ILLVEMBER brings back the Ace of Clubs, another hero from my and the site’s past, and she’s gotten more of a makeover than Nutroll got, including an alternate version with a full hood! Speaking of that, Nutroll’s new design is here! Sure, it may not seem like much to you, but that part of the mask was one of the few (if not only) unchanged parts of his design since the 1992 original! And weirdly enough, I’m already getting used to drawing it.

Also added is a page for pixelart of my Holiday Mascots, starting with Hazelle and Santessa. Santessa’s been active on ScrollBoss for a couple of years, when her character was put in charge of the toy aisle backgrounds and the store was given her new first name: Hilde, but I explain that in the gallery page.

“HOLD UP, wait-a-minute, how did he get the new mouth on his mask?”

Don’t worry, I got it on video:

Believe it or not, that’s the first time I’ve really animated Nutroll, at least outside of my own head. But that’s just a taste, one of my main goals has been to animate my own characters.

Thanks for coming through and I hope you have happy whatever you do or don’t celebrate, I just hope you have a good weekend!

Categories: Nutroll updates, Site News by James Beaver
Tags: Ace of Clubs, Nutroll, pixel art, pixelart

ILLVEMBER recognizes the long-defunct (but not forgotten) Beans vs. Cornbread! A few years ago I made sprites of Almighty Grandmaster Wizard and not only made a sprite of Upski Daisy but even redesigned her. They didn’t appear hear or the Beans vs. Cornbread site then, but I’ve got them here now, including the linework scan for AGW. I’ve been scheming to get more of the cast in pixel form, including one character who may make crossover appearances in a ScrollBoss idea I’ve had because he’d be the perfect host.

Keep an eye out for next week’s pixel-based updates, including a special moment with Nutroll!

Categories: Illmosis updates, Site News by James Beaver
Tags: Beans vs. Cornbread, pixelart

Another all-new sprite of one of my characters was added to the Illmosis heroes gallery page, and this time it’s the Entity. He’s the second all-new sprite for Illvember, and it’s no coincidence that he’s the second hero I made up as a kid. Hey, it’s been a while since I’ve done anything with these characters, other than Nutroll, just let me have a little fun here.

Today’s updated video game gallery page is for the Ninja Gaiden pixelart, adding my 2022 Ryu Hayabusa and 2025 Irene Lew sprites, along with a few bosses. I even went back into the work file and made a slightly different variant of Ryu based on the NES graphics where he doesn’t have any socks, and I’ll have to add that to the ScrollBoss site later. They’re replacing 2014 sprites, so if you look at those sprites in the Alternate Versions section, you’ll see how far I’ve come with pixel art over a decade or so.

Finally, here’s some lineart that I drew in 2023 but didn’t add to the site because… I don’t completely know, that’s why. But it’s here now and it’s Green Lantern. More details on that gallery page.

There will be a small update later this week, but I don’t know exactly when yet. I’ve mostly been working on something special for the last main Illvember update that’ll drop next week.

Categories: Illmosis updates by James Beaver
Tags: Green Lantern, Ninja Gaiden, pixelart, the Entity

Here’s the first batch of mini-updates! All-new to the site are the ScrollBoss Archetype sprites, mostly made for the image generators where some have extra palette features so you can make separate color palette choices for hair, main outfit, eyes, skin, shoes and much more. In one case you can even make the sprite look like it’s more and more in the shadows. I’ve also added far more recent pixel art to the pages of Elvira and Shinobi. Funny enough, the new Elvira main pic has parts of the Movie Macabre background I only posted in a video before, while the new Shinobi sprites are on a slight update of my remake of the infamous maze from the last round of the Revenge of Shinobi. I also finally found and fixed a gallery bug that’s been around since late 2023 when I had to do a lot of quick coding work just to get the site working again. So the pixelart tag gallery should stay on topic now.

Categories: Uncategorized by James Beaver
Tags: Elvira, Shinobi, The Revenge of Shinobi

Back in the first 2025 site update for my ScrollBoss site, Nutroll covered his mask with a sign that said “Not Yet” and then popped up again months later during that site’s 25th anniversary with a sign that had”11-11 illvember” scrawled on it. We’re on the eleventh day of the eleventh month (a few days shy of the site’s anniversary) and now it’s time to start Illvember, a celebration of Illlmosis, and that means I should probably bring this site back to life, right? RIGHT. And to kick that off I’m adding new pixelart of Nutroll and another one of my characters, my first character, M-Wave. M-Wave gets a standing sprite in a new pixel style, but Nutroll? he finally lowers the sign only to show that his mask no longer has a mouth drawn on it. He’s up to something, but I feel like he’ll get it straightened out before the end of this month.

