VGJunk

A monochrome linocut relief print. A vampire woman with hatched shading.

Today's linoprint: "Vampire", A4. Trying for an "80s RPG rulebook" kind of thing.

Hand-drawn picture of a boss from Gradius II, Famicom.

Hand-drawn picture of a boss from Gradius II, Famicom.

Hand-drawn picture of a boss from Gradius II, Famicom.

Hand-drawn picture of a boss from Gradius II, Famicom.

Just look at these illustrations of the bosses of Gradius II for the Famicom, from a guide in Beep magazine. How delighful, especially those mini moai.

Advert for Data East's arcade machine Slap Shot. A dozen people wearing ice hockey goalie masks.

Have you all seen the flyer for Data East's arcade hockey machine Slap Shot? This one, that looks more like an advert for some Jason Voorhees-based cult? Cool, just checking.

Acrylic painting on canvas board. A pale woman in profile facing to the left, with grey and purple skintones and dark brown / purple hair.

Today's painting; a portrait, acrylic on board

Screenshot from Sonic Labyrinth, Game Gear. Sonic the Hedgehog shown from behind with the text "But it is not perfect!"

I'm sorry I can't live up to your high standards, Sonic.

DVD cover for the 2004 movie Skeletonman. A spooky skull and a flying eyeball.

"Right, and which part's the skeleton part?"
"The skeleton... part."

Abstract / Cubist painting of a woman's face wearing an eyepatch, in light oranges and black marker.

Today's painting: "Woman with Eyepatch," marker, acrylic, watercolour on paper.

Meiko Kaji in Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter (1970)

A balm for the soul: pictures of Meiko Kaji looking cool.

hi I'm Demon Kabuki, but my friends call me Laughing Devil

Only when I'm out on business.

"The suspect was last seen setting a radical new high score in Centipede."

From a book about early arcade games called Winner's Book of Video Games. A sketch of the "compleat video player."

It's true, I play a lot of videogames and I look exactly like this.

Cartoon from Video Games magazine. A woman is very excited to see Donkey Kong.

Unofficial Day of the Tentacle art on a German guide book

Just look at this wonderful bootleg Day of the Tentacle art from a German guide book.

Screenshot from Cardinal Syn, PS1.

The furtive Finkster, so easily forgotten.

Screenshot from Wolverine, NES. Sabretooth says "some like it hot!"

Hey Sabretooth, what's your favourite movie?

Actlic painting. Two abstract humanoid figures in dark blue on a red background with a moon. Inspired by the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds song Loom of the Land.

Today's painting: "Loom of the Land," acrylic on paper, A3. I managed to rip the paper but I just tried to work around it. Well, paper doesn't grow on trees, you know.

Acrylic painting. A heavily painted portrait of a woman with blue skin tones and pink hair.

Today's painting, acrylic on board.

Happy Friday the 13th! Here's a new mix with most of the Friday the 13th tribute pixel art video clips I've made so far. I re-rendered the theater lobby display to have better shadows.

Screenshot from Buster Fight, Game Gear. Text reading PROGRAM CHAOS BRAIN.

That's what I've got.

Hmm, yes, I see *nodding sagely*

Ad for Ninja Gun, an electromechanical shooting game for arcade.

No, that's a sword. Nice try though.

Screenshot from Majestic Twelve: The Space Invaders Part IV / Super Space Invaders '91. A pastoral scene of fields and cows, with the test "CATTLE MUTILTION"

So that's why the Space Invaders were invading.

An acrylic painting, with white highlights scratched off with sandpaper. Pennywise the Dancing Clown from Stephen King's IT.

Today's painting thing: Pennywise, acrylic paint scraped off with sandpaper on a canvas board, A3.

You know when you were a kid and your parents would annoy you by calling all videogames "Nintendos"? Apparently my equivalent is annoying my niece by calling all Vocaloids "Mikus".

An acrylic painting, on paper, A4. A pink bakground with organic line, with three green rectangular panels with yellow mark that look a bit like bronze through verdigris.

Abstract painting day t.oday

Crime City, arcade. How to perform a somersault attack

Using this move to get through the self-serve area at the supermarket faster.

Getting through a buzzword-filled corporate "we're so great" email by reading it in the voice of the announcer from Street Fighter Alpha 3.

Title scren from Gary Lineker's Superstart Football, Amstrad CPC. A rather unnerving rendition of the man himself.

Gary Lineker: footballer, pundit, terrifying golem carved from lard.

Title screen from Crime Time, Amiga.

"It's Time for Crime Time" might be my new favourite tagline.