authentic, and miles more artistic.

That's not to say that CG coloring or CG artwork is bad or worthless, but I just think that coloring by hand is better. The payoff is better, at least. Plus, with Photoshop, any jerkoff or hack can call himself an "artist." Countless times I've seen pictures that look like they were drawn by little kids but inked and colored in Photoshop to look nicer.

It's just as they say: you put a tuxedo on a donkey, the only thing you get is a fancy ass.

You take away the fancy CG and graphics, etc., and you'll see shit for what it is. Drawing, inking, and coloring by hand are much more rewarding for real artists, like , while computer art (while it's fantastic in the right hands) almost by itself generates untalented hacks like .
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Anyway, back to Captain N.
Everyone remembers Jill, Ken, and Sonic. Few really recall Aero, Mark, and Edmund, so I'll explain them instead.
Edmund is the nameless hero in Faxanadu for NES. I decided that it would be great for the N Team to visit the World Tree, but since the hero had no name, I went and named him after one of the four kids from Chronicles of Narnia.
Mark is from Monster Party. If you've seen him in some of my other artwork, you'd probably have already known that. He is also one seriously messed-up kid.
And Aero. We probably remember him, somewhat, as a Sonic clone. I do hope I've shed that shell of his, basing him more on his behavior from his second game. (Just so you know, he's actually kind of a jerk.)

All these guys show up at some point or another, and I hope to use them all in ways that aren't... lackluster, or rushed.