I drew some fan art of Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 from screenshots as reference, and looking at Mineko Ueda’s art for some hints for translating it to 2d pencil illustrations. I really love the poses in this game. The adults are constantly squatting down to talk to children, and the children look up to talk to the adults.
I looked up the game credits on MobyGames and noticed the sole person credited for character modelling and animation, Masaya Kikuchi, is also one of the handful of people credited under ‘event scripting’. This supports my theory that they were able to animate the characters with full knowledge and influence over where the characters would be with relation to each other and the camera, which is perhaps not the case for most game productions, and why the visual composition in this game is conspicuously good.
apparently i never posted my fanart here of my friend snorb’s ZZT characters from his very stupid ongoing series
This is Keyko. She runs a key shop. You play as her briefly to search her storeroom for a special key:
(I made this one ^ last year, and the two below just the other day.)
This is Mariko. She’s a modern D&D-adjacent druid who keeps popping up at random. Snorb specified that she has “Sailor Neptune hair.” If you mess with the trees, you mess with her.
This Snorb’s interpretation of the ZZT bandit: a very high-energy genki girl with a case of kleptomania (XD). (Also, yes, she is named after a character from Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom. Why do you ask?)
happy karnovember to those who observe
via @eska request, i put together this to use on a few sites as a pfp. i kept tweaking the whole day after posting, so i suppose you all are getting the Directors-cut, , ,
i will probably continue to use this despondent dragon quest overworld looking one on here because i think the juxtaposition is funnier. against my general forum pedantry
YO this whips
moved on from karnov to abdullah the butcher
dinosaur fridge magnet i made between ages 5-7, i dunno i just looked at it today and felt like that kid back then did a pretty good job
tbh, i feel this is doodle because there wasn’t much intent, but also this is the most “detailed” i’ve drawn a body in a while
she’s nude
i’ve been feeling very insecure about how i attach shoulders to bodies and i’m not all there on what i’m doing in the hip area
like maybe this just looks good like this but i’m really feeling how fuzzy my knowledge is
so this is like, a study, even if it doesn’t have any ref, but, you know, working out whatever it is i have in my head
just a note to anyone who might be interested - i have an art book out thanks to my friend V.A. Graham! it’s a compilation of abstract pixel art i made mostly about 10 years ago. there are also two essays exclusive to the book, and some poetry to go along with each of the images.
a few sample pages of the book:
anyway, you can purchase a copy here:
This looks fantastic
Keen!
I had no idea it was possible to wield Become a Great Artist in Just 10 Seconds like this.
Gobsmacked…