The Gamer Series - The lil Italian Plumber

As i said, i try something new in this days so i began "The gamer series" - Still, i will need time between every picture coz my real life needs to be ordert right. I have not so much time to draw or like, next to this i sometimes feel pretty down.

So ok here we are with i guess "the" video game character, the lil italian Plumber - Mario.
Now people will wonder maybe after all the words i said, why i drawn Mario at the first place? Mario is more or less just a "dude", the "random" video game character with a pretty big mustache. I put him into the series coz not he is just "awesome". If im that honest, i grow not up with him in my earlier gamer days coz i had a C64 with "The great giana sisters" on it.

Mario is, next to his rival sonic, more a normal dude and not the hero...or has not even the being of a hero - like his brother Luigi but thats another story. Mario has nearly (so if you face it normal) not really any powers till he got a fireflower or like. The only thing he can do is jumping and that very good. So its like if youre in real life maybe a bit fat but can jump around like a bouncing ball, nothing more.

But why Mario is "the" video game character?
I guess coz Mario really -is- just a normal guy makes him pretty much perfect for almost everything and not only jump´n runs - as we can see in his other series where he is the/a star in like:

- Mario Kart
- Smash Bros.
- Mario Party
- Mario Picross
- Mario Golf
- Mario Tennis
- Mario & Luigi Super Star saga

Just to count up some.

So unlike Sonic, Mario is "neutral" and has not any "super powers" by himself till he get a power-up. But what is a reason which makes me still kinda sad if i look at Mario? Mario never really got "payed" for that what he did for his people. Its not that i mean he should be a rich Plumper or something. What i mean is that Mario has 3 Girls which maybe Loves him or not which is not actually known. The Girls are well known as Princess Peach, Princess Daisy and Pauline. A lot people think Daisy is Luigis love but if you look back the game series, Daisys very first crush was at Mario in Super Mario Land for the Game Boy system.

So its kinda sad to see Marios "work" are only honored with a "kiss" or a "cake" at the end of every game. It should be one day give a Mario game end where Mario really marries one of his girls for good. It would be kinda fair if you saw a lot Mario endings where Mario just "hanging around" with Peach or get a kiss on his nose from one of the other girls.

So for me, Mario "deserves" a better ending, a "happy" ending. So i put him in the gamer series for good.


About the Art self, i really tried my best to draw Humans coz im not that good in it. Marios design was a bit hard for me to draw coz of his "big belly". I tried more or less to draw his more 90s being which i hit pretty much right i guess.

Thanks for reading.

Also for a good Mario music mix you should go listen here:
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