#mixels10thanniversary

And we’ve officially come to the end of the art project; closing my own tribute to this underrated little gem of a franchise that has left a huge impact on my life. All 81 Mixels, drawn, colored, and presented! Overall it has been a swell time revisiting this series, and drawing out all these fun, wacky, and imaginative looking creatures. Getting to talk about all my personal favorite characters, while also finding some new appreciation for some others.

I feel very accomplished working on this project, it allowed me to sharpen up my drawing skills, create my own release schedule, as well as experimenting around with the color pencils set that I got for Christmas. I’ll probably do something like this again for a different series/franchise in the future, but for now, I’m going to move on to some new smaller projects. I’ve been drawing Mixel characters for nearly 3 months and I kinda want to take a break for now. But I’ll certainly get back to it at some point, I might even consider drawing out all the Maxes.

Lastly we have Scre- wha…wait a minute, this doesn’t look right. Where’s the color? Why can’t I see the Mixel? And what’s with all these little cubic sharp-toothed critters?

I’m sorry, but this was WAY too good of an opportunity to pass up on! I was going through my date release plan list for the project, and I just happen to notice that the Burnard drawing was set for March 14th, or to quote Planton from “The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie”: The Day that Krabs Fries! And with the fact that Burnard is a fire type mixel, it all just lined up so perfectly for me to come up with this art idea!

Capping off this amazing wave are the Wiztastics, appearing with a magical purple/black color combo! Magnifo may have the weakest design out of all of wave 3, but it’s still a really good design. It says a lot about the quality of something when even the weakest part of it is still pretty solid.

And Lasty we have Screeno, a charming looking mixel with a TV box for a head, and a tie to make himself look presentable when making news reports. I feel like had something with him and the other Newzers that the NNGA special didn’t focus on that much. If it were focused on them trying to bring the colorful life back to Mixopolis, rather than some minor background characters that we don’t even know about(or care about), I think the special would’ve turned out better. But hey what can you do.

And that officially wraps up the franchise as a whole. The last yearly set of Mixels was admittedly the weakest of the three. I certainly admire the experimentation it had this time around where they came up with plenty of creative and fun concepts for mixels. It’s just that many of them didn’t have the same whacky and interesting personalities that the first two volumes did so well at. And the fact that they didn’t get to have that much screentime in the show really doesn’t help them to leave the biggest impact on me.

Nurp-Naut is an interesting concept of a mixel, an orbiton with a two-split personality. Where one minute they’re a baby, and then with the spin of a helmet they become an elder. This isn’t just a personality change, this is straight up sporadic ageing!

Starting off the second year of Mixels with wave 4, which features one of the first tribes that explore outside of the theme of elements, even outside of their own planet!