The Art of the Green Herring

[The Green Herring]

This is a megathread for all of my art, including my images, my games, and so on. What I've made up to this point can be found on my website here: https://thegreenherring.neocities.org/ (18+ warning on some images, which come with content warnings and are age-gated.)

You may use this thread to comment on my works! I will post new art here as I create it. Enjoy!

[Lolo De Puzlo]

I always love seeing your art cause it has such a unique style with the ANSI style

[The Green Herring]

Thank you, Lolo! It's definitely a very appropriate style for this forum. :3

The first game of mine I'll post about here is, of course, Cyber Purge. Originally released for ZZT in 2021 and upgraded to ClassicZoo in 2024, it casts you as a floating head piloted by veteran hacker Takami Bluesky (they/them) as they rescue an immersive VR server taken hostage by a Nazi! Shoot up some viruses, solve some block puzzles, and save humans and furries from all walks of life to learn more about the world where they live! Can you find all the secrets?

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[mircatz]

so cool!!!! i love the pixel art so much <3 <3 <3

[Enbyeon]

Always been a fan of your distinct style.

[Beancatte]

I've always found it really neat how you bend the limitations of your format into a really striking style. Love it.

[The Green Herring]

At Enbyeon's encouragement, I'll also post works-in-progress here, which feels weird because I've never done it publicly before. I'm starting with this wooden sword spar-gone-wrong between Sparkster and Axel Gear, a pretty cool shot that just needs a background drawn to complete it.

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[Enbyeon]

Excited to see the finished piece.

[lopodyr]

Wooow your art is so good :O Love the aesthetics of your game projects. Your icons are fantastic too. Also, NeoCities, love to see it

[TaintedSweetMeats]

Your pixel art is such eye candy; I love it so much, and your website is lovely too!

[Coca]

Wooh! your website is so inspiring, i'm in love with ur vibe

[The Green Herring]

I'm glad that you all are enjoying my art and the vibes on my site, and I hope to make more art in the days to come.

Speaking of which, for Enby Day, here's a new drawing of my enby performing artist raccoon Arthur Grandstone, first seen performing for a crowd for the Mutagian World art series; and last seen in Circus of Dreams, my third-place finisher at Deadline 2024. In this one, they're hanging out in the greenroom of the circus posing for us in a chair they drew themselves with their plasma pen. This was a de-rust drawing I did in May this year which I finally polished off for Enby Day today.

You can see it attached below, in two variants, while I prepare to post it elsewhere. Enjoy!

[TheAusSpideyGuy]

Biiiig fan of the artwork ya do, really do not see this late 80s (Or late 90s, can't ever be sure. ::P) be replicated all that often, and you're pretty on point with it. Honestly the more I look at it, I expect to hear chiptune playing in the background everytime. XXD

[The Green Herring]

One of these days, the Music section will go up...

In the meantime, I've just put up the new Arthur piece with multiple customization options, the silly sketch I posted elsewhere in this forum... and most importantly, a brand-new "About Me" page where you can read all about my fishsona and see every picture of mine they're in. Enjoy!

[Toxmo]

ohh i looove your art! so good and i feel like i'm transported to a very cozy time

[Ivy-IV]

Your style is so fascinating to me, I'd never seen a mix of big chunky pixels and ascii as an artistic choice until I first saw your stuff. I didn't know what to make of it at first but I think you use them really well, and you hit that sort of Euro Microcomputer type vibe perfectly!

[The Green Herring]

Your style is so fascinating to me, I'd never seen a mix of big chunky pixels and ascii as an artistic choice until I first saw your stuff.

I don't even do ANSI art like the "elites" of the ANSI artscene as seen on 16colo.rs do. I'm coming to find I'm effectively a cartoonist who's chosen a crazy medium to do it in, as opposed to someone whose focus is putting as much textmode detail into a picture as humanly possible. It comes from cutting my teeth on original art as opposed to recreating comic book panels and celebrity likenesses.

I didn't know what to make of it at first but I think you use them really well, and you hit that sort of Euro Microcomputer type vibe perfectly!

