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A well respected and traveled member of the The Mystical Forest Zone and Middle Ground communities died on the 17th of March this year.

Joseph Tancredi, or Lord Enki as he was known to me and most others on the internet, was a great artist with an unmatched ability to inform anyone of their mistakes in art, be it sprites or drawn, at a level that no one else has ever been able to match. His critique taught me alot of what I know now about spriting aswell as art, and has given me a level of self analysis about my work that has allowed me to steadily improve, during periods where I am consistently making art or sprites.

Aside from that, he was a great friend. Whether it be a serious discussion or just some random fooling around such as a question like 'Would Samus beat Zero?' he was always willing to chat about things. He was also a great roleplayer and storyteller, able to work through story ideas and help out others with their own, as well as duke it out with their characters in text based roleplay.

No parting words seem adequate. Enki is an irreplaceable friend and will be missed.

Regarding the Art itself: Aside from pallate taken from Enki's existing sprite sheet, scratch spriting of Enki's helmet, took about an hour to get done. I wanted to make a more... complex background, but I didn't feel anything I thought of really fit with Enki and who he was. In the end I settled for a flat white background and used Papyrus font for the text.

Description
A well respected and traveled member of the The Mystical Forest Zone and Middle Ground communities died on the 17th of March this year.

Joseph Tancredi, or Lord Enki as he was known to me and most others on the internet, was a great artist with an unmatched ability to inform anyone of their mistakes in art, be it sprites or drawn, at a level that no one else has ever been able to match. His critique taught me alot of what I know now about spriting aswell as art, and has given me a level of self analysis about my work that has allowed me to steadily improve, during periods where I am consistently making art or sprites.

Aside from that, he was a great friend. Whether it be a serious discussion or just some random fooling around such as a question like 'Would Samus beat Zero?' he was always willing to chat about things. He was also a great roleplayer and storyteller, able to work through story ideas and help out others with their own, as well as duke it out with their characters in text based roleplay.

No parting words seem adequate. Enki is an irreplaceable friend and will be missed.

Regarding the Art itself: Aside from pallate taken from Enki's existing sprite sheet, scratch spriting of Enki's helmet, took about an hour to get done. I wanted to make a more... complex background, but I didn't feel anything I thought of really fit with Enki and who he was. In the end I settled for a flat white background and used Papyrus font for the text.