Merry Christmas from the Illmosis network of sites and Santa Gilius (from Sega’s Golden Axe games)!
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.
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!
No, I couldn’t resist purposefully adding these things to the site on this day just to have that post title. I REGRET NOTHING. I’ve added all of the Friday the 13th sprites (including NES game characters, Crystal Lake background and Jason’s Street Fighter Alpha 3 portrait) to a new page. I also added the DangerTerrorHorrorThon and Friday the 31st screenshots, because I had mad fun making both of them. Don’t worry, I’ll be back to showing off sprites of my own characters in the next update (one is already finished).
edit: I posted a link on the DangerTerrorHorrorThon gallery page, but I want to shout-out and link to the Legacy of Defeat site where I bought the Damien font used for that logo. The place is filled with excellent fonts that won’t choke out your wallet, so check it out and pick up a few fonts.
Today is the tenth anniversary of the site, so I thought it was time to kick out some pixel art of a character I made. This time, it’s the Entity, one of the more important characters in my main comic book universe. I also added Mark and Bert from Monster Party and updated the Altered Beast page with the Slow Feet zombie sprite, including the line work I used to make it.
ScrollBoss had a series of three updates last month that led up to Halloween, so check out the news feed if you want to see the other monster and horror-related pixel art I’ve done recently.
The DangerTerrorHorrorThon started last week on ScrollBoss and the Elvira sprites were my personal favorite of the update. I’ve always wanted to draw Elvira, but I’m not good enough at likenesses yet to do her justice, so she has a cartoony Street Fighter Alpha 3-style portrait for now. The sprites, portrait and penciled line work for them are on the gallery page.
The second installment of the DangerTerrorHorrorThon hits ScrollBoss this Friday and will have at least six sprites in it. The first DTHT update got a better response than I expected, so I worked overtime to make this week’s update a big one. I’m getting ready to trace over the rough pencils I laid down for this week’s SFA-style portrait, so I’m going to keep this short. Thanks for checking this update out and be sure to hit ScrollBoss this weekend for more horror-themed goodness. I’ll be back here next week with more new content!
So here’s the fully-shaded version of Gilius, though I still need to fix a few things here and there before making a background for him. I’ve also added sprites of the original starting lineup of Gauntlet, the legendary action dungeon crawling game by Atari. There’s even a 3-D rendered background for the characters, made for the GFX Generators on ScrollBoss. The Wizard and Valkyrie have work progress animations because I wasn’t rushing to make them like I was when working on the Elf and Warrior.
There have been quite a few updates on ScrollBoss, including one that had more than a dozen sprites from games released in 1989. Final Fight, Golden Axe, Strider, and many other games were represented, including a new Final Fight background. Some of those sprites will be making their way here over time, but I’m getting back to drawn artwork for a while, so there’ll be more of that here, too.
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This new pic of Gilius is something I wanted to draw before the 2014 All AmeriCon, but my back injury slowed me down too much to get to it. Still, it’s early for next year, right? I also added the latest Tyris Flare sprite to her old gallery page. There’s a short work progress anim to show some of the steps I took in making it.
Those of you who like pixel art should check out the ScrollBoss site, because I just updated it with new sprites of Poison and Roxy from Final Fight and a few more criminally-minded characters, including a nefarious Golden Axe enemy that everyone hates. Hey, that means both updates fit the Revenge of 1989 theme I have going on at ScrollBoss right now! Okay, I’m the only one that would care about that, BUT STILL.
Hey, remember during SDCC when everybody said, “It’s Batman Day because it’s his 75th anniversary of existing in comics!” as if we didn’t do that two months ago. I know we did that, because I made a sprite for it. So, instead of making another sprite of Batman, I made the sprite of the Batman-ish boss from the early version of the Revenge of Shinobi:
The Revenge of Shinobi, along with Altered Beast, is one of those great games that came out in 1989. That’s the theme I’m celebrating for ScrollBoss this year, and I’ll be drawing some regular line art related to those games, too. Here’s some pixel art to celebrate Guardians of the Galaxy hitting theaters:
I’ve just started moving into the new place and there will be some downtime for Illmosis and ScrollBoss for a while. My left arm and back still has trouble when I use that arm too much (an accident that happened back in May), so I’m going to be a bit wiped out after that’s done.