Something I did last semester and only got around to scanning now. My second use of ink and washes :)
2nd August, 2011 - Posted by MashPotato - No Comments
For a school assignment I had to mess around with halftone stuff, and inspired by Neil Gaiman’s Rule of Pie, I decided to go all retro with a slice of delicious pie ;) I was thinking cherry rather than strawberry, though.
19th July, 2011 - Posted by MashPotato - 1 Comment
I made about 5 self-portraits within the span of about two weeks…eep. Anyhow, here’s one I finished tonight :)
Hopefully I can take a break from these for a while ;)
6th July, 2011 - Posted by MashPotato - 8 Comments
After some downtime due to server changes and general busyness, I am now back! Some images may still be missing while the cache tries to catch up :)
Something of note that happened during the break: the alpha-tech demo of Project Zomboid was released! It’s been getting quite a lot of nice buzz, which is very exciting, and we’re hoping to live up to those lofty expectations :D
I have lots of new art to post, but will try and space it out a bit. In keeping with the theme of zombies, though, here’s a creepy pattern I made with an ink dip pen and adjusted in Photoshop. It will tile, so it can be used as a desktop background if you want it staring at you all day ;)
3rd July, 2011 - Posted by MashPotato - No Comments
Sun, palm trees, and little coconut huts. What more could a tree frog want? :D
Done for a small school project with the theme “trees protecting the city” (it’s a frog city ;) ). I tried a new style, and did this entirely with a brush. Couldn’t quite control the ink in places with my shaky hands, but it was nice to attempt. I also think I need to invest in a smaller brush ;)
20th April, 2011 - Posted by MashPotato - 1 Comment
It’s nearing the end of my first semester in my illustration program, and so I should have a small slew of things to post when I get some time. For now, here’s a painting I did in which we were to reinterpret the Mona Lisa in the style of a different illustrator. I chose the fantastic Sophie Griotto, whose lovely website you can visit here. I couldn’t really capture her style, as I just couldn’t mimic the loose spontaneity of her work… it’s more of a weird hybrid between her art and my usual style. If you ignore the point of the exercise, I think it turned out okay in itself ;)
Btw, I’m going to be erasing all my book reviews, as I highly doubt anyone really cares about my opinion on books, and I update my reviews so sporadically it just ruins the flow of the blog ;)
15th April, 2011 - Posted by MashPotato - No Comments
You can do it, Mr. Beaverton! Just believe!
I re-jigged this painting from one I did a few years ago. Seeing the change is pretty neat–the original looked more like a falling groundhog than a flying beaver :D
29th March, 2011 - Posted by MashPotato - 2 Comments
Well, just some news that we have just switched servers and so this site was down for a while. But we’re back now, with a faster, better(?) blog ;) The reason for the switch? HostGator couldn’t handle the traffic for the IndieStone when Lemmy & Binky (now with Nick) announced Project Zomboids, and when we relied on them the most they could not deliver the service (and not only pulled down and locked the site, but displayed a 404 error which made it look as though the site was not legit, a HUGE problem when money is involved). HostGator can serve basic needs, but if you want your site to have any level of popularity, I cannot recommend them anymore. Hence the server change.
But enough about that!
I was cleaning up some of my files on the server and came across some sprites that I made a good while back for the TIGSource Assembly competition, in which artists/musicians made assets that were used by programmers to make games. I thought I’d put them up here, so anyone can download them. Yup–they are free for use in any game projects requiring a violent mushroom (although credit should be given, and a link to my site is highly appreciated), no need to ask permission :)
Animations and a tile demo up here, and the spritesheet and tilesheets are after the break for your downloading needs :)
24th March, 2011 - Posted by MashPotato - 6 Comments
