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Now this is what I really love to do for Art Attack Friday. You! I want to see your stuff. Sure, it's great seeing other peoples work, but I'd really like to be able to feature you all as well.

This week, a masterpiece from Dtoider Gerald, also known as Maxpower. Last month, Maxpower was looking for some help in a painting he was trying to create. Thanks to some help from the community, Maxpower came up with some ideas and created this awesome mural.

As far as what went into the piece and how long it took:

Well there were a lot of sleepless nights. From conception to completion, I'd say it took 200 hours or so, over the course of a month. Majority of it is acrylic paint. Heavy body gel was used on the clouds and the Mario brick path. Many individual pieces were cut out to create depth. The face, tongue, arm, and PS3 were cut from another hardboard panel and glued on the painting surface. There are also smaller pieces made that are detachable. The Mario blocks, the giant black DS stylus, the NES controller, the Mario pipe filled with handhelds, the music notes and the car (it's actually based on the Camaro used in the Transformer movie for Bumblebee) are all detachable (velcroed). I'll give you a list of all references used later. I kinda want the viewers to find out as much detail as they can on their own.

Hit the gallery for tons of pictures of the piece, early concept work, and how big the piece is! Also, HI-RES!

Simply amazing. My favorite part has to be the reflection of the PS2 in the PS3. What say you readers? 

 

 


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Wolfbeta's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/09/2007 00:38
Wolfbeta
Congratulations, Gerald. You are Winrar.
Now you sell to me!

imbeta's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/09/2007 00:57
imbeta
@Hamsa: Oh dude... really? Are you serious... Friday IS Art day? *sigh* I lose awesomeness by the second, and here I thought I was starting something sweet.
Mxyzptlk's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/09/2007 01:14
Mxyzptlk
As I've said before, this is excellent work!
boxhound's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/09/2007 02:21
boxhound
That's absolutely beyond awesome.

Good work!
Rainbowblack's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/09/2007 07:27
Rainbowblack
this needs to be on my desktop. no excuses
infinity's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/09/2007 08:30
infinity
artistic genius. i particularly like how the birds are ds lites.
TheStripe's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/09/2007 10:27
TheStripe
I wants. How much?
diversionmary's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/09/2007 11:28
diversionmary
does the art on art attack fridays have to be video game related? cause i dont have much game related. :(
s0lesurviv0r's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/09/2007 12:03
s0lesurviv0r
Absolutely amazing!
TheStripe's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/09/2007 13:48
TheStripe
Somebody tell this guy to sell prints. I would absolutely pay out the nose for a nice framed, matted, perhaps individually numbered print.
Maxpower's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/09/2007 14:40
Maxpower
Interesting idea, Stripe. I will consider that. The Painting itself is up for grabs. If there are any inquiries about it, shoot me an email maxpowder (at) gmail.com. Thanks for the kind words everyone.
Reeper's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/09/2007 14:49
Reeper
i really want. really badly. i'd say my favorite details are the smash bros. emblem, the excite bike on teh halo, the guitar hero guitar controller neck, the contra cheat. the list goes on. awesome work, please do another :D
TheStripe's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/09/2007 16:28
TheStripe
It's got everything. I hope we can convince him to make prints, so we can all get one, instead of having to bid away our PS3 funds for the original. ;)

J
Hamza CTZ Aziz's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/09/2007 20:04
Hamza CTZ Aziz
diversionmary: Well yeah. This is a video game site after all :P
diversionmary's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/09/2007 21:27
diversionmary
Samus!
Android!
Tingle!
Tamagotchis'

All my video game stuff is so old, back when it was ok to draw whatever. Cursed high-art :(
Maxpower's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/09/2007 21:50
Maxpower
Your stuff is funky, I like.
TheStripe's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2007 20:04
TheStripe
So what's the word on those prints? ;)
Maxpower's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/11/2007 12:09
Maxpower
You seem to be only one interested, so I'll talk to you about it on email.
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