The Year of Luigi

While I was travelling on the Overground yesterday I picked up a copy of the Metro and was surprised to find an article all about Luigi, the supposedly "less famous Mario brother". While they did seem to be struggling to fill two pages – "Unlike his more famous brother, Luigi likes anchovies on his pizza" – the article was highlighting the fact that, in recognition of the 30th Anniversary of the other brother's first appearance in the Mario Bros arcade game in 1983, Nintendo have made 2013 'The Year of Luigi', with a number of Luigi-centric games due to be released this year on 3DS and Wii U!

So, in recognition of this fact, and the release of Luigi's Mansion 2 tomorrow, I decided to do a drawing of the Mario brother that is not Mario...

Movillustration – The Final Countdown!

I'm entering into the final few days of my Movillstration challenge to raise money and awareness for Prostate Cancer UK with only 5 days left to go before the end of the month, and an end to my daily drawings of men with moustaches!

Here's an update of the drawings I've done over the last ten days...





















You can view all of my Movillustration pictures so far on my Movillustration Tumblr page, and if you want to donate some money to Prostate Cancer UK, then you can visit my Just Giving page here: http://www.justgiving.com/movillustration. Only five more daily drawings to go...

Happy Birthday Shigeru Miyamoto!

Today is the 59th birthday of Shigeru Miyamoto. As a designer and producer at Nintendo he has been responsible for many of my favourite video games over the years. Happy Birthday to him!