LewiePs Mummy painting for Penny Arcade forum. NSF56k

LewieP's Mummy

Hello folks,
You may know me from G&T's Secret Santa thread - I painted ICO artwork for LewiePs Santee, and a few people have asked me to paint stuff for them, I've agreed to do so, for donations to Oxfam Unwrapped (plus postage and materials).
I've started the first one, for Jam Warrior, ICO again, and decided to post in progress pics. Feedback very welcome, cos I can always improve!

Here's the pencil outline for ICO

Here's the background started


Penny arcade painting list.

1. Jam warrior Ico, Jan 08 :lol:
2. Centipeed, SOTC, Feb 08 :lol:
3. Zarcath, Larhal, March 08 :lol:
4. Melatonin, FF VIII, April 08 :lol:
5. Bionic Monkey, Cherry blossom, May 08 :lol: Okami 2 Nov 08 :lol:
6. Toxk 02 Ico May 08 :lol:
7. Defrag, The thief, Jun 08 :lol:
8. Pharezon :lol: and Lewisham :lol: August 08
9. Mr Bubbles Bioshock, Happy New Year 1959 Sept 08 :lol:
10. Musiqua Okami - wolf in bamboo forest Oct 08 :lol:
11. Oz Solid Snake Nov 08 :lol:
12. Zeromus, Green Arrow Nov 08 :lol:
13. Joshua Washke, no pic yet Dec 08 - not contacted me.
14. Hylian Bunny, Fable 2, Jan 09 :lol:
15. Ben Jacobs, Terra, Jan 09 :lol:
16. Megaman 001 large Spikey Colossus Feb 09 :lol:
17. Nova_C beyond good and evil March 09 :lol:
18. Tnman no pic April 09
19. Thetheroo May 09 :lol:
20. Regicid3 June 09 - on hold, he's on basic training, but will queue jump as soon as he's finished. :lol:
21. Rehab July 09 :lol:
22. Aethelred August 09 :lol:
23. trueheretix Sept 09.
24. Druhim no, changed his mind.
25. 1ddqd, November 09 , Mirror's Edge :lol: except it got damaged
26. Look Out it's Sabs! December 09: Fables :lol:
27. Just_Bri_Thanks January 2010 FFXI :lol:
28. StarGuarded Feb 2010 :lol:
30. Bobcesca April 2010 :lol:
29. Geod May 2010 :lol:
30. Sir Landshark, June 2010. Didn't contact me. Twice.
31. DarkPrimus, July 2010. :lol:
32. Hamju, August 2010 :lol:
33. vegeta_666, September 2010
34. Darian, September 2010 :lol: except it got damaged
35. Wibod, October 2010


I've temporarily frozen the list, I'll defrost it in summer 2010, i didn't expect this level of demand at all!!, and don't want to feel overwhelmed by it - i don't currently.

LewieP's Mummy

Next set of pics of ICO:-

redone sky - wasn't happy with it



Arches on right and start of shadow on sand



And yes, I do leave the hardest bit to the last!! And yes, its the windmill blades and ICO and Yorda!!!

gilrain

Lookin' good, Mrs. P! Thanks for the update!

Jam Warrior

Blimey, it's coming on quick. And awesome.

Centipeed

So, in looking at the new Forum that just opened up, they mentioned that this thread is news-worthy because it's interesting and people might want to know about it. Then I hit upon this gem:

Varega wrote: »

Aldo wrote: »

LewieP's mother made a painting for Gabe and Tycho, it looks wicked. She's doing more paintings for Oxfam now. Check it out and maybe get some yourself? http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=46666
(I'm not sure if that's still possible, actually. :? )

LewieP's Mum now has a 6 month backorder worth of work. She's also very particular about what type of paintings she will do, and a good guesstimate of the price is around 300 dollars +. She was taking cash or buying things off of Oxfam Unwrapped as payment as well. Her work is very good, link is here. Most people have honestly been impressed by the quality in G&T, unfortunately I don't know about The Artist's Corner.

