Here are my two pieces for the upcoming old school video game themed art show at gallery1988 (Venice). The show opens Friday October 26th and runs for about a month.

 The first is a four panel acrylic painting on wood. Each panel is 12" x 12". I actually did this piece a couple years ago with the hope that someday it would be a part of g1988's I am 8-bit shows. I'm glad I could finally dust it off and get it out of my basement.

The second piece is a print I just finished up on to go with my koopa toopa series. Its a three color, hand pulled screen print measuring 19" x 12". Both will be on sale through g1988's website at nineteeneightyeight.com

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GIMME YER QUICK BOOMERANG!

Quick Man from Mega Man II, for the Mega Man Boss Battle show coming up in December.

Dig Dug/Warriors Parody

Through Dean Haspiel's facebook, I realized that my favorite video game character is turning 30. I still play Dig Dug on a "plug-n-play" console that connects directly to my teevee. Joannie's kids got it for me for Christmas. I'm not too much into new video games. Too complicated with all the buttons and whatnot. I can't properly zone out. Anyways, after I saw they are celebrating Dig Dug's birthday over at ShiftyLooks in comics form, I decided to finish this old drawing I had of Dig Dug screaming Cyrus' famous line from the Warriors. Initially, it was supposed to be a t-shirt design, but I didn't think it would resonate with the younger audience.

Nonetheless, glad I finished it. It was fun. I love playing Dig Dug. And it has been a while since I did a drawing just to be doing a drawing.

Final Fantasy Buster Sword

Another for the Epic Armory project over on Dribbble.

Catball Eats It All - available in the App Store!

 I'm happy to announce that the video game I've been working on for the past eight months, Catball Eats It All, has finally made it to the App Store!

For those of you who don't know, Catball Eats It All is an iPhone game based entirely off of my hand-painted and hand-drawn artwork, and so everything in the game has a unique texture and feel. In addition, my friend Ben Thornewill of Jukebox the Ghost provided all of the music, which creates a great atmosphere for the game.

For a very brief intro on Catball, check out our trailer here:

Catball Gameplay from Broken Compass Studios on Vimeo.

It's available now for free download, so hurry and get it! If you like it, please be sure to leave a nice rating and review.

Catball Eats It All

Catball Gameplay from Broken Compass Studios on Vimeo.

Get prepared for the winter weather with this Catball Sweatshirt! Now available for pre-sale Here.

Illos for GamesTM in UK

Did some video-game themed illustrations for GamesTM magazine (sort of like the UK version of GameInformer here!). Figured everyone here loves video games and I hadn't posted in forever!! The article deals with the choices a player can make for their character, whether it be the places you go, or the morals you decide. So here's Gordon Freeman from Half-Life 2, Lara Croft, and Ezio from Assassin's Creed:

Froggy's Lament

Froggy takes one step at a time
The way that he moves has no reason or rhyme
He hops and jumps, dodges and ducks
Cars and buses, vans and trucks.

- Buckner & Garcia

This is my piece for the Gallery 1988 Multiplayer: limited edition posters inspired by video games show at their brand new space in Venice, CA. Check out the link to see a bunch of great art inspired by video games of old and new...

8bit Calavera

the original NES cartridge I received before painting

with bone white background ready to hang with the others

Su Pasado

4 5/8" X 5 1/4"

acrylic on NES cartridge

Australopithicus afarensis is known as the earliest known true hominid on the path to Homo Sapians (us). Only found on the continent of Africa 2.9 - 3.6 MYA.

In keeping true to the theme of Dia de los Muertos, I felt it was fitting to honor this long gone ancestor of ours. For without its struggle for survival would we be here today?

They had ape sized brains, large jaws and teeth. Due to the changing landscape of Africa, Australopithicus was forced down from the trees in search of food. They lived in social groups for protection. Scavenging meat may have sparked brain growth and set us on the long path to humanity.

Only a portion of the skull is pictured on my cartridge. It is after the fossil discovered by J.T. Robinson, in Sterkfontein, South Africa in 1949. The same goes for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Nintendo is supremely important in the evolution of video games. Would video games be where they are today with out this revolutionary system?

8 Bit Calavera

"Skully Girl" - was once "Double Dribble." The entries posted here are looking awesome!

