Apr 28 2008Is This What A Real Bowser Would Look Like?
After all the interest in the realistic Mario, Homer, and Jessica Rabbit, German artist Marcus Blättermann decided to create a realistic looking Bowser by painting him in Photoshop.
Some weeks ago Pixeloo did his great untoonings of Mario and Homer. This inspired me to try something similar. Like Pixeloo I also wanted to use Photoshop. But I didn't wanted to use any Photos. I just wanted to paint the whole thing. In Addition I not just wanted to lay a realistic texture over the original figure, but to rework the forms and proportions as well, to get the whole creature a more realistic look. This isn't a untooning of bowser, it's a redesign. How would he look like if he would be a real animal.
Not bad. Kind of reminds me of Tokka from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze. Anybody else getting that? Say, is anybody else gonna get the damn door? I'm trying to blog here. I swear I hate all my freaking roommates. They just run around naked like a bunch of little kids and eat all my damn snacks. It's like living back at home again. Oh. Right. MOM! CAN YOU PLEASE DRAG YOUR ASS AWAY FROM THE SOAP OPERAS FOR TWO SECONDS AND ANSWER THE DAMN DOOR! Oh look, your youngest son is shitting on the carpet again. I TOLD YOU HE'S BEEN STEALING MY SNACK PACKS.
Two more close-ups after the jump.
realistically painted boswer [essenmitsosse]
Thanks to Brendan, who could make turtle soup out of Bowser, for the tip
Reader Comments
1. Jonny S - April 28, 2008 2:04 PM
Looks actually pretty good not some bastardized abomination.
2. David - April 28, 2008 2:06 PM
No, no it isn't.
3. Manda - April 28, 2008 2:20 PM
Decent...but a little to T-Rex for my taste.
4. SmokingGirl - April 28, 2008 3:03 PM
Poor Boswer. If he had been during the Jurassic era, then he certainly would have been attacked and killed by a morading herd of raptors. I think it would have been the arm-band that did him in.
Raptor: Look at the douche wih the arm-band
Raptor 2: Totally...let's eat him.
Raptor: I'm going to go hide over here...you go over there behind that bush, and tell Megatron to make like a ninja and scurry up a tree.
Raptor 2: Who is Megatron and what's a ninja?
Raptor: I don't know, just roll with it.
*raptors then proceed to ambush Boswer, go for the jugular and his bowels, and he dies while repeating over and over again that he'll now never get Mario*
Raptor 2: Who is Mario?
Raptor: Dude, I don't know, just shut up and eat.
Raptor 2: I feel the urge to collect coins in my basement all the while going "pew, pew".
Raptor: I feel the urge to collect mushrooms of various colours.
Raptor 2: Trippy man...trippy.
*spurting blood insues as the two raptors enjoy their kill*
Raptor 2: Pew, Pew, Pew...
Raptor: Stop it, seriously.
Raptor 2: Pew?
Raptor: Don't make me kill you.
Raptor 2: Ping, ping, ping, pi...
*raptor proceeds to eat raptor 2*
And that is extremely historically acurate. Don't question my authority.
5. Corpsemuffin - April 28, 2008 3:06 PM
wow i want one now
6. bryan - April 28, 2008 3:13 PM
How tall is bowser suppose to be?
@smoking girl, you were funny... till you kept going on with the pew pew.
7. SmokingGirl - April 28, 2008 3:18 PM
I had to kill off Raptor2 or else it would have been very anticlimatic. Again, don't question me...I am a writer. *neener, neener*
8. Angel - April 28, 2008 3:20 PM
Stop comparing him with a T. Rex! regarding the similarities, he is clearly a Bowserceratops
9. Grover - April 28, 2008 4:01 PM
It's alive! It's huge!
10. bryan - April 28, 2008 6:16 PM
your right smoking girl. next make raptor one explode since he ate his only friend.
11. Sev - April 28, 2008 6:34 PM
Dude, I totally remember owning Tokka and Rahzard (sp?) In Ninja Turtles 4: Turtles in Time!! One of the best games ever... ; D
12. Holy Crap! - April 29, 2008 12:54 AM
The snote is a bit off to me, but otherwise I like it a lot.
13. Scott - April 29, 2008 9:39 AM
Hmmm, I always thought he was a member of a 50's greaser band! Live and learn...
Goodnight sweetheart now it's time to go, Bu buddu bu boo....
14. Eric - June 1, 2008 3:32 PM
Wow! that looks like a real bowser, Iook at those teeth, I don't want to be his dentist!