This week's Fan Art Friday was submitted by the actual artist (gasp)! Dolphinwing has a great gallery of fan art up on her DeviantArt page as well as some great cosplay photos. She's very talented and absolutely a-dorable! A fine addition to our ever expanding Fan Art Gallery.
We would love to see MORE artist submitted pieces for our Fan Art Gallery and I know there are lots of talented artists out there who read the site! So please submit your awesome art to info@gaygamer.net with the subject Fan Art Friday.
This week's Fan Art Friday comes to us from reader Chris B. via the BearsImJealousOf website. Clearly the artist, Fujimoto, is not only a fan of bears but an Okami fan as well. I can think of a few of those on the GayGamer staff as well come to think of it... Fujimoto runs a bear-centric art website caled JapanamationBears. It's all in Japanese but you can still enjoy the great art if you can't read the text.
A great gay themed piece of video game art and a terrific addition to our ever growing Fan Art Gallery!
Got some fan art of your own to show of or found a piece on the interwebs you think is great? Send it to us at info@gaygamer.net.
Sometimes the simple things are the best. I absolutely love this week's Fan Art Friday entry, Video Game ABCs by artist Keith Erickson. His Deviant Art Gallery is full of some terrific video game related art but this one is my favorite. Now if someone would just make this for me in needlepoint so I can hang it in my office, I would be happy.
Can you name all 26 characters? Tell us in the comments!
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This week's Fan Art Friday is a creepy cool redesign of everyone's favorite (or at least second favorite) Mario enemy, the Shy Guy. I think Nintendo should try doing a mario game where all the enemies looked like this. I know I'd be the first in line ot buy it, that's for sure.
This piece come to us courtesy DeviantArt from Artist ~MaroBot. You can check out the rest of his amazing art his DeviantArt Gallery.
Here's another great piece from The Autumn Society's "8-Bit and Beyond" Art Show. This particular piece was done by Kasey, a disabled artist who has been paralyzed for nine years. This is one in a series of "One Eyed Girl" paintings the artist has been working on for a while. I always enjoy seeing interesting artistic twists on familiar characters and this one certainly fits the bill.
Be sure to head over to the Autumn Society's website where they have tons of images up from the show and each one is incredible!
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File this one under Things That Make You Go Awwwwww! #23. UpKnitCreek from the Crafster forums posted these photos of a hand made knitted Link costume for her friend's newborn. It comes complete with shoulder strap "quiver" for holding the bottle and little leather bottomed booties. Too cute for words. When I see things like this it almost makes me want to have a baby. Almost being the key word here.
[Thanks, Brian!]
Link is a popular subject of fan art and this week's Fan Art Friday is one of the best I've seen. I always wondered how that little guy could carry so much stuff. We're Gonna Need A Bigger Rucksack is by artist Kim Herbst and is part of The Autumn Society's "8-bit & Beyond" show in Philadelphia. The show will take place at Brave New Worlds comic shop starting August 7th.
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Over on her personal blog, Destructoid associate editor Ashley Davis posted a few of her latest work, and as usual, it's tooth-achingly adorable. I think I have a theme going this weekend.
The first image shows Resident Evil's Jill Valentine having a little bit of slashy trouble with fellow Capcom femme Morrigan, the succubus from Darkstalkers. The other image is a teaser from an in-progress Metroid-themed fairy tale, showing Samus as a young urchin meeting a Chozo. She also hinted a bit at the story:
Once upon a time,
there was an orphan
girl named Samus.
She lived all alone
until one day, when a
giant bird found her
and took her home.
From that point forward,
the bird people raised
Samus as if she were
a bird person too.
Check out both images in the gallery below, and be sure to visit her blog for more.
Lastly, after the break, watch the "Once Upon A Pixel" episode of Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?, where Ms. Davis has illustrated the story of Metal Gear Solid in a similar style.
This Week In Ashley Art... [Destructoid]
I am always glad when we can throw the ladies a little love here on GG. And this time the ladies seem to be throwing quite a bit of love to each other!. DeviantArt artist Kazukorin brings us this experiment in "Lesbianism in Video Games" featuring to of NIntendo's loveliest ladies, Princess Peach and Princess Zelda. A very cute tribute and a wonderful addition to our Fan Art Gallery. You can check out more of Kazukorin's work (who is incidentally a female and not a lesbian) on her DeviantArt gallery page.
A crafty crafter (GeekMythology) has turned the Left 4 Dead survivors into custom sprites and then created them in perler beads! I just love stuff like this and really, who wouldn't want a little spritely Francis to call their own?
The whole set is available for $50 on GeekMythology's Etsy page.
[via Wonderland]
We do love a good mash-up here at the castle and this week's Fan Art Friday entry certainly fits the bill. Artist ShiroiNeko_sama created this Katamari/Final Fantasy blend and has a great gallery up on DeviantArt. You can check out her other works here!
This week's Fan Art Friday goes beyond an art piece and actually encompasses a whole website! The folks at Periscope, a Minnesota based design company, have created a website tribute none other than Street Fighter's Zangief. The Zangief Chronicles has desktop wallpapers, videos and buddy icons of everyone's favorite bear for you to view and enjoy including the excellent one above.
Thanks to Ryan S., a designer at Periscope, for sending this one in!
