Sketch Card – Yoshi!!!

Tune in Tonight around 6pm to my VaughnLive page, WRKD, for a sketch card production broadcast! I’ll be producing a special gift sketch card for the recent 100th “LIKE”-er on my Facebook fan page! Will scan and post here immediately after it’s completed! *UPDATE!* Here it is! Had a lot of fun putting this one on paper, showing Yoshi kickin’ some butt Smash Brothers style! *UPDATE* Brush and ink, Prismacolor on card stock. -RD Yoshi is © Nintendo Original art is ©2013 Randall Drew

KNGI – 10 Year Anniversary!

Tonight marks the ten year anniversary of the KNGI Network and it’s flagship title Nitro Game Injection! Kyle Crouse aka KyleJCRB has done over 200 shows of NGI and many more of his companion music show Game Fuel. Since 2009 KNGI has broadcast all of it’s programing on Arecibo Radio, and become the source for Arecibo’s podcast network. The spiritual successor to Super Radio X, which aired from 2001-2003 on WRBC in Maine and co-hosted by the former host of WMRE Emory University Radio’s VGFrequency OCRemix’s Community Manager & Submissions Judge Larry Oji, KNGI continues the more than a decade long tradition of bringing video game and VGM rearrangement music to the public in a fun, energetic and enthusiastic way! For the 10th Anniversary, Kyle put out the call for fans of the show to submit art. Seeing that Kyle is a big Sonic the Hedgehog fan and I am too, as well as knowing Ian Flynn, the head writer for Archie’s Sonic series (among others) will be in attendance, I took each hosts avatar and devised my own title screen print in the style of Sonic 1 to celebrate! Featuring KNGI’s mascot Ariane, co-host Larry Oji’s character Rhino Blastoseed on the right, created by him and former co-host and official show artist Suraida (Slider-chan,) who’s Angel character, with co-creation credit to Ian Flynn’s wife, Kureejii Lea, is on the left! Hyper Limited edition SIGNED 11×14″ glossy prints will be available tonight only during the show at my STORE page, so get one while you can!
Thanks to Kyle and Slider for permission to sell the prints and thanks to everyone at KNGI and Arecibo for making such awesomeness happen every day! Here’s to another decade of great music! G-nib & Ink on Bristol Color in Photoshop CS6 -RD Original art is © 2013 Randall Drew Ariane is © Kyle Crouse Angel and Rino Blastoseed are © Slider

Sketch Card – Advance Wars

I love a good tactical game, but I never got around to the Advance Wars series on GBA and the like. Sad, they have such a neat cast of characters, like this gritty fellow here! Who’s name just happens to be Grit. Eat your heart out Jeff Bridges! Micron, Prismacolor and Copics on card stock. -RD Grit is © Intelligent Systems/Nintendo Original art is © 2013 Randall Drew

Character Page – Miles

Finished digital painting for Miles’ profile on the Characters page! Continuing to experiment with digital painting and color, I seem to have found a couple of brushes I really like in terms of texture. Next on the list are Miles’ father and two characters you won’t meet until Chapter 2! -RD ©2013 Randall Drew All Rights Reserved.