Virtual Worlds Art Project 1 spot free

You probably know  world 1-1 from Super Mario Bros. The Japan Stage from Ryu in Street Fighter II, the terrifying Planet Zebes from Metroid, Corneria from Starfox, Pandora from Borderlands, the Crystal Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog or the nearly empty Landscape from Shadow of the Collossus.

But how often are these "Virtual Worlds" we explored and loved illustrated by us gamers who have the talent to create art in our own unique style?


After Link's Blacklist, The MegaMan and Final Fantasy Anniversary Tributes and the Castlevania Series Tribute this is the next Game-Art-HQ Community Art Project and unlike the previously mentioned ones, this one is focussing on the Stages, the Worlds, the Backgrounds, the Enviroments of Video Games which are relative rarely drawn.


The task: Draw a place/stage etc. from a Video game of your choice with the focus on the enviroments and not the game characters. You can add characters but they should be just one small element of the art.

The rules:

Only 1 Entry Per Artist
Only 30 Artists can participate in this Game Art HQ Project
Up to two entries per game are allowed, this means Super Metroid can't be claimed anymore as example since two artists claimed it already.
The absolute deadline is the 1st June 2013


I aim to publish this project in mid june on Game-Art-HQ.com including descriptions & screenshots about the games and stages drawn, your own descriptions. This is no competition, no contest there are no prizes except that your art is seen for a very different audience than here on dA where the most visitors are artists like yourself. It means also that you can use this project as a practise to draw something different than usually and last but not least it means to help illustrating the beauty , fun and creativity we experiences through the video games and their "Virtual Worlds"



This project was one of multile project ideas and voted by the GAHQ community in january 2013.  Artists showed their interest in this project already back than and so 15 spots are claimed already. You can see who is onboard and what games have been claimed here in our forum forum.game-art-hq.com/index.ph…


Artists who are onboard and what they draw:
1. darthplegias claimed the Orochi Arena Stage from the King of Fighters '97
2. Cakecrumbs draws one of the early Super Mario Bros I stages
3. Sarrus draws Norfair from Super Metroid
4. Gabriela-Birchal draws Crateria from Super Metroid
5. Applejackman draws Ganon's tower from Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
6. KasumiCR draws the Viridian Forest from Pokemon
7. ChihuahuasInTheMist draws castle under siege based on Age of Empires II.
8. UnidColor - Diablo II Act II - DONE
9. RobertoAGM draws the Japan / Ryu stage from Street Fighter II
10. efraimrdz draws a stage from Super Mario Bros 2 - Yoshi's Island
11 peterryczkowski draws the Citadel from Quake
12 Ripley4O77 draws Act IV from Totally Rad
13 OveroneHundred draws a Shadow of the Colossus related entry
14. Isugarbee draws Metropolis from Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal
15. Karniz draws Final Fantasy VI (not sure which place yet)
16. yinetyang draws the stone bridge with castle from Shadow of the Colossus
17. Mortalshinobi draws the Netherealm Stage from Mortal Kombat 9
18. Horlod  draws the Hell Stage from Doom 3
19. Kanukling draws Midgar from Final Fantasy VII
20. kuroinekosan draws the Lost Woods from Zelda Ocarina of Time
21. Joelchan draws the Speed Highway from Sonic Adventure
22. Jormel - Xenoblade Chronicles DONE
23. robbienordgren created a 3D version of the first SMB3 Level DONE!
24. OmicronWanderer draws Sigma 17 from Freelancer DONE
25. EdMoffatt draws the Junes Electronic Department from Persona 4
26. Goomuin draws a Super Mario World Level, either Tubular or OUtrageous
27. PhazonFlood draws the Core level from Crysis
28. GhilliedNinja draws Forward Unto Dawn's cryo bay from Halo 4
29. DanielBogni draws Altered Beast (not sure which stage yet)
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To claim a spot either reply just here or register in our forum forum.game-art-hq.com/index.ph… where you can see more Project related announcements and updates beside gaming talk, as well as art related discussions too

Greets and a happy weekend already everyone


ps, i have a new avatar..yay.


Reinhold Hoffmann
Game-Art-HQ