My Most Popular Pixel Art On Divoom

On December 24, 2024 I received my Divoom Pixoo 64 and published my first pixel art design on the community’s servers. Since then I’ve made more than a thousand pixel art drawings, mostly at the Pixoo 64 resolution of 64 rows of 64 columns of colored LEDs for pixels. Not all were good enough (for me) to put on Divoom.

I only recommend the Divoom app and its community if you happen to own a device that uses the app. The community has a lot of non-artists, who are just there to favorite art made by artists, as to display it on their devices. There have been some incidents with trolling, and there’s no age limit, so you have your teenagers who lack the social etiquette of polite society and the wisdom that often goes with adulthood. I wonder if this is going to change with the introduction of age verification, which seems imminent in most Western countries with a conservative government.

Top 10 Most Liked

Here is the top ten (in reverse order) of the designs that received the most likes. I’ve included the caption, date, and number of views and of likes.

10. Nature

9. Made With A.I.

8. Knight DK

7. Star

6. Squeaking Clean

5. The Naked Gun Movie Poster

4. Cat on a Carpet

3. Bubble Bobble

2. Oil Study

1. Star Wars movie poster

Honorable Mentions

Here are some additional pieces that didn’t receive the most likes, but are still worthy of mentioning in my opinion. The designs are in no particular order.

Perspectively Rotating Cube

Chibi Star Trek TOS

Commodore 64 Ultimate

I updated from 1Password7 to version 8 (payed account). Migrating the old version 7 vault to current was complicated, and hard to understand. I already knew that, and dreaded it so much that ending support for version 7 per 2026 was needed. It was as terrible as I feared, IOW, two hours of stress.

While the original Wonder Woman was a great movie, with high rewatchability value, Wonder Woman 1984 not so much. I watched it on Netflix and often paused because I was too bored to keep watching. Even when the pace picked up, the action was predictable, and boring. I think you can skip this one.

In the past 51 weeks I published almost 500 pixel art illustrations and animations to the Divoom community. Each took around 3 hours to create. So that is 1500 of the 10,000 hours (15 %) of intentional drawing, on my way to mastering the art of 64 x 64 pixel drawing, in about another six years?

I’m still amazed how many are on social media to gather likes and follows for status, and their interactions seem mostly performative, not genuine. I feel like being groomed to become these people’s follower. Luckily, not micro∙blog, which is much more relaxed and doesn’t expect user engagement.

Finished reading: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 📚 This was supposed to be funny, but I never laughed, nor chuckled. Ah well, I can recycle the book now, so someone else can read it. Maybe he or she will get it.

WIP of today’s contribution to the Divoom community. The character is approximately 20 pixels high. There are supposed to be six poses, two extra per punch already drawn. It isn’t hard, just a lot of work. Enlarging the character would complicate things exponentially, though.

Between September 18 and October 20 this year my account’s level on the Divoom app shot up from 17 to 59. I managed to draw commemorative pixel art up to level 57, included, before the bug got fixed, and the level was demoted to 17. It feels a bit harsh, though.

The Ultimate Answer.

…

If we only knew what it meant.
(determinism gone mad, maybe)

Had my first blocked user. They sent the same offensive message a second time on another of my drawings. Before 2021, you could be pretty sure it was some bored 12 yoa, but nowadays it equally could be a bot powered by an LLM. Those are equally inconsiderate, unless constrained.

When someone else reviews a new photo frame on YT and one’s pixel art is casually shown by the reviewer, one can’t but feel like proud of oneself. At least, I felt that way, searching for a review of the new 10.1 inch Divoom Time Frame, and found this video by Marc The Geek.

Rolling Down Without End, a Penrose staircase.

Here’s the animation celebrating that I reached level 30 in the Divoom community yesterday. No other artist has reached this level yet, and some are on the platform since 2021 (I only 9 months). I suppose posting on average more than once a day, and being recommended by the staff a lot helped.

I removed my image archive with Pixoo64 gifs from micro∙blog, because it didn’t work for me. I’m moving them (slowly) to my Flickr account. Flickr has its problems with animated gifs, but management isn’t one of those; on micro∙blog there’s no management for large (100+) collections.

I’m about to reach level 30 in the Divoom community, higher than any expert artist of the app, much more skilled than me at pixel art. I suppose I happened to tick the right boxes with the algorithm, since I’m only using the app since Christmas 2024, and most experts since 2021 or so. Anyway, I made a rough animatic based on a rough sketch with all the key poses, and made a pixel animation from the frames.

I will share the finished pixel animation if and when I’m awarded level 30.

There’s a good reason to avoid cities when training for a marathon. There’s the well-meant, though unwanted advice. There’s also the occasional hatred from those who think you running is a statement. In nature, none of those interactions, just people enjoying life, the same as you, marathon runner.

To become a Divoom Ambassador you’d need 5000+ followers on social media, and regularly engage with your followers. I don’t qualify, not even by a long shot. I will try to grow my follower count, but doubt I’ll ever reach 5000+ with my pixel art. I’m now at 10 on Bluesky, 4991 to go 😬

Here is a process video of the sketch I did of the dragon from Bubble Bobble, and next the 64 x 64 pixel art animation of said sketch.

I must say that the current MB blogging system has become worse than before. For instance, if you edit a shortpost the enclosed image will be placed outside the text and if edited the image will be duplicated. Also, the shortcut to my account only includes one blog not all blogs. An ugly mess!

Round and round they go. Wherever they land we’ll never know. They keep on flying from door to door. And quite soon there will be even more. It’s maddening, makes you cry. Because all they do is fly and fly and never die. 🪰