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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 26/09/2026

These are Cirrocumulus clouds. They’re very pretty. But I’m sorry cirrocumulus clouds, I will never draw you. We all want the poster-boy cumulus clouds.

Sunset of cirrocumulus clouds above some houses

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 24/09/2026

Bitmap Book's Fatal Fury Ultimate History is lovely, as expected. I love seeing the behind-the-scenes sketches. And check out the barcode!

Cardboard sleeve for the book. If you press the characters they shout out one of their moves! If you press Mary she says "Touch me", of course.

Early concept sketches for the original Fatal Fury

Sketches of game mechanics for Real Bout Fatal Fury, possibly used in the manual? And sketches of the stages.

A little Terry Bogard rushing forward with lines coming out behind him to form the Barcode

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 20/09/2026

I really hope it ISN’T this

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 16/09/2026

Are people that dumb? Are they really falling for this? "We're the only ones who can save you from our terrible creation, so please keep sending us money"

BBC News headline of "OpenAI boss says world 'right to be afraid' but should trust AI firms"

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 13/09/2026

I would add the Sega arcade game of Lost World. Love that game, can’t even remember the film!

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 07/09/2026

Looking at doorstops (as one does) and found a familiar pose

On the left, a doorstop which is of a white figure in a kicking pose. On the right, Ryu doing his Joudan Sokutou Geri!

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 28/08/2026

A quick Street Fighter 6 Akuma/Gouki sketch. I saw a tennis photo which inspired the pose!

Sketch of Akuma in a martial arts pose in his Street Fighter 6 appearance

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 25/08/2026

A fantastic example of how CG really sold stuff back then. One that always surprises me is Panzer Dragoon on the Saturn. I’m sure younger me loved the CG cover, but my god the JP cover was moebius artwork!

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 12/08/2026

My super scientific method to capturing the eclipse worked perfectly…

Amazing super great quality photo of the eclipse

Zoomed out photo showing I was holding the protective glasses up to my phone

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 12/08/2026

Inserting foreign objects into my computer. What is this ancient technology?

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 05/08/2026

A picture of Zool. Anyone remember Zool? Did anyone actually like Zool? I thought I did until I played it again. Cool character, great product placement(?!), awful game.

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 03/08/2026

Saying that, the steam page does state this

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 02/08/2026

I’d make a trackball game which is absent here! What’s the bottom right game? Something mobile?

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 31/07/2026

If you’re going to do business cards, make sure you do them properly, like @oldlethers.bsky.social did!

A packet of business cards from James Letherby. Each card has a unique design and work as a game

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 30/07/2026

DENSHATTACK! Such a great game I had to draw (almost) all of the characters. This is still part of the #SixFanArts callout I did the other day, I just really wanted to do something bigger for Denshattack. Emi is so cool!

Emi standing on her train, with seven of the games "bosses" who all become your friends faintly in the background.

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 21/07/2026

Here's some poster artwork I made for a (proper) party at Develop this year. @owendavies.bsky.social kindly printed it onto tshirts as well!

Three DJ's back to back on their decks. Nine Inch Nils, Sonic the Decks God and ModernLlama

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 19/07/2026

I want to draw something but I have no clue what... sooooo #sixfanarts again! Any game characters!

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 17/07/2026

My artwork is in the latest Edge magazine, as part of an interview with the lovely @danthat.bsky.social

Artwork from the Limited Run edition of Lair of the clockwork God. The main characters (Ben and Dan) stand proud in front of a doorway of light with various creatures coming out of the doorway.

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 09/07/2026

Perhaps he's cosplaying as his favourite Mortal Kombat character?

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 05/07/2026

I didn't have time to do anything for NiGHTS 30th anniversary, so here's one I did for the 25th anniversary!

NiGHTS in a balletic pose on a white background

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 03/07/2026

GIF compression kills it… it had a line wobble, but never mind.

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 03/07/2026

I made two Robots playing Basketball. It's what those computers in the AI data centres are going to do once the AI fad is finally dead.

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 03/07/2026

I'm seeing double today, apparently

Photoshop colour sliders appear to be broken as the sliders seem to double for each value

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 29/06/2026

Oh cool, Art of Fighting 3 Bristolian edition... My loverrrr

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 24/06/2026

I’ve done some solid improv on the door stop here (It’s in a bag just in case it falls over…)

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 23/06/2026

Happy 35th to Sonic! The age where he's working hard, possibly with some kids at home, doing the right thing and being an upstanding citizen.

Sonic working in a sad cubicle with a 35th birthday card. Robotnik is standing behind his cubicle pointing at the clock saying "I want this on my desk by five!"

