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Note: Copied from my Blog Post, with some edits.

This is a picture of Arthur Read and his friends, Binky Barnes, Brain Powers, and Buster Baxter all as teenagers. Also 16-year-olds (except for Binky being 17.) To be honest, I didn't just make this picture, I got the idea from this

http://www.cdshakedown.com/06_2003/joe_jackson_band_photo.jpg

I liked the picture of the Joe Jackson band, which includes from left to right: Dave Houghton, Gary Sanford, Joe Jackson (the leader of the band) and Graham Maby. This is the main website.

http://www.cdshakedown.com/061303.htm

As I was saying, that was one of my favorite pictures of the Joe Jackson band, especially of Sanford, who plays guitar in the band and I've liked this picture for the last several years (2005 or 2006 when I first saw these pictures) and fantasized cartoon characters standing like these guys. Then more recently I fantasized Arthur, Buster, Brain, and Binky, as teenagers, in these exact same poses. This time I decided to get it out of my dreams and on paper and then on the internet for everyone to see.

What's different about this picture and the photo, other than the characters being anthropomorphic animals instead of complete humans, and the characters being adolescents, I have Arthur, who's the title character and in Jackson's position, being the smallest of the group, even though Jackson is the tallest. Arthur is also the smallest because he's the youngest of the group. Buster, who is in Maby's position, is a little taller than Arthur because he's older, by one month and ten days, but smaller and younger than Brain and Binky. Brain is in Sanford's position and Binky is in Houghton's position.

I had to get creative with the appearal though. I think I had a hard time deciding how to dress my characters and what colors they should wear. I decided to have Arthur, Buster, and Binky wear white T shirts and wear jackets over their shirts. I have Arthur dressed like a bad boy, and I've seen a few other cartoon characters dress like this, whether regularly or on occasion. Don't worry, Arthur is not bad and neither are his pictured friends even though they do look serious. I could have had them smile, but I decided to make them look the way you see them.

Buster, pretty much the same as Arthur, except I gave him an orange jacket like I've been seeing him in in some episodes, including "I Owe You One." In fact even though he normally wears blue on the show, he has been depicted as wearing orange, at least on some websites, and even the Postcards from Buster website (pbskids.org). Though I could have picked something else, I just decided to put him in orange, his alternate color, well, that's what I'm going to say about it.

Brain, I decided to have him almost completely modelled after Sanford, who has in my opnion the best pose in the picture. I could have had Buster do it, but I decided to have Brain in it instead. I also gave Brain almost the same shirt Sanford was wearing, although I probably didn't do a very good job making his shirt. Seeing how he's the second oldest, I made him the second tallest.

Binky, I pretty much just had him dress as he did at the end of the episode the Contest. Yes, he was 13 in that episode, but even three years later I'm having him still wear this. I probably should have just had the whole gang dress as they did at the end of "The Contest," but this was my picture. I don't know, maybe I'll draw this picture again and have them dress just as they did in "The Contest."

I also gave Brain and Arthur more hair just like they had in The Contest. One more detail, I also added finger nails and thumb nails to the characters.

I have one more version of this picture, it's basically the same as this one, except Binky, like Houghton, is wearing his sun-glasses on his face instead of on his shirt. It will be posted on this website too and later, that picture, as well as this one and other pictures, will be posted on Deviant Art. See my Arthur Wikia profile to get directly to my Deviant Art profile page.