That title is a little odd, right? I know when people were occupying wall street chanting “we are the 99%” it got people’s attention for awhile. While it didn’t shut down the government or make any drastic changes, it was a message of solidarity. Same with my message in the title. Recently I read a study that showed as of 2013 women accounted for 12% of the gaming industry, which is up from the 3% my gender accounted for back in 1989.
The Age Of Nintendo Indie Titles Has Begun!
I’m talking about Nintendo’s new indie development program that launched last year! March 6th is when the first one of us in the program officially launched a game on Nintendo’s eShop. RCMADIAX (Mike as I’ll refer to him – it’s just easier) launched his first game, BLOK DROP U, on that day and I couldn’t be happier for him! I’ve been quietly watching his progress since he announced, just as I’ve been keeping an eye on other eShop titles yet to launch. From what I’ve seen Mike is pretty pleased with his launch and is still working diligently to stay in touch with his community.
Mini art!
I’ve been doing a lot more with my tablet, and recently I started making what we call “tiles” with it. I generally take about 15 mins each (which isn’t super long for a warm up), and they’re all drafts. I have just kind of been playing with techniques and seeing what the tablet can do. The majority of these don’t have any real theme, they were just free drawings when I was listening to music or had tv going. One of them is a “Who’s that Pokemon?” like from the TV show. I bet you can’t tell me which one it is…
Okay, maybe it’s really easy to guess which one, but it was still a lot of fun to get inspired by that. I’ll give you a little background on the others I’ve made so far too.
Blue was made based on a curved line, and I branched out from there with the colors. Andrew thinks it looks like a blue piranha plant, but that is not intentional.
Heartbacon was made right around Valentine’s day while listening to Daft Punk with Andrew. It wasn’t really meant to look like bacon (I just love pinks), but if the shoe fits…
Brownee was made while Andrew was working on dinner and I had some crime show on in the background.
Streamy was made right after during the same crime show as Brownee. I wouldn’t say either were “inspired” by the show, it was just there for some background noise. I wanted streamy to feel like some rocks in a brook.
Grape Ocean was made while watching/listening to some “Crash Course” on youtube. If you have not watched any of that series you can do so here. Any of the videos are entirely worth your time! That’s beside the point though. Purple ocean is one of my favorites because of the tones. It reminds me of Kirby’s Adventure for the NES.
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| Blue |
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| Heartbacon |
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| Brownee |
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| Streamy |
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| Grape Ocean |
I’ll try to have collections like this every couple weeks or so of just random art I have worked on. Let me know which one’s you like! If you have any requests for things for me to get inspired by, put it in the comments, or you can tweet us @TeamAndrecca if you want to!
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