I write on retro themes for a magazine and as recently Death Race 2000 remake was releaed on DVD, I thought that it is good moment to tell about Exidy's Death Race game of 1976 and it's NES sequel. There's not much graphics in this game so I decided to make some variety by introducing characters who will read the text and at whole it supposed to look like TV News in the form of comic. On the row will be pixelated announcer, screenshot from the game/movie (like picture in picture in the news) and a block of text.

So, my question about quality of pictures:
ARE THEY ANY GOOD? Should I stay on described plan or get more skill and only then make pixel illustrations to my texts?

Background (color of page) is white.
Suggestions (on outlines as well as on color) are welcome.
I plan to draw one more.

Edited by A.B. Lazer - 13 November 2008 at 6:49am

Yes, it's magazine printed on paper.

I draw in MS Paint and when it comes to pixel screenshots/graphics, supply it at 4x (because when designer converts to TIFF, at 1x and at 2x appears blur, at 4x - not). Then - as I told, designer converts it to TIFF in Photoshop, I think. And sometimes illustrations (but rarely pixel pics) change to less saturated colors (it is dim for me, as I haven't asked if designer edits pic before converting. When I convert it to TIFF, I use Irfan Viewer.

Edited by A.B. Lazer - 12 November 2008 at 1:59pm

Thanks. I think we will work it out.

What I most care here, however is to look professional and interesting, so shapes and colors should be perfect. So that chief editor or designer had no reason to say "WTF, what you trying to plug in?!"
I decided to make it very simple yet readable and as pixelly as pixelart goes.