The Crabshack Gallery » Digital http://crabshackgallery.com/blog The Art and Game Dev Blog of Marina "MashPotato" Siu-Chong Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:14:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The Lady of Decay http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2010/01/31/the-lady-of-decay/ http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2010/01/31/the-lady-of-decay/#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:49:47 +0000 MashPotato http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/?p=301

In the heat of summer day
Walks the Lady of Decay.
Her skin is pale like gone-off milk,
Her clothes are made of rotted silk,
Millipedes surround her face,
Her dress is trimmed with dirty lace.
With maggot pet and fungi’d hair,
She parades around the square.
She’s a sight from head to toes,
But whilst you look, hold your nose!
For nothing festers like Decay
In the heat of summer day.

14  colours, and the poem was written spur-of-the-moment when submitting to PixelJoint ;)

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Not a fan of Lady Gaga, but I found her new video strangely interesting, and made a quick painting.

Not intended to really be a likeness, by the way.

]]> http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2009/11/30/all-a-gaga-og/feed/ 0 Left 4 Dead 2 anticipation! http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2009/11/15/left-4-dead-2-anticipation/ http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2009/11/15/left-4-dead-2-anticipation/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:01:09 +0000 MashPotato http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/?p=290 Getting in the mood for this Tuesday with some quickish L4D fanart!  A hunter and a witch:

Is this the first man I’ve drawn in ages?  I do believe it is!

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Notice what he’s eating :|

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Will my next painting contain hands?  I hope so! ;)

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First, a little beagle puppy holding a Cintiq stylus I made for Captain Binky’s birthday! (waaaay back in April!)

And now some minis, which I’m showing at 2x here so they can be seen more clearly :)
Ghostbusters for Nickenstien’s birthday! (also waaaay back in April!)


Some Dan and Ben sprites from Time Gentlemen, Please! (with accurate walkcycles! ;) )

And some Muse fanart! (made before my disappointment with their last album :(  Giving it another chance as I type)

]]> http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2009/09/27/pixel-roundup/feed/ 0 I’m Sensing… Some Fanart? http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2009/09/23/drawing-with-the-stars/ http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2009/09/23/drawing-with-the-stars/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:23:20 +0000 MashPotato http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/?p=210 Ooh, it’s been a while.  I’m way behind on art updates, and I’ve read four books since my last post… anyhow, I was recently introduced (no, not literally) to the awesome and dapper mentalist/magician Derren Brown, and made some fanart :D

I’m a bit sad he seems to wear less purple in his newer stuff.  Magicians should always wear some sort of purple ;)

Making this reminded me of some of my old celebrity portraits I made last year that were a bit on the more serious side.  I still have some fondness for them, so I thought I’d put them up :)  Click on the jump to see!

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke:

Sally Field (bizarrely, this is the person my sister thought of when I asked her to name someone for me to draw.  She has no idea why).

These were based on refs that I’m too lazy to dig up again, but they should be on the first or second page of Google images, if you want to see the originals.

Next update soon :)

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Based on the work of the awesmoe artist iLKke, although it didn’t really come through in the end.  I still like it for what it is, though :)

16 colours

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A late bday gift for my buddy Buloght :D  It’s been a long time since I worked on a complex pixel piece, and it was fun to do.

Shoutout to Captain Binky :)

16 colours (I have to admit I’m pleased with that ;) )

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