Illmosis / ScrollBoss prints sale!
November 25th to November 28th:
8×10 and 8×11 prints are $5.00 each!
11 x 17and 11 x14 prints $8.00 each!
Check out the prints page here!
It’s the 12th anniversary of the Illmosis site! Between sinus problems and a month-long stretch of trying to churn out horror sprites for the DangerTerrorHorrorThon on ScrollBoss, I’m a little tired. There’s still some newness to be had with the Hazelle sprite seen on the other site (but with a new, simple background) and an all-new Nutroll sprite. Both gallery pages have .GIFs made from different points of progress as I worked on the sprites.
Now that the big code rewrite of the GFX Generators on ScrollBoss is finally done and the DangerTerrorHorrorThon there is over, I can give this place some of the attention it’s needed for a long time. Sorry for the absence and I’ll try to breath some life back into this spot!
So I’ve been doing to DangerTerrorHorrorThon event over on ScrollBoss for a few days, but I decided to put one of my own characters into the mix on the final day:
I also made a portrait of Blade:
I didn’t want to get ring rust with the pixels, so I had to dip back into the dot art side of things, and I have two pics to show for it. One is of the Justice League, though you may have seen some of the sprites when I posted them on ScrollBoss. The other is based on the ending for the original Legend of Zelda.
Don’t forget, the All AmeriCon convention is on the way! See their Facebook page for more details!
A new pic of Chun-Li from Street Fighter has been added to the gallery! It’s been a while since I scribbled a Street Fighter and Chun-Li just seemed like the right character to draw. I also added the original sketch to the Black Panther pic I drew earlier this month. I still need to get test prints of both pics before adding them to the prints section here.
Chun-Li here will probably be the last color pin-up I finish before the All-AmeriCon convention in July. Cue the flyer image!
Note that I said that’s all for line art, because I plan to get at least one more pixel art print ready. I finished a few new sprites in-between all the new line art pics I’ve done for the past few weeks and some will probably be used in those prints. I’ll keep you updated on what I’ll have at the convention, but I’ll try to have some free coloring pages and flyers to give out, plus previews of new stuff to show if you stop by my table.
I’ll be back next week with more stuff! **claps and points like Chuck Barris**
Yesterday was my birthday and I spent most of it working on the background for the full-color Black Panther pic. He’s a character I’ve wanted to draw for a long time, so it felt really good to finish his pic on my birthday. I also added some TMNT sprites to their gallery page here. These hit ScrollBoss in the Free Comic Book Day update in May and were so rushed that I didn’t take any progress steps while doing them. Still, they managed to look okay. Also: the Pac-Man and Lego Batgirl pics are now available as prints!
Reminder: the All-AmeriCon 2016 in Warren, Ohio is less than a month away!
Both the Pac-Man pic (from last week) and Batgirl pics will be available in the print section once I get test prints of both. I’ll be back with more newness next week (or sooner)!
Finally, an update! Today’s newness is full-color art of Pac-Man and a black & white pic of Lego Batgirl (my own 60’s TV version) hit the gallery hard enough to knock a bit of the dust off that place. Gotta start being productive and get some new prints ready for the All-AmeriCon convention. The Pac-Man pic will be available as a print after I test it out.
I’ll have a table there again with both line art and pixel art prints along with some more stuff that won’t be on this site, ScrollBoss or Beans vs. Cornbread yet, so roll by the table to check it out, even if you don’t want to buy anything. I’ll also have the free 20XX Party Flyers to give out, too!
I was at the Warren All-American Comics shop on Free Comic Book Day and a news video captured me in full-on sleep deprivation mode:
I haven’t been very active here this year, but I’ve gotten a lot done with ScrollBoss. I’ve got the an early version of the new image generator up and running, with a ton of new or updated pixel art to go along with it. I’ve also been learning to use Clip Studio Pro (which I’ve used to ink all my new stuff) and Anime Studio (old examples here and here). I also drew and colored a book cover that I can’t show yet. So, yeah, I haven’t been sittin’ around eatin’ chocolates and not conditioning.
I’ll be back with more soon!
The prints on both this site (and ScrollBoss) are on sale for Cyber-Week, which lasts until Sunday, November 6th. 8×10 and 8×11 prints are $4.50 each while the 11 x 17 prints $8.50 each.
ScrollBoss’ update yesterday wrapped up November’s business yesterday by adding Illmosis character sprites to the gallery on ScrollBoss and making a new SFA3 portrait for Karnov, just to make sure that I’ve properly celebrated Karnovember. Today’s update adds a new sprite to go with the cyber theme:
This isn’t an 11th Anniversary post as much as it’s a “this place isn’t dead” post. I haven’t updated since the All-AmeriCon and a lot has happened since then. So this post is going to play catch-up and talk about what’s next.
Sprites were made and posted on ScrollBoss, including a lot of horror characters for another DangerTerrorHorrorThon that wrapped up on Halloween.
Updating the sprite group pics on this site to add sprites is too time consuming, which is part of why they haven’t been updated in months. ScrollBoss’ sprite galleries are easy to update, but lack the features that the I made for the art galleries. I’ll stick to adding single pieces here (including pixel art prints) until I can make one merged gallery system.
I did some commission pixel work, but you’ll have to wait to see the ridiculously fun background I made. The biggest thing was buying Anime Studio 10 with money I made at the All-AmeriCon and then, for once, following through with trying to learn a recent art program purchase.
It’s easier for me to learn the ropes of the program using pixel art, so that’s part of why my focus has been on that. The program can also use Manga Studio/Clip Studio files, so that’s even more incentive for me to learn those program and transition to having fun with drawn art in the program.
I was going to talk about things I plan to work on, but that never works out well for me, does it? Example: plans to do a big group of Illmosis character sprites for this update fell off when my sinus problems decided to hit me with a truck, and my concentration is so shot that even typing this post is tougher than it should be. That didn’t stop me from getting a Nutroll sprite finished. I’ve been working on some character redesigns and revamps while doing the pixel art sketches, like Exponent over there. Her hair color change is thanks to how a major TV show decided to have a redhead who can make duplicates of herself. I also shortened her hair in hero mode so that her silhouette looks less like Mindsight’s. Honestly, I dig the purple hair, so it all worked out. I’ll be making more Illmosis sprites this month and I’ll add them to ScrollBoss in a special update.