In recent years I've considered dabbling in microcomputer art. In particular, some rather disappointing PETSCII submissions to Revision 2025 have made me consider experimenting with that, and seeing an acclaimed demoscene "artist" shamelessly using genAI in his submission to a non-competitive showcase has made me think about taking my style to Commodore 64 pixel art. We'll see. It'd certainly be interesting!

[Moot]

every so often i see people doing microcomputer art with zx spectrum limitations and how they don't go insane from having to deal with attribute clash is an enduring mystery to me

[CroaOrca]

This is a megathread for all of my art, including my images, my games, and so on. What I've made up to this point can be found on my website here: https://thegreenherring.neocities.org/ (18+ warning on some images, which come with content warnings and are age-gated.)

You may use this thread to comment on my works! I will post new art here as I create it. Enjoy!

I actually went through and showed your art to some friends! You've got some really awesome stuff!!! seriously the aesthetics are so peak!!!I'm gunna check out some of the games

I'm super looking forward to more!!!

[DarkOverord]

I really do love how you nail that older computer/teletex feel aaaaa

[EpsilDelta]

Loved your artwork and the style since first seeing it. I suppose it's been years at this point, haha.

Always appreciate seeing you post something!

[The Green Herring]

I really do love how you nail that older computer/teletex feel aaaaa

It's easy to nail the feel when you draw in the exact formats they use. :3

Speaking of Teletext, have you checked out the two Teletext pics I've made thus far, specifically this picture of our very own Enbyeon and this winter scene? The latter was made for, and appeared in, an advent calendar event on the Teletext channel of Finland's national broadcaster, which is some kind of landmark for me as far as exposure goes!

every so often i see people doing microcomputer art with zx spectrum limitations and how they don't go insane from having to deal with attribute clash is an enduring mystery to me

If you think that's crazy, in Teletext, you have to use up an entire cell of the tiny grid to invoke a control code, even just to change color! That's why every time I post a Teletext picture, I include a copy of the image with the grid and control codes visible. The aforementioned winter scene was one where I went out of my way to demonstrate my understanding of the format, by using the control codes to create a scene more technically complex than it appears at first.

I actually went through and showed your art to some friends! You've got some really awesome stuff!!! seriously the aesthetics are so peak!!!I'm gunna check out some of the games

I'm super looking forward to more!!!

I'm quite glad to see my art spread around, by faces new and old! I look forward to hearing what you have to say about my games! :3

Loved your artwork and the style since first seeing it. I suppose it's been years at this point, haha.

Always appreciate seeing you post something!

The style's become stronger and ever more refined as the years have gone by, and this year I feel like it's become quite powerful.

Speaking of posting something, here's another shot from a "needs the background" WIP, this time of myself, and also just a snip this time, as I feel like I'd be spoiling the power of the completed version if I posted the whole thing. I can't wait to show it to you when it's done!

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[DarkOverord]

I really do love how you nail that older computer/teletex feel aaaaa

It's easy to nail the feel when you draw in the exact formats they use. :3

Speaking of Teletext, have you checked out the two Teletext pics I've made thus far, specifically this picture of our very own Enbyeon and this winter scene? The latter was made for, and appeared in, an advent calendar event on the Teletext channel of Finland's national broadcaster, which is some kind of landmark for me as far as exposure goes!

Oh whoa that's RAD :O

[The Green Herring]

I've finally updated my website after a few weeks, adding the loads of stuff I most recently posted on my other platforms, including the techwear gift art I drew for a friend, a piece of video game stream art I refined slightly for the latest Mistigris artpack, and the monochrome pixelart portrait I drew for my contribution to the UNDERTALE "Memories" event, as well as a bunch of 18+ art with the usual content warnings and age gates. I also now have hosted copies of all of my solo video games in the games section, so you can now download my ZZT games Cyber Purge and Hell's Fury from my site, and play both of those games online in your browser on my site alongside my Bitsy jam game Maintenance Mode! Enjoy!

[Lolo De Puzlo]

a piece of video game stream art

N'YA NA N'YA

Fun seeing people see that game more.
Very cute piece