The Black Widow now has her background. I planned to have a new pixel art gallery page ready, but the Friday the 13th-themed ScrollBoss update needed a bit more work. Some of that new stuff there will probably find its way into next week’s update, but here’s the linework for Jason’s SFA3 portrait:
Take care and good luck out there!
The Black Widow, in her classic costume, is here. There will be a background for that one soon, hopefully next week. I’m still slowly adjusting to PaintShop Pro X5 and this is the first “serious style” pic I’ve completely colored with it. That’s going to slow me down a bit with the new art, but I’ll try my best to keep things moving on this site, along with getting Beans vs. Cornbread running again.
A reminder: I’ll be at the All AmeriCon convention in Warren, Ohio on July 6th. Admission is only $3 and the event and this year’s event will kick more butt than last year’s did.
Updates with new material for two weeks in a row? Look, I’m just as amazed as your are.
The Lego Zombie (Collectable Minifig version) is in full color with a simple background, including a background frame idea that I’ll be using in future pics. I’m still trying to adjust to PSPX5, so I apologize for not getting too heavy with the detail just yet. I also have a picture of myself, because every photo of me looks far too stupid to be on the new Memoirs of a Virtual Caveman site (I’ll get back to that in a bit). Princess Peach and Toad kick off the Mario series sprite gallery page. These hit ScrollBoss months ago, but this is the debut of the Super Mario Bros 1-1 background recreation. It still needs work, but it’s better than no background at all.
Rob Strangman, creator of the OPCFG and West Mansion video game sites, will be have a new print run of Memoirs of a Virtual Caveman, a book with articles, interviews and stories from the golden age of gaming. The new run has a ton of additional material, including interviews with other gamers and legends from the game industry. You can see the impressive lineup of talent the book has at the new official site. It’s a new run, but the cover I drew years ago is still there!
It’s fitting that this site crawls out of its grave with new art of the zombie from the Lego Collectable Minifigure series. I’ll also do what I can to update the sprite galleries with the pixel art I’d been adding to ScrollBoss since this site fell off late last year. The DC villain page was updated with a sprite of the Penguin while the Marvel page gets sprites of Boomerang and the White Queen. Emma Frost’s sprite has a work progress animation.
the All-Americon 2014 convention is on July 6th in Warren, Ohio and I’m going to have an artist’s table there. Don’t hold that against the convention, because you’ll also find lots of cool people there, including artist Darryl Banks (Green Lantern) and the legendary Jim Steranko! It’s only $3 to get in, so check it out in July!
Back to life on the 9th Anniversary of the site! The move, the commission work, more work hours at the day job and other things kept pushing back working on updates for this place. It’s time to give this place some attention, starting with getting caught up with the pixel art I’ve posted on ScrollBoss. One new gallery page has sprites based on the original Legend of Zelda while the other has NES-like sprites of the Dragon’s Crown characters.
I’ll be back next week with more pixel art gallery additions and, hopefully, some new scribbles. Unless more things pop up, I’ll also get back to work on that Beans vs. Cornbread intro story, too.
As if the activity book assignment I have isn’t enough to keep me busy, I’m moving into another apartment right now. Might be off the internet for while depending on how things go. I’ll be back A.S.A.P.!
I’ve started working on that activity book commission I was talking about before, and the time I need to devote to it means there won’t be much newness for a while, though there are still things I need to add to the galleries here.
Another reminder: the All-AmeriCon 2013 convention happens this upcoming Sunday! I’ll have a table there with prints, free flyers, and previews of things that aren’t finished or on the site yet. Stop by, even if you don’t want to buy anything from the table!
I’ve just started another activity book assignment, so the current Beans vs. Cornbread comic will be on slow-motion mode for a bit. I said slo-mo instead of pause I’ve started on page four. It might take a while, but that story will pick back up again. I also had to get at least one more color pic (points to John) done for the All-Americon convention on July 7th. I’ll be in Artist’s Alley, so stop by my table even if you don’t plan to buy anything from me. Yes, I’m just that desperate for attention.
I think we’ve all had enough of this teaser crap. Let’s go.
The War Begins Again in this link.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa, waitaminute, what about the other place?”
Don’t worry, Story Mode will eventually get to that.
I still have ton of ScrollBoss pixel art that needs to be added here, but a huge chunk of it just landed. Sprites of Bizarro, Braniac, Zod, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn are on the new DC villains gallery page with work progress gifs of Bizarro, Harley, and Ivy. The Marvel villain page has been updated with the Super-Skrull sprite, his work progress sprite and a few alternate power sets that haven’t hit ScrollBoss just yet.
Meanwhile, have some previews from a project people probably think I forgot about. One of these has been visible on the early version of the site, but only if you know where and when to look.
