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My wraparound cover assignment for "Illustrated Poster" taken at SAIC in Fall 2025. This course was taught by Dijana Granov. Instead of for a book, this wraparound is for a video game case, and the video game I chose to do is "Super Mario Galaxy."

Critique notes:

• "Mario Galaxy is one of my fav games of all time so I love this it's awesome" - Classmate
• The way I have it right now compositionally it works but the way I have it set up right now makes it look like Mario is running away from the observatory getting sucked into the black hole in the backround
• Add more lumas and starbits, this will add more splashes of color
• Add the observatory in the front and just make the action line loop through the back
• You can add more color through the spin action
• Bowser needs to be darker and coming out of the black hole
• There's too much light coming from him
• Dijana's Notes:
• This is a simpler but really good composition
• Make the black hole darker
• I showed a picture of the black holes in Mario Galaxy and Dijana said she’s glad I did because it didn’t make sense why it was so green
• It feels too green, if I mix them then it becomes green, you cant mix the the colors
• Use pinks and brighter yellows instead, right now it's a muddy mustard yellow
• The space around Mario feels more like murky water than space
• The space behind Mario needs purple in it, especially since his shading is purple
• The tint around mario just needs to change
• Others' Notes:
• Good idea to shift to a more sinistar red in the back
• In CSP there are a million free galaxy brushes
• Composition-wise make Bowser smaller and put him in the black hole, they [he and Mario] are competing for attention since they're a similar size it makes them seem they're in the same space
• Make Bowser look at Mario, right now our attention is shifted towards him since he’s looking at us but Mario isn’t
• This would also make him feel more like an iminent threat