Recently, I've been doing a lot of game research due to some ideas I've been having. I tried to think of a different look for one of my games and for some reason, Yoshi's Island was the first thing that came to my mind. I've been thinking about it a lot this week and this ended up on paper pretty quickly.

I loved the look of that game. Everything looked like sketches. I actually used to draw Yoshi comics somewhere between primary and secondary school (though our system is different with ages...) They were actually pretty long, and the story was more or less "Something happened! Fight the bad guys while getting from A to B!" In other words, horrible. Now, I find it understandeble that I stopped drawing Yoshi ages ago. It wasn't like with Mario (who's facial proportians still baffle me) that I simply couldn't draw him. Nope, Yoshi was just... boring.

However! The look they made for him before the "new" 3D Yoshi came along gave me the opportunity to test out this style. The way everything lookes messy and hand-drawn or painted, it's really fun to work with. Probably won't do any more comics though, I have a little pride left yet.

Oh, and if you're wondering: The mouths on the small Yoshi's supposed to be bent like that. I kind of did a mix of Yoshi's Island art and Super Mario World. There were no baby Yoshi's in Island so I looked at a bunch of official art from World and the small ones had crooked mouths. I'm guessing they would step away from the flat nosed look they had if they had made an update of them.