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8-Bit Calavera!

Fellow Autumn Society members, hello! I'm Lawrence Hugh Burns & It's my first post in a long, long LONG while here, but it's a good one: my piece for the 8-Bit Calavera show! I'm glad to be among many a fine artist, and I hope you all enjoy! You can see a couple more photos of that guy on my blog, so ch-check it!

Video Game Gore: Big Daddy Trexi

Well, here's my piece the the upcoming video game gore show. I had a blank Trexi lying around and figured this was the perfect project to use it. Its about 95% done now, gonna spend tomorrow cleaning it up and clear coating it.

VIDEO GAME GORE: 2nd Piece

Hi Guys, here's my second piece for the upcoming show, VIDEO GAME GORE (Brave New Worlds in Philly next Friday night, Oct. 1st). It's another Bioshock illustration, since I just can't get enough.

"Cohen's Girl"

 12" x 16"

"A Man Chooses, a Slave Obeys" - Andrew Ryan

This was inspired by the mad artist, Sander Cohen, from the first Bioshock game. 

I imagined his fan base before the entirety of Rapture tipped off the deep end.

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Why Didn't KISS Have a Video Game?

Seriously, KISS whored out their name to anything, why not a video game? I decided to make the universe right again by making a KISS video game cartridge. I illustrated an Atari looking KISS logo and portrait of Gene Simmons, then glued it to the cartridge. I also thought if KISS did have a game, it may as well be silver (kinda like Legend of Zelda was gold). The screen image was re-drawn based on the Journey game (which for some reason exists).
This was supposed to be for the Game Core Con- Art on Atari Cartridges show, but my work schedule did not allow me to get it done in time. =(I had posted it on my own blog, but haven't had a chance to mirror it here. It was brought to my attention that KISS had a video game in the 90's, but it sucked. They also had a few pinball machines. This piece was also featured on ALBOTAS yesterday.

Video Game Gore!

Here's my piece for Video Game Gore show!

At first I was leaning towards something based on Silent Hill since it was the first horror video game I ever played (and genuinely scared me when I was a kid,) but once I had the idea for a Luigi's Mansion piece I knew I had to go with it, if for no other reason than it seemed like a really unexpected choice. You don't really think of a Mario game when think of horror, and this game in particular was pretty offbeat and received little fanfare. I loved it, but then again I have a weird fondness for secondary characters.

There's some Super Mario World ghost house flavor thrown in as well, just because I liked the idea of using the P switch. The Princess was added to fill the role of obligatory horror movie heroine and give it more of a movie poster feel.

Super Fighting Robot

Mega Man. Titled, "You've Outlived Your Use." I wanted to continue my video-game illustration-exploration a bit further and this came out as a result. At the end of the day, when all the master robots are defeated, what the heck is Mega Man gonna do? Not like he can go home to the lab and do housework... that job's already taken by Roll...

Prints are also available in my etsy shop! email me if you'd like to request a larger size (either 11x16 or 13x19).

Righteous Quest!

Go PLAY the new Adventure Time game, Righteous Quest!!!!

Watch the VIDEO!

Beatles Rock Band Intro

So I'll admit that I have been swept away by the recent "Beatlemania" and could not resist in sharing this amazing new animated opening sequence for the new Rock band game. Brough to you by animator Robert Valley and background visuals from Alberto Mielgo (of the Gorillaz fame). Enjoy!

JOUST!

The boys and girls of Tsigia sure do love collecting the trading cards of their favorite knights, here is a card of one of the great all stars.

Considering the game is played over a active volcano, you are either a winner or you're ash.

King of Pop vs. King of Hop

Hi Everyone, here's my submission for the 8 Bit & Beyond Show! I decided to do Q*bert, since that was one of my favorite arcade games as a child. I fondly remember playing Q*bert in Chucky Cheese's, back when it felt like a tavern for kids... it was dark and they had no windows. I wanted to do more than just Q*bert hopping around. Then I thought about another character that "lit up" squares as he stepped on them, Michael Jackson in the "Billie Jean" video. With Michael all over the news, this inspiration was hard to avoid. So I went with it. I like that the video and Q*bert are from the same era, I'm sure someone thought about the similarities before.