Just some pixels I made semi-recently :)
The first, a zombie mermaid parody of Venus at Her Mirror by Diego Velazquez that I made for the Secret Santa activity at the Pixelation forum (13 colours):
A sprite of a mechanical elephant made of a barrel, diver’s helmet, pipes, and rubber hoses, done for a pixel joint challenge (15 colours):
And a quick portrait, also done for a pixel joint challenge (15 colours). Not crazy about this one, though I do like parts of it:
9th February, 2013 - Posted by MashPotato - 2 Comments
A portrait I painted of Pancho, my sister’s little black shih tzu dog. The descriptors are mostly in-jokes ;)
He really does sit like a teddy bear, btw (when he’s being good, or at least acting like he’s being good so that we’ll give him treats ;) )
27th December, 2012 - Posted by MashPotato - No Comments
A few months ago, I was contacted to make some artwork for the Word on the Street book festival. Being a lover of books, I was very excited to take it on… even though it was due the next day ;) To fit different layouts etc., the WOTS designers had to make changes to fonts, layout, and the artwork itself in some cases, but here is my original poster design (the white space was room for sponsors):
Incidentally, I was attacked by a pigeon the next day.
13th September, 2012 - Posted by MashPotato - 1 Comment
A picture I made as a gift for Dan of Size Five Games on the event of his wedding to his lovely bride Charlotte :D May all your dino-punching days be splendid!
14th June, 2012 - Posted by MashPotato - 2 Comments
Woo, I’m on an update roll! School’s almost done, and I’ll be going back on Project Zomboid fulltime :)
I quite like how this one turned out, especially as I did pretty much all of it in one day :) My favourite painting in a while.
18th April, 2012 - Posted by MashPotato - 1 Comment
The exciting conclusion to the Little Mermaid trilogy! It’s like the other two, but bigger with more explosions! ;)
The castle of the sea king, based on coral. I really tried throughout this project to keep everything very organic.
The Sea Witch’s lair. Once again with the organic origins: her chair is a dolphin skeleton, her cauldron is a giant clam, and the lights are little phosphorescent fish trapped behind films (which you can’t really tell in this picture, but that was the idea behind it ;) )
17th April, 2012 - Posted by MashPotato - No Comments
Here’s more selections from the Little Mermaid project :)
Character expressions:
Character poses:
Maquette made from super sculpey:
13th April, 2012 - Posted by MashPotato - 2 Comments
So… I’m back ;)
For anyone who visits here but not The IndieStone (and why would you do that? ;) ), the update of Project Zomboid has arrived! It’s not fully official yet (we’re still squashing bugs), but if you can’t wait, you can download it here.
So here’s some stuff I’ve been up to on the non-PZ front in school: some concept art based on The Little Mermaid. I went with the original Hans Christian Andersen version, which is really a beautiful story and makes me cry every time ;) I decided to make the mermaids more fish-like; a bit monstrous, but pretty in their own way.
Here’s a character lineup: the little mermaid (based on a copper-banded butterfly fish), the sea witch (angler fish), generic merman (royal blue tang), and the human form of the little mermaid.
A character rotation of the little mermaid:
And a closeup action shot!
More to come later!
16th March, 2012 - Posted by MashPotato - No Comments
