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This week’s newsletter is from a familiar contributor known as Corylus, with more great artwork to share!

Cubone art and sprite by Corylus

Corylus, Germany

I'd like to share some fanart with you: A custom Carddass of Cubone + pixel art. I already created a few custom Carddass cards, but pixel art is something new for me. I directly used the sprite of Cubone from Pocket Monsters Red & Green as a reference and modeled the sprite after my illustration. Ken Sugimori had the opposite situation, where he modeled his illustrations after the sprite work. While I am not sure if I captured the style of the original Game Boy games convincingly, I think I did a decent job for my first time.

It’s a pleasure to hear from you again, Corylus! Thanks for sharing your awesome Cubone artwork. If I wasn’t already familiar with Carddass design I would have thought this was official! You did a wonderful job on both the art and sprite. Please continue to keep up the great work you’re doing.

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