Pixel art on Rene van Belzen

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 08:19:50 +0100

On February 15 we celebrate those who are happily single, me included. There’s no need to explain one’s preferences, nor any need to conform to old-fashioned societal norms. 🎨👾

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:22:38 +0100

Here’s the finished fanart pixel art piece, I called “Avengers Assemble.” 🎨👾

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:19:28 +0100

A new sign for a 3-star restaurant with a rat as its master chef. Free after the 3D animated movie Ratatouille.🎨👾

My Most Popular Pixel Art On Divoom

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 07:40:32 +0100

On December 24, 2024 I received my Divoom Pixoo 64 and published my first pixel art design on the community’s servers. Since then I’ve made more than a thousand pixel art drawings, mostly at the Pixoo 64 resolution of 64 rows of 64 columns of colored LEDs for pixels. Not all were good enough (for me) to put on Divoom.

I only recommend the Divoom app and its community if you happen to own a device that uses the app. The community has a lot of non-artists, who are just there to favorite art made by artists, as to display it on their devices. There have been some incidents with trolling, and there’s no age limit, so you have your teenagers who lack the social etiquette of polite society and the wisdom that often goes with adulthood. I wonder if this is going to change with the introduction of age verification, which seems imminent in most Western countries with a conservative government.

Top 10 Most Liked

Here is the top ten (in reverse order) of the designs that received the most likes. I’ve included the caption, date, and number of views and of likes.

10. Nature

Another experiment with muted colors #64x64

9 March 2025 - 64x64 - 1.3K views - 96 likes

9. Made With A.I.

The design was based on a Dutch-language prompt: "Gezelligheid kent geen tijd." Of course, I redrew the whole thing at 64 x 64 and added scrolling text, as you do. I still got my 10 points 🤪 and more importantly, credit for another pixel art drawing instead of just one a day.

24 October 2025 - 64x64 - 2.2K views - 98 likes

8. Knight DK

Not quite what I had in mind, but there's a time constraint and minimum quota to keep the Divoom Master Pixel Artist badge.

22 July 2025 - 64x64 - 4.5K views - 99 likes

7. Star

Another animation done in Callipeg, at 256x256 and scaled down (nearest neighbor) in Procreate to 64x64 pixels and then added the four red center pixels. 8 Frames at 25 fps, the fastest the Divoom app allows. All this to make a solid workflow.

12 November 2025 - 64x64 - 3.5K views - 104 likes

6. Squeaking Clean

Edited Al art on the Dutch-language prompt: "Zoals het klokje thuis tikt tikt het nergens."

27 October 2025 - 64x64 - 2.2K views - 105 likes

5. The Naked Gun Movie Poster

Perhaps the funniest movie ever made.

12 September 2025 - 64x64 - 2.7K views - 113 likes

4. Cat on a Carpet

A piece I made for the Pixel Dailies prompt of February 26, 2021. #64x64 #cat #flyingcarpet

31 January 2025 - 64x64 - 2.7K views - 150 likes

3. Bubble Bobble

The little dragon from Bubble Bobble. I used 24 x 21 pixel art reference, presumably from the C64 version (found it through an image search).

2 September 2025 - 64x64 - 6.1K views - 256 likes

2. Oil Study

Time lapse of an oil painting in ibisPaint X. I used a reference by Karen Wilson. It's just a proof of concept of using other media as the basis of pixel art.

25 July 2025 - 64x64 - 5.4K views - 298 likes

1. Star Wars movie poster

What a little tracing can do. The animation of the title was so much fun!

18 August 2025 - 64x64 - 6.9K views - 381 likes

Honorable Mentions

Here are some additional pieces that didn