Where the hell did this $300+ estimate come from? I never got that impression.

LewieP

All I can think of is in the Secret Santa thread, gilrain said he would happily pay $100-400 + costs for a painting. Her response was "Instead, cover my costs, and then spend whatever you would have paid to me on Oxfam Unwrapped."

As far as I am aware, the deal is "Pay costs, and then spend whatever you can afford/want to at Oxfam Unwrapped"

Her exact wording -

LewiePs Mummy wrote: »

OK, don't really know how to phrase this ... if you've lots of money, buy stuff off oxfam unwrapped, if you've not, I'll paint anyway. We used to be very poor, and now we're not - we have money left at the end of every month, therefore, by my reckoning, we're rich, we don't need more, I'd only buy more chocolate then waste it by going to weight watchers or some such!!

Yes, I think I'll need to filter requests though, maybe I'll do the prettiest ones first, and leave boring ones til later??! And maybe by location as well, so UK first, although I nearly came to Seattle last year with my job, perhaps I'll work on a US trip again.

Unless she has said something else in emails, this should still be the case.

Geod

Just got directed here from the News Thread. I gotta say, those paintings are impressive! Great job! I'd love to have one in the Okami style. Guess I gotta play the game first though... waiting on the Wii version.

LewieP

Geod wrote: »

Guess I gotta play the game first though... waiting on the Wii version.

Same here, if the Wii version reviews well I will probably pick it up, if not, I will get the PS2 version on the cheap.

Varega

Centipeed wrote: »

So, in looking at the new Forum that just opened up, they mentioned that this thread is news-worthy because it's interesting and people might want to know about it. Then I hit upon this gem:

Varega wrote: »

Aldo wrote: »

LewieP's mother made a painting for Gabe and Tycho, it looks wicked. She's doing more paintings for Oxfam now. Check it out and maybe get some yourself? http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=46666
(I'm not sure if that's still possible, actually. :? )

LewieP's Mum now has a 6 month backorder worth of work. She's also very particular about what type of paintings she will do, and a good guesstimate of the price is around 300 dollars +. She was taking cash or buying things off of Oxfam Unwrapped as payment as well. Her work is very good, link is here. Most people have honestly been impressed by the quality in G&T, unfortunately I don't know about The Artist's Corner.

Where the hell did this $300+ estimate come from? I never got that impression.

Ack, sorry guys, I took gilrain's comment as fact. My bad. However, I will be watching this thread, I really do enjoy this.

LewieP's Mummy

Hello guys, just to clarify/confirm LewiePs post, no I don't want to be paid, just meet my costs - materials and postage, nothing else. Instead, go to Oxfam Unwrapped,

Oxfam Unwrapped

(OK, attempt no. 2 to do hyperlink, probably got it wrong)

and buy something from there for someone who needs stuff more than me!!!! Honestly, you should see the amount of stuff we have, its ridiculous.

Each pic will work out at about £10/$20 for materials, postage depends on where you live, I'll check when i've finished each pic.

Thank you for all your appreciative comments, I'm so happy you like what I'm doing, I really enjoy painting. I'm definitely going to have to track down Sue Yarker (my art teacher who said I was no good), just to say yah, boo, sucks, or some such thing.

LewieP's Mummy

Jam Warrior wrote: »

Blimey, it's coming on quick. And awesome.

2 more photos on their way tomorrow

Bionic Monkey

Another one sent over from the news thread. Absolutely astounding work. The news thread mentioned that you're six months backlogged and not taking any more commissions at the moment. Is that the case?

Lave II

Totally totally awesome. You are awesome LP's mummy.

LewieP's Mummy

Bionic Monkey wrote: »

Another one sent over from the news thread. Absolutely astounding work. The news thread mentioned that you're six months backlogged and not taking any more commissions at the moment. Is that the case?

Hi, I pm'd you, but to let others know, its not a backlog, its a queue, to help me manage it all; I plan to do 1 per month, otherwise I'll spend all my spare time painting, as opposed to reading PA stuff! (and the odd day at work).

Also, I'm finding it impossible to load pics of progress onto imageshack - it keeps timing out, anyone have any sugestions? - that aren't complicated as lewiep is back at uni. Thanks folks.

Centipeed

LewiePs Mummy wrote: »

Bionic Monkey wrote: »

Another one sent over from the news thread. Absolutely astounding work. The news thread mentioned that you're six months backlogged and not taking any more commissions at the moment. Is that the case?

Hi, I pm'd you, but to let others know, its not a backlog, its a queue, to help me manage it all; I plan to do 1 per month, otherwise I'll spend all my spare time painting, as opposed to reading PA stuff! (and the odd day at work).

Also, I'm finding it impossible to load pics of progress onto imageshack - it keeps timing out, anyone have any sugestions? - that aren't complicated as lewiep is back at uni. Thanks folks.

It's a bit of a roundabout solution, but to avoid any hassle on your part, you could email them to someone like myself and then I could post them for you. But it'd be nice for you if you could post the images along with some text, I'd imagine, so it's not a perfect solution by any means.

It might just be a temporary problem with Imageshack. Maybe try again later and see if the problem persists.

LewieP's Mummy

Thanks for the offer, its really kind of you. I've tried 5 different image loader thingys with no success - I'm too tired now, so I'm giving up for tonight. I'll try again tomorrow, and if I still can't do it, I'll email the pics to you with text, off to bed now, its far too late to be even attempting stuff this hard (at least for me!)

LewieP

You're still up at 3.23am?

I only just got in from a nightclub, you should have been in bed for ages.

LewieP's Mummy

Woooooooooooow, who's the parent here? Couldn't sleep, couldn't sort out image shack, I note you haven't offered help my boy, and I bet you're zzzzzzing now.
Still can't sort out image shack, but I have been to bed. I'll try later.

LewieP

haha, I was totally joking.

If you want to email me either the images you are struggling to upload, or email me about the problem you are having I'll try and sort it out.

LewieP's Mummy

Whohoo! I've finally managed to load up an image from my camera

Spoiler:

I've no idea why its so big, I'll try another link

http://aycu40.webshots.com/image/42719/2005644225785805155_rs.jpg

And a bonus is you get to see a bit of our fireplace.

I've got a couple of more pics without flash - it distorts the colours a bit - well, I would have if I could find the thingy whatsit to plug my phone into my PC. I'll have to use the proper camera again, this may take some time, so I'll just post this for now and see how long it will take me to upload/host (?) more pics. Lewiep, come home soon, this is hard!

LewieP's Mummy

Hi again, here's a couple from today. hopefully I'll make a better job of loading the images, or at least make them smaller. I know lewiep told me how to do it, but I've forgotten.

Anyway, this picture is nearly finished, I know there's something missing ...
maybe I'll remember soon ...



Same picture, slightly different lighting:



Hmm, still something missing ...

wait a minute, its ICO and the girl, silly me, I'd better finish it off, probably tomorrow.

Jam Warrior, pm me your address and I'll check out postage costs.

Looks like the SOTC awaits.

Bionic Monkey

I've gotten the July timeslot, so I'm narrowing down images now. I figured like melatonin, I'd get imput from you folks here.

Right now, the two images are Okami, though I'm considering something from Zelda as well, though I haven't found something quite as good.

Here are the two Okami pictures:

Spoiler:

and

Spoiler:

Right now I'm leaning towards the first one, though it's obviously a very complicated painting, and I don't want to take advantage of LewieP's Mum's generosity here.

I'm also considering taking some Zelda sample images and just letting her do whatever she wants with them to suprise me.

Centipeed

The images in the spoilers aren't showing up for me, Bionic. Maybe it's just me though.

