March 21st, 2011
I didn’t plan to have the Storm picture in fully shaded mode for the first day of spring and I’m not going to front like I did. It’s just nice when things work out that way. This will be one of the last full-color fan art pics I do before the All-Americon convention in May because I’ll be putting the Illmosis Scrapbook together. I came up with a few concepts for the character pages you’ll see in the book and I’ll post an example once it’s ready. They’ll be like profile pages but with a lot more art. Also: that next ScrollBoss update will be sometime this week with some Marvel vs. Capcom 3 related things being added to the Graphic Generators.
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March 14th, 2011
The new picture will be the main part of the cover for the first Illmosis Scrapbook, a collection of random, ridiculous stuff that I’ve been threatening to make for a long time. There’s still a lot of work to do for this and I may not have it done in time for the All Americon convention this year but it will be done this year. It will have art, character pages, a slightly different version of that old “Nutroll: the Illness” teaser, The Twofold teaser and some things that you haven’t seen yet. It will be up for sale on this site a while after it’s done.
Site news: Main updates for the site will definitely be on Mondays now. ScrollBoss updates will be a bit small until after the convention in May. This week’s update will bring a few new things for the GFX Generator like palettes (including Green + White Rogue and Mango Sentinel) and at least one new Marvel vs. Capcom 3 character.
Categories: Illmosis updates, Nutroll updates, Site News by James Beaver
Tags: illmosis scrapbook, Nutroll
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March 7th, 2011
The chef here is Peter Pepper from the old Burgertime game by Data East. I based him on the in-game sprite and drew him in the cartoon style I’ve been trying to get a grip on recently. The other new thing is a headswap on that Storm picture I posted last week. I wasn’t happy with it then but the new head fixes the main issue I had with it. Click on the small thumbnail pics to see their gallery pages.
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February 27th, 2011
Sorry for the lack of an update last week but the things that popped up was part of the reason that I had to stop drop the weekly guarantee. I felt just good enough to struggle through this picture of Storm in her Jim Lee-designed outfit and not completely mess it up. It needed two digital fixes (shifting her mouth a few pixels and finishing the very top of her hair because I ran out of paper) but I’m not completely mad at it.
For all I know, I’ll end up redrawing it so there’s no point in giving it a gallery page just yet. I was going to finish coloring that picture of Skate from Streets of Rage but my mouse is acting up a bit. I’m going to wait until I can get a really good replacement mouse before I get to coloring anything.
Things I’ve been working on include:
1.) Giant, pain-in-the-butt re-write of a ScrollBoss section called the S-Files. I’ve spent the last two weeks working on the new code and character info for it along with making room for future features.
2.) Illmosis Scrapbook #1 ashcan book. Seriously, sincerely and fo’rilla. Sketches, story previews and art. I’m trying to get it done in time for the next All Americon convention on May 15th. Check out that link for details
3.) 2011 Party Flyer. I may have that done in March but I’ll probably have to censor a part of the version I post on the site since it reveals the name of the “When the War Begins Again” project.
4.) Last few necessary design revisions for that “War Begins Again” before I can start on the introduction and hopefully post it in April.
5.) More commissions once I get my momentum back.
Categories: Illmosis updates by James Beaver
Tags: Marvel Comics, the war begins again
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February 13th, 2011
A commission for a friend, extra day job work and some fatigue slowed things down a bit for the site but both Skate and Almighty Grandmaster Wizard are now in base color mode. Most of Skate’s linework has been cleaned so a full color version will happen soon. The AGW pic will be redrawn once I get all of his design 100% in place. I’ll probably add stripes on the side of the jumpsuit and other things like that.
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Tags: Sega, Streets of Rage, the war begins again
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February 7th, 2011
I updated yesterday but I’m making an all-new post since most people were too busy watching Sunday’s Ultra Feetsball Finale telecast and the commercials nestled within. Eddie “Skate” Hunter from Sega’s Streets of Rage series and a pixel art recreation of the Castlevania NES box art. The Castlevania pic was done for a new screen layout for the
GroupShot image generator on ScrollBoss and you’ll find an animation that shows some progress steps as I made it.
I finally fixed the ScrollBoss gallery so all the pictures show up now. It includes characters from the kinds of action/adventure games I talk about on the site as well as the goofy pictures that I made just for features on the site.
Categories: Illmosis updates by James Beaver
Tags: Castlevania, konami, pixelart, Sega, Streets of Rage
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February 6th, 2011
The Castlevania background that I posted a preview of last week is now on the site. There’s an animated .GIF showing some of the steps I took in making it.
I planned to have this picture of Skate from Sega’s Streets of Rage games inked for today’s update but something came up. I’m posting a link to the pencils so you can see what to expect. I’ll post the inked version on a gallery page once it’s finished instead of waiting until the next weekend update. Besides, everyone is watching the Super Bowl so who cares about this update? Yeah.
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Tags: Castlevania, konami, pixelart, Sega, Streets of Rage
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January 30th, 2011
Currently having some problems with a program I use to test PHP and MySQL on the hard drive version of my sites. It turns out to be a big part of why I had such connection problems lately because it doesn’t get bad until I turn the PHP/Apache part on. I’m still working on this problem along with a big system update for the GfxGenerators on ScrollBoss. I’m going to show you part of a background I made from scratch for that update:
An uncovered version of that background will be in the first update after it debuts on ScrollBoss. The program problems have slowed work down to a crawl but I’m hoping to get it ready for this week or weekend.
I’ll try to make up for the lameness of this non-update later.
Categories: Illmosis updates by James Beaver
Tags: Castlevania, konami, lame
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January 22nd, 2011
Update 1:
The bad weather here seems to be messing with my net connection so I’m posting this while I can. I may do more with the background later.
Update 2:
One of the things I wanted to add to the pic didn’t work but I did add a few more effects to make the picture look a bit less boring. I think that’s done enough for now.
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January 16th, 2011
Star Sapphire appears in full color and with a new pair of legs. Expect a better special effects when I get a background together for her. Thanks to sinus problems or something that feels like them, I feel like Arn Anderson hit me in the back of the head with a tire iron so I’m shocked that I managed to get even this tiny bit of work done.
The character profiles now show small versions of pics in the mini-galleries instead of thumbnail clips and close-ups. I’m trying to get the profile structure ready for some big changes that you’ll see later this year but I figured I’d get the small steps out of the way first.
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Tags: DC Comics
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I didn’t plan to have the Storm picture in fully shaded mode for the first day of spring and I’m not going to front like I did. It’s just nice when things work out that way. This will be one of the last full-color fan art pics I do before the All-Americon convention in May because I’ll be putting the Illmosis Scrapbook together. I came up with a few concepts for the character pages you’ll see in the book and I’ll post an example once it’s ready. They’ll be like profile pages but with a lot more art. Also: that next ScrollBoss update will be sometime this week with some Marvel vs. Capcom 3 related things being added to the Graphic Generators.
