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Pop-Monkey's Classic Arcade Fan-Art: "Pac-Samurai" (Pac-Man)
popmonkey | 8:05 AM on 12.02.2008 10 comments




I loved the "ancient Pac-Man" concept so much, I was inspired to do another piece. This one is an attempt to merge my style with an old Japanese print style complete with faux-antique paper. Took me a bit longer to finish than I thought it would. Even though the color scheme is very flat, achieving that authentic old and worn look to it was a real bear. It's not a technique I'm used to utilizing in my work, and it's much more complicated than scanning in an old beat-up piece of paper and converting the artwork to "multiply" on top of it.

Er... what I meant to say is -- here's a recently discovered rare Japanese print which is rumored to have contributed to Toru Iwatani's inspiration for the genesis of Pac-Man. It was a print that had been in his family for generations, but had been lost in a warehouse shortly after his tragic suicide.

This piece, too, was featured in the "Big Trouble in Little Gainesville" show at GORILLA RIOT'S STORE 101 on June 6th 2008, and got a fair bit of attention by being featured on Boing Boing's blog and Kotaku.com's blog.

PRINTS OF THIS PIECE ARE AVAILABLE!! $15 (free US shipping), 11"X 17" 100# cover stock paper. EMAIL ME FOR MORE INFO!!



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Char Aznable's Destructoid Blog
Cowabunga!
ZombiePlatypus's Destructoid Blog
This looks pretty damn cool...
Mikey's Destructoid Blog
That's cool, reminds me of Cardboard Tube Samurai.
welkstar's Destructoid Blog
Haha! Saw this on your blog, love it!
Y0j1mb0's Destructoid Blog
Very slick.

It always amazes me how many honest to goodness talented people Destructoid is filled to the brim with.

Keep up the great the work. You can never have enough Samurai in my opinion.
NihonTiger90's Destructoid Blog
Excellent work! Also, if you haven't been properly welcome to Dtoid... welcome!
RonBurgandy2010's Destructoid Blog
That's awesome.
popmonkey's Destructoid Blog
Thanks, everyone, for the welcomes and the kind words.
Currently working on a Donkey Kong piece, but I've got enough sketches and layout ideas for a couple of pieces at the least.
grafkhun's Destructoid Blog
do want! so badly, I may just send you an email right now to buy one. awesome work matey!


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Howdy!
I'm a long-time gamer who started out with a Texas Instruments TI-whatever way back when and have gradually worked my way up to a PS2. Haven't invested in a PS3 yet, but that will be remedied soon!

My main gig is freelance artist. My blog is located here, and I try to keep it up to date with whatever projects I'm working on that I'm allowed to share. Occasionally, I'll do a classic video game inspired piece, which I'll be sharing here.

Favorite games of all time include: Mrs. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Q*Bert, Resident Evil, Street Fighter II, Guitar Hero, God of War, SSX Tricky, etc.

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