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Welcome to the first ever 222nd post for my first Year of Creative Habits. I wonder if I’ll ever reach 222nd days on my second year, or even the year after that. I certainly plan on continuing this for as long as I can, and I have no reason to think I would ever quit, but we all know that things change eventually. I would love to have a list of years on the top of my website; year 1, year 2, year 3, etc. Each with 365 posts with artwork attached for each of those days.
So I pledged $10 to a fellow Patreon artist last night. His named is Ray Dillon and I briefly chatted with him the day I set up my own Patreon page. He seemed like a fellow worth pledging because he genuinely seems to want to help other artists. See, Patreon has a reward system for people that get involved and help support other artists, and my reward for pledging the $10 is to have some of my work shared online by Ray to help get “more eyes on your art”. It’s a pretty spectacular idea actually, and it’s definitely something I would LOVE to be able to do for someone else. Someday. When I have 9,000+ followers on social media like Ray does, perhaps.
Oh wow, after spending hours working on this in Photoshop, all zoomed in painting each pixel individually, when I see it like this all zoomed out it really looks fantastic! Even though I’m not creating my own unique creatures, painted scenery, or crazy abstract things, I think what I’ve been working on for the past couple weeks has got me more excited than anything. Starting with that Castlevania title screen I did, and now this Blaster Master in-game picture, I’ve never been more excited to get back to my drawing each day.
Just a brief update for today because I’m pretty busy. As you can see, I got started on my next Nintendo fan art piece. This one is from another one of my favorite Nintendo games, and I think I’m (so far) doing it some justice. It’s not a title screen, but rather an in-game screen shot from when I was playing it last night.
I have some other games lined up already, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Guardian Legend, Mega Man, and Crystalis. All games I grew up playing and would love to show them some love by painting (to the best of my ability) some title screens and/or some in-game screenshots. We’ll see how this one turns out. Any idea what game this is? Here’s a hint; It’s Blaster Master!
This picture is coming along really nicely! I also got a fantastic idea, though I’m not sure if I can fully realize the idea properly. I want to take some in-game NES screen shots and paint those up. I have no idea if they’ll end up looking okay, but it would be fun. Here’s the idea proper; start painting a screen and for the first day or so, once I post it, it might not be fully apparent what game it’s from. After a few days though it would click for some people, I’m sure. Like I mentioned, I may not be able to realize this fully because on the first day there might be some obvious features (like from Zelda or Mario, for instance) that a gamer of any age would recognize. After I’m done with this StarTropics one, I’ll jump right into another and see how it goes.
So, I’m officially set up on Patreon. I’ve mentioned Patreon a time or two before on this website, and I didn’t think I was going to use it. Today though, I spent the day setting up my page, and making sure all the proper information was filled out to the best of my ability. It took a long time, but I think everything is in order. I decided to use it because of a very simple question, “Why not?”. There really wasn’t a good reason why I shouldn’t try it out.
Well, originally I was pretty excited about working on these title screens because I loved the idea of eventually being able to get them printed out onto different items; like T-shirts and pillow cases. However, it’s not worth even going into it because there ‘might’ be just too many hoops to jump through legally with the potential of copyright issues. I mean, everywhere you go there are fan art t-shirts being sold anyways, but it seems once in awhile someone like Nintendo will go out of their way to crush one of those fans.
