Why (re)draw a bunch of 8-bit characters from a video game that was released over 40 years ago? The first answer is “Why not?” and that should be enough, right? Yes, it’s sort of ridiculous to make a hand drawn sketch of blocky pixelated characters, but life is ridiculous, life is absurd, and sometimes you’ve just gotta play along with it.
You may remember me from the Pac-Man Cookies my daughter and I made in 2011 or the Life-Size Pac-Man project of 2019. (The Life-Size version is at Jason’s house now and I’m a little sad I didn’t get the Shelf-Size version we made that was shown on TV for a Maker Faire promo… Oh well.)
Doing these sketches is sort of therapeutic for me, and I really enjoy doing them. I’m still not sure I want to create these as actual physical art pieces for sale on a web site. I’d like to continue the Pay What You Want for Art experiment I started in January. Enough people have been supporting it lately that I think it’s worthwhile to keep pursuing.
Pac-Man was a game I first played in an arcade as a kid. I’m pretty sure I sneaked off to Palmer’s Billiards on 27th street with the neighbor kids and play it along with Space Invaders. I wasn’t really a huge fan of either, and I was more of a Tetris fan later on.
So hey, enjoy these fun ghosts that were drawn on an iPad with an Apple Pencil using Procreate.
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