Arcade Artwork
Mr. Do! Ice Cream finished, for now
Punched out the remaining shapes I had drawn for the ice cream drawing. I was doing an on / off comparison of the artwork vs. the original image. It is a decent image to work from, but a scan would be even better. For now I think I am going to say that I am done.
There are some areas that are hard to see if the orange is showing through or not. The way it was put on the cab is a little weird. The yellow paint doesn’t appear to be thick enough to cover the orange, so a lot of the orange shows through. So that makes it kind of tough to tell what is what, and hard to replicate in vector form. When I check my work, it doesn’t seem like it has nearly enough orange, but again, hard to tell. Plus, for now, I had to leave the base of the glass stand a solid yellow because I don’t know what the bottom looks like outside of the photos above on the page and freehanding it. Anyone out there have comments?
Working on Agent X kickplate border pattern
Spent a little time tonight in starting on the complex border for the kickplate artwork. I drew the little rounded rectangle with the
end notches, and repeated it for the outside border of the artwork. Next, I do the same for around the inside of the artwork by the coin door, and then go back and make sure the black and green borders are straight.
Black fill on Agent X robots
Worked on the artwork just a little tonight. I finished the outline for the robot so I could make the main black fill. I traced it as
best as I could see, knowing that at the very least I would have to go back and redo the detail on the arms. But Richard had emailed to see where I was at, so I thought it would be nice to show him this piece at least, since it has so much detail.
Only arms left on Agent X robots
Worked over the weekend on the Agent X artwork. I got the antenna done, the rest of the arms, the remaining shapes on the base and the outline shape of the robot, so for all intensive purposes he could be finished. But frustrating enough, I was looking at the hi-res photos that were sent to me, and some small details got dropped in the arms and the green section on the robot from the original image I was working from. I already retraced the green area and transferred it. The arms are now left to do. Who would of thought this would have been so much work for one robot?
Ice Cream Sprinkles are difficult to do
Punched out a few more of the shapes tonight for the yellow sprinkles and orange dots. It is pretty tedious, and involves me sometimes redrawing the shapes for cropping in Illustrator, so when I finish it, I finish it.
Working more on Agent X robots on kickplate
Got through tracing the rest of the blue shapes around the waist of the robot, some more of the right arm, and a couple more shapes on the base. Hopefully I will be finishing the arm and the redoing the antenna and a couple pieces on the head next.
Working more on Mr. Do! Ice Cream Dish
Finished the shape drawing for the ice cream artwork tonight. I got the artwork colored, and started to do some of the cropping of different overlapping pieces, but there are a ton of them, and I didn’t finish them. I also traced the base of the ice cream dish off of a photo from the sideart, but on this one, I won’t be able to finish it unless I find a full illustration that isn’t rubbed away because the base of the dish is chopped off on the bezel.
