Super SMASH Bros! Easter egg decoration

While I was busy eating chocolate eggs on Easter Sunday, I noticed that Nintendo were running a competition on their Nintendo 3DS UK Facebook page to decorate a Nintendo-themed egg with the chance to win a Limited Edition Yoshi's Island 3DS XL. So I decided to give it a go and went off and bought half a dozen eggs and got painting!

I painted egg-shaped versions of Mega Man, Samus Aran from Metroid, The Villager from Animal Crossing and Link from The Legend of Zelda series, all of whom are playable characters in the upcoming Super Smash Bros game.











And as they were eggs, I decided that the "Smash" in Super Smash Bros should probably be literal! Poor Link...!

Happy Easter!

"Mummy, where do Easter Eggs come from...?"



Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter! The day when Jesus got better and had a real craving for chocolate...or something. I drew this picture as a submission for Illustration Rally, but then after I finished it, somebody commented on a blog post I made last Easter, and I suddenly realised that I'd already done a similar idea before... Well, if something's worth doing once, it's worth doing again. And Jesus really does love chocolate!

Anyway, back to this image, and I decided to use a brush pen I found lying around on my desk for the drawing, and I quite like the differences in width it creates. I think I'll experiment a bit more with this in the future...

Right, I'm off to eat some more chocolate!

Happy Easter!

Easter is a strange holiday. Obviously it's origins are quite religious, celebrating the idea of Jesus' death and subsequent resurrection. I've never really understood what chocolate eggs had to do with all this. Maybe Jesus really loved chocolate...and eggs...



Happy Easter to you all!

Illustration Friday - "Fleeting"

Nothing's as fleeting as a chocolate egg on Easter morning...