Bowser at His Most Precious
This digital painting, created by veteran artist TsaoShin, will be used to demonstrate art techniques at today’s Anime Boston 2016 convention. It’s also amazingly cute.
This must be an alternate Sonic whose MO is to make enemies keel over from his cuteness. He was doodled by kawacy, who otherwise specializes in anime-style art—his gallery is right here, if you want to check him out, and below’s a timelapse video depicting the painting process.
Bob Ross Will Now Be A Weekly Show On Twitch
Last week, the Bob Ross Twitch marathon ended with a peculiar twist: a ‘Stay Tuned’ countdown. Now we know why: Bob Ross isn’t actually going away! Congrats, #KEEPBOB supporters.
50,000 People Are Watching Bob Ross Paint On Twitch Right Now
There’s something really awesome about seeing people react in real time to brush strokes on canvas. It’s like every single thing Bob Ross does, no matter how gentle and delicate, is as big as a major play in the World Series.
Here's an oil painting of Sora from the Kingdom Hearts series, based on this well-known piece of official concept art, done by artist Raman Singh. Look below for the HD pics, and check out Singh's portfolio for more, albeit non-gaming-themed, paintings in this style (I particularly like his portraits).
Watercolors Really Bring Out the Beauty in Mario Characters
Who would've thought a Piranha Plant could look so majestic?
Finally, Someone Did A Statistical Analysis of Bob Ross' Paintings
You want too much information? Well then, here you go. FiveThirtyEight ran all of Bob "Happy Little Trees" Ross' paintings through a giant calculator, and what they discovered is... enlightening. Unsurprisingly, 91% of his paintings contain trees, but did you know Ross refused to have any signs of humanity in his work?
Send Her A Video Game Thing, Or Anything, And She'll Paint It For You
I do not know where Ali Spagnola gets her energy, but I'll have what she's having.
You Play This Video Game On A Painting, Using An NES Controller
for(){}; is a clever use of both projector and paintings. The canvas holds the background, and the the elements a player can interact with are projected on top of that canvas—meaning, you can play a video game on a painting. Awesome.
Angry Birds Make For Sad Pigs
Artist Sam Spratt, whose work we love to feature on Kotaku, decided to show Angry Birds players how the pigs feel. Poor pigs.
A Still Life For Gamers
Submitted for your perusal, this digital painting gives a modern day-twist to the classic still life typically packed with fruit. Designer and illustrator Marco Luna says it took him 8 hours to complete.
