Sega Saturn Vector Illustration

Just a quicky, before I post the mammoth "Sega Saturn In Japan" article soon.

Sometimes, when I buy new Saturn games, I browse their manuals and hope to find nice Sega Saturn imagery, which I may be able to vektorize for future usage in artworks and such. When buying the PAL Version of "Blazing Dragons" I found this neat illustration in a great size and quality, which was perfect for scanning. So I did. Then I vektorized it 100 % by hand, which results in a near perfect copy of the original illustration. You could theoretically print it out several feet / meters tall without any quality loss! Can't wait to use it in weird Saturn related artworks. The little window gives you a zoomed in view of some of the details.

Vectorized Model 2 Saturn

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Today I finished my vectorized Model 2 Sega Saturn. The round edges of it gave me quite a headache, since they were rather hard to fake with linear shading only. And for some odd reason the blend stuff in Corel Draw does not work at all for me. I actually like the Model 1 Saturns with the oval buttons more, but I choose the white japanese Saturn because a) japanese is always great and b) the white Saturn fits the artwork which I am planning much better. Yes, there's also an artwork in the works, but this is super secret, because it'll still take a while to finish it. You'll hear it hear first, of course.

Here are some details of the vector.

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