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Realistically Painted Bowser

essenmitsosse.de — How would Mario ’s arch-enemy look like, if he would be real? A Bowser Redesign painted completely in Photoshop.

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  • kylethompson1, on 04/27/2008, -14/+26Thats awesome.
    • adnerb06, on 04/27/2008, -3/+17mirror: http://corcholat.com/uploads/img/bowser_real_BkU_f ...
      • wes00mertes, on 04/27/2008, -8/+2Nice try with your Rick Roll link, but I'm--- wtf, a real mirror?
      • dfsjdkflasjk, on 04/27/2008, -6/+1A mirror with convenient ads. Awesome.
    • had3l, on 04/27/2008, -0/+55I dunno if I'm alone, but I thought it was ugly as hell
      • SpikeX, on 04/27/2008, -3/+3Aren't most lizards, when you stop to think about it? They aren't supposed to be "pretty".
        • SilentRamble42, on 04/27/2008, -0/+22I'm going to tell the next lizard I see what you said about him.
          • alexforcefive, on 04/27/2008, -0/+5heh, SpikeX is gonna get a fireball upside the head...
      • curtosrules, on 04/27/2008, -0/+5trust me, you are not alone.....this looks like a sketch not a painting
      • j4200, on 04/27/2008, -0/+5Doesn't look "realistic" at all. It looks like a more organic than cartoony bowser but in my opinion it's not a better interpretation.
        • dbr_onix, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1It's not supposed to look photo-real, read last paragraph of the article:
          "For this picture I only used the Photoshop Brushtool (99% a simple round brush) and sometimes the smudge tool. I never used more than two layers at once, trying to work much like painting as possible"
    • SpikeX, on 04/27/2008, -0/+18Non-***** direct no-frills third party mirror:

      http://spikex.net/i/bowser.jpg
    • lava, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3Yeah, Bowser is much scarier when he has his final smash.
    • themastersb, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2All of a sudden the image of Bowser raping Peach seems scary.
    • poopmaster, on 04/28/2008, -0/+0yeah lets see mario's pansy ass take this on
  • XenoSNK, on 04/27/2008, -7/+288Bowser is not a raptor.
  • Flame15, on 04/27/2008, -9/+4Still kick-ass.
  • Netik09, on 04/27/2008, -10/+8Scary-creepy.
  • smacksaw, on 04/27/2008, -12/+7I always thought that "realistic" representations of animals somehow had human genitals and fursonas.

    At least that's what the furries keep pushing...
  • mrtracy, on 04/27/2008, -3/+82Try swinging that into a bomb.
  • adnerb06, on 04/27/2008, -5/+44mirror: http://corcholat.com/uploads/img/bowser_real_BkU_f ...
    • amdforever, on 04/28/2008, -8/+1You answered a question no one asked. Buried.
      • hpfreak26, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1You stated a fact nobody gives a ***** about. Burried
  • NCSUspoon, on 04/27/2008, -6/+2He needs a hammer
  • amanilaenvelope, on 04/27/2008, -2/+8bowser was bad-ass before but after seeing this he would be untouchable now.
  • ThunderXcat, on 04/27/2008, -0/+79Good call on not putting him in a go-kart, he definitely looks more threatening this way.
  • fenix61, on 04/27/2008, -1/+37There is no way that creepy realistic Mario could stand up to Badass Realistic Bowser
    • SmellyFingers, on 04/27/2008, -1/+23No. I'm pretty sure even Bowser would run from that realistic Mario posted awhile back.
  • Lane, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3His legs seem too long and not quite enough girth
  • jessestorm, on 04/27/2008, -0/+27I think I have a new nickname for my mother-in-law.
    • sketching, on 04/27/2008, -0/+10You're going to call her "Realistically Painted Bowser"? O_o
  • MillionsLivio, on 04/27/2008, -1/+38Yeah... Mario's *****.
  • Flump5000, on 04/27/2008, -1/+103I like turtles.
    • Mutton, on 04/27/2008, -0/+7ONO U DINT
    • tehAleksandrRox, on 04/27/2008, -1/+10nature's D student
    • monsterette, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1...yes, turtles are good...but this turtle has a fabulous portfolio...
    • nobodynoes, on 04/28/2008, -1/+0i lost my ***** when I read this comment
      thanks flump
  • NaziHatinChimp, on 04/27/2008, -2/+183This is actually the real bowser:
    http://themushroomkingdom.net/mania/images/ss/ss_s ...
  • super3boy, on 04/27/2008, -2/+11If only Mario had an RPG.
    • cerealjynx, on 04/27/2008, -2/+20Or five RPGs. Oh wait, he does!
      Oh...I see what you did there.
      • brads2008, on 04/28/2008, -4/+0lol i thought he meant role playing game not rocket propelled grenade lol =p
        • Coolmatt49, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2Dammit! Let people figure that out for themselves!!
    • Gonasadude, on 04/28/2008, -7/+2Mario DID have an RPG. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars for the Super NES. Check it out. Best SNES game I've ever played besides Chrono Trigger.
  • Elliottx, on 04/27/2008, -9/+1He looks a little thin...I don't think he eats between plotting to kidnap princess peach for the 29798789th time and trying to kill Mario for the 971983678912730917836910738969173897838768969608978969709798th time....=/
    • PrincessQuatris, on 04/27/2008, -2/+3You must really suck at Super Mario if you have actually died that many times...
    • GothAlice, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1You know, your comment could have been cool if only you worked in one of the DECSS/BluRay/HD-DVD encryption keys for the number of times Bowser has gone after Mario.
      • Elliottx, on 04/28/2008, -4/+1Yeah. Unfortunately for me though, I don't spend my day memorizing or figuring out that kind of useless dribble. ^.^
        • ncapone, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2But you memorized how many times Bowser has gone after Mario!
  • yellowfish04, on 04/27/2008, -0/+5I like that this trend is taking off. Hopefully we get more cool submissions like this, following pixeloo's lead
  • mistergoodburge, on 04/27/2008, -10/+5Sorry still looks "fake" to me....
    • cmccool, on 04/27/2008, -1/+17doesn't this warrant the question: "has anyone ever seen a bowser in real life (i.e. a tv screen doesn't count) before?" if we were going to be honest, then i think the answer is no, and thus, there is no way to know what a "real" bowser looks like versus a "fake" one.
  • moolaismyfriend, on 04/27/2008, -13/+6Is this suppose to be good?

