A big change of pace for today’s Mistigram post: this is a piece of hirez (high resolution artwork) by Weird, most recently seen rocking the Alpha-Bits logo style in newschool ASCII art. But the times were changing (this is from our January 1997 Fistful of Steel artpack on the Mistigris World Tour), and sometimes you have to go from being the best at the old style to being a rank beginner of the new style. Certainly Photoshop gave artists powerful options (did I mention lens flare?) that PabloDraw did not, so in the interest of moving forward our artists had to shift gears from time to time. Weird ended up doing visual work for the video game industry, a path that assuredly this kind of stuff unlocked more helpfully than her elegant but outmoded ASCII art. But commercial concerns aside, that latter has probably better stood the test of time as an eternal classic of computer art 8)
Instagram photo by Cthulu • Jul 21, 2016 at 1:21pm UTC
