Fascinating…

Ok so… The wildest thing happened to me today… I don’t know how it happened… or why… but it did…

If you are a fan of the Game PVZ heroes like I am… and have played it long enough… you are likely aware of the INFAMOUS level 75… I have been throwing myself at this level over and over and over again for weeks…

I had recently crafted some “sour grapes” cards at the recommendation of a Reddit post, but I wasn’t expecting any miracles… I was down to 6 HP and I knew in a single instant that it would all be over once my opponent placed down a 6dmg attack helicopter… but suddenly and without warning… she skipped her turn! AI aren’t supposed to skip turns!!! I place down a moss to do more damage next, and she skips her turn AGAIN! Her block meter proceeds to fill up but the game acts like nothing happened!!! Before I knew it… I won???????

I’m at a loss for words… but I am SO glad i don’t have to play this level anymore!

Here’s a lil Mario for you!

You can only reblog this today.

You… were chosen… for a calling you may not understand yet….

You are…

The Pikmaniac!

Crazy to think how a copy of pikmin 3 deluxe randomly just showed up in my basement.

Nobody in the house knows how it got there, so now I just have a copy of pikmin 3 in my room with an unknown origin.

Beat Mega Man 9 Today…

I’ve been stuck fighting this Wily Machine for a couple days now.

But finally the battle is won… that just leaves 10, 11, and “Megaman & Bass” for me to beat!

But man this Wily Machine was a PIECE OF WORK!

It’s up there difficulty wise, although I had no E-tanks and was low on Weapon energy, so it’s not MM7 Final Boss level of difficulty, but it’s somewhere up there… Although tbh I think I had more fun with 7’s Final boss… The weakness was more fun to use…

Today on TopGear!

I go for broke with a Royal Flush

James May eats a banana

And Richard Hammond destroys legendary jokers, to feed his ceremonial dagger

Too Gear x Balatro

Digital doodles today! To be honest, drawing isn’t hard at all, the hard bit is drawing something the EXACT way I want it to look… I could probably study the stuff I wanna draw more but I don’t just wanna end up copying it, I just wanna mesh it with my existing ideas…

Reblogging so I can read this later :)

Interesting stuff!!!

Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.

This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)

If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!

Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...

Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!

You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!

Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!

Finished Beacon Pines today!

A short and sweet game, I really got into the characters and the twists were generally surprising and fun!

I know some other people who played this game weren’t a huge fan of the ending but honestly I didn’t mind.

10/10

My brain is still not adjusted to the idea that it’s the “2020s” like someone will say something so profound like “Megaman 11 came out in 2018” and I’ll think to myself how long ago was that? I could’ve sworn it came out like one or two years ago… and then it’s 6 whole years ago and I just wanna crawl into a small hole and feed off the planets nutrients to build power and generate an invasive hive mind infection for the sole purpose of erasing the idea of years from the minds of the earth…

I hate feeling old…