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Rene van Belzen

Art

  • Interesting video by Matt Parker on YT about shearing pixels horizontally and vertically instead of rotating a picture. Unlike GPU powered rotation (using floating point calculations), it conserves pixel (colors).
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    animated GIF of shearing of a block instead of rotating

  • Practicing isometric perspective with shifting rows of two pixels wide one pixel position vertically, and mirroring whole shapes horizontally or vertically. It’s not perfect, and some pixel editing is required, and even then it’s a compromise.
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    pixel art, several flat shapes and their rendering as objects with volume in isometric perspective

  • Game Boy compatible pixel art drawing, based on this photo
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    Game Boy pixel art of a kitten laying on its side

  • On YouTube I saw Matt Parker and Adam Savage do videos about how to construct geometric shapes in three dimensions. I tried the same with flat shapes in both 2D and (pixel art) isometric perspective. Since pixel art is a crude representation of reality, I had to fudge a lot to make it fit.
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    pixel art (200 by 200, 8 colors) of a square and a equal-sided pentagon in top view and in sheared (pixel art) isometric perspective

  • Doing some character design in pixel art, Game Boy compatible.
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    pixel art in green shades, with a man, woman, child and cat

  • I drew a Bangladeshi girl in traditional dress based on this photo and an image search on traditional clothing from Bangladesh, which was rather sparse amongst the modern dresses inspired by tradition (because that what people might want to wear nowadays).
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    pixel art girl in traditional Bangladeshi dress

  • I have today’s work cut out for me with this portrait of a Bangladeshi girl from 2011.
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    screenshot of blank canvas in Pixquare app, with a color palette called baba32 and a reference photo of girl in traditional foreign dress

  • Practicing dithering.
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    pixel art with a block, sphere and some kind of triangle

  • I made this 64 by 64 pixel art portrait, referencing this photo of Raymond and using only four colors from the 2-bits-pips color palette.
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    pixel art portrait of a bearded man

  • Drawn while listening to A Legacy of Biffs on The Incomparable Mothership podcast about Back to the Future 2. It’s an audio podcast, so I got to draw from imagination.
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    pixel art with painting of person on a hoverboard in Back to the Future 2

  • I made this Game Boy compatible pixel art piece based on this excellent portrait.
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    pixel art Game Boy screen with a frame, containing a portrait of a girl, her name and some stars

  • I tried drawing the same character in two different art styles, referencing a photo I took myself. The one on the right is (loosely) based on someone else’s art style.
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    pixel art with a bolding man in sportswear drawn in two different styles

  • Oh boy, I need to learn about tilesets and game art to avoid attrocities like this one
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    pixel art with bushes and stones using tilesets

  • I tried to create an animated sprite of my cat. All I have to do now is give him a world to live in. That’s easy, right? 😂
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    animated pixel art with a cat blinking its eyes and wagging the tip of its tail

  • I used this photo as a reference for a small pixel art drawing of a deer. I tried to concentrate on clumps of pixels, but I see I need to study more to be effective. The shape’s okay-ish, which is an accomplishment at this scale, I think.
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    small 32 by 32 pixels drawing of a deer

  • I used a portrait and dolphin as my references for this fictional Game Boy game called “Delphine."
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    pixel art of a Game Boy game of a fictional game called Delphine

  • The original Macintosh, aka 128K Mac, is often referred to as the computer that changed the world. It was the first commercially available computer with a graphical user interface. Pixel art for the Nintendo Game Boy screen (160 x 144 pixels, 4 shades of green).
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    pixel art of the Apple 128K Macintosh computer

  • I thought pixel animation would be easier. Alas, with iPadOS it still is too hard, so it seems, and Aseprite is still the desktop app to emulate. Yes, you can do animation on the iPad, but it takes a lot of time compared to what I’m used to on the desktop 20 years ago, using Moho.
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    animated bouncing ball

  • I used Noppa, Charley, and Latte as inspirations for this pixel art piece.

    It is compatible with the Nintendo Game Boy screen (160 x 144 pixels, 4 shades of green).
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    pixel art with guinea pigs on a spread

  • My reason to share a work-in-progress shot is to set a milestone, so I stay motivated working on the piece. Since I share it publicly, it also keeps me honest. Now I have to finish it.
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    screenshot of pixel art work in progress, showing in pixel art the title Guinea Pig, a spread, a guinea pig, a carrot, a flower and a clover leaf, and two reference photos on the side of guinea pigs