You're OK, Kid?

R_000028 2025-02-28 C64 Graphics (PETSCII) Tools: PETSCII Editor Get it from CSDb.dk

How it started

Sadly, I don't have any early workstages to share, but it started with a simple pattern that turned into a set of eyes. Shiny white eyes with a glowing red ring staring back from the screen, longing for more PETSCII chars to be added.

And more Char were added, all in a wonderful flow state, some basic eyebrows, a square-ish head, then some giantic, yellow teeth which definitely needed a frame and thus the bushy mustache popped up.

Colors were right there from the beginning on too, with the blue coming from a (bigger) project I'm currently working on and the green as punchy counter. Lips went from red to purple to rounding off the eerie look.

After a short break, back for some tweaks: eyebrows got refined, the batsy — it somehow is a freaky mashup of Batman and Joker, right? — ears too and now the root of those yellow snappers has been revealed too.

With that, I say we're done!

Conclusion

What a tight session. Coming up with a name for it took me almost as long as creating this stressed out fella.


What's CSDb thinking about it

Goerp (28.02.2025)

Haha, nice one!

Btw: it could be j jonah jameson. He smokes cigars. Or isn't Spiderman in the DC universe?

Katon (28.02.2025)

Cool !

Fabs (28.02.2025)

Pretty cool !