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Giant Beetle - Doubutsu no Mori e+ (2003, Gamecube)

Study; colored pencil, watercolor, acrylic, india ink

Process

Original screenshot:

Linework and first coats

I used a stencil for the grass pattern cause I Am Not Painting All That Crap. It turned out pretty wobbly but still better than if I did it by hand. Might try a stamp instead next time...?

I usually use a ruler due to wrist problems. Drawing the leaves was awful and hurt a lot and I will probably do it again . yay

This villager (Roswell) was exclusive to Doubutsu no Mori e+ until some DLC or other for New Horizons. I don't have a Switch, but I'm glad more people get to appreciate him now. Even though the unique islander personality isn't a thing anymore...

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House interior at night - Doubutsu no Mori e+ (Gamecube, 2003)

Study; pencil, colored pencil and watercolor

Original screenshot:

First couple layers:

I paint very slowly.

Doubutsu no Mori e+ is basically the North American version of the original Animal Crossing (i.e. with new American holidays), translated back to Japanese, with the Japan-exclusive furniture added back in, as well as some extra content. It is the most complete edition of the original Animal Crossing, and all combined it feels a bit like a crunchier New Leaf, which is funny.

The red text on the partitioning screen reads "Nintendo" and "software company". Except software (sofuto) is written backwards??? for some reason?????? Like, it's "tofuso", not "sofuto"......

And the green text reads "Marufuku".

(Warning: We are now entering a tangent zone)

I believe this is a reference to a real company, Marufuku (no relation to Marufuku Ramen), which was a telephone subscription rights/financial services company. This business model (I'm not explaining this) collapsed when Japan's very... particular landline system was abolished, shortly after the time of the original Doubutsu no Mori's release.

(photo source: hoshner_sigmaniax on Flickr)

Although defunct, Marufuku is still known for their abundant and iconic red-and-white signs. There's even a whole site dedicated to them, which estimates there were originally about 500,000 of such signs (although they can't estimate how many have survived). Obviously the item here has a different color scheme, maybe I'm off base here, but I can't imagine what else this could be referencing?

In the painting I tried to make it look more like the real sign font, but (being from the US) I didn't catch the reference until I had already started on it, and my handwriting is bad at any rate, so the result is a little... well, it's a bit wobbly.

I'm surprised the developers put a real company name in here, but it's so tiny, and I can't imagine Marufuku was in any financial position to file suit over this kind of thing anyway. It's weird to think about, but it's entirely possible the video game item will outlast the real-world Marufuku signs...

By the way, the version of this item in New Leaf has overwritten all of the text with what seems to be nonsense (although the Nintendo portion is still somewhat recognizable).

Anyway I hope you like my house

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Transport to Magmoor Caverns West - Metroid Prime (2002, Gamecube)

Study; ballpoint pen and watercolor

Original screenshot

Process

Also did a smaller scale version to test out materials. Sharpie is fun for black but destroys my wrists so I just did watercolor

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Overgrown Ruins - Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (2007, Gamecube)

Study; ballpoint pen, watercolor, acrylic on paper

Original screenshot

I forgot to take pics of the process here. Whops

Ok then you draw the rest of the owl. Whatever this isn't a tutorial I just don't want some dipnut going "uhmmm is this AI????" when in fact this is regular good old fashioned human copyright infringement. AI would probably look nicer anyway but that's not the point...

Also did the same image in a smaller size (just getting used to paints)

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Versus Ridley - Metroid Prime (2002, Gamecube)

Study; ballpoint pen, watercolor, india ink, acrylic

Original screenshot

ribley...

I also did a smaller version to test out materials.

I realize I beefed the glowing color but I did not have cyan paint and did not feel like getting it. It's whatever, regular blue looks nice too...

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Hi, I make images sometimes. Due to my diseases, I am very slow, so please be nice. Thanks