The Doctor is IN! (Dr. Mario)

Feeling Sick?

Feel Nauseous?

Do you need Medicine?

Then you need a DOCTOR!

Well let me say, Dr. Mario can heal your illness with his awesome pills! Tossing pills inside a bottle killing off all the viruses is as awesome as playing tetris! Dr. Mario is an awesome puzzle game that can be played for all ages and in the newer ones like the Nintendo 64 version up to the Wii, you can use your awesome puzzle-playing skills to show off against your opponents or beat the never ending viruses.

As you can see how many changes had gone on for the game but mostly the gameplay has been the same throughout the entire time. Any strategies for these games? I guess you can say, keep doing combos because that gets you a lot of points and it helps you a lot especially when you are playing against another person, because it sends trash on your opponents side. The thing about the trash is... you might be either helping your opponent or making it hard for them... so basically you don't know!

Overall, the game is fun for a short period of time. It can be addicting. I don't know I'll say it would be a huge favorite among gamers but it is a classic game!

So I'll give tis game a 3.5 out of 5 stars for its classic-likeness!

Anyways, if you guys haven't played this awesome puzzle game yet, then give it a shot because this is a classic fun game! To leave it off, I'll show you a video of me playing Dr. Mario! HERE YA GO!

-Lehvorak

That Bear & Bird!

Banjo-Kazooie is a classic Nintendo 64 game that came out on 1998 and was re-released on 2008 for the Xbox 360 via XBox Live Arcade. This game brings back a lot of memories of my childhood because I spent hours playing this game and had a lot of fun playing as a honey bear and bird who fights against a witch. Yes, you battle an evil witch who kidnaps your sister and you are the only one that can save her from imminent danger and to reach her, you need to go through the many worlds that are introduced to you to gain jigsaw pieces and musical notes that helps you open doors in the witch's lair... until you finally get to the top and duke it out.

This game gave me a lot of inspiration as a kid and as an artist it helped me on my creative experiences because there were some things that I took from this game and placed it in my works, but yes this game is one of the best ones I ever played as a kid and I always loved the music scores for this game!

Especially Gruntilda's lair! That song has never left my head and always been playing just like the Dr. Mario Fever song. I also remember on the game you have to learn battle moves from a mole named Bottles who teaches you almost anything on the game and guides you along the way as you head deeper in the witch's lair. There were so many things that were in this game that were so much fun and a little better than Super Mario 64.

Also, when the sequel of this game came out, I was so excited about it... if I could recall... I called my cousin occasionally on the phone (YES BEFORE CELLPHONES I HELD A PHONE!) about certain tricks and areas on the game helping each other out beat the game, but I did notice that the sequel of this game "Banjo-Tooie" was a lot easier than its predecessor.

But the cool thing about the sequel is... YOU CAN MAKE KAZOOIE (The bird) INTO A DRAGON!!!

Which was awesome... and it was interesting how they tried to do the swap n stop by alternating the games simultaneously and being able to use the same items from both games. Their planning was way advance for its time but sadly, that plan never happened due to how the Nintendo 64 worked and it may actually damage your console... >.>"

Anyways, yes this game was one of the best and was one of my inspirations as a kid and hopefully you guys tried it before... if not, then go get yourself an xbox 360 and purchase it on xbox live arcade and give it a try... sadly it won't be the same as laying it on the N64, but at least you can relive the 90s a little bit!

Also they came out with something called Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts.... which isn't as fun as the original, but at least you can create awesome vehicles on it! So I'll leave you with a picture of Nuts & Bolts!

-Lehvorak

Drawing it on Digital or Traditional?

Digital Art

Can be described as a range of artistic works or practices by using Digital Technology as your medium.

 

Art by: Tomoyuki Yamasaki

Our world has changed a lot over the years, do you guys remember when it was all hand drawn on paper with graphite pencils or charcoal pencils? Those types of mediums are still being used today, but the thing is... everyone is into the digital age and trying to keep up with it. As Illustration artists, we want to be part of the trend by using any drawing tablets to draw on a digital medium using any program like Paint Tool Sai or Photoshop.

Not only we use our computers... we even started using apps that are on our smart phones or iPads. The point here is what are the struggles of transitioning from our comfy pencil and paper to a metallic/plastic material where we have to scrape these two together? I guess the question to ask is... do older illustration artist have a chance against the new age or are they able to adapt?

Back in the day it was all about sketching it out on paper and then painting the pictures with the good old oil paint or acrylics. In my opinion, I think it is still alright for us to learn with paper and pencil because that is where we learn how to do the traditional way and touch on something that all artists of today kind of lack which is value. We can learn value by using this head statue

A lot of my ways of learning value is by my former mentor, Harry Ahn who taught me that "Value is key." Without the basic understandings of how the old masters did things, how can we call ourselves artists? Maybe more of a rebel? I guess that is how the whole art movement came about creating odd things such as cubism, but without this whole understanding of value... we will never learn how to do the right portraits or even learn how the human head value scale works.

Moving back to the digital art, I am not saying it is a bad thing to transfer to the new age, but embrace it as a whole, because this is what our culture is into now! Who knows what other new things we will see in the future? For the question about older artists, the answer is that they need to be up to date to the latest trends of today because whatever artist do, we need to be up to date because that is where the money is! I mean we are trying to gain money for our works right?

But I believe we should use both the digital and traditional ways of art and combine it as one entity, because that might be the key point on discovering your own style. Who knows? Hopefully this talk was more of an inspiration than insult.

As you can see adapting to digital art took me a short while, but I believe there is a lot more to learn from... Well, that is all I have to say, so...take a look at this sketch I did!

-Lehvorak

What is Defensor Artz?

Defensor Artz

Live the Life, Defend the Art

Is an awesome Anime Illustrations, Graphics, and Media company that I created and will spread the idea of the Defensor Art style to the world. It is motivated by the Japanese Manga (comic) art style mixed with realism and American comic art. This company came about almost a year or so ago, but was finally established this year on May 2013 during ACEN (Anime Central) 2013

The goal of this company is to show upcoming anime and live media in conventions along with selling awesome artwork and other products here that are handcrafted and made specifically for the customer needs. Did I even mention that my company can do graphic design stuff for clients? That is how well rounded we are!

Hopefully this whole business will be known because I want to share the world my own fantasies and sell awesome handmade products along with future published manga stories and even posters!

We even have a Facebook Page that you should Like!
https://www.facebook.com/DefensorArtz

Or you can follow us on Twitter!
https://twitter.com/DefensorArtz

Either one, that would be awesome! As you can see, we show updates of stuff we are currently doing or working on! As you can see here I am working on this illustration of Eba Yuzuki from a series known as "A Town Where You Live" or the Japanese name "Kimi No Iru Machi."

I even hope that one day that I will sell products such as Hoodies, T-shirts, Hats, Etc. So keep up with my awesome works!

Hopefully, in the future like in a month or so... my website will be online. Hopefully you guys are liking what you are seeing so far!

-Lehvorak