The Line It Is Drawn: Week 379

This week's The Line It Is Drawn was a theme close to my heart: videogames! I was so enraptured with the suggestions made, that I ended up producing three pieces for this week!

Cyclops and Havok in Super Mario Bros (Super Summers Bros?), as suggested by therealAstrozac


Q*Bert meets Doop, as suggested by BigMike20X6


Magik vs Samus from Metroid as suggested by Brian_Cronin (This one was actually an existing drawing I did last year, but it seemed to fit the theme!)

UniQlo x Nintendo, Global T-shirt Design Competition UTGP2017

UniQlo held their Global T-Shirt Design Competition (UTGP2017) during the Summer to design a t-shirt based on a selected theme, which this year was Nintendo!

The designs could feature characters from any of the following series' of games: Super Mario, The Legend Of Zelda, Pokémon, Animal Crossing, Star Fox, Splatoon, Pikmin, Metroid, Kirby and Donkey Kong. You weren't allowed to cross them over with each other, but otherwise it was open to your imagination.

As T-Shirts and Nintendo are two of my favourite things, I couldn't let this moment pass, so submitted a few designs based on past Nintendo-themed drawings I'd done, plus came up with a new one...

This was a drawing I did, based on the artwork for Super Mario World on the SNES...


Here's a baby version of Samus from the Metroid series, hugging a cuddly Metroid...


This was my take on Peppy Hare's line from Star Fox: "Do a Barrel Roll!"...


And here's a new design I made, featuring Bowser and his offspring, the Koopalings and Bowser Jr, in the style of The Brady Bunch opening. Because, why not...


The deadline for the competition has now closed and the winners will be announced early next year...

Baby Samus!

I drew this a while ago now for a competition to draw a Nintendo character as a baby. Although after I drew it, I realised that the closing date was the day before... Still, I was quite pleased with the picture, so here it is: Baby Samus from Metroid!

Happy Birthday Colette!

It was my friend Colette's birthday last week. A while ago Colette was talking on Twitter about wanting to be drawn like a Disney character, plus she recently cosplayed as Zero Suit Samus from the Metroid games, so I tried drawing a Disney-style portrait of Colette as Samus...

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...!