Blastronaut

Blastronaut

Quick fan art of Rhythm Heaven. This is the Blastronaut from the Shoot-'em-Up game. Thought she'd be fun to draw because of the space motif. I do like Rhythm Heaven's cheery and sharp-looking visual style (though this drawing doesn't look much like it).

I also recreated the music (with liberties) to go along with it.

Made using: SketchBook Pro, Flash, and a tablet

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Rhythm Heaven—Shoot-‘em-Up

A truncated rendition of the music for the Shoot-'em-Up game in Rhythm Heaven on DS. It's pretty repetitive but it was catchy. Mine sounds like a mess though.

Kanji Tatsumi

 Kanji Tatsumi

I wanted a pretty lively character to draw, so I drew Kanji from Persona 4. He's quite a character. And he also happens to be the MAN.

Made using: SketchBook Pro, Flash, and a tablet

Persona 3 doodle

Persona 3

 

A really quick thing of Persona 3's silent and nameless protagonist.

I think Persona 3 and 4 win the awards for "most unbelievably surprising and uncharacteristic games for me to end up liking".

If you had described them to me on paper there is no way I'd play them. "A grind-heavy randomly-generated dungeoncrawler with dating sim elements that is dripping in Japanese culture with a J-pop-heavy soundtrack." Almost everything I would normally despise in a game.

It's honestly a miracle I like these games as much as I do. I think it helps that the stories and characters are extremely well-thought-out and genuine, and they have such a unique sense of style.

Made using: SketchBook Pro, Flash, and a tablet

A lot of junk

I haven’t been very diligent about drawing much, and I’ve been even less diligent about updating this blog with them (as if anyone follows it). But here’s some of the stuff I forgot to post until now:

Doodles

Doodles 13

Spontaneous character drawings, two really old characters of mine (top-right), and Mulan, because I just got done re-watching that movie for the first time in a long time.

Made using:SketchBook Pro, Photoshop, and a tablet

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Doodles 14
 

Just a few small lame doodles: a couple Link interpretations, and the character on the right is for something a friend is doing.

Made using:SketchBook Pro, Photoshop, and a tablet

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Wario and Waluigi

Two of my favorite Mario series characters. These two are absolutely hilarious together and I wish they'd get a game (or at least side-by-side roles in one other than a sports game). Waluigi is especially neglected and hated on, but I think he's a really funny character. Everybody cheating but him!

Made using: SketchBook Pro, Flash, and a tablet

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Arrietty

A picture of Arrietty for EL, who I saw the movie with when it came out here in the States.

I can't do anything in Photoshop to save my life, seriously. I hate this background. I really need to find some good ideas to start practicing from.

Made using: SketchBook Pro, Flash, and Photoshop

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Batman and Robin

Really rushed doodle of Batman and Robin (more-or-less based on their animated appearances, particularly the Animated Series). Meant as a really late birthday drawing for Gold.

I'm unhappy about how unpolished and lame this looks, but I did sort of blast through it without thinking much. Not my best effort.

Made using: SketchBook Pro, Flash, and a tablet

 

Music

Fi’s Theme

Fi's Theme from Zelda: Skyward Sword. Some of it sounds wrong to me, I probably got some of the chords or harmonies wrong. Oh well.

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Shady Neighborhood

For a game I'm making, when you wander into a neighborhood in the city that's dim and unfamiliar.

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Storm Eagle

Storm Eagle from MegaMan X. I did this from memory, using no reference. I'm usually not nearly good enough to remember songs exact enough to re-create them without reference, but some of these songs got so deep into my brain I can sometimes do it.

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The Legend of Groose

Just did it when I was bored. Groose's theme made in the style of the original Zelda overworld (in FL Studio, so it's REALLY technically not 8-bit).

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The Master Sword

Just messing around with some instruments. This music is played when you get the Master Sword in most Zelda games it's in.

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Zelda—Dawn

My rendition of the Dawn/Sun's Song from the Zelda series, which usually plays at dawn (and sometimes at will).

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Geez. I really need to organize myself.until next time.

Animal Crossing sketch and music

Haven't been feeling my best, so Animal Crossing.

Animal Crossing 3DS Theme
A piano rendition of parts of the Animal Crossing 3DS game's theme. The original game's theme is my favorite, but this is second to it. It's very calming. I'm glad they brought back the piano as a focus in this main theme.


Animal Crossing Autumn

Yeah it's winter here but it hasn't felt like winter yet so. Just a simple sketch to calm me down. These are three of my own Animal Crossing characters; Curtis, Tony, and Desiree.

Made using: SketchBook Pro, Photoshop, and a tablet

Doodles

Doodles 12

Haven't been drawing enough lately. So these are some real quick/mindless doodles during class. Oh man I was mostly asleep when I drew these.
Made using: Photoshop and a Cintiq tablet screen

Majora's Mask Link doodle

Majora's Mask Link Doodle

This is the messiest one yet. I was just screwing around for about half an hour. Very little thought went into this so it's a total mess.

Made using: Photoshop and a tablet

Paper Zelda music and some doodles

 Paper Zelda-- Gerudo Valley
The music for Gerudo Valley's appearance in my still-yet-to-exist Paper Zelda fan game. Was made to be a bit more "western". It's low-quality and compressed BECAUSE. Sorry.

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Paper Zelda-- Title Theme
The title theme for my Paper Zelda fan game. Once again, trying to come up with some sort of mix between Zelda and Paper Mario's musical styles. As with a lot of the music for this I've gone to the Thousand-Year Door for reference. What do you think, does it work well enough to get the job done?

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Captain Falcon sketch

Pretty lame sketch of Captain Falcon. The muscles killed me and the proportions are off (although if he has a big head, I think he has a big head in the official artwork I based this on too).
I suck at thiiis.

Made using: SketchBook Pro (sketching), Photoshop (shading)

 
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Fi sketch

A fast doodle of Fi from Zelda: Skyward Sword.
I'm not really improving much on anything, but oh well. Just gotta keep doodling.

Made using: Photoshop

Samus Aran

Samus sketch 02

Lousy sketch of Samus Aran.
I'm currently in a huge rut with my drawings-- my cartoon stuff is all staying exactly the same and I'm not improving on it at all, and everything else like the above sketch is something I'm just not good at and not really able to improve in either.


This thing just looks like a huge scratchy mess to me. I'd be screwed if I actually tried making a neat, finished piece out of something like this.


Made using: SketchBook Pro (sketching), Photoshop (shading)

Doodles and music

SBP Doodles 11

The top row I just did today, the bottom row is pretty old stuff I just haven't put up yet. Characters that aren't mine I should mention are Kyle Hyde from Hotel dusk in the top-right, and Holly's character Paint in the bottom-left.

Made using: SketchBook Pro and a tablet

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Darkwing Duck Theme
My rendition of the Darkwing Duck theme song (which may be the coolest cartoon theme song ever).

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