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 22/06/2026

Some life drawing for today. It's been a while since I've actually drawn anything, so it's nice to do some practice.

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 19/06/2026

I don’t normally post pics of myself online, but here ya go. For cool kids only.

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 18/06/2026

I know it's basically been the same art concept since GTA3, but the original use is still my favourite. Look at these characters! No ultra-realistic game could hope to capture that.

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 12/06/2026

Why not. Artists, Quote with your yellow art!

Chun-Li posing in her Street Fighter 6 outfit on a very yellow background

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 10/06/2026

Oh! I can share this publicly now. Here's the keyart I did for Kitaria Fables 2. Look at them all, so very cute.

Group shot of Kitaria Fables 2 characters posing in front of a medieval town.

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 07/06/2026

Crazy Taxi Worldtour looks good. Although I hate the Fortnite-ification of the characters. The original artwork had so much charm and character!

Original artwork of Axel from Crazy Taxi

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 02/06/2026

I love that Sherry has no whites in her eyes. PlayStation 1 accurate.

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 27/05/2026

Oh these logos are all very cool! I love all of these designs, why don't they make them like this anymore? Oh, I see. A Y2K logo collection... right, makes sense. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 13/05/2026

Looking at screenshots I’m clearly talking rubbish. But somehow the original still looks better in my eyes. (Saturn screenshots here)

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 01/05/2026

Kind of? But it's all 3D. It's pretty close to what I'm thinking, but it was definitely an outlined vehicle, or wireframe vehicle. Good example though, thanks!

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 01/05/2026

I had a quick skim of the gameplay and I think it's possibly the menu graphics you were thinking of? They blink up super quickly! No customisation/upgrades that I can see, but I love the visual here. Thanks!

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 17/04/2026

I never played the NeoGeo CD version so I haven't seen the Scottish course. I assume it looks like this?

A big fat sweaty Trump, styled to match Neo Turf Masters style. He's on his phone at a Scottish golf course writing "I got 7000 hole-in-ones today!!! I am great!" with protesters in the background.

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 16/04/2026

It was his mother - she recognises him because of his metal bangles… of course!

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 10/04/2026

What gave it away? Have you never heard of the sponsor “WAMMFETR” and “ALDMS”??

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 08/04/2026

✴️ New favourite Photoshop error! 🚨

Photoshop alert box that reads "Drover error in ok_cancel_dialog:
You must override Ul_Node: measure
File: layout description
Line 00010: sub_ layout (name:
"content");
char 00000: ^^^"

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 04/04/2026

Death Stranding 2 summarising our AI woes nicely (sadly they’re not actually talking about AI here…)

Screen from death stranding 2 that says “I asked why they were stealing from other people, and they said it was because they didn’t have the skills to live any other way”

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 30/03/2026

I have FINALLY finished both Ace Attorney Chronicles games. Aka, the really racist Phoenix Wright games. It could have been cut to a third of the length, the gameplay was really slow. But I loved the characters and overall story, so I kept going! Here are some spoiler free highlights...

A police offer saying "Oi! What are you foreigners doin' 'ere?"

The best character, Gina, saying "I'll tell you wot I told the boss! East End kids like me can only count up to two!"

A journalist character saying "Oh yes, I stabbed the Englishwoman. And it's that very fact that proves I'm innocent!"

A note that reads "Oh James, I love you. Yours, Mary"... Which I read as a Silent Hill 2 reference

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 25/03/2026

Pretty proud that I made Photoshop spit up this error

Photoshop alert box that reads "Could not nudge the selected path(s) because of a program error (e348c8.1434)"

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 20/03/2026

Modern games are BRILLIANT

Screenshot from Death Stranding 2 on the PC which only says “waiting for shader compilation…”

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 15/03/2026

Using AI in your thumbnails when there’s a perfectly good Street Fighter 3 picture of Ryu you could of used! Please don’t use AI in the future, I know a lot of people are unsubscribing from people who do.

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 09/03/2026

Turns out you would be able to see the starter hill from almost everywhere on the Crazy Taxi 1 map... if the draw distance allowed it (Link: noclip.website#crazytaxi/dc1)

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 05/03/2026

Seeing as I have a pre-made top10, here’s #my9games … hasn’t really changed much over the years. BOTW was the latest addition!

Sonic 2, Panzer Dragoon Saga, NiGHTS into dreams, Street fighter 3: 3rd strike, Zelda breath of the wild, Phantasy Star Online, King of fighters 96, Capcom vs SNK, Saturn bomberman

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Tom Waterhouse @2dforever.com · 05/03/2026

Just found these Earth Must Die bits of art I did. We made a safe and not-so-safe version, unsure if the bloody version was ever used?! I liked the art anyway!

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