Mario's House BG (finished) (Patreon)

This is very close to the style I'm looking for, so I'm happy the way it turned out.  I'll do some test animations over this in the near future which will help tweak the BG design and the character design in the way of line weight, coloring, etc. I want to find a way to properly balance the characters so they feel like they exist in the environment, but also stand out from the background.  I think this BG design will likely get a bit more simplified geometrically and in texture.  I'm drawing a lot of inspiration from Tartakovsky's stuff in Dexter's Lab and Samurai Jack and from the new Mickey cartoons.