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The full series of Game & Watch scans from my collection. These are from roughly 1984, which I'm guessing based on the Saturday Supercade plug (which ended in '84) & the "New in '85!" call out on the Double Screen ad.
Some fresh scans of a handful of the Captain N cels I got a few weeks ago.
My four most traumatizing animation scenes from childhood. They're all from Akira. I was in 5th grade I think. Way too young to watch that movie. It blew my mind.
Closer look at the art itself. I was heavily inspired by the boxes of the original Final Fantasy Famicom games. I hope I'm able to channel some of those feelings with this piece.
Lets talk about these damn dots for a second too. Dots by the crease always scan horrible, they're generally faked too. First image is the scan, second is cleaned up with digitally readded dots. I have layers of dots that I can copy/paste as needed. Sometimes I manually add dots.
The first image is the scan cropped from the scanned background. So all the gray boxes are transparency and that's showing how much bleed I need. The second picture is a digitally added painting where I try to match the drawing about as close as I can.
Two tiny illustrations I snipped out of the Zelda guide. I completely rethought half the page the first one is from (it was the only place I had a little Link saying something with a tip and it just didn't work), and the second one I needed to redraw for another page.
Thanks for the amazing response on this cover last night. Still cracking away at this beast of a book. Spent my afternoon editing the Link vs Ganon spread. It was a ton of work and I needed to redraw a bunch of it. Also took decided to play with the color. What do you think?
Since it's Mario Day, here's a handful of Mario scans I've done recently. I made two more of these available on https://t.co/RRP0drIPd3 (https://t.co/PQyIBD7OVj) & of course I updated my personal archive with stuff I missed at https://t.co/k5rGncCzv8. Enjoy!
Some samples of pages you've already seen, but now scanned, mostly cleaned up & near final. I'll probably continue to tweak the color correcting a some more. Since I don't want to wreck the book, lots of digital edits have to be made along the crease (before & after shown).