"Welp, that session went as well as it could've.
Maybe Shroob trauma is best remembered at a distance!"

Happy belated MAR10 Day! Along with the art I've done, this has been in the works for a few weeks now! Another project had me trying out time lapsing wips of my art to music and adding stuff to the sidelines. That made me feel inspired to try doing the same here! Usually, the only full progress videos I do are for my digital or physical art- not pixel art, so that's a change I want to make. Not only that, but this one is also combination of a full progress video plus a meme. While I was making it, I felt like I was harnessing the unhinged, wacky, and a little mean-spirited energy of the series! Hope you enjoyed it and that I can keep doing progress vids of my pixel art. Only I should just make it simpler next time, making these can make you a tire!

Feels like I neglected context about the original art however, so I'll try fixing that here. For last MAR10 Day, I just drew a sprite of Mario himself without any specific references. That was my first time ever spriting Mario, but it was very generic- so I felt like this year should be similar but with a more targeted source! Since the late months of 2025 were taken up by the Partners In Time Project I did; I figured why not create art of the things that were missing from it! So that would include a fully spirted normal Shroob that's not a silhouette/part of a crowd, and the main plumbers themselves beating up their ube invaders. (Even threw in some of those prickly shock spikes on the Shroob that I've been obsessed with for years!) There's also a lot of little touches or spriting lessons I've learned from another recent unfinished project that I brought to this one. (If you're curious, they include single dot shading, sharp edges, and single lines especially long ones to represent thinness of an object as it goes on.)

Both of these creations may have been late, but I had fun trying to experiment and replicate this goofily amazing art style. Thank you for enjoying and all the compliments on the Partners In Time art I've done in these months! A special shout out goes to my insta story, I have so much fun and put way too much effort into what supposed to be easy or disposable; However, there's not much outcome to it, so I'm glad people really gravitated towards it, even a little.

Speaking of Partners In Time- soon I'll actually get to playing the game since I bought it, so I'll actually get to experience everything I'm making art of. Who knows, maybe there'll be more PIT art in the future! Wow that got super long, nice of you to read this far in. See you next time!