April 9th, 2015
This easily qualifies as an unfinished business post. That Flash pic adds a background to a picture I drew and colored two months ago, but Gilius himslef was originally done last year (part of “The Revenge of 1989” for the ScrollBoss site) and the new-style Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle sprites started with Raph last December. If you recognize the background for those TMNT sprites on their gallery page, consider it a preview for something I’m working on quietly. The Flash pic has been added to the
Prints page and the Gilius pic will join it once I get a sample print to see how it looks.
My own copy of the
ScrollBoss Minus World Skull shirt from TeePublic.com came in the mail yesterday, right along with a new batch of prints. I didn’t realize this until I hunted down the old scan to clean up and vectorize for the shirt (and other projects), but that graphic is now over 10 years old. It goes back to when I redesigned the ScrollBoss site before moving to Dreamhost. I wanted something creepy-but-still-goofy for the Twilight Zone-style vibe
that section of ScrollBoss went for at times. That section will have yet another change in the future, but that’s a whole different story.
I’ll be at the Warren, Ohio location of All-American Cards & Comics on Free Comic Book Day (May 2nd), but don’t let that cause you to avoid the place. I’ll be selling prints and will have some unposted pics and sprites to show for anyone who stops by.
Categories: Illmosis updates, Site News by James Beaver
Tags: DC Comics, pixel art, Sega, superheroes, tmnt, video games
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March 19th, 2015
The newest thing in this update has a bit of oldness to it. It’s a fake screenshot with two 1980’s horror icons about to face off in a video game, but you’ll also see quite a few cameos in the character selection boxes. I updated the Lego Spider-Man pic a while back but decided to save it for this site update.
The horror pixel art pic, Spider-Man and the ol’ Secret Awesome President pic have been added to the improved prints page. The 8×10 and 8.5×11 inch pics are $6 each, and two for $10. There will be more pixel art prints added to the site this year (I have ideas for a 3 vs. 3 sequel for the Horror game print if the first one sells well). Most of the profits will go towards paying to keep the websites going, art supplies, ordering more prints and essential non-essentials (old kung-fu flicks, music, action figures, etc.) that keep me inspired as a weirdo.
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Tags: horror, Lego, pixel art
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March 13th, 2015
I decided to draw new fan art of my favorite Jason Voorhees-inspired video game character, Rick Taylor from Namco’s Splatterhouse series:
My 2015 art goal is to get funky or die tryin’, so I tried to make this pic look a little weird. I’ll probably try to digitally ink and/or redraw this later. This pic will be added to the site gallery in next week’s update.
The new Rick pic is also served as a base for a new select screen/Vs. screen portrait I made and uploaded as part of today’s small ScrollBoss update. You’ll also find a preview of my first pixel art print ever, something that will be on the site (and possibly in the site’s store) next week.
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Tags: Namco, Splatterhouse, video games
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February 23rd, 2015
That Lego-Spider-Man picture is finally in full-color and on a toy background that may seem familiar to some of you. Yesterday was officially (?) Ninja Day in Japan, so I’ve added ninja-related sprites to the gallery from three great game series: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Shinobi and Ninja Gaiden.
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Tags: Lego, Marvel Comics, Ninja Gaiden, pixel art, Shinobi, tmnt
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February 2nd, 2015
Flash week is over, but I still had unfinished business with the Flash’s artwork. I redrew the head, the reason why I stalled on coloring it during Flash week, and finished the coloring. That’s been added to the site along with a lot of pixel art I made during that week. The Flashes get a gallery page, the Rogues have been added to the DC Villains page and a Tiny Titans Kid Flash was added to the Tiny Titans page.
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Tags: DC Comics, pixel art, The Flash
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January 20th, 2015
Not only was the Flash one of my first favorite characters back when I was a young’un, but it was also one of the few books to keep me reading comics back in hologram-bejeweled, stunt-encrusted 1990’s. Since this is the month that DC is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Flash (staring with Jay Garrick, the original) and this is the day that the Flash’s excellent live-action TV show returns with new eps, I’ll be celebrating the Flash all this week on Illmosis AND ScrollBoss. There will be an update there a bit later on today (check around 5 PM EST) The update with Flash-related (and semi-related) pixel art, including an animated .GIF are up now!
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Tags: The Flash
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January 6th, 2015
So.
I don’t like to make personal posts, but I think I owe you this one and I’ll keep it as short as possible. The short version: updates will be a bit weird for a while due to work and health reasons, but there will hopefully be more newness this year than there was last year.
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Tags: personal
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December 25th, 2014
Merry Christmas from the Illmosis network of sites and Santa Gilius (from Sega’s Golden Axe games)!
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Tags: golden axe, pixel art, Sega
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November 28th, 2014
Two brand-new sprites hit the site today and both are characters of mine from a group called the Vigilants. Ace of Clubs and Longway have both appeared on the site in multiple pics (and Longway being surprisingly popular) and this is their first time in pixel form. I also started a page for sprites of Castlevania’s monsters, starting with the Night Stalker (from Castlevania: the Adventure) sprite I made during ScrollBoss’ DangerTerrorHorrorThon 2014 updates. The other CV enemies I’ve sprited (and there’s a lot of them) will be added in future updates.
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Tags: Ace of Clubs, Castlevania, konami, Longway, pixel art, The Revenge of 1989, the Vigilants
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November 22nd, 2014
Today’s newness includes the sprite I made of M-Wave, one of my comic characters, and a gallery dump of all the scratch-made Splatterhouse sprite I’ve made so far (expect for the Wanpaku Graffiti stuff). Both pages have a work-progress .GIF and a linework scan. Oddly enough, I’d forgotten that I’d just sprited Rick Taylor right in PaintShop Pro with my Wacom instead of sketching him out, so the work prog is for him and linework is of Biggy Man. I’ll add more to that page in the future.
Also: there was a ScrollBoss update on Friday with seven sword and sorcery characters, including Trevor Belmont from Castlevania III and Ax Battler from Golden Axe.
That wasn’t even all the pixel art I’ve worked on lately, as I also worked on two sprite commissions I can’t show you just yet. I’ll be back with at least one more sprite of my characters for a Thanksgiving week update!
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Tags: main universe, pixel art, Splatterhouse
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This easily qualifies as an unfinished business post. That Flash pic adds a background to a picture I drew and colored two months ago, but Gilius himslef was originally done last year (part of “The Revenge of 1989” for the ScrollBoss site) and the new-style Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle sprites started with Raph last December. If you recognize the background for those TMNT sprites on their gallery page, consider it a preview for something I’m working on quietly. The Flash pic has been added to the Prints page and the Gilius pic will join it once I get a sample print to see how it looks.
My own copy of the ScrollBoss Minus World Skull shirt from TeePublic.com came in the mail yesterday, right along with a new batch of prints. I didn’t realize this until I hunted down the old scan to clean up and vectorize for the shirt (and other projects), but that graphic is now over 10 years old. It goes back to when I redesigned the ScrollBoss site before moving to Dreamhost. I wanted something creepy-but-still-goofy for the Twilight Zone-style vibe that section of ScrollBoss went for at times. That section will have yet another change in the future, but that’s a whole different story.