    Looks like a high school art project.
    • wes00mertes, on 04/27/2008, -1/+16Man I can't wait for you to post your rendition. It's gonna be so awesome I bet.
    • source1984, on 04/27/2008, -1/+4do a better one and post it up.
    • smurfsahoy, on 04/27/2008, -4/+5Although moo is being an asshat, and I think this is actually a pretty good drawing, @the posters below him: not being able to personally do something better has nothing to do with critiquing. I can't build a car, but that doesn't mean I have no right to complain if mine falls apart on the highway and spontaneously explodes. If somebody does something and then shares it with the public, there's an appropriate expectation that it was done especially well, such that it is worth our time, regardless of our skill.
      • YellowSnowDemon, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3Except for the fact that that's an awesome drawing, and painting with a brush tool in photoshop is ***** hard.
      • JMSantos, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1You haven't listened to the radio recently, have you?
  • Rizmaster, on 04/27/2008, -8/+12AKA "I once saw Jurassic Park and immediately assumed that was a perfectly accurate depiction of dinosaurs, and thus if I ever needed to draw one "accurately" I'd just break out my JP DVD."

    I'm not saying it's bad, I'm not saying it's not as close to accurate as you can get, but that doesn't mean the guy is a ***** paleontologist and has any real knowledge of dinosaur anatomy.
    • noahhoward, on 04/27/2008, -2/+6Was that a real bad attempt at sarcasm or should we send help?
      • j4200, on 04/27/2008, -2/+3It wasn't a bad attempt at all. This is probably went through the artists mind on some level.
    • JMSantos, on 04/27/2008, -0/+11Are you ranting about this? Seriously?

      Cool.
  • omercyme33, on 04/27/2008, -0/+10This pic makes me want to grab his tail, spin him around, and throw him into a bomb.
  • DraggingTheLake, on 04/27/2008, -3/+25A challenger appears: http://boundless.fileburst.com/mario.html
  • Tam2, on 04/27/2008, -11/+3MIRROR: http://tinyurl.com/34732v
  • kinerry, on 04/27/2008, -9/+4Mario... NOM NOM NOM
    • source1984, on 04/27/2008, -2/+5stop with this nom nom *****. you cant just squeeze it in anywhere and expect it to make sense. besides, mario is pre-obese, not obese.
  • cl2yp71c, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3Now if it was only modeled in 3d...
  • JK1150, on 04/27/2008, -0/+6it would appear that hitler took down this image...
  • nusuni, on 04/27/2008, -12/+6That's what bowser would look like if the Wii had good, non-cartoony graphics.
    • thecliffbar, on 04/27/2008, -3/+2I'm pretty sure that's not at all what he would look like regardless of the wii's graphics, which are no more cartoony than any of the other systems
    • Doggalina, on 04/27/2008, -0/+4Of course, because a system's power determines the art style.
    • arobicha, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2No matter how much I dislike the Wii, saying that an art style is good or bad based on how cartoon-like it is, is really low. Some of my favorite games are sprite based, and I wouldn't have them any other way. SNES rocked.
    • Khast, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2Wow, another classic moron. I've seen some pretty cartoonish graphics on the Xbox 360...I guess that too makes it a lame system....oh and hell, even the ps3 is capable of cartoonish graphics, I guess it can be lame too.

