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Published: 2008-02-27 01:41:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 13600; Favourites: 136; Downloads: 333
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24x48 inch11,000 pixels
~25 colors
40 hours
Finally done with this one. Seemed like every color needed at least two coats and the sky needed five! Started with the idea of it being 15 x 30 then blossomed into a larger project when I saw a beautiful 24x48 canvas on sale
Quite happy with the results and I hope you are too.
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Comments: 44
OMG.... Your art looks EXACTLY like screenshots from the games!!
Epic Banzai Bill.
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Your entire gallery is simply too awesome for words.
I bow to you sir.
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It's amazing how accurately you can reproduce this stuff. These are the ulitmate wall hangings for any true video game nerd.
I hope you keep this kind of work up, I look forward to seeing much more!
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I intend on getting into some other more traditional means for producing video game art (Watercolors and such) but I don't think I'll ever stop making these
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I wish I could get a good idea of the size of this painting--24 x 48 is hard to communicate over the internet
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I'm very impressed by the amount of effort you have put into this style of painting. I do hope that you work out the photography issues you mentioned in an above post since it would be great to see a bit more accurate image of the colors.
I look forward to seeing more of these.
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Some day I'll take all the ones I have to a studio and have professional pics taken.
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for some reason that old school chase music from the Three stooges just popped in my head. lol. i like this.
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This is a painting? Wow...and it's a big one at that.
I am very impressed with how each pixel looks near perfect to it's SNES counterpart.
Great job, man.
_TCM
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Gabe (of Penny Arcade) is responsible for ushering me to this ocular blessing.
This is spectacular. I would like to own it or marry it. Whichever is appropriate.
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You can own it! for a the low low price of YOUR SOUL! MUAHAHAHA
That or 600 federal reserve notes.
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For being so big, those things suprisingly easy to kill.
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hehe, for sure. Thx for all the faves!
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How much are you selling this for? My friend here at the house wants it. Would you be able to get this on a shirt? He'd love that.
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Oh yeah, not sure what I'd sell it for but it wouldn't be less than 400 i think.
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I could give you the psd file which you could then print out and take to a tshirt place perhaps.
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Hmm. I'll talk to him about it.
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Mmmm, Mr. Goodbar... (insert Homer's gutteral gurgling sound)
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I have to say, I'm not all too certain how I came about writing that last follow up comment.
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that's an amazng job 
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How do you keep everything so neat and straight and uniform with paint?
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patience, a flat brush, a grid, and more patience.
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Well, t'is an impressive amount of patience you have. It looks like a screenshot!
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That's damn impressive when thinking it's a real painting. Really good
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I somewhat agree with InfinitiesEnd... the balance is a bit off, but in my opinion that just adds to the intensity that mario must be feeling... (but the background trees would have fixed that)
and I hear what you said about the "look" being off if you moved bill more towards the right, but because you cut him off right at the edge of the circle, he kind of looks like bowling ball bill instead of banzai bill...
no worries though, it's a fun little piece and that truly is a great mario sprite that you picked... ^^ (oh, and I'm also envious of your range of grey...)
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I like the sprite you chose for Mario and how it seems like he's doing an "OH SHIT... i'm in trouble" face.
HOWEVER, I am not sure I like your overall composition. The Banzai Bill is quite cut off, so unless you played the game, you wouldn't really know that it's a Banzai Bill that's moving at a greater speed than Mario is running. It also severely weighs the painting down on the left side, but if you were going for imbalance, then you succeeded.
Also, I don't know if it's your camera or not, but the colors seem quite muted. Any way you can fix that?
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I've been frustrated with my camera lately and despite having tried every white balance setting the pictures I take still are very dark. I have to mess with the brightness/contrast settings through photoshop which attributes for the the washed out feel. In the painting all the colors are very vivid and am in fact most pleased with the color accuracy on mario than in any other painting I've done so far.
It was a difficult thing deciding where to play each character sprite in this. If I brought Bill further in to the right it seemed wrong. I can't really be more specific than that but I will say it was not an easy decision. I also forgot to put in trees on that side and having painted over the grid at the point of that realization it was too late to put them in. This might add the the imbalance issue you mentioned.
Thx much for taking the time to give me some real criticism. Its always appreciated. I think its all too easy to leave totally positive comments or none at all but to voice constructive criticism helps me to reanalyze aspects of my paintings which I might have overlooked.
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I think most people are just too lazy to write any real criticism or they just don't know what to say because they don't know how to criticize art properly. So they usually just stick with the ol' standby: "OMG, THAT'S AMAZING!"
I would recommmend possibly going outside to do your photographs. It's even better if it's cloudy outside so there is very little ambient light. Early in the morning or late in the evening is usually the best time. I know it's "just for DA" but you'd probably want to get some clearer shots for your own personal website.
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Ambient lighting and a camera steadiness are key for photographing paintings, drawing, and the like especially if your indoors, which is usually the case. The cost of putting a good studio together for this can be somewhat daunting though and not having put much time into it thus far I think I've succeeded in taking some pretty poor quality pics. But until the last few paintings I was okay with it. Now I'm investing 40+ hours into each project it seems reasonable to fork out the extra dough to be able to represent my paintings accurately.
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Instead of playing around with brightness/contrast I suggest you rather play around with curves, generally you get a much better result that way. The scene in itself is rather simple and easy too look at, meaning it would probably be a good thing to have on a wall. I was, however, hoping that your SMW project would be a bit more elaborate and detailed, giving a stronger SMW feeling. If you have photographs of how the image goes across the edge then that would also be interesting to see (I'm watching your scraps btw).
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I messed with the curves some too. I think ill try some daytime pics and see if that helps.
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