KeSetoKaiba Artwork

I've had at least 3 chess.com friends ask if I'd show some of my artwork and most recently @breezehappysquirrel so here is some of my artwork from several years back. I haven't done as much art lately because time free time goes to other things (like chess these last several years lol). Here are 12 art pieces I made and decided to show; comment which is your favorite!

(I'll include small context in a numbered list to correspond with the order of pictures I show)

1. This was my first ever painting on canvas (I painted in December of 2012). It is a snow-covered stone bridge; the landscape is fictional, but I was inspired by the N64 video game titled, Twisted Edge Snowboarding.

2. A few months later (May of 2013), I thought to try another painting, but this one with the setting of another season. I remember seeing some deadwood trees with their silhouette looking almost out-of-place, so I tried incorporating some of these into my painting amongst the pine trees. The left background depicts the outline of an old cottage... perhaps abandoned.

3. For this drawing, I wanted to try something different and so I tried drawing a basket-looking weave into the shape of a roaring bear.

4. This was a line drawing of mine from high school. It was probably about 10th grade or maybe 11th grade. The art teacher setup a table with a bunch of random things and we were supposed to draw everything we saw. I playfully went a bit "extra" and depicted my entire perspective (not just the table). Johnson was the name of the art teacher; I don't remember why their name was on the whiteboard, but I included it in the drawing. I also included the large sheet of paper taped to the white board and the tape sometimes falling, so I drew this falling over in my picture.

5. This was done with colored pencil. It depicts the futuristic world from the video game F-Zero GX on the Nintendo Gamecube. This exact race track is from the planet Green Plant. The vegetation on the right is blurred with the F-zero machines racing. The yellow machine on the right is Golden Fox piloted by Dr. Stewart and the blue machine on the left is the Blue Falcon piloted by Capt. Falcon. The boosters behind the machines really do have that overwhelmingly bright white glow due to their g-diffuser engines. If you look closely, you can see the glow from the boosters of the other machines ahead in this race.

6. All colored pencils again and just like all of my other drawings, this is done completely by freehand. Designing a repetitive pattern is especially tricky when you are inventing it as you go, but I call this piece: Kevin's Kaleidoscope Yes, that's my name as I shared years ago in this blog post: https://www.chess.com/blog/KeSetoKaiba/kesetokaiba-username-meaning 

7. Okay, this one is super cool. Fans of the 1996 show Yugioh may recall a famous scene where Seto Kaiba (the character of my chess.com username and profile picture) buys a sports car by just casually writing a check for half a million dollars. In the anime, they show the check, but in the original Japanese version, it also shows the bank and other details on the check. I used a sharpie marker and recreated this exact check by combining the elements of the Japanese version with the American version (including imitating Seto Kaiba's signature) and then I had the voice actor (Eric Stuart) autograph my artwork when I met him at a cosplay convention. When I met him, I was also cosplayed as Seto Kaiba myself (same Battle City outfit).

Here's a YouTube clip of this scene: 

8. Following the theme of Yugioh, this is a drawing of mine with the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon card from the Yugioh: Pyramid of Light movie. 

9. This is the Yugioh duel monster Madolche Cruffsant. My brother and I used to call them, "cookie doggy."

10. This Yugioh card is named "Box of Friends" and as you can see, it is a present with several toys inside. 

11. My first ever main series Pokémon game was Pokémon Platinum, so this game is nostalgic for me. This is the Pokémon trainer Dawn ("Platinum" in the game) watching Piplup play in a puddle following the frequent rains of Pastoria City. 

12. My main character in Super Smash Bros. has always been Pikachu (in every game of the series going all the back to the N64 game), but sometimes it is fun to play as other characters too. When the Duck Hunt character arrived in the Wii U game (4th game of the 5-game series), I felt like drawing these best friends together. This drawing was from April of 2016 (all of my artwork I showed is from 2012 to 2016. I have some art older than this, but not that much more recent than this. I joined chess.com in 2017 and then chess kind of took over ).

Thanks for checking out this blog post Comment down below which of these was your favorite.