      For all you ***** punks who say the graphics are everything, just remember, come the next generation console, with all the *better* graphics, and superior specs, you won't look back at the PS3 games which were pure crap, and say how great the graphics were....you will most likely remember the games that WERE good in gameplay, and control schemes...NOT the graphics.
    • Shawn4168, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2Actually, Giga Bowser looks 5 times more badass than this drawing, and he's been in Smash Bros. for both Gamecube and Wii.
  • selfdisplaced, on 04/27/2008, -2/+7Man, these are beginning to be so lame.
  • amyjane4, on 04/27/2008, -1/+3site died, mirror here http://imgforever.com/56-3d-bowser
  • grayiscolorful, on 04/27/2008, -2/+2....and...wait for it...down
  • kru1e, on 04/27/2008, -1/+8Gotta Love ME I'm the Baby!
    • roseman5285, on 04/27/2008, -0/+5reverse that...."I'm the baby, gotta love me!"...... man i miss that show
      • Auryn, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1don't you mean, 'strike that, reverse it'? (Willy Wonka, first one, not that...other one)
    • allthosemoments, on 04/27/2008, -1/+3You're doing it wrong.
  • diggit08, on 04/27/2008, -3/+6arms are too short, and legs are too long. WTF?
  • Leviathan1006, on 04/27/2008, -1/+1creepy
  • thecliffbar, on 04/27/2008, -1/+8It's cool, but I don't see how that's any more realistic than any other picture of bowser
  • akohut, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2Eh, just jump on his head and kill him.
    • jgtg32a, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Yeah but you've gotta do that like three times
  • scottperezfox, on 04/27/2008, -3/+4Props for the Photoshop painting technique, however, I profess that these "realistic" paintings are getting old ... and fast.
  • curtosrules, on 04/27/2008, -2/+2this looks like a sketch not a painting
  • mileswj, on 04/27/2008, -0/+15Hes a ***** turtle, not a Trex with a ***** shell.

    Besides that the artwork is good.
  • InfamousGuZ, on 04/27/2008, -0/+6Bowser is a turtle.
  • ween, on 04/27/2008, -0/+6Looks like a love child of Bowser and Yoshi.
  • source1984, on 04/27/2008, -14/+1oh cool! a while back i saw this video on youtube of the guy actually painting this picture, it took him a long ass time, he used some special acrylic paints he said for the horns, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
  • MemeRevolution, on 04/27/2008, -3/+0Sort of has essence de baby t-rex. Awwwwww tho cute.
  • xrEE, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2Only working with 2 layers and the soft brush tool? I wish I had that much patience ( talent ) inside Photoshop.
  • 33PercentGod, on 04/27/2008, -0/+10Man,could you imagine being Mario living in the Mushroom Kingdom if everything looked realistic like that? I would be scared ***** to leave my house. If something like that stole the Princess away,i'd let it keep her,because it's a badass dinosaur.
    • kweli, on 04/27/2008, -2/+1TURTLE
    • shwang, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2don't forget that you're high on mushrooms too... potentially making everything even scarier.
    • RadiatedAnt, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Thats why mario would have an oversized codpiece in real life.
  • DarkJesus, on 04/27/2008, -0/+12That's just giga bowser.
  • MemeRevolution, on 04/27/2008, -5/+0Sort of has essence de baby T-rex. Awwww, tho cute.
  • ImmediateAction, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1These "ultra realistic" pics of mario characters are starting to ruin my childishly naive views of the game. Now I'm gonna have dreams of Bowser chasing Muldoon on Isla Sorna.
  • WeirdEdsel, on 04/27/2008, -1/+1They should have hired this guy to design the characters for the Super Mario Bros. Movie.
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