Riso fan's fan art
I posted a while ago that there's an office at my company that randomly has a free print studio with a riso printer. I was slated to go to that neck of the woods again, so you better believe I demanded everyone at Arcade Commons and Wonderville give me things to print.
I love all these games and places, so even though I didn't do any of the actual art (besides adjusting some colors for riso), I like to think of these as kind of fan art for them. And since I'm also a riso fan, it's kind of like a riso fan's fan art.
Since the creators are distributed around, I’m handing these to AC to hold as a kind of central storage/distribution point. But it’ll be up to the creators to decide what they want to do with them (keep em, use them as tournament prizes, sell them at MAGFest?). So if you want one, keep an eye on their various socials I guess? (And if you are one of the developers: surprise/enjoy!)
I'll try to credit everyone, but might update the post later if I got anything wrong or left anyone out. Apologies in advance.
Wonderville 6th Anniversary Commemorative Print
This art is by Jackie Vecchitto. The original is black and white; I threw a gradient on just to have an excuse to use flo pink.
As I printed these, I found that my original smaller sizes didn't look as "riso" as usual--they almost looked like a normal printer. So I redid them, hoping a larger size would help, which it sort of did. But I think I could have had an even better output if I hadn't used black ink for this--either gone with some dark color blended from two or three non-black colors, or just done 2 totally eye-bleedingly different colors like yellow and flo pink. Still, there's some nice halftoning and registration errors that make it look more riso.
Dyebreaker (game by Walt Mitchell, art by Ramsey Haefner)
Dyebreaker is inspired by screen print art, so of course I had to print it. With ~6 hours to go before I had to leave, I begged Walt for the in-game posters, and he delivered.
If I had more time, I would have liked to tinker more with the colors of these to make them really bring out the vibrancy of riso ink. I think Face is the most satisfying, combining flo orange and flo pink for some very satisfying eye-bleeding intensity.
For the next 4 pieces, Chris Hernandez arranged them for riso. For some reason they photographed less vibrantly than IRL. Such is the plight of riso printing.
Hoverburger (game by Nick Santaniello, art by Chris Hernandez)
Ziggurat of the Titan Beetle (game by Andy Wallace (@andymakesgames), art by Chris Hernandez)
Kick Kick Boom (game and art by Chris Hernandez)
Nightmare Kart Commemorative Arcade Cabinet Print (game by @b0tster, original logo by mino (art-mino on bluesky), AC remix and riso formatting by Chris Hernandez)
Celebrating the launch of the NMK cabinet. Love that there ended up being exactly 13 of these.
Particle Mace (game by @andymakesgames, art by Terence Tolman (twtdip on socials))
This art is from quite a while ago, but I thought it would be fun to revive as a print, since Terence's design and colors are so vibrant and dynamic. I had to play with them a bit in post to get the riso to capture it all well, but hopefully I did them justice.
I learned a lot on this trip and already have some ideas to make even better and cooler prints when I go back. I also might be in the middle of assembling a DIY riso-ish printing setup in my home, based on the excellent DIY mimeoprinting how-to posted by Rachel Simone Weil, so I’m not limited to using flo pink when I’m on the west coast…
I love riso!!!!!