Paper Paratroopa

Well, here it is. At last.
According to my first journal about this picture, the date was about a month ago. Has it been that long? O_O Granted, I wasn't working at a continuous pace, more like on/off each day. But I strived for excellency in style, and I've finally completed it.

This, if you may or may not know, is me trying to replicate the shading style used in Paper Mario. While looking at the original arts and renders for Paper Mario 2, I noticed a pattern with the shading. "This looks like I could replicate this in a vector tool," I thought to myself. If you hunt around the internet you can see the edges of the shapes inside the Paper Mario character renders (especially with Bobbery and Koops) are tinted differently in a thin layer close to their insides.

I tried to do the same thing while basing visually off of an old Nintendo render of a paratroopa. (NOT TRACED, mind you, this was all done by myself.)

Now I am very satisfied with the results. I love this look: it's so crisp, so nice, and it still has my drawing technique look to it. I hope to use this in many of my future drawings, because I'm totally happy with the end product.

Thanks to *ChemicalAlia and *nishi for giving me various pointers and for the mentoring.

Full view is very recommended!