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In about six days I added two more 32 by 32 pixels portraits. These still take about an hour a piece, and I don’t see one minute for a portrait in my future. We will see how things develop, speed-painting wise. I can see progress, though. My pixels aren’t as random as before. That’s good, I think.
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Inspired by a famous British boy-band from the 1960s, I drew this character on a stage, using only four colors at a small screen size (GameBoy portable videogame player from the early 1990s). It wouldn’t be a playable character (96 pixels size), which had to wait until the late 1990s, early 2000s.
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I drew this on May 11, 2021 on r/SketchDaily, with prompt Quail Quilting Quorum. Too bad Reddit has gone to hell in a hand-basket in the meanwhile, similar to Twitter, now X. I remember drawing the upper left quail from reference and the rest from imagination, based on the reference.
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Now I know what to expect, it’s time to tackle some subjects, like this flower, and how to render blurriness with a limited color palette. Let’s say it’s an experiment 😊 Yes, let’s. I’m sure in a year’s time it will look “painfully newbie-ish” to future-me. Until then, I’m happy with the result.
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At first I wanted to do one 32x32 pixels portrait per minute, but that turned out to be one per hour. Doing one of these per day shows me how I’m slowly improving my art skills over the days. There’s a lot of zooming in and out, squinting, and cringing over old art involved, as there should be.
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This weekend a pixel art tutorial by former DeviantArtist kiwinuptuo about lines and shading. I plan to extend it with floor shadow and with different drawing techniques. We see how far I’ll get. It’s rather sophisticated, so I’ll take my time. What I won’t do—yet—is texture, nor patterning.
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Call me ignorant for never having heard of Robert Henri before @thatkruegergirl mentioned him in a quote.
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The tv show Mannix was made in the late 1960’s, starring Mike Connors, with theme music by Lalo Schriffin (who also wrote the original Mission Impossible theme, and still composes and performs music at age 91). I traced a screenshot, which isn’t as straigthforward as you would hope at that size.
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I used to think that the ALT attribute is a kind of image description. Yes it is, but only machine-readable (i.e. for screen readers). For sighted humans, you can use the TITLE attribute or the FIGCAPTION tag, in addition to the ALT attribute. Right-click or long-press to reveal.
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