Speaking of which, This Illvember event will be going on ALL MONTH. Every few days I’m going to update out-of-date pixel art gallery pages and add a few new ones. I’ve done A LOT of work over at ScrollBoss and it’s time to start bringing it over here. I’ll also be adding the new Illmosis-related pixel work to the ScrollBoss site. It’s going to be a lot of site work, but it needs to be done. To start that, the other new thing added to the site today was a page for the newer ScrollBoss site characters who mostly debuted while Illmosis was in hibernation. Vonetta, Maddie, Amelia, and Jilly make their debut here in the second new gallery page.

At some point, I’ll post some new line art. Really, I’ve been drawing less detailed line art to scan and turn into pixel art, but not much like the detailed work that I used to post here. Besides concentrating on pixel related stuff, the current state of the internet swallowing up new fodder for slop killed a lot of my desire to show new line art online. But it’ll be back.

Keep an eye out for a lot of updates this month with some new pixel art every week, and maybe Nutroll will fix his mask before we get to December. You’ll see a line art preview of the next sprite if you look at the extras on one of today’s new pages.

Last but definitely not least, Happy Veteran’s Day to all those who served!

Categories: Illmosis updates, Nutroll updates, Site News by James Beaver
Tags: pixelart, scrollboss

*looks at blog* I was so worn out this year that I forgot to put up a post in March when I added the flat color version of this Crash Test minifig art. But, yeah, the full color version is here now.

Anyone wondering what I was up to for most of this year should probably check out the ScrollBoss site, I managed to get a lot of new pixel art done and posted there, especially for the 20th Anniversary updates. the ScrollBoss YouTube account got a lot of new vids, the most I’ve ever uploaded within a year, along with the most animation I’ve ever done. That doesn’t even count all the things I finished but didn’t show because they’re part of a video or site theme I didn’t get to use yet.

My main 2020 plan, at least the only one I’m saying right now, is to replace some of my old artwork with new versions. I’ve got other ideas, but there’s no point in announcing any of that until it’s ready. I’d also like to try and update this site more than once next year, that’d be wild, right?

Anyway, take care and I hope you (and I) have a better 2021!

Categories: Illmosis updates, Site News by James Beaver
Tags: Lego

All the cool kids are having sales, so I better do the same!

8×10 and 8×11 prints are $4.00 each!
11 x 17/11 x 14 prints $8.00 each!
Sale ends December 7th, 2019

The prints page is here!

Categories: Illmosis updates, Site News by James Beaver

Surprise, I didn’t completely neglect the site on its birthday! Currently taking a break to get some rest, but I just had to sketch my poor old neglected characters. Will this turn into something bigger later on? *shrugs*

sketches of Nutroll, M-Wave, Passion Tanaka, Ice Cream Man. But for what?

Categories: Illmosis updates, Nutroll updates, Site News by James Beaver
Tags: Ice Cream Man, M-Wave, Nutroll, Passion Tanaka

First of all, there’s a print sale going on until August 1st, with 8×10/8×11 prints $4 and 11×17 prints at $8, so if you’ve been thinking about getting a print, this is a good time to go to the print page and jump on it while the jumping’s cheaper.

The sale started last Friday as part of the ScrolBoss site’s 19th anniversary. I added some newly-made sprites to the galleries and a Marvel vs. Capcom 1 ending option to the main generator. I had to improve the generator engine, fix some old bugs to do it, and rewrite a tool I made to make generator parts, but I got it going and it’s kinda fun.

Categories: Illmosis updates, Site News by James Beaver

New art of Marvel’s Carol Danvers in her Ms. Marvel outfit has been added to the gallery. I posted the sketch in a few places on the internet after drawing it on New Year’s Eve (somehow forgetting to post it here, as usual), but the color version is brand new! This is the first full picture I’ve done with the brand new XP-PEN monitor tablet that I bought a few months ago. I couldn’t have done a lot of the things in the new pic without having a monitor tablet, because I could never fully get over the mental disconnect of not looking where I’m drawing. Before inking Danvers, I drew quite a few sprites at 2X or 4X before dropping them down to pixel art and I think that let me get comfortable enough with the tablet to start inking some art.

Speaking of sprites, the latest ScrollBoss update features an early look at an idea I’ve been scheming to do for a long time: the ScrollBoss Showcade.

The Youngstown Comic-Con is almost here and I’ll be there in artist’s alley on Sunday, July 7th (sorry, I can only be there for one day again). I’ll have the 8 x10, 17 x 11, the small pixel art prints, and trading card-sized original art cards (pencil and ink) with me, but you can just roll through to say what’s up. It’s a great convention every year and I hope to see you there!

Categories: Illmosis updates, Site News by James Beaver
Tags: Marvel Comics