Personally I think a painting from Wind Waker would be much better. Brighter and pleasing to the eye.

LewieP's Mummy

I can't see them either.

LewieP

Ta dah!

Spoiler:

Bionic Monkey

Hey, thanks Lewie. I linked directly from IGN, so that may have screwed up the hotlinking.

Fixed my post too.

LewieP's Mummy

I love them both!!!!

Pharezon

Another person sent over from the News Thread. That Ico painting is amazing.

Are there any restrictions on requests?

Fig-D

Wow.

Wow.

Have you two met? Jaw, Floor. Floor, Jaw.

LewieP's Mummy

Thank you! Without sounding too soft, you guys are making me cry with your appreciation of my pics, you certainly know how to make someone feel valued.

On request restrictions, I won't paint gory, nasty, violent or exploitative pics, only pretty ones. I'm a wimp, I shut my eyes through Spiderman, I was scared, and missed most of Lord of the Rings 2, I was so scared. Lewiep had to hold my hand through both, and I have a cushion to hide behind when I watch Dr Who, and even then get very stressed. I had to stop watching X Files cos I had bad dreams!

The only other limits are my skills and time - I aim to do 1 pic per month, list has reached July so far, if I can do more, I will, but I have to go to work as well. Also, I'm going to Glasto in June, volunteering for Oxfam, so am aiming to get June's pic done early.

I expect to start SOTC next week for Centipeed

melatonin

Oh man, that ICO painting is amazing. Just amazing. Which doesn't help my complete indecisiveness as to what I should ask for...

Can't wait to see the SOTC shots.

Aldo

melatonin wrote: »

Oh man, that ICO painting is amazing. Just amazing. Which doesn't help my complete indecisiveness as to what I should ask for...

Can't wait to see the SOTC shots.

Pick something that doesn't already look like a painting, will yah. I'm curious about an artist's interpretation of something else. This your chance to get a portray of Zelda.

LewieP's Mummy

Well, here's ICO finished for Jam Warrior



And again



I'll be posting this off to him some time this week, and will be starting on SOTC for Centipeed next week.

Just to remind you about costs, this came to just under £10 to make, but I don't yet know postage/packing costs. I'll post that price as soon as I have it, so you will be able to work out postage for yourselves. It weight about 2 1/2 pounds.

Centipeed

LewiePs Mummy wrote: »

I'll be posting this off to him some time this week, and will be starting on SOTC for Centipeed next week.

Wow. Actually being the focal point of something like this and not just being a spectator is pretty awesome. I understand the excitement other people feel in moments like these, now. I'm firmly among the group of people who have said "I can wait to see how it turns out" at one point or another.

Pharezon

I'm having a hard time deciding what genre and then what game to choose for the painting.

LewieP's Mummy

Well, Jam Warrior's pic is now on its way, and because there's some stupid football match on, I've had some time to myself this afternoon, so I've started Centipeed's SOTC earlier than I expected.

I tried to upload the pencil drawing first, but it didn't show up very well, so what you've got is:-

The sky done:-


The start of the buildings on the left and the sun ray shining over the colossus's legs:-


more of the buildings done and the corner where the horse and rider are:-


I've also done some close-ups of various bits:-
The bit of the rider and horse


The buildings:-


and the Collossus's hand:-


I might get some more done tomorrow, as apparently Man U are playing in some competition at 2:00 pm, yawn ...

Pharezon

That's amazing! SoTC translates really well into art.

Bionic Monkey

Those are looking fantastic LP's Mum.

Centipeed

Indeed the previous two posters are right. I wish I could paint as well as you can. I'd be covering my walls in video game related art as fast as I could.

Centipeed

I think I'd like to point out that seeing as it is my birthday today, it is quite fitting that LewieP's Mum is painting me something right now. Although that's not to say I expect to get it for free, don't worry. It'll be a lovely belated birthday present, is my point.

LewieP's Mummy

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday Centipeeeeeeeeeeed, happy birthday to you!