The Crabshack Gallery http://crabshackgallery.com/blog Art and Game Dev Blog of Marina "MashPotato" Siu-Chong Sat, 09 Feb 2013 19:09:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Pixelly Post http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2013/02/09/pixelly-post/ http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2013/02/09/pixelly-post/#comments Sat, 09 Feb 2013 19:09:30 +0000 MashPotato http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/?p=525 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):

my first octopus!

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):

The head was originally going to be a fishbowl

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:

there are only 13 pixels of the required emerald colour in there ;)

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Pancho paaaancho

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 ;) )

]]> http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2012/12/27/portrait-de-pancho/feed/ 0 The Word on the Street is… Pigeons! http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2012/09/13/the-word-on-the-street-is-pigeons/ http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2012/09/13/the-word-on-the-street-is-pigeons/#comments Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:31:49 +0000 MashPotato http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/?p=501 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):

Rainbow pigeons!

Incidentally, I was attacked by a pigeon the next day.

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A redfish:

One fish two fish red fish blue fish

A secretary bird:I hear they eat snakes

A cassowary:looks a bit like a dinosaur turkey ;)

]]> http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2012/09/08/museum-sketches/feed/ 2 A Dino Punch-up at a Wedding http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2012/06/14/a-dino-punch-up-at-a-wedding/ http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2012/06/14/a-dino-punch-up-at-a-wedding/#comments Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:19:52 +0000 MashPotato http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/?p=495 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!

Yaaaay

]]> http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2012/06/14/a-dino-punch-up-at-a-wedding/feed/ 2 Paint it Black http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2012/04/18/paint-it-black/ http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2012/04/18/paint-it-black/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:03:21 +0000 MashPotato http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/?p=492 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.

Red room. RED ROOM.

]]> http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2012/04/18/paint-it-black/feed/ 1 The Little Mermaid, Part 3 http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2012/04/17/the-little-mermaid-part-3/ http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2012/04/17/the-little-mermaid-part-3/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:55:14 +0000 MashPotato http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/?p=490 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.

Somewhere, beyond the sea...

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 ;) )

She's the skinnier cousin of Ursula ;)

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Character expressions:

Say cheese!

Character poses:

Strike a pose!

Maquette made from super sculpey:

There's also a painted version, but it looks TERRIBLE ;)

]]> http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2012/04/13/the-little-mermaid-part-2/feed/ 2 The Little Mermaid, part 1 http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2012/03/16/the-little-mermaid-part-1/ http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2012/03/16/the-little-mermaid-part-1/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:19:52 +0000 MashPotato http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/?p=482 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.

It was number 3 who stole my seashells!

A character rotation of the little mermaid:

Rotations are a pain.And a closeup action shot!

Eyelashes, but no eyelids ;)More to come later!

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Traditional ink with one of those fancy metal nib dip pens.  Those make me feel like a proper artist ;)

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