Arcade Zyra Concept Art

After drawing a cute pixel Zyra for the Pixel Art Contest I decided to draw Zyra as a Piranha Plant Girl and it turned into an Arcade skin concept which I'm really happy about.

I just want to clearly state that this is based of Mario and I used them as inspiration, with the intent of such. While this is a skin concept, this was made for fun and not too be taken too seriously.

I created a few sketches for Arcade Zyra and when I went to finalise the design I had a look at other versions of Arcade Zyra and Piranhette I got inspiration to improve the design of the dress. My original inspiration was Princess Rosalina and Daisy.

Most importantly, Jessica Oyhenart's Zyra helped me a lot to make the outfit look much better. The artwork is incredible so please check it out!!

I really love the plants here. I wanted her passive and W to be visually different and to create a fun place for the plants to come out from (imagine the plants slowly rising out of it like in the games).