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NES Astro pin-up

Published: February 15th 2025, 1:33:31 am

One more little post to break the silence here.

Despite trying my best to focus on finishing this long drawn commission as fast as possible I still can't help but distract myself from time to time with some small self-indulgent things. Currently I'm still excited over being finally able to work with NES graphics and after working on just silly innocent things for so long I just had to do something at least somewhat horny for a change.

My choice fell on doing Astro the Something again. He is a good character with neat design but as a relatively new OC he didn't receive much attention from me yet, only one airbrush style concept art and one EGA pixel art pin-up, that's all. So I thought it's time to play around with him again and NES graphics with its color palette seemed to be very fitting to recreate his looks accurately.

Also I decided to give his design a couple of slight changes and wanted to try it out as soon as possible.

First of all, I changed Astro's feet type to more anthropomorphic with 4 defined toes. Astro is a weird character and even his species is quite indistinct, it's hard to tell if he is a cat or a dog and there's also some hint of a monkey in his looks, like a baboon or something while also resembling some robotic creature with those eyes, that's what his second name is all about so I thought more anthropomorphic feet would add even more confusion which is the right thing here. Also it's quite obvious that I just have a certain weakness for human-like feet and while all my other OCs have very simple square or round geometric stompers I thought I just need to have at least one OC with feet more suitable for my hornier cravings. So, no more slipper type feet for Astro from now on, they'll be a thing from the past seen only in those two old artworks and maybe I'll redraw his feet on the first concept art because it was a concept art after all.

Second change is maybe not as prominent here as it could be to make it really noticeable but I changed the shape of Astro's dick. If you go back to his older two images you can see he had dick type very similar to Zed's, they're brothers after all so I thought I might project my phimosis obsession on them on an equal level. But I changed my mind recently after I found few phimosis and foreskin themed subreddits and discovered a very interesting type of phimosis that I never saw before, it seems to be pretty rare but I found around 6 different users who posted their dick pics with their cocks belonging to this unusual category. Normally the tip of everyone's foreskin is obviously on the very end of the dick itself but for some reason some people have their foreskin entrance shifted much lower to where the frenulum normally should be, the same way as seen on my artwork. It looks pretty weird irl but I quickly developed an affection for this unique look since I love just all kinds of weird shaped dicks and have a craving to put it in my art for everyone to see as odd dicks are kinda underrated in horny art, even regular phimosis. It's not the best artwork to show Astro's dick in all its unusual glory, I couldn't make it bigger due to certain NES limitations but future works will surely show it better. I could say my whole crew of OCs pretty much became a one big projection of my weird dick obsession but why not, funky dicks fit funky looking characters pretty well, it couldn't be just something average.

Making this artwork, I wanted to make it look as weird as most NES game graphics were. Green and pink is already an unusual color combination to begin with but putting it on a gray brick background ramps it up to a new level. I usually tend to do different bright and funky stuff with pretty bold 80-90s aesthetics when it comes to OC art but if you go NES style you have to do something more weird from time to time, it's a part of 80s aesthetics as well after all.

I barely managed to fit into 256 unique tile count here to actually be able to run this pixel art on emulator, the total number is 246 plus I used a lot of sprites to go beyond color restrictions, all small details like Astro's rings, nails, brows, eyes, nose, bristle and cock tip glare were all made with sprites, also a couple of bits to cover some palette issues on Astro's ear and eye frame.

Without sprites it looks like this.

It was a nice little thing to work on in-between, I guess again I made the first really hardware accurate pixel art furry smut shit on another old system as I was searching for really authentic NES pixel art among furry stuff several times and looks like nobody but me really cares, I never found anything I'd call a real NES art in furry fandom.

I'm very excited to do more but for now I have to put my ambitions on halt since I need to do some more regular horny drawings for this month and even if I get back to pixel art it would be better to deal with my other dropped pixel art WIP projects first, you know, I have 4 animations in Commodore 64, CGA, Windows 95 and Apple II graphics that are all were shared here in a nearly finished state and it's better to not keep them hanging in a void, especially Vincent one in Windows 95 style which is a great project I worked on for so long and really can't wait to share it publicly.

My excitement over NES is even more fueled by the fact that I found a much better program for NES game developing, the one I found first is a piece of shit, I understand it's a very early alpha but it just doesn't work properly on my PC, not to mention some other flaws, so I gave up. Instead of it I switched to NES Maker which seems to be the most popular and reliable program of its kind, it's pretty confusing but after looking through few tutorials I realized I can actually work with it. This way I can move on from just turning my pixel art ideas into NES roms with just static pictures to actually animating them in a more complex way, adding music and eventually even make something interactive, I mean as a real NES game which would be really awesome, bringing horny furry stuff to a really new level. But for now it has to be postponed for a while, it definitely doesn't feel like the best time to dive into it when there's so much important things left to do.