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Rene van Belzen

Art

  • SepPixel for September 25, 2023, prompt: “Flare."
    👾 spl ǝɥʇ uo ʎsɐǝ

    pixel art of the psychedelic song Bright Eyes

  • Turning a small illustration into pixel art is still a lot of creative drawing besides tracing. Shown is the intermediate size-reduction step I made in Procreate with a 1-pixel brush, and the 4x even smaller version in Pixaki. It’s based on an illustration from an image search.
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    pixel art from small drawing of stylized cat

  • SepPixel for September 24, 2023, prompt: “Belt."
    👾 uǝʞoɹq sᴉ ʇlǝq ǝɥʇ

    pixel art of old car assembly line

  • Working ahead a few days in my current SepPixel challenge has shown me that my iPad needs upgrading. It doesn’t last longer than a few hours on a full charge, and drawings apps sometimes crash, probably because of low memory and software development with the M1 or better in mind.
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    pixel art of 26 of the 30 drawings for SepPixel

  • SepPixel for September 23, 2023, prompt: “Day in the Life."
    👾 ǝƃpᴉɹɹod lɐǝɯʇɐo sǝʌol zᴉz∀ 🤭

    pixel art of breakfast table with cat reaching into a cup to eat

  • SepPixel for September 22, 2023, prompt: “Road."
    👾 ʎǝlloʍ qɹᴉɔʞ ɹoɐp

    pixel art of the yellow brick road from the movie The Wizard of Oz

  • SepPixel for September 21, 2023, prompt: “Fall."
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    pixel art of a city skyline by night and superman diving down to confront a situation.

  • I tried to draw a cute stylized cat from imagination, and see I’ll need more practice. Also, 64 by 64 pixels is a bit cramped for this art style. I probably need to bump it up to 96 by 96 or 128 by 128 pixels.
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    pixel art of a stylized cat

  • SepPixel for September 20, 2023, prompt: “Disruption."
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    pixel art of a disruption in the Internet through an Ethernet cable that is out of its socket

  • SepPixel for September 19, 2023, prompt: “Edge."
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    pixel art of Mickey Mouse falling off a cliff, Wiley Coyote style, while Donald Duck is standing far away on the cliff taking his hat off

  • 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. 👾 July 26, 2023: Pillow Fight July 28, 2023: Free … read more

  • SepPixel for September 18, 2023, prompt: “Fabric."
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    pixel art of tartan texture, needle and thimble

  • SepPixel for September 17, 2023, prompt: “Intense”
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    pixel art of an intense dream sequence

  • SepPixel for September 16, 2023, prompt: “Oof!"
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    pixel art of guy punching a punching bag full on

  • SepPixel for September 15, 2023, prompt: “Red."
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    pixel art of a painting of the Satan character in the Netflix series Disenchantment

  • Thinking of my next art challenge for the month of October. It’s Inktober, yet with cats and in pixel art instead of ink on paper.
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    pixel art of empty canvas for the catober art challenge

  • SepPixel for September 14, 2023, theme: “Statue."
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    pixel art of stylized shark with knife, fork and napkin around neck, placed on a pedestal, titled SHARK

  • SepPixel for September 13, 2023, theme: “Glowing."
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    Pixel art of Pokémon's Pikachu glowing in the dark.

  • Pixel Dailies theme for September 12, 2023 is: “Rulebook."
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    No rules, no game.

    pixel art with 32 by 32 pixels frame with a rulebook

  • SepPixel for September 12, 2023, theme: “Panic."
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    pixel art of Panic's Playdate gaming device