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  • Pixel art for r/SketchDaily, alt theme The Matrix. I decided to make a simple animation with some text and graphics. However, the subreddit doesn’t allow animated GIF, it seems, so I shared one frame instead. Game Boy image format, 160 x 144, 4 colors.
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    pixel art animation of an expanding square, a choice between a red and blue pill, and the cryptic text You Are the One.

  • Practicing pixel art… I continued working on yesterday’s pixel art in Pixaki (it rocks!) To do it justice I’ll need a proper pixel editor like Aseprite, the industry standard. Ah well, tools not art make. If I happen to become a pro, buying a Mac will make much more sense.
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    pixel art of my cat Aziz, both the original and his head 3 times enlarged, pixel-wise

  • When I saw Pixaki could use the iPad’s pasteboard, I tried copy-and-pasting existing pixel art into Procreate, which has an 1-pixel brush installed. I enlarged the original three times, recreated the color palette, and drew over it in a new layer. I can see that having value, though it’s very slow.
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    screenshot of Procreate app on iPad, showing pixels drawn over 3 times enlarged original.

  • To prep for a free draw (not based on reference), I did a few pencil sketches to explore the drawing space of anthropomorphized bears. It was only a shallow exploration and even didn’t get my feet wet. I liked the idea of actual gummi bears (the sweets) instead of the Disney ones.

    pencil sketches of bears from imagination and some stylized bears pencil sketches with some stylized bears

  • Free Draw Friday on r/SketchDaily! Continued my “Famous Bears” of last Tuesday by refining the five I already did, adding four more, and do a free draw, based on the Gummi Bears. I gave up on guessing a drawing time, who cares? It was so much fun! Exhausting, though 🥱 Can’t keep up 10 hrs per day.
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    pixel art of nine portraits of famous bears, and one free drawn bear, based on the Gummi Bears.

  • Work in Progress pixel art for r/SketchDaily Free Draw Friday. I fixed some of the problems I discovered with a fresh look. There’s just one portrait to go. Alas, my ambitions are thusly high, that it might take the rest of the day to pull it off.
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    pixel art with 9 famous bear portraits from tv series and movies, and one portrait still to be drawn

  • 🤣 I hope I can get away with pixeling Po’s silly nephew Fo. I was trying another facial expression than in the reference, which went somewhere in the totally-off-model territory. It’s part of a larger pixel art piece for tomorrow.

    pixel art of bad lookalike panda bear Po

    In other news, I seem to have misplaced my bottle of alien gummi juice.
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  • Today’s theme for r/SketchDaily is: Heavy Metal. To generate 1.21 Jigawatts you’d need something with a bit more kick. Game Boy Advance pixel art (240 x 160, 8 colors). Partially traced (save time), mostly drawn from imagination. Drawing time: ± 6 hours. 🙄 If I only had a time machine…
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    pixel art movie scene of Back to the Future, with Doc Brown thinking of the answer to What is the Heaviest Metal in Existence?

  • Work in progress on a pixel art piece for Friday August 18, 2023. It’s a continuation (and refinement) of the piece I did for r/SketchDaily on August 15. The advantage of more time is a disadvantage at the same time, more can be added. Not always a good thing, as the initial vision could be lost.
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    pixel art of portraits of seven famous bears from books and movies. Three portraits are still empty.

  • Today’s r/SketchDaily theme is plumbing. KISS is a wonderful principle, lost to practice. Game Boy artwork (160 x 144 pixels, 4 colors). Drawing time: 1u40m.
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    Game boy pixel art with a pressure vessel, some plumbing and liquid pouring on the floor. Cat is laying on the plumbing.

  • Today’s r/SketchDaily theme is “🧸 Famous Bears." I was only able to do 5 out of 10 famous bears because I didn’t have enough time. Still, I was enjoying the 64 x 64 pixels portraits so much, that I’ll finish it coming Friday. Drawing time: 7u20m for the whole image, around 50min per portrait.
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    pixel art with several identical Teddy bears at regular distances, and partially drawn portraits in pixel frames with the name of each of the five famous bears.

  • Work in progress for today’s r/SketchDaily theme “🧸 Famous Bears." I spent over 3 hours just collecting the references, and setting up the 512 x 512 pixels base image for ten 64 x 64 pixel art clips, to be filled with glorious pixel art imagery. Days are too short to pull off stunts like this…
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    pixel art with several identical Teddy bears at regular distances, and empty pixel frames with names of famous bears.

  • Today’s theme for r/SketchDaily is Beehive. I drew Brigitte Bardot in a The Simpsons art style in pixel art that could have been draw on a Game Boy Advance (240 x 160, 16 colors). Drawing time: 2u57m.
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    pixel art cartoon in Simpson art style with woman in red dress showing off her beehive hairdo, surrounded by flowers and bees

  • Another self-challenge, this time from Pixel Dailies, theme Gengar. I really didn’t like visiting Twitter (now X), but, luckily, PD is now on Discord too. Drawing time: 1u40m.
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    pixel art of running Pokémon character Gengar

  • Today’s theme for /r/SketchDaily: The angriest looking fish you ever saw. Pixel art drawn from imagination. Size: 240 x 160, 16 colors. Drawing time: 3u6m.
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    cartoony pixel art of an angry fish

  • Today’s theme of r/SketchDaily is High Society. I interpreted the theme as the 1954 movie with Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra. Pixel art for the Game Boy Advance (240 x 160 pixels, 16 colors). Drawing time a whopping 7u18m, even with tracing and off-model drawing.
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    pixel art with movie poster image for High Society from 1954, with jolly actors Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra, and a trumpet playing Louis Armstrong.

  • What was I thinking? Work in Progress…
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    pixel art of movie poster with only the heads of four actors

  • It’s free draw Friday on r/SketchDaily! I used my own cat photo to do a quick rough sketch from imagination, using the trial version of the ArtStation Pro app on my iPad. Sketch time around ¾ hours. I hope cat toy lasers won’t give cats bad ideas about world domination 🙋‍♂️⚡️🔫🙀

    digital pencil sketch of an angry cat shooting lasers out of its eyes while sitting on a staircase.

  • Drawing in pencil without the ability to zoom feels weird. I know I’ll need to have more patience with these live drawings, though the cat was distracted by a fly and stopped posing. Also, it’s a thick pencil lead in the KOH-I-NOOR pencil holder. Exactness is nigh impossible.

    Pencil sketched cat portrait of a Bengal cat.

  • My new Reddit avatar is based on the official avatar, upgraded into cute pixel art.
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    Pixel art version of generic Reddit user, but cuter.