Aw, yeah! Two pics this week, people! First up is a hastily drawn and colored pic of Passion Tanaka being deceptively goofy and kinda creepy. But that’s how she gets down so it’s okay! Valentine’s Day is a stupid holiday made to guilt people into buying expensive things for each other but I had to draw the idea once it popped into my head. The second pic is just the new design of the PowerKore characters that I mentioned last week. They’ll be appearing in that “Universal Intro” story on either page 3 or page 4 (depending on which story pattern I use). There are variations to the outfit but this is the main style.

Categories: Illmosis updates by James Beaver
Tags: Passion Tanaka

After days of being sick and finally having to take some kind of medicine that induces sleepy time, I’m just going to throw the update on right now. You probably can’t tell if you’re reading this from the site’s main menu but I just replaced the older news module with Folger’s Crystals WordPress. The Illmosis web log will have the site updates along with posts about other things related to the sites or to my characters like Nutroll, Twofold, Passion Tanaka, the Ice Cream Man and the rest. I also ink-traced and base-colored that Douglas Bild picture from last week. I was hoping to have more art done for the update but turning into a human snot faucet, redesigning the outfits of the bad guys in this old Ice Cream Man pic (maybe I’ll put the sketches on the blog), redesigning the ScrollBoss font a bit, working on a sprite set and some other ScrollBoss stuff wore me out a bit.

Categories: Illmosis updates by James Beaver

Yes, I’m replacing the CuteNews update post format with WordPress goodness just like I did on ScrollBoss. Many posts will be site updates but there will also be previews, rambles, character explanations and more things that won’t show up on the site’s main menu. Expect more Illmosis bits to be integrated as I work on the theme. Comments, feedback, and barely on-topic rambles are welcomed as long as they aren’t SPAM.

Any posts before this one are archived posts from the older news system. Thank you and watch the closing doors.

Categories: Site News by James Beaver

Again, I’m working on a lot of stuff at the same time so all I have is this pic of Douglas Bild from Brawl Brothers/Rushing Beat Ran. I tried to do the blue line pencil-to-dark pencil thing here but I may just traditionally ink-trace it anyway. The proportions are a bit off but I could probably fix that a bit.

I made big progress on some ScrollBoss items that I won’t be able to unleash for a few months. Two of these things will be added to this site later since they’re from scratch. One has basic sprite poses traced to match the old version, I still changed most of it to make it fit Street Fighter Alpha style. Here are some early shots of them.

If you’re a gaming fan with a good eye, you’ll notice they’re from the same game. I also redesigned the last character I needed for the group shot in the “Universal Intro” story. She’s only flying in the background but she becomes important much later on. Okay, I’ve gotta roll and test out more of these sprites then work on the next ScrollBoss update.

Categories: Illmosis updates by James Beaver
Tags: Game fan art, Rushing Beat

Due to what will be a busy, miserable weekend, I’m updating before it starts. Treat is in full and creepy color now.

The ScrollBoss site just got a WP blog put into it for handling site updates posts, previews and such. You’ll see something like that added here once I fine-tune the ScrollBoss version.

Categories: Illmosis updates by James Beaver

This was a very light week but many of the weeks will be on the light tip since I’m also working on multiple projects like “the Universal Intro” for the comics. Tempress makes her debut on the site in her new outfit. I planned to draw her during the Illmosis 5th Anniversary last November but those early attempts looked crappier than this. Besides being my second character ever, she’s also the second pic I drew this year. What was the first? More on that later. Also up this week is another variation of the TMNT sprites I made last month. This set is modelled after the original Playmates Toys action figures from 1988 right down to the mouth expressions on the faces. The blacked-out character in the last pic was the first pic of 2010 and it part of something that I’ve been scheming on for years. In fact, he isn’t the first teaser I’ve thrown out for the project. More on this later though you may be able to figure out part of what’s going on if you know where to look.

Categories: Illmosis updates by James Beaver
Tags: golden axe, s.a.p., scrollboss, sprites, tmnt

Negater is now in full, mean color. Meanwhile, I’m working on some big site changes for ScrollBoss and MugenBoss so I have to cut this short. See you next update!

Categories: Illmosis updates by James Beaver

No, I couldn’t resist the bad pun and I don’t care. The Wonder Woman pic is full color now and looks consistent with the GL and J’onn J’onnz pics I did last year. After all that work on ScrollBoss (including a surprise mini-update this Wednesday), it was nice to get back to coloring artwork. I spent most of my vacation working on ScrollBoss, New Year’s Eve working on the Universal Intro story and New Year’s Day working on the Wonder Woman pic. I’m updating the site at 5 AM Saturday instead of Sunday so I can have some time to chill out this weekend. I’ll probably work on something anyway, but I can be laid back about it.

Categories: Illmosis updates by James Beaver
Tags: DC Comics

Today was the last big ScrollBoss: the Revenge of 1989 updates and I’ve added the scratch-made sprites to this site. The TMNT are also celebrating their 25th Anniversary along with the 20th Anniversary for their 1st NES and Arcade games so it’s extra special for them. Be sure to check out the ‘progress animations’ on Gilius and Death Adder to see many of the steps I went through to make them.

Categories: Illmosis updates by James Beaver
Tags: golden axe, tmnt

Have a Merry Christmas or whatever it is that you celebrate! Enjoy family, friends, loved ones, food, new holiday memories, themed television programming with crappy marathons and delicious food. If you don’t celebrate anything, have fun anyway! I don’t even mean that sarcastically because I’m not here to judge you. Try to return the favor and not get hissy about how I drew Santessa, my long-lost Christmas mascot, in the ‘cheezycake style’ that I barely use now.

I’ll be back this Sunday with a bunch of sprites!

Categories: Illmosis updates by James Beaver