like last year, i wanted to draw something inspired by the song cabinet man for christmas eve and- much alike last year- i also only started drawing late at night on christmas eve

i wanted a fun palette again, and this time i had the bright idea of limiting it to strictly the colours that could be displayed on an older game console. i picked the sega master system for this

seems like a whole lot of colours until you're actually using it. i think most of the time i spent working on this was messing with the colours. i wasn't allowing myself any deviation from the palette and was colouring (and adjusting) as i went. don't do this

i think the idea for the cabinet art is pretty clear. crime scene 👍 that idea was also in last year's piece but much more subtle. reeeal on the nose this time. the art i used was originally just gonna be a concept before doing a more refined version but nope! it was really late and i wanted it done before i slept, so didn't make any other concepts and cleaned up that one

only sketch i've got is that second pic also having a 2 in there wasn't me being clever and going "hehe this is my second cabinet man let's add a 2 in here". i saw numbers when i googled crime scene chalk outline, started drawing a 1, didn't like it, drew a 2 instead

didn't use a font for the logo! i took mild inspiration from the lettering on a real arcade machine, but it's completely handwritten. i just get real particular about the writing in my art. i'm weirdly proud of how clean it came out

i did the cabinet art and logo first, and then pieced the parts together and built the rest around it. like a weird box