"Artsy Fartsy"

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After drawing some famous video game characters, we decided to do something else for a change.

We found some techniques that we literally haven't heard off and decided to try one out! This is the nail polish technique and how girly that sounds it turned out to have cool effects! It was a pain to get it right but we think they turned out better than expected.

Project Three: Mega Man Playstation 1

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Nathalie: For our next project we asked around which character other people prefer to work with. The most popular answers were Kirby, Mega Man and Crash Bandicoot.

Kevin: In trade for the Bomberman Playstation we've posted earlier, we've got 7 free Playstations. So I thought it was smart to pick a Playstation character since we've got an overload of Playstations right now.

Nathalie: We finally agreed on Mega Man. Nowadays he's one of the most popular retro characters and the Mega Man games are therefore quite expensive.

Kevin: We both knew it's was gonna be a big challenge. He's not one of the most easy figurines to draw.

Nathalie: Challenge accepted! ;-)

We chose a mint green background because we want something else than blue. That's a bit cliché. To make the project bigger, we've decided to also paint a controller. 

Project Two: The Dandelion Pikachu

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Spent € 12.50 and auctioned for € 25.00

Kevin: I love the first generation Pokémons, the old days when you would wake up and immediatly run downstairs to turn on the tv just to watch Pokémon. 

Nathalie: When we grew old and bigger the Pokémon franchise did too. With currently 6 Generations and over 700 to catch I kind of miss the days where you would just play for hours to catch that last one you needed.

Kevin: I remember asking all my friends for that one Pokémon I couldn't find, Weedle was apparently a Pokémon obtained by trading only. Pokémon Yellow was such a great follow up on Blue and Red. I played those games until the save battery gave up on me. How I miss those days.

Nathalie: With all that nostalgia in mind we decided to go with a Pikachu. Not just because he's probably the most famous and favorite Pokémon off all time. He's also kind of the trademark to the whole Pokémon franchise. So we started out with a blank Game Boy Color Dandelion and just painted the cute little electric mouse.

We finally decided to auction off our projects. With the money we receive we are going to invest in more retro consoles to do paint jobs on. So if you have any requests that you think might work or would look awesome, post a comment. We'd be happy to hear!

First project: Bomberman PSone

This is our first project. Kevin is a huge fan of Bomberman so we decided to work with that theme for our first experiment. We're using Posca pens because we heard they are very good. Downside? They are quite expensive! 

But it's true what they say, the pens are excellent! Good quality and nice to work with. After testing them on an old, yellow Gameboy Classic, we start to custom the Playstation One. And we're quite happy with the result! It's not perfect and the lines are a bit shaky sometimes, but we're very pleased with our first job!
Let us hear what you think!
Tips and suggestions are welcome!