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Michael Firman
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I make pictures. Eventually one of them might be good.
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Batou (Ghost in the Shell)
A drawing of Ghost in the Shell’s Batou character. He is large and wears a dark shirt under a popped-collar white jacket which he is reaching inside of with his gloved hand. He has a long face and circular discs as cybernetic eyes.
October 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Seeing Pred
An illustration of the Predator from the movie Predator. It’s an alien with a metallic helmet and dreadlock-like cranial appendages. It wears some bones as trophies, and has netting over its muscular body, in addition to some sci-fi partial armour which includes a gauntlet sporting two claw blades.
September 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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wa
A drawing of Waluigi baring his teeth like a mobile game icon. He wears purple clothes including a hat with an upside down “L” on it, dark coveralls, and has a large pink nose atop a wide mustache waxed into narrow spikes.
September 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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I miss Sean Lock
A portrait of comedian Sean Lock, who I know of from UK panel shows where he often made me laugh. Sadly he passed away in 2021.
September 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Jade (Beyond Good & Evil)
A simple illustration of the player character Jade from Ubisoft’s 2003 game Beyond Good and Evil. She wears a green headband over short dark hair, green lipstick, and a matching green cropped jacket over a pale cropped shirt with copper trim. A shoulder strapped camera hangs at her side.
September 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Mr. Driller
A drawing of Susumu Hori from Namco’s Mr. Driller, trailing behind his active drill which is aimed straight down and kicking up debris.
September 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Gears guys
A drawing of Gears of Wars characters Augustus Cole, Marcus Fenix, and Damon Baird. They’re drawn light-heartedly with beefy proportions in beefy armour, each holding a rifle with chainsaw at the front like it’s a bayonet. Cole rests his elbow on Fenix’s shoulder, and they all scowl.
September 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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A sippin' Sailor Mars
A drawing of Rei Hino from Sailor Moon, wearing her Sailor Mars outfit plus a pink baseball cap and sipping the straw of a takeout beverage.
September 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Batguy
An illustration of DC’s Batman superhero character over a pale pink background. He has cartoony muscles under a light grey bodysuit with a bat emblem on the chest. His mask covers the top half of his head and spikes upward as two bat ears. A long black cape trails behind him.
September 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Aerith
An illustration of Aerith Gainsborough from Final Fantasy 7. She is holding her staff in her left hand resting it on the ground, and looking up to the sky. She has brown hair with ringlet bangs and a braid at the back that passes through a pink bow. She wears a cropped red jacket over a pink dress and oversized bangles on her wrists.
September 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Gunstar Super Heroes (GBA, 2005)
An illustration of a trio from the game Gunstar Super Heroes. The characters Red & Blue are holding out their pistols in action poses, and behind them Yellow is pointing out targets and holding her earpiece shouting comms stuff. ガンスター (GanSutā) is written out over the piece in large, semi-transparent katakana.
September 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Faith Connors
#mirrorsedge
An illustration of Faith Connors, the player character from DICE’s Mirror’s Edge franchise, mid-fall. She has short black hair and spiky eye makeup around her right eye. She wears a black elbow sleeve and red glove on her right arm which is also adorned with computer circuit style tattoos. She is wearing a black tank top, white cargo pants, and red running shoes along with a yellow carrier bag strapped around her shoulder.
September 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Dr. Wright #simcity
An illustration of Dr. Wright, the player’s advisor in the SNES version of Sim City by Maxis (and designed by Will Wright, who lends the character’s surname). He is short but heightened by a tall, green, bulbous hairdo that bifurcates up top like a heart shape. His face sports circle frame spectacles and a toothbrush mustache. He wears a blue bowtie over a white shirt, brown vest, and maroon suit patterned with dots. He is also holding a pointer.
September 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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My Friend Pedro (2019)
developed by @deadtoast.com
An illustration of the masked player character from the game My Friend Pedro by DeadToast, published by Devolver. He is holding up two firearms with bananas floating around him. His hair is an undercut top knot and his mask is dark and featureless but for the glowing white eyes. He wears a black jacket with yellow trim over a long yellow tee with “XOXO” written vertically down the front.
September 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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a load of goaded Toads
#キノピオ
A tetraptych of sketches of the Toad character from the Mushroom Kingdom in Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. universe. The portraits depict Toad as disapproving, disgusted, unamused, and enraged.
September 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Sephiroth
An illustration of Sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7, his depiction disintegrating beyond the torso as a small visual homage to the Jenova Doll from the game. He has long white hair which hangs down past his hips, and a part of a single wing behind his right shoulder.
September 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Zoey #kpopdemonhunters
An illustration of Zoey from Kpop Demon Hunters holding up a microphone to her mouth and spitting rhymes. It's a primarily pink & purple palette.
September 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Go Speed Racer
An illustration of Go Mifune (Speed Racer) pulling on a driving glove and staring intently through the visor and brow of his racing helmet. He is in front of a very desaturated red & yellow checkerboard pattern.
September 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Jill Valentine
An illustration of Jill Valentine from Capcom’s Resident Evil franchise, wearing her blue beret and bulky shoulder pads. She has brown hair in a bob cut, and holds out a combat knife and pistol.
September 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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A drawing of Bulbasaur© one of the creatures™ in Pokémon® by Nintendo℠
A simple drawing of the Bulbasaur Pokémon, one I did earlier this year but kept debating if it was worth sharing. It’s a little, teal dino creature smiling to the viewer, and on its back is a large green plant bulb.
September 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Anya Taylor-Joy
An illustrated portrait of actress Anya Taylor-Joy.
September 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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P. Head from Silent H. 2
A muddy & muted teal palette illustration of Pyramid Head from Konami’s Silent Hill 2. He is angled away from the viewer so that his butcher-apron-strapped back is visible. His two muscular arms hang down by his thighs, the distant one dragging his Great Knife, which is a massive sword. He wears a gigantic, unwieldy, pyramidal, metallic helmet.
September 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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A drawing of Babadook from memory except I cheated because I saw Anthony Clark's drawing first and it reminded me of the Babadook Baba-look.
September 9, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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I only recently learned about Adjustment Layers and 3DLuts within that (Photoshop) which is fun for palette whims. Ordinarily I used colours or gradients atop the whole image and cycle through blending modes.

Here's some of the stages this piece went through. I think I get bored easily midpiece
Some of the colour stages of an illustration I made of Chell from Portal
September 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Chell (Portal)
An illustration of Chell, the player character from Valve’s Portal and Portal 2 games. She is wearing an orange jumpsuit up to only her hips, and a white Aperture Laboratories tank top. She is sitting on a Companion Cube with her arms resting on her legs that are in turn resting on the Velocity Challenge Braces of her Long Fall Boots.
September 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM