Edit: Wallpaper Pack of Peach without all those pesky cards in front of her available on my site: [link]
For 's Super Mario fanart contest to promote his killer new book Pipe Dreams: Tale of 2 Plumbers [link] Mario fans, go check that out now. Don't worry, I'll wait.
Back? Cool, let's continue with the artist's comments!
As soon as I saw the entry about doing something Mario-themed I knew I needed to do a Mushroom Kingdom-themed pinup. It seemed criminal that I've been playing Mario games since the NES came out but I've never drawn the Mushroom Kingdom crew. I initially was just going to do something of Daisy and Peach posing together with "conveniently placed" mushrooms, but I decided that was too obvious. After letting the idea of a Peach pinup percolate for a few days, I came up with the idea of merging the pinup with the card-matching bonus game from Super Mario 3. [link] So I redrew the setting based on some screenshots. The line/coloring style is a nod to the artstyle from Super Princess Peach [link]
(Yes, I know that the background is black when you play the matching game and that the instructions are no longer on screen at that point, but this worked better and made it so the picture could be in poster dimensions.)
Enjoy!
PS: Anyone interested in a background of just Peach? I'm thinking of popping that up on the website this week. _______________________________________________ Art (c) K. Lebak, 2011 Kabukikatze.com Princess Peach, Super Mario 3, etc (c) Nintendo
Enjoy it, share it, download it! Just don't make money from it.
I'm interested in that.