Daily Pattern: Frogger

So Alyssa requested a Frogger pattern, and who am I to deny myself an excuse to do video game themed art?



I started off with a much higher-res and stylized version of the titular frog, but it looks odd and didn't read as Frogger. So I stayed pretty true to that sprite...

I went pretty bright with the colors, unlike the last two pixel patterns. Once I finished I knew I had to go back and add some details like color bleeding, screen fading and horizontal hold lines to recreate the the gritty, grimy feeling of an actual arcade machine. Just for fun-zies.

Daily Pattern: Bear Hunting

True Fact: I once had an art director was an (the only?) artist The Oregon Trail, the ubiquitous educational PC game about the hard life of pioneers on the Oregon Trail.

Being the child of the 80's, I was understandably in complete awe. The best part about my entire pre-college educational career was playing Oregon Trail!

I was terrible at the game. After naming all my characters with appropriately scatological names, I would proceed to buy nothing but 200 lbs of hunting ammo at the supply shop.

Wagon wheels? Clothes? Who needs them when there's an army of woodland creatures to shoot!