Team Oedrasbane vs Bittercold
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I actually quite liked Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates To Infinity (so there! :P), and visually speaking, the Bittercold is a pretty cool boss ^^ (no pun intended XD)
229 layers in this image, 227 for the evil snowflake of congealed despair! (Why so many layers? Because of an idea I’d had about how to get a decentish ‘icy’ effect on the colouring so as not to make things look too flat -- it involved using the colour select tool on various bits of my colour reference pic then doing clever things with the Flood Fill tool (with ‘sample merged’ switched on) and the Hard Light layer composite mode) I think it turned out rather well ^^
The team name ‘Oedrasbane’ came partly from this Old Norse dictionary: http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/language/English-Old_Norse.pdf , which stated that the Old Norse for ‘despair’ is ‘oedra’ (well, the ‘oe’ is supposed to be a diphthong), and ‘___bane’ or ‘___sbane’ means ‘___’s slayer/defeater’, and the whole plot leads up to defeating this incarnation of despair, so... yeah ^^
My next pic is definitely going to be a nice, quiet, simple one XD