Listerud,+Jacob

My name is Jacob Listerud, and most of my artworks are based on/pay homage to video games or movies. I would often draw pictures representing a character from or concept of a video game, and sometime, I may draw pictures of characters that I plan to be completely original to one of those video games. I might say that it started when I anticipated a Nintendo GameCube so I could get Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, and I was drawing pictures of Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles, duking it out with Tails, Eggman and Rouge. The more video games I played, the more drawings I drew that were dedicated to them. On Sophmore year, I even often drew pictures of awesome consoles destroying awful consoles like the Nintendo 64 impaling the CD-i with its controllers, or the Sega Genesis charging its add-ons, the Sega CD and 32X with so much electricity that they explode.

Sometimes, I use some of those artworks to design characters that I plan to use for fan fiction. When I think up a brand new character that I plan to use for a fan fiction, mainly these are designs for the appearance of the character, and I keep the personality, abilities, and background in my mind. Normally, at these art classes, I would make these designs for the character. It helps me further design the character's potential, as well as that of the fan fiction.

The problem is that I make these fan art contributions almost too often. In fact, so often, that I have huge stacks of it in my room at home, and I may have abandoned them as time went on, and I wish I could be more willing to look at them more often. But they haven't been as neglected as my earliest of artworks, especially from when I was four years old. And I have even forgotten them. But I haven't forgotten a majority of my video game based artworks, like where I take the title of an awful game, and change it to mean just how awful it is, like Seizure Suit Larry: Box Office Bomb, Night Crap, Vampire Pain, Bubsy 3Dipstick, Wimp My Ride, etc. Overall, those artworks are my least forgettable.