November 10th, 2025
Back in the first 2025 site update for my ScrollBoss site, Nutroll covered his mask with a sign that said “Not Yet” and then popped up again months later during that site’s 25th anniversary with a sign that had”11-11 illvember” scrawled on it. We’re on the eleventh day of the eleventh month (a few days shy of the site’s anniversary) and now it’s time to start Illvember, a celebration of Illlmosis, and that means I should probably bring this site back to life, right? RIGHT. And to kick that off I’m adding new pixelart of Nutroll and another one of my characters, my first character, M-Wave. M-Wave gets a standing sprite in a new pixel style, but Nutroll? he finally lowers the sign only to show that his mask no longer has a mouth drawn on it. He’s up to something, but I feel like he’ll get it straightened out before the end of this month.
Speaking of which, This Illvember event will be going on ALL MONTH. Every few days I’m going to update out-of-date pixel art gallery pages and add a few new ones. I’ve done A LOT of work over at ScrollBoss and it’s time to start bringing it over here. I’ll also be adding the new Illmosis-related pixel work to the ScrollBoss site. It’s going to be a lot of site work, but it needs to be done. To start that, the other new thing added to the site today was a page for the newer ScrollBoss site characters who mostly debuted while Illmosis was in hibernation. Vonetta, Maddie, Amelia, and Jilly make their debut here in the second new gallery page.
At some point, I’ll post some new line art. Really, I’ve been drawing less detailed line art to scan and turn into pixel art, but not much like the detailed work that I used to post here. Besides concentrating on pixel related stuff, the current state of the internet swallowing up new fodder for slop killed a lot of my desire to show new line art online. But it’ll be back.
Keep an eye out for a lot of updates this month with some new pixel art every week, and maybe Nutroll will fix his mask before we get to December. You’ll see a line art preview of the next sprite if you look at the extras on one of today’s new pages.
Last but definitely not least, Happy Veteran’s Day to all those who served!
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December 30th, 2020
*looks at blog* I was so worn out this year that I forgot to put up a post in March when I added the flat color version of this Crash Test minifig art. But, yeah, the full color version is here now.
Anyone wondering what I was up to for most of this year should probably check out the ScrollBoss site, I managed to get a lot of new pixel art done and posted there, especially for the 20th Anniversary updates. the ScrollBoss YouTube account got a lot of new vids, the most I’ve ever uploaded within a year, along with the most animation I’ve ever done. That doesn’t even count all the things I finished but didn’t show because they’re part of a video or site theme I didn’t get to use yet.
My main 2020 plan, at least the only one I’m saying right now, is to replace some of my old artwork with new versions. I’ve got other ideas, but there’s no point in announcing any of that until it’s ready. I’d also like to try and update this site more than once next year, that’d be wild, right?
Anyway, take care and I hope you (and I) have a better 2021!
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November 29th, 2019
All the cool kids are having sales, so I better do the same!
8×10 and 8×11 prints are $4.00 each!
11 x 17/11 x 14 prints $8.00 each!
Sale ends December 7th, 2019
The prints page is here!
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November 6th, 2019
Surprise, I didn’t completely neglect the site on its birthday! Currently taking a break to get some rest, but I just had to sketch my poor old neglected characters. Will this turn into something bigger later on? *shrugs*
sketches of Nutroll, M-Wave, Passion Tanaka, Ice Cream Man. But for what?
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July 22nd, 2019
First of all, there’s a print sale going on until August 1st, with 8×10/8×11 prints $4 and 11×17 prints at $8, so if you’ve been thinking about getting a print, this is a good time to go to the print page and jump on it while the jumping’s cheaper.
The sale started last Friday as part of the ScrolBoss site’s 19th anniversary. I added some newly-made sprites to the galleries and a Marvel vs. Capcom 1 ending option to the main generator. I had to improve the generator engine, fix some old bugs to do it, and rewrite a tool I made to make generator parts, but I got it going and it’s kinda fun.
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June 10th, 2019
New art of Marvel’s Carol Danvers in her Ms. Marvel outfit has been added to the gallery. I posted the sketch in a few places on the internet after drawing it on New Year’s Eve (somehow forgetting to post it here, as usual), but the color version is brand new! This is the first full picture I’ve done with the brand new XP-PEN monitor tablet that I bought a few months ago. I couldn’t have done a lot of the things in the new pic without having a monitor tablet, because I could never fully get over the mental disconnect of not looking where I’m drawing. Before inking Danvers, I drew quite a few sprites at 2X or 4X before dropping them down to pixel art and I think that let me get comfortable enough with the tablet to start inking some art.
Speaking of sprites, the latest ScrollBoss update features an early look at an idea I’ve been scheming to do for a long time: the ScrollBoss Showcade.
The Youngstown Comic-Con is almost here and I’ll be there in artist’s alley on Sunday, July 7th (sorry, I can only be there for one day again). I’ll have the 8 x10, 17 x 11, the small pixel art prints, and trading card-sized original art cards (pencil and ink) with me, but you can just roll through to say what’s up. It’s a great convention every year and I hope to see you there!
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November 23rd, 2018
All prints in the ScrollBoss shop and the main Illmosis site are on sale until November 27th! 8×10 and 8×11 prints are $4.00 each, 11 x 17/11 x 14 prints $8.00 each!
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September 18th, 2018
No more teasers and previews, the new version of the Horror vs. Horror print is now here! Six horror icons grace the pic in sprite form while dozens more appear in character select boxes. I’ve been working on the pixel art bit-by-bit for most of this year, agonizing over character selection right up to when I ordered the test print. As I’ve mentioned in a few other places where I’ve posted the finished pic, there will be some alternate versions in the future if this does well, and there’s already a second version with a different stage selected. Click the small version of the pic above to see the gallery page, which also has a name list for the selection boxes.
Both versions of this new horror pic have been added to the Prints page, along with the Iron Man pic from earlier this year.
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June 25th, 2018
Right now, I’m still operating at the speed of hustle to get more new things ready for the show, so I’ve got to keep it brief and keep it movin’. A new pic of Mega Man (classic flavor) has just been added to the galleries! A few more behind-the-scenes shots from that will be added soon, mainly the background. I’ll have this with me at the Youngstown Comic Con on July 8th (sadly, I can’t be there on the 7th) in Artist’s Alley! Don’t worry if you’re not a comic book fan, because, if last year was any indication, there’ll be a lot of video game-related stuff there, too!
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June 13th, 2018
Catwoman gets a new pic and the Iron Man pic from earlier this month gets a few improvements. **wipes brow**
I got the mini-pixel prints and they turned out nicely, though one has a minor mistake I was hoping I fix by re-uploading the file before the pics could be printed, but that didn’t work out.
They’ll be $1 each on my table at the
Youngstown Comic Con, but only on Sunday.
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