June 13th, 2011
Sorry for the lateness of this update but it’s probably even better if you see this one at night:
Who or what is Incubi? Don’t expect any spoilers from me or this quickly-done pic. I’ll just say Incubi is a villain in my main “hero vs. villain” style comic universe and any horror movie vibe you get from the picture is intentional.
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June 6th, 2011
Sorry for the lateness of this update. The J’onn J’onzz pic finally gets a background I made with some experimenting here and there. The Rocky/Manuke sprite that you may have seen in last week’s ScrollBoss update is now in the gallery with an animation that shows many of the steps I took to make it including the reference material. The Manuke sprite is actually a bit better than the one on ScrollBoss now for reasons you’ll see on the gallery page. Click the little previews over there to see their gallery pages and I hope you enjoy them.
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Tags: DC Comics, Kiki Kaikai, Natsume, Taito
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May 30th, 2011
This update is light for a few reasons. the first is that I’m working on a slightly big ScrollBoss update to keep making up for all of those small ones. The other reason is that I’m working on a new villain that I was going to show but may hold back due to some surprises. One of the sprites in the ScrollBoss update is a scratch-made Bomberman sprite.
Click here to see the gallery page with an animation that shows some of the scribbly steps I took to make it. You’ll see that sprite in a few more palettes when ScrollBoss gets updated later this week.
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Tags: Bomberman, pixelart
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May 23rd, 2011
The Captain America pic from 2009 finally has a background. It’s an obvious background that I didn’t want to give him because I thought people would complain until someone at the convention last week suggested it. I figured out a way to make it less plain so I gave it a shot. Plus, the picture of Peter Pepper, the hero of the old Burgertime video game, is now in color. Click a picture to see it’s gallery page.
The main links page finally got an update that includes the old and new friends I ran into at the All Americon 2011. Be sure to check it out to see work from some amazing creative people!
ScrollBoss got an update yesterday that includes some new items and improvements to the Graphic Generators.
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Tags: Data East, Marvel Comics
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May 16th, 2011
People, I had fun. Mad fun, even. Yes, I sold prints and made connections but that’s only a business-minded justification for having the kind of fun I had this Sunday. I had a chance to hang out with old and new friends, buy some cool stuff and spend my weekend doing something other than being hunched over a computer to work on things. People seemed to like the 2011 flyer, a fact that I’ll use to segue into how I updated the flyer’s gallery page to show a bit of work on the sprite and the original version of a graphic that had to be changed for obvious reasons. I’ll let you figure that last one out on your own.
The first convention last year was great but All Americon 2 was bigger and deffer bigger and better. More people made it to this for various reasons but the biggest seems to be “Man, you should’a been there last year!” I’d like to thank everyone who put it together not just for the great job they did in all areas but because this area needs a get-together like this and hopefully we’ll have have many many more in the future.
The main thing I dropped the ball on was getting website info for everyone. I still have it for a few people from last year so I’m going to repost some of it here. Check out the websites of these fine, fine people:
A.J. Sabino
Clockwork Adventures
Chris Kasmar
Johio
John Hazen
Things will go back to normal (whatever that is) next week. There will be a ScrollBoss update either this week or the next with new mini-logos and a minor new feature for the Graphic Generators.
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Tags: All AmeriCon, pixelart
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May 9th, 2011
Illmosis 2011 Party Flyer: done. Secret Awesome President motivational picture: done. I’ve got to go. Don’t forget that the
All Americon is THIS COMING SUNDAY. Lots of great artists, retailers and cool people will be there. I’ll be there with prints to sell and flyers to give out! Admission is only $2 so you won’t be broke before seeing what’s inside!
Edit (2011 May 10th, 4 AM): The boring ScrollBoss bubble on the flyer just didn’t sit well with me so I replaced it with a new one that includes a scratch-made sprite of Brody Lawler. Who’s that? He’s an amalgam of different brawlers from various old beat-em-up games. I’ll have more about that sprite in the next update but here it is by itself:
I sketched out the basic pose on paper, scanned it, used the Wacom tablet to trace it, shrank it to sprite size and started doing all the shading and detail work. This was the first time I did that and it’s not bad for a semi-rush job. Yes, the tablet even makes sprites easier!
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May 2nd, 2011
Kilowog now has a background that’s another attempt of trying to make quick, decent space backgrounds. I think I’m getting better with the quickly made planets. That M-Wave picture I drew nearly a year ago is finally in full color thanks to the Wacom tablet. M-Wave’s new art was part of an overall update to his
character profile. I really haven’t had an update this productive in a while and that’s on top of having a
ScrollBoss update on Saturday.
All-Americon 2011 is only half a month away and I’m trying to get a few more things done in time for that. Hopefully I can get another party flyer together because people really seemed to like the first one. Keep your fingers crossed!
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Tags: DC Comics, Green Lantern, Kilowog, M-Wave, main universe
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April 25th, 2011
I spent much of last week feeling like crap thanks to some sinus problems but I still managed to get some work done with the sites including this Kilowog picture. I promised someone at last year’s
All-Americon that I’d have it ready for next year’s shindig and it took me this long to come up with a pose that I worked and wasn’t too similar to the Hal Jordan pic from 2009. I’ll have a background for this before the convention goes down on May 25th.
Bad, unsurprising news: I won’t have the Illmosis Scrapbook done in time for the convention. I’m thinking of doing something slightly different and smaller for the ashcan while saving the Scrapbook name for a different, bigger concept. I have no idea if I’ll have this smaller ashcan done, printed, cut and stapled in time for the convention but I’ll take the ol’ college stab at it or whatever.
There will be a ScrollBoss update this week with lots of little random things in it.
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Tags: All AmeriCon, Green Lantern, Kilowog
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April 18th, 2011
This was the first real test I’ve had with the Wacom tablet I bought and I think I officially dig it. Click on the little picture up there to check out the gallery page where you can see the whole picture along with a close-up of some details I never could’ve done with just a mouse. The tablet allows me to speed up my line-cleaning and coloring process quite a bit so progress is a bit less turtle-like. Yeah, I think you’ll start to see more color artwork on this site thanks to the tablet.
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Tags: main universe, Passion Tanaka, Twofold
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April 11th, 2011
Another lazy update. This is Upski Daisy, a character from a project that I’ve been teasing for a long time. Between trying to get the different drawing style down for this thing and trying to get a design that worked, you can see the struggle all through this pic. I had an earlier try at drawing her that fell apart as I was inking in it. This design seems to work though it’s not good enough to be a profile pic. Click to see the larger version.
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Tags: the war begins again
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