Favorite Gen 5 Pokémon
Last modified: February 24th, 2021
Continuing where we left off with generation 4 Pokémon, here are my five favorite designs from generation 5, Black and White.
KrokorokHard choice between Sandile and this second-stage evolution, and I can’t entirely explain why.
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Spotlight on Manyland
Given the popularity of Minecraft, I am shocked to find that very few people have ever heard of, let alone played, Manyland.
Manyland is a free-to-play, simple but surprisingly robust, browser-based side-scrolling game that allows players to create limited-palette pixel art objects and build custom worlds.…
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Favorite Pets in Prodigy Math
So I only recently learned about Prodigy, but it appears to be a math-based educational game that actually features interesting story and artwork. It has a Pokemon-style pet raising, battling, and evolution system, and all of the pets have an elemental alignment.…
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I Made a Dragon Dollmaker
I’m thrilled to finally announce the alpha release of my custom dollmaker game, Dragon Builder!
This tool lets you customize a dragon with different wings, colors, horns, markings, and tons of other parts. There are limited parts in many categories right now at release, but more components are being added regularly!…
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Spotlight on Furcadia
For the better part of my entire 2000’s, I was absolutely, utterly, and completely obsessed with a furry graphical social game called Furcadia.
Furcadia isn’t really a “game” – there’s no stats, no goals, no HP or leveling, no win or loss conditions.…
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Radiant Scales: A Dragon Tarot Deck
I am excited to be working on a collaborative project to create a dragon-themed tarot card deck! Different artists will be assigned to work on each of the 78 individual cards in the deck, and then the final deck will be available to purchase via KickStarter.…
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Favorite Neopets Petpets
I took a look at my favorite pet site designs, including Neopets, a while back. However, the pets themselves are often only a small fraction of the delicious graphical content to absorb in any one of these games. Neopets started the tradition of letting your pets… have pets.…
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Adopt a Dragon – A Nostalgic Retrospective
Last modified: October 6th, 2022
In the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, the virtual pet adoption scene was booming. Neopets was king, Pokemon was new and exciting, and everyone was excited to build a website for the very first time now that it was finally becoming an accessible medium.
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Happy Holidays! Free Dragon Art to Recolor/Edit
To honor the spirit of giving, here is a completely free piece of art that you can use and modify however you wish. Use it as an original character’s reference image, use it to practice coloring, use it as a base to design clothing or accessories, go nuts.…
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Free Online Color Palette Tools
Last modified: September 11th, 2022
Let’s talk about color! I don’t have a lot of color intuition, and as an artist, I tend to work in black-and-white first without much consideration for colors. I definitely rely on setting a palette to help guide myself.
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