A new Sheol sprite has been added along with Aaron Pinsky’s profile of his character. Click on the sprites in this update to check out the page with the rest of the Sheol sprites and character biographies. BTW: I still have two sprite commission slots open so have a look at the commission price list to see if the prices are right for you.
Work continues on Project TC and includes a character that isn’t ready to show off yet. I can post a teaser just to prove that I’m working on it:
Here’s another picture from the earlier experiments in this style:
A few of you will recognize something in the background of the second preview pic. Yes, that’s coming back when this project hits this year and there will be a new and improved version of it at some point in the future. I think I’ve been annoyingly cryptic enough for one day. Have a good weekend!
This is based on the first issue of the 90’s Black Lightning comic written by Tony Isabella and by drawn Eddy Newell, one of my favorite runs of any comic. I’ve always wanted to make a sprite of that cover’s pose but waited until I had the scratch-spriting skills to do it justice.
This sprite was made for a pixelart side-project that I’ve been messing around with for about two years now. I’ve either posted altered or cropped versions of the sprites as previews but never posted 100% visible versions of the sprites. This is the closest I’ve come to showing a whole sprite from that and even this one is altered and slightly covered up. I made one sprite edit and another scratch sprite for the same project yesterday but this is all you’re getting of that scratch sprite…
The picture of the original Lego Batman is inked and has base colors laid down. I made some changes before inking it but I still have a few problems with it.
Lots of progress was made on different projects last week. Some of it was sprite work but I made a lot of progress on one of the big features I’d always planned to have for the GFX Generators on ScrollBoss. The ScrollBoss weblog has a progress post that I keep updating as I improve this new feature. That is the type of work I can get done when I pass up doing small updates to work on long-term content.
The biggest thing I did this weekend wasn’t exactly something I made but finally coming up with a name for something I’ve had on the back burner for nearly a decade now.
There is a tag in the galleries that most people probably never noticed because I’ve barely posted any pictures that use it. That, and the tag, will be changing this year. I finished a logo for one of the first real things you will see from this concept but I can only show you part of it:
Every name I’d come up with for this turned out to be taken until I thought of this one last week. Even the first version of it was taken for the location in a book but a quick adjustment led to an even better name. The crazy thing is that part of the already taken name I had earlier turned out to fit perfectly with another word for the overall concept. There won’t be a year’s worth of teases for this one because I’m putting this one out there as soon as I get a few things in order.
I finished another sprite from Aaron Pinsky’s Sheol stories and added it to the gallery page. This sprite has one of the sneakiest faces I’ve ever sprited. Mr. Pinsky also provided a short bio for the character so be sure to check that out, too. I spent most of last week working on page layout ideas and other things that I can’t show you yet. There isn’t much else I can post other than a preview of a Lego Batman pic that still needs some work before I ink it. I wasn’t going to post it until I had it inked but this update needs more content.
The Wasp and Diamondback sprites from last week’s ScrollBoss update now have gallery pages on this site. Both have Work Progress animations that show you many of the steps I took to make the sprites. The ScrollBoss site is officially on pause for a while but that doesn’t mean that there won’t be new pixel art in later updates. I’ll be using that extra time to work on projects that I’ve been working on for a long time. The screenshots you’ll see below this post are from one of those projects and were taken as I worked on the logo this weekend. I posted these pics on my Ill Side-Mission Tumblr and I’ll try to do things like that more often.
Two new scratch-made sprites make up today’s update. Sarah Taylor, another character from Aaron Pinsky’s Sheol stories, is added to the Sheol page along with a short bio from the writer himself. I was going to show you one of the sprites I made for this week’s big Avengers-centric ScrollBoss update but decided to save that for later. What you get instead is Jem, the truly outrageous animated pop-star from the 80’s and hopeful future contender in Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
I’m short-changing you a bit in this update. I have two more scratch-made sprites done but I’m saving them for this week’s ScrollBoss update. I’ll finish this post up with a preview of them.
Today’s update is another sprite based on characters from Aaron Pinsky’s Sheol stories. Those sprites will have a single page that you can check out in this link along with a bit of info about the characters.
ScrollBoss had an update last week where I added a bunch of overdue Street Fighter and Double Dragon characters to the GFX Generators so you can make fake screenshots and group pics with them. There will be a small-but-important anniversary update for that site.
I’ve been working on a lot of unseen things for Illmosis, ScrollBoss and “The War Begins Again” for a while and the updates here have suffered for it. The updates haven’t been big for a while but that will change soon. Here’s a preview of something that I’m hoping to finish for the next ScrollBoss update and will be seen here soon after that.
Also, the Commissions page has been updated with prices and the fact that there are two pixel art commission slots open right now.
Aaron Pinsky (a.k.a. Psychoblue) commissioned me to make a sprite of his character, Areva Petchyindee. Learn more about Areva along with her allies and enemies in this post on the Tekken Nation board. This sprite will have a gallery page in the next update.
BTW: ScrollBoss got a microscopic update. The transparent shadows in the GFX Generator are now unified instead of being separate, overlapping shadows that have darker areas when they cross. There’s a real update coming later this week but I decided to throw that in early.
Not much going on today, folks. I added a few Green Lantern sprites to ScrollBoss last week and two used a sprite base that I made from scratch. Click on the sprites to see the gallery page that has a work progress animation to see a few steps I took to make the base.
I spent a lot of time working on the ScrollBoss update including things that either didn’t get finished or are being saved for projects. The same goes for the drawn art but I do have a couple of doodle pages I’d like to throw out there. These were drawn right before I went to sleep so expect them to be even crappier than usual.
The John Stewart, Thing, Simon Belmont and Almighty Grandmaster Wizard poses may be good enough for full drawings sooner or later. Still toying with Upski Daisy’s look. These will have gallery pages when I get around to them.
Sorry for having another small update but I was working on sample pictures for something that I’m keeping my fingers crossed about. The one thing that I can show you is a sprite of Eddie ‘Skate’ Hunter, a playable hero in Streets of Rage 2 and Streets of Rage 3. This is the same lil’ brawler I drew back in March of this year. Click on the lil’ thumbnail pick up there to go straight to the gallery page. There is a progress animation that shows some of the steps I took while working on this. I was in a bit of a rush so there aren’t as many steps.
The gallery page will also explain that Wizzy, master of the CPS2-style arcade soundtrack, is one of the main reasons that I finally got around to making this sprite. I was just about post this news post when I found out that Wizzy has the video posted. The man has expert timing like that! Enjoy the music!
