Select older or newer material from the years listed below

 

Name: Self Portrait - Fejer Style Date: Dec 2003 Software: Paint Shop Pro 7 (PC)
	A drawing I did of me for a fad topic that was about trying to copy the style of the artwork of a damn fine pixel artist called Kenneth Fejer.  It came out a bit too tall and thin to be me but it was interesting trying to emulate someone else's art that is so different to mine.

 

Name: Optimus Prime - Mini Truck Date: Dec 2003 Software: Paint Shop Pro 7 (PC)
	More practice with low resolutions, this time trying to get a shiny metallic look on a small sprite.  It's based on the 20th Anniversary Optimus Prime toy.  Yeah the animation is bad.

 

Name: Lion-O Beat 'Em Up Sprite (Unfinished) Date: Nov 2003 Software: Paint Shop Pro 7 (PC)

My third proper attempt at drawing a Lion-O sprite.  This one looking more like a Capcom fighter than the previous drawing.  The Sword gave me a headache trying to draw it at that angle and has so far been left as framework.  While designing it I had images of a four player old-style scrolling beat 'em up featuring Lion-O, Panthro, Cheetara and Tygra as the player characters with Snarf being just like the lil guys in Golden Axe that you had to kick to gain food and magic bottles.  Any excuse to kick that lil pest, eh?

 

Name: Katy Date: Nov 2003 Software: Paint Shop Pro 7 (PC)
	A small portrait of my then girlfriend I did to test out smooth, shiny, high contrast shading.  I'd never drawn another real person before and I was really afraid I'd mess up by making an image that insulted that person.  I still think it makes her look a lil chubby and she looks way better in real life.

 

Name: Robin of Loxley Date: Oct 2003 Software: Paint Shop Pro 7 (PC)

Designed this for a computing course I had been put on (cos I seem to have trouble getting a job) that let me design a potential Gameboy Advance platform adventure featuring Robin Hood.  I saw this as more practise for drawing low resolution people at 16 colors (which he is if ya take the weapons off) as it's something I find hard to do.  I'm pretty pleased with this one though.  The look of him is inspired by Michael Praed's Robin in the British TV show Robin of Sherwood that aired in the 1980's.

 

Name: Howlin' Jack Portrait Date: Oct 2003 Software: Paint Shop Pro 7 (PC)
	Drew this for a Pixelation topic about making a poster made up of 64x64 pixel works by everyone in the community though I haven't heard much about it since then.  I think you can tell I rushed this a little with the shading because I had a lot of other things to do and wanted to get this done for the poster. Redone the picture a couple years later.

 

Name: Howlin' Jack (Unfinished) Date: Oct 2003 Software: Paint Shop Pro 7 (PC)

Jack here is the main character of a game that my friend Tom and I had been sharing ideas bout a game that's sort of a scrolling beat 'em up with role playing game elements.  Think River City Ransom on NES but with a comic horror theme.  Jack was a demon spirit who's body had been destroyed while coming through a portal to Earth as a scout for an invasion force and possessed the first body he could find which happened to be that of a recently murdered alcoholic.  His newfound love for beer and burgers causes him to team up with a formerly womanising, corrupt, Las Vegas priest trying to gain redemption by fighting the demonic forces of evil.  I had drawn the first one back in June but redrew him a couple of months later exaggerating his bestial look a lot more but had real trouble finishing his leg and hand.  I'll get back to him soon.  He comes in a variant color scheme like most beat 'em ups mainly because I couldn't decide which one I preferred.

 

Name: Bounty Hunter Date: Sep 2003 Software: Paint Shop Pro 7 (PC)

This is a sprite I drew for a possible high action overhead shoot 'em up in the same sort of genre as the Amiga's Alien Breed series.  Looking back I suppose he looks a little like Gambit of the X-Men especially with that tan trenchcoat.  The storyline was going to be about a couple of bounty hunters forming an uneasy alliance to bring in a difficult bounty but stab each other in the backs for the money.

 

Name: Sword Of Omens Date: Sep 2003 Software: Paint Shop Pro 7 (PC)
	This is the Sword of Omens from ThunderCats in it's various stages of 'growth' from the short dagger like form to it's battling sword form.

 

Name: Lion-O Date: Aug 2003 Software: Paint Shop Pro 7 (PC)
	I did this after finally getting to play the ThunderCats game on Amiga and seeing how Lion-O looked more like a constipated orange dwarf instead of the tall heroic warrior he should be.  The pose is based on one from the original character designs from the show.

 

Name: Angry Self Portrait Date: Aug 2003 Software: Paint Shop Pro 7 (PC)
	I did this after finally getting to play the ThunderCats game on Amiga and seeing how Lion-O looked more like a constipated orange dwarf instead of the tall heroic warrior he should be.  The pose is based on one from the original character designs from the show.

 

Name: Fighter Jets Date: Aug 2003 Software: Paint Shop Pro 7 (PC)
	A concept plane I designed for a vertical shoot 'em up after playing too much Giga Wing.  The jet is inspired by the plane mode of the transformable Valkyrie jet flown by Isamu Dyson in the anime Macross Plus.  The contrast on the first jet is the one I would use if I ever made a game of it.

 

Name: Gunners Date: Aug 2003 Software: Paint Shop Pro 7 (PC)
	Sprites for a GBA platform shooter mock up.