Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

In honour of MAR10 Day, here’s a link to some wonderful Nintendo-inspired comics by Corey Godbey: Bit and Run.

Be sure to also check out Cory’s Nintendo-themed desktop wallpapers:

Max and the Magic Marker looks like it will be fun. It’s an upcoming platformer for the Wii that incorporates drawing into the gameplay to help solve puzzles and adventures.

Watch as Christian Pearce illustrates images of hot rods using the painting app Colors.

Also of interest:
Colors! Painting App for Nintendo DS
iPhone Sketches by Stef Kardos

A simple concept executed beautifully: retro gaming on real backgrounds.

How great is this portrait of Super Mario? It’s the work of Jimi Benedict, whose work features more videogame-inspired pieces like this 8-bit Barack Obama. He keeps a regularly-updated blog, too, in case your RSS reader wasn’t full enough.

Pfft… who needs a portable Cintiq when you’ve got a Nintendo DS. Colors! is a home-brewed painting application for the popular gaming device, and I found this image by user Harbadakus while browsing the online gallery of Colors! work.

(Thanks, Eric)

Mario and friend re-imagined by Emroca. See more of his work here.

Using the VectorMagic web app, Philipp Lenssen took pieces of screenshots from video games and vectorized and enlarged them, creating some abstract, but very familiar, images.

I’m not much of a gamer, but man, what I wouldn’t give for a Gary Taxali custom Wii. Nintendo Canada with a little help from Magic Pony and Udon Entertainment are hosting a contest that will give away 6 custom-painted Wii consoles by six Canadian artists:

Famed illustrator Gary Taxali, Hoi-An Tang, punk group illScarlett and Arnold Tsang of Udon Entertainment, were commissioned by Nintendo in association with Magic Pony, and created four of the unique consoles. The two remaining contributing artists will be revealed on TheArtofWii.ca at a later date.

From now until April 30, Canadians can visit TheArtofWii.ca to register for a chance to win one of the fully-functional, one-of-a-kind Wii video game consoles.

Visit Art of the Wii to enter. Related stories at NOW and BlogTO.

(Thanks, Zub!)

For the 3rd annual I am 8-bit show, the art event that combines 80s video games with the hottest alternative artists, IGN is hosting a contest inviting anyone (professional artist or otherwise) to submit work to possibly be included in the show. Get your work in by April 6th to have it considered for the show, or to possibly win some cool video game prizes. Seen here: Wario Needs Love, Too by Gabe Swarr.