I originally drew and posted these images back in April during the actual event, but I just got a bit too preoccupied to log my post over here... Better late than never I suppose. Especially since the VOD upload are nearing its end, it’s kinda relevant. Either way, these were my drawing of the roster from the TRG Colosseum 2020.

It was definitely fun to think of creative poses for everyone, especially for the ones who I’d never drawn before. With a few exceptions, I had a design previously created for everyone in the top three images. For those cases, I would reference back to my older images and improve as necessary. In particular, I like the new hair design that I made for Chugga and NCS.

The remaining four images contained people who I had to craft designs for from scratch. It was a challenge to makes appealing designs for each of the musicians as I chose not to draw their instruments. Because of this choice, the posing now comes off as a little “stiffer” than I initially desire. Although, I feel like my art style adds a bit of a “cute/charming” flavor to them that redeems the stiffness in my eyes. Specifically, I’m proud of how Adriana, Toxic, and Sab turned out along with the 8-Bit pairing.

I like the variety of colors I used across each person. I chose not to do much in the way of color shading mostly due to time restraints, though I was also running low on certain colors towards about the middle of the roster. Overall, my coloring could have been a bit more solid, but at least it did work to make the image more visually interesting when scanning through everyone.

I initially wanted to draw this piece digitally, though I’d been out-of-practice using my tablet for some time due to prioritizing other life matter. Hopefully by next colosseum I’ll be able to support the event with something new. At least their was a definite skill increase in comparison to my sketches for the event from last year.

Draw the squad TheRunawayGuys Colosseum 2 attempting to sing Jump Up Superstar edition

It’s been quite awhile, but given the fact that Benchton has had a very special visitor today — Emile from Palette, or as some of you may know him as, Chuggaaconroy — I figured it would be a good time to say Welcome to anyone discovering the Benchton tumblr, and to provide an update on my Dream Address!

First of all, Benchton is a town that Marriland founded in August 2014. It was streamed on Twitch and posted to YouTube on Marriland’s secondary channel, More Marriland. You can find the entire 180-day playlist by clicking here.

Benchton’s Dream Address has since been updated due to the Welcome amiibo update, so any old addresses you see out there will NOT work! You need to use this Dream Address to check out Benchton: 4F00-0098-2F83

There are plenty of paths that you can take home for your own town by visiting Benchton from the Dream Suite! However, if you would like to see ALL of the patterns I’ve made for Benchton, check out these tags on the tumblr for a quicker reference: [link]

Lastly, as mentioned a few times in Chuggaaconroy’s series, Hopper is originally from Benchton. As I, Marriland, have mentioned, Hopper actually died* in my Benchton series. (*well, he didn’t TECHNICALLY die, just moved out, but the canon for the end of the series is that he “died” when he moved out due to old age.) PLOT TWIST! It looks like Hopper faked his own death and has secretly been making his way to Palette, perhaps to have his retirement there! WHY would he do such a thing? That’s a mystery indeed, but that old bird has a few tricks up his itchy sleeves for sure!

Again, huge thanks to Chuggaaconroy for checking out the town of Benchton and for letting Devin from Benchton visit the illustrious town of Palette! And thank you for checking out the Benchton blog here, which shows some highlights of when the Benchton series took place back in 2014 and 2015.