Console Crush http://consolecrush.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 09 May 2012 02:30:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Kirby Tribute Art Work in Progress http://consolecrush.com/2012/05/kirby-tribute-art-work-in-progress/ http://consolecrush.com/2012/05/kirby-tribute-art-work-in-progress/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 02:30:15 +0000 Christopher http://consolecrush.com/?p=701 kirby tribute preview art

Here’s a preview of some art I’m wrapping up tonight for 4 Color Rebellion’s 20 days of Kirby. Of course I somehow managed to turn a drawing of a character that’s essentially a pink circle into quite a bit of work. Oh well.

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From Light Grey Art Lab:

Battle Royale is massive show, with 151 artists taking on the original 151 original Pokémon! The list of amazing talent involved is absolutely awe-inspiring! You can find a full list of participants here!

All artwork is available first-come-first-serve once the doors open, and each piece is only $40!

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Seaking by Claire Hummel - I think this one might be my new favorite. It has the most interesting composition I’ve seen so far, and I’m a sucker for negative space word balloons, tattoo girls, and wave patterns.

Primeape by Jake Wyatt - This art just floored me with it’s subtle textures and color palette. I’d love to see it printed out at a much larger scale and learn more about his coloring process.

Kai Kakuna by Kat Brunnegraff

Venusaur by Maré Odomo

Venomoth Sarah Marino

Hypno by Jordan Jeffries - I suspect this might be the bar that my Geodude is singing in…

Rattata by Campbell White - You might recognize him from his awesome NES series available on Etsy

Gloom by Julianna Brion

Nidoran by Tyler Parker

Pidgeot by Abby Boeh

Weezing by Annie Wu

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My (almost) final submission for the Pokemon show. My sketches lent themselves more to an 8×10 format so I just went with it. I’ll crop it down for the gallery show but have the full size print available on my Etsy shop in the near future

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Moltres by Julian Callos

Rhydon by Tim During

Alakazam by Sam Bosma

Golbat by M S Corley

Slopoke by Scott Benson

Clefable by Katie Turner

Muk by Ian Andersen

Scyther by Rachael Hunt

Weepinbell by Sabrina Scott

Machoke by Zac Gorman

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Draft version of my Geodude for the Pokemon Battle Royale Karaoke show. I’m pretty sure it was a karaoke themed show, but I’m not so sure after seeing other people’s entries…

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Incidentally, the art style reminds me of this Dragon Age 2 concept art I saw a while back in Game Informer that is 100x better than anything you might see after it gets videogame-d. I remember thinking how amazing it would be if they could capture this feel in an actual game.

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I just wrapped up this Goonies 2 inspired piece for Jimmy Giegerich’s upcoming zine Bits in Multiples of 8. I’m almost never happy with how my black and white art looks so I added a simple layer of pencil shading. It turned out well, save for the rigamarole of trying to scan a 16″x20″ grayscale illustration on my dinky letter size scanner. Looks like I’ll have to try and take some well lit photos and see if that’s quicker. I really enjoy drawing at this size but I need to get a bit more efficient at getting it into the computer.

I also did a really quick color test for a potential print:

Cheers!

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