Blast Off! - Bosconian Cookie Jar My Girlfriend Painted

[InsaneDavid]

Actually cross-posting this one from another forum where I shared it first. Following along the lines of her Ghosts 'n Goblins fruit bowl (http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?157024-Ghosts-n-Goblins-Fruit-Bowl-My-Girlfriend-Painted) and other such arcade / pinball / game related ceramics (http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?162934-StarTropics-Serving-Plate-My-Girlfriend-Painted), my girlfriend just picked up her completed Bosconian piece. We had been trying to come up with a Galaxian / Galaga / Gaplus / Galaga '88 / Bosconian mashup for a long time but nothing was coming of it so we settled on Bosconian since I freaking love Bosconian and the game tends to go without praise.

The idea was to wrap a continuous battle scene around a cookie jar with enemy bases, ships, asteroids, mines, and a couple player fighters. Since the game world wraps around continuously we thought it would be a good fit. Atop the lid is the famous opening command from the game, "BLAST OFF" in style and color of the Bosconian marquee.

http://www.classicplastic.net/klov/BosconianJar001.jpg

http://www.classicplastic.net/klov/BosconianJar002.jpg

The idea was this would be a relatively simple piece that could be completed over a couple sittings but it turned out to be the exact opposite. A lot of stuff came up during the time she was working on this and even when she could work on it, the amount of pixelated detail, coat after coat, took quite awhile.

Next piece is based around the Metal Slug franchise but we also have a Ghouls 'n Ghosts bowl planned much later down the line.

[Alpha2099]

That is amazing!

[Neb6]

That is extremely awesome!

Great attention to detail. I just finished getting a good close look at that game (I was using it as a photo-experiment).

The lid almost looks like the art work you'd see on an actual arcade machine.

[Cornelius]

Very nicely done! My compliments to the artist.

[treismac]

Kick ass. Your girlfriend rocks, David.

[Emperor Megas]

That's AMAZING! I'm seriously jealous; I LOVE that sort of stuff. The fact that it's hand made is awesome, and that it was your girlfriend who did it is even more amazing.

[Jorpho]

There's a way to work in a pun on Bosco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosco_Chocolate_Syrup) here, but I can't find it.

[InsaneDavid]

Thanks everyone!


There's a way to work in a pun on Bosco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosco_Chocolate_Syrup) here, but I can't find it.

Well she did fill it with my all time favorite candy bar, 5th Avenue, and I technically can't have the cookie jar until Christmas as it's one of my gifts from her. So there, chocolate worked into it somehow.

[Tanooki]

I never was into that game back in the day, never saw it, but it's fun on those compilation games or devices and knowing what I do of it she really captured the game well on that jar and shows a good steady hand in going for details with that kind of paint and brush too, even more so on that GnG dish you linked up as well.