Backlog Art #30- MOTHER

I had a set idea for this one, thanks to someone in chat. Thankfully I managed to find a way to make it work.

In the credit sequence, there's one scene where Ana (who I named Bruss) got a letter from Ninten (named Blue on stream). Included was a picture of him with a goofy-ass smile. This is the scene I recreated.

I apparently misread Ana's sprite as her having a beanie, instead of the fancy lil hat. Since she's from Winter, the town that is set in the winter season, I felt it was appropriate to keep that idea. I also took her hair style from her sprite, but the rest of her design I got from looking at official art of her. Despite living in cold weather, apparently she wears a dress. That's the equivalent of wearing short sleeves and shorts in freezing weather, except it's one item.

The picture she's fawning over (what a shocker) is the original idea for this completion art. There is a picture called the Solway Firth Spaceman, so famed because it looks like there's an astronaut in the background. Speculation indicates that it was actually the back of the wife of the photographer, just heavily exposed. The Tv Tropes main page for EarthBound, under the Expy trope, states that the Starmen enemies are based on this exact picture, which is a spooky thought. This is what I wanted to emulate.

I took some small ideas for Ninten's design from his official art, mostly the hair and the way the hat looks. I also likened his smile to be similar to how some smiles in the Peanuts comics and animations look. All wiggly. Naturally, the starman has to be there as well, just to bring it all home. Don't ask why he's smiling goofily when he is in immediate danger.

Ana is in her little church house thingymabob, explaining the background. It isn't much, but it didn't need much.

On the effects (and the zoomed-in picture), I gave them a white outline. This is so that they will stand out.