Retrospect: 2023 Reddit Sketch Daily challenge
To get back into pixel art, I gave myself the challenge to draw the daily prompts (themes or alt themes) for r/SketchDaily on Reddit and post the result on both it and my blog. Here are the prompts and the links to blog posts with the drawing in it.
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- July 26, 2023: Pillow Fight
- July 28, 2023: Free Draw Friday, a portrait
- July 29, 2023: Ogre
- July 30, 2023: Witches
- July 31, 2023: Microscope
- August 1, 2023: Sandwiches
- August 2, 2023: Disguise
- August 3, 2023: Large Birds
- August 4, 2023: Dusty Old Books
- August 5, 2023: Free Draw Friday, black and white cat
- August 6, 2023: Cycle of Life
- August 7, 2023: Gloomy
- August 8, 2023: Bump in the Night
- August 9, 2023: Gudetama
- August 10, 2023: Regatta
- August 11, 2023: Free Draw Friday, laser shooting cat
- August 12, 2023: High Society
- August 13, 2023: The Angriest Looking Fish You Ever Saw
- August 14, 2023: Beehive
- August 15, 2023: Bears
- August 16, 2023: Plumbing
- August 17, 2023: Heavy Metal
- August 18, 2023: Free Draw Friday (finished the bears of August 15, 2023).
- August 19, 2023: The Matrix
- August 20, 2023: Olympics
- August 21, 2023: Donkey Kong
- August 22, 2023: Galaxy Quest
- August 23, 2023: Illustrate Your Reddit Username, Ditto version 2
- August 24, 2023: The Muppet Christmas Carol
- August 25, 2023: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
- August 26, 2023: Movie Week Free Draw Finale (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
- August 27, 2023: News Headline
- August 28, 2023: Evolution
You’ve undoubtably noticed that the 30 days were in fact 33 days. Who is counting if they’re having fun?
It was indeed very enjoyable, though tiring. Doing pixel art is as slow as doing coloring pencils (i.e. very slow), at least, for me it is. I could easily spend 6 hours on a pixel art drawing, not counting research and pauses. It wasn’t sustainable on the long run. This is why I stopped as soon as I had another challenge in sight, the photo blogging challenge by micro∙blog, which I repurposed for pixel art, called it SepPixel.