Video Game Wrapping Paper

My friend's birthday was on Friday, I got him a couple PSP games ... and the only wrapping paper I have for not-christmas has butterflies on it.

I really wanted to get some video game wrapping paper, but guess what? You have to either print it yourself or special order it, which is expensive.

So, I thought, OK, why don't I just draw on the back of the butterfly wrapping paper ... this is what I came up with. It's not the best "art" or anything, but it gave me an excuse to use my prismacolor markers (what no gray!?) and I think they turned out pretty well. These are massively shrunk down, of course. And proportions are a little strange because I had to draw it directly in ink.

Super Mario Bros:

Unwrapped
[img]http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~anaser/image/art/wrappingpaper/supermariobros.jpg[/img]
Wrapped
[img]http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~anaser/image/art/wrappingpaper/supermariobros2.jpg[/img]


River City Ransom:

Unwrapped
[img]http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~anaser/image/art/wrappingpaper/rivercityransom.jpg[/img]
Wrapped
[img]http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~anaser/image/art/wrappingpaper/rivercityransom2.jpg[/img]


Maybe for Christmas I'll make something with After Burner shooting down Santa.

Edit:

So, the site I had these at ... is gone. Sadly, I don't have the paper anymore, so I can't take any new pictures ... but I have two old ones which you can see here for River City Ransom and here for Super Mario Bros.

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Damn O.o. You got some talent there. Must be a good friend to do all this labor.

It was a lot faster than I thought it would be. It took about 2 hours total.

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Deja Vu

But yeah, the unwrapping paper is cool. If I was him I'd be wrapping those presents as carefully as possible.

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Tried to post here earlier but the pit didn't respond anymore when I tried to login..

Anyways that is just awesome. A good idea and well drawn too.

Awesome! Great work..

Thanks.

Christmas rolled around. Made some Spy Hunter paper for Alpha Protocol on PC (that was the gift)

Unwrapped:
[img]http://siefkendesign.com/home/cronozilla/image/spyhunter.jpg[/img]

Wrapped:
[img]http://siefkendesign.com/home/cronozilla/image/front.jpg[/img][img]http://siefkendesign.com/home/cronozilla/image/back.jpg[/img]

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Ah, spoiler tags are bugged again. Again, when you click one of the spoiler tags in your last post, the tags in the first post open up.

Odd bug, I thought it should be fixed by now, perhaps I forgot to say this in the SnarkPit bug thread

Yepp having the same issue, tested it in 4 browsers too.

This is a wonderful issue, especially considering when I posted it ... the spoiler ability worked just fine.

Oh well, here they are again, fully loaded for everyone's amusement. PLEASE DO NOT BITE MY NUTS OFF ABOUT IMAGE SIZES AS I ALREADY TRIED TO HIDE THEM!

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Yea, I alerted larchy about the issue, but he never responded. For the most part, he's wiped his hands clean of the matter, and when available and has time, he'll stop in to fix something, but I haven't heard from him since September.

Although, his account shows his last visit was in October, so I'm not sure when he'll get around to it. Unless you guys know of someone who's capable and trustworthy enough (send me a pm about them please).

Sorry, the spoiler tags will stay broken until then.

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HOW BE IN THE HOLIDAYS TO YOUS GUYS?

I made another one ... for a friend's birthday ... I'm not gonna have time to do it for actual Christmas Presents though.

It's from the final boss in Yoshi's Island. (I LOVE THAT GAME SO MUCH)

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Hey good to see this topic back again! That one is drawn well too
Congratulations to your friend!

I'm thinking of doing the same thing for my brother for christmas, or at least something more original than the normal christmas wrapping paper.

Edit: What kind of paper do you use?

Edit2: Oh, in the first post you wrote that you use the back of a normal wrapping paper to draw your thing there. Did you do that on every picture?

Yeah I did.

It's whatever wrapping paper I have around that's not so important (this is pink with flowers, I bought it to wrap a gift for my friend's daughter in ... so I gotta use it some how)

You only have to watch out for paper that has the grids on it and some of the cheaper kinds that are way too thin or just printed on something equivalent to shipping paper.

But the majority of wrapping paper is a glossy waxy finish and white. Perfect canvas for ink, it seems.

It's the best performance I've seen out of my prismacolor markers ... paper just absorbs them up and it bleeds everywhere. But here they get an almost painted look.

This is the paper I used to do the last one: http://www.siefkendesign.com/home/cronozilla/image/share/paper.jpg

The only problem is ... pretty much only ink will work. So, drawing normally where you have a shape-skeletal structure to get proper proportioning just isn't possible. That's the reason why some stuff looks wonky in these. I figured, it's half the charm, though.

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Ok, thanks! I gave it a try, here is the result: (Without a name or message yet like Merry Christmas though)

[IMG]http://i44.tinypic.com/10gwyo8.jpg[/IMG]

It's from Dangerous Dave, a game my brother used to play when he was like 4 years old. (I didn't even exist by then :P)

I'm going to wrap it in a moment, I'll post a new picture by then

Edit:

[IMG]http://i40.tinypic.com/256enag.jpg[/IMG]

Imma put it under the tree now

That's cool.

I've found people actually get bummed out if you don't give them a way of opening it without damaging the paper, because they generally like to keep it as part of the gift.

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I dunno its its the entire Arts forum or just this page/post but it loads like molasses.

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It's probably because of the images. They're not re-sampled or anything, they're just changing the display size. But ... they're not THAT big. Mine are only couple hundred kilobytes.

Also ... there's a good chance nothing in this forum section is actually indexed in the database. I've seen the post database ... it's two MASSIVE (hundreds of megabytes) tables. I'm surprised the entire forum doesn't run ridiculously slow, to be honest.

Usually when something on the site is slow for everyone ... it's because there's some ridiculous database action going on. I hope there's no nested DB calls :S We're talking millions or rows being returned every time someone views certain pages.

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I resized my pictures using tinypic.com

It should at least help a bit.