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Happy New Year everybody! What better way to bring in the new year with a new banner for the site? This time... I decided to draw from one of my new recent favorite game... Plants vs Zombies! In this scene, Zombie Anton and guest star Karen are hungry for Crazy Dustin Wilson's brains! But Crazy Dustin has his defenses ready... the jayvee Squash, Wall-nut Mason, and Peashooter Meagan are ready to defend him from the Zombie attack!

Basically, my whole life I have been pretty good at drawing just regular cartoon characters. But, when it comes to realistic humans... I struggle a little bit. So tackling this project was really good learning experience for me. I really want to learn how to do more artwork thats outside my comfort zone. I think it turned out a lot better then I could ever have hoped for!

Thank you again everyone for letting me share my artwork with you multiple times a year! I hope you all have a fantastic 2012!

So this month, I decided to make the banner in honor of the release of Starfox 64 3DS. However, I decided to make it more in the style of the 64 version then the 3DS version. So I drew all the N+ moderators in 64 polygon style! We are all on a mission to stop the evil Andross (*coughDustinWilsoncough*) from taking over the Lylat System!

This months banner definately took the most time out of all the banners Ive done thus far. It was also quite the learning experience! I used a program called GIMP to draw this instead of Photoshop. For the most part it did the job fine... I just didn't like how it doesn't have the same shortcuts and hotkeys that Photoshop has. But for the most part it was a good program.

The wallpaper will be uploaded shortly, but here are all the moderator Starfox Portraits!

Justin / jayvee
Anton / Captain Seagull
Ed / .ed
Dustin Wilson
Karen / NerdyNerak

Special thanks to Anton, Dustin Wilson, and to my friend Meagan for all your help!

This month I decided to do Donkey Kong Country Returns as the banner. I decided to try out something new, so I tried to make it in a minimalist approach. So I hope everyone enjoys it!

You better not mess with this Santa, or else its on like Donkey Kong! If you are on his naughty list (by say... stealing his banana hoard?) he will hunt you down and knock the crap outta ya! But if you leave him banana creme pie instead of cookies, you will get extra presents!

Ok... Im out of lame jokes... have a great holiday everyone!

Its April, and what better time to pay tribute to one of the greatest Super Nintendo Games of all time? Chrono Trigger has always held a special place in my heart ever since I accidently stumbled upon it one fateful day at the video store. So I wanted to take a shot at drawing Chrono, my favorite character from the game. My experience with drawing anime style is sort-of limited, but I think he turned out great! With the background, I tried to recreate the abstract waves that show up during the battle with Lavos. Finally, I found a picture of Lavos himself and blended it into the background. I would have drawn him myself, but real life sometimes gets into the way and I didnt have enough time to. But I hope you all enjoy it!

Its-a my turn for a Banner update! And man, did this one take a LONG time. But I think it turned out great! Since Spirit Tracks comes out this Sunday and we have never had a Zelda banner, I figured I would go for a Zelda theme this month. Link is wearing his Christmas Tunic, and Zelda is giving Phantom Christmas gifts to everyone at N+

I kinda had to guess as to what the train looked like. I have no idea if thats really how it looks. And I reused the snow from the Animal Crossing picture from last year. Lazy move I know, but it works well in this situation too! Total time came to about 10 hours. Hope you all enjoy the banner and Happy Holidays!

This month, I was put in charge of the banner! So what better then last month's release of Punch-Out?

At first, it was going to be for Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver, but me and Seagull decided to hold off for now from posting those up. So I brainstormed at work for a while and eventually got the idea to have Little Mac hit me in the face for the banner! I chose myself instead of another Punch-Out character simply because June is my birth month (June 16 is the exact day if you N-Plussers want to get me a present!) and also because I have yet to be featured on a banner! Overall I think it turned out much better then my December Animal Crossing one. I hope you all enjoy it!

BTW, I am not wearing a peach shirt for anyone who is wondering... those are my tan lines! I push carts 40 hours a week and have developed a wonderful farmers tan! If you don't believe me, just ask the Capn'!