Shenanigans & Tomfoolery

Confession: I sunk way too much time into the first Disgaea. This came out pretty well, I think. I know that pixelated Mario heads for maps have been done to death in every game with a map editor but it just made too much sense to put it here. It was done in Google SketchUp [...]

This is the culmination of my current Pokémon obsession. It’s what my main party will most likely end up looking like. And no, I don’t want to hear about the redundancy of having two Electric types or about how I’m missing X type to go against Y type. I haven’t played these games since the [...]

Why did the Heavy try to kill Mario? To get his hat. It was only a matter of time until I started bringing the cast of Team Fortress 2, possibly my favorite multiplayer game ever, into these versus pieces and this is the end result. Words and progress animation below.

So, after finding out about this only three days before the deadline ended, I immediately started working on my entry and, thus, Space Brain was cobbled together from a few different characters in my sketchbook. To be honest, this was one of those few occasions where I entered something for the fun of it more [...]

As I chugged away with my second Mega Man Tribute entry, I felt I needed a break from all that Blue Bomber work so I knocked out this baby. A secondary reason for doing this is that I’ve had the idea for it for a while now and I wanted to tackle it while the awesomeness of [...]

A relatively quick piece done to test out PaintTool SAI. It’s a solid program, basically a stripped down Photoshop that focuses mainly on brush and rendering elements. I enjoy how effortless some of the blending is as well as how, because of it’s nature I guess, it encourages you to do all coloring within a [...]

The King of Fighters XIII hype train is running full steam ahead on my side of the street so I decided to knock out this piece in honor of it. It was originally going to be just Mature and Vice but I threw Iori in there for good measure even though I’m not completely sold [...]

There were a number of  things I set out to accomplish with this piece: a) I wanted a piece of the more female persuasion, b) I wanted a piece that wasn’t video game related, c) I wanted to practice digital inking and d) I wanted to finish a piece in one day. Check, check, check and check. Mission accomplished! Progress animation [...]

Why does Mario keep getting into these fights for anyway? I’ve had the drawing for this in my sketchbook for a while now and I decided to finish it up quickly because I’m knee deep in a commission piece (also Mega Man related) that I want to completely focus on without this unfinished coloring job [...]

It wasn’t long after writing this that I set to work on this piece. Originally, I thought of drawing the entirety of the Final Fantasy IX cast but settled on just Vivi and Steiner for two reasons; the obvious being that it was a lot more work to do all seven of them, the not so obvious [...]