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Here's a closer look at this one with some detail shots. Glad so many of you like this one. I've always wanted to do cover art for a game magazine so this was a little dream come true.
@johntv @jonphilmitch Oh you might be onto something. That Link matches this one which is also featured in the book. I'll see if I can find it.
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.