POSTED BY

John Brownlee

AT 12:01 PM
Monday December 1, 2008

Retro

artmega man

My, what a lovely picture of Mega-Man...

megaman_by_eluted.jpg

It's rare that an artist's statement gives true value to otherwise easily forgotten work, but this clumsily wrought illustration of Mega-Man by ~eluted over at deviantART transcends mediocrity to masterpiece thanks to a twain of jotted-off, explanatory lines, written by the artist herself.

The first:

Tools of the Trade: menstrual fluid, ink

And then again on another page:

menstral fluid in sketchbook

Notice that a "pen" or any other drawing instrument is not mentioned as a tool having being employed in this artistic reproduction of one of 8-bit gaming's most cherished heroes. What we have here is a work of art that was literally birthed.

Update: The genesis of a masterpiece? Quoth the artist:

I painted it for my husband--it was a request.

megaman [deviantART via Crunchgear]

9 Comments

Scuba SM

#1 – 1:07 PM December 1, 2008

Part of me wants to know how long it took her to draw/paint that. Part of me really doesn't.

Elvis Pelt

#2 – 1:09 PM December 1, 2008

Women have all the fun.

Luminition

#3 – 1:21 PM December 1, 2008

"I painted it for my husband--it was a request."

Now that's just creepy...

grimc

#4 – 3:00 PM December 1, 2008

You going to do unicorn chasers or the like over here? Because now would be a good time.

A New Challenger

#5 – 3:30 PM December 1, 2008

I wonder if Unity will feature this...

Also, Mega Man, rendered in feminine juices.

So this is a picture of him after his battle with Splash Woman?

More as I think of them.

SC_Wolf

#6 – 7:50 PM December 1, 2008

It's a period piece.

Not a Doktor

#7 – 3:16 AM December 2, 2008

How'd she get shades in there?

photoatomic

#8 – 6:43 AM December 2, 2008

classic. leave it to Deviant Art to produce something this fantastic.

a_user

#9 – 12:19 PM December 2, 2008

yes this is just so the internet on so many levels

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