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20 Years In The Making! Redrawing My Childhood Monsters!

When I was about 11 or 12, myself and 2 friends made a wildly derivative Top Trumps/Pokemon card game called (for some reason) Rakafikimon.

I found the cards last year and decided, as an illustration exercise, to work up each character into a fully illustrated design and maybe make myself a whole new pack of Rakafikimon.

The original plan was to spend no longer than an hour on the new designs, although some of them ended up taking a lot longer as I got really into them.

The originals were illustrated in Microsoft Paint – the new ones are Photoshop paintings.

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20 Years In The Making! Redrawing My Childhood Monsters!

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Owen Rixon is a director, animator and illustrator based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Owen Rixon is a director, animator and illustrator based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Isabelle1215 5 years ago

These are very good! Love them!

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Owen Rixon (Post author) 5 years ago

Thanks very much! Glad you like them!

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Benjamin Boysley 5 years ago

Very imaginative and excellent recreations of the original. Do I detect some inspiration from Pokemon in some of these? Very well done :)

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Owen Rixon (Post author) 5 years ago

Haha yea it was right around the height of the Pokemon card phenomenon. Glad you enjoyed them!

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Unicornlover 5 years ago

They were made on a computer

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Kanga9ine 5 years ago

It may have taken 20 years to illustrate just how scary those monster were. Where's Sully when you need him? When a kid says that he saw a monster, the cute little innocent looking monsters his parents see are not the monsters he sees. A job well done. I'll bet the night my brother wouldn't open his mouth and kept say "There's a fly in my mouth" through his clenched teeth seemed just as awful and scary to him. It took my parents a while to figure out what he was saying. I slept through the whole thing. My monsters couldn't even wake me up.

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TJler 5 years ago

Boring af

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Isabelle1215 5 years ago

These are very good! Love them!

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Owen Rixon (Post author) 5 years ago

Thanks very much! Glad you like them!

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Benjamin Boysley 5 years ago

Very imaginative and excellent recreations of the original. Do I detect some inspiration from Pokemon in some of these? Very well done :)

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Owen Rixon (Post author) 5 years ago

Haha yea it was right around the height of the Pokemon card phenomenon. Glad you enjoyed them!

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Unicornlover 5 years ago

They were made on a computer

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Kanga9ine 5 years ago

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TJler 5 years ago

Boring af

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20 Years In The Making! Redrawing My Childhood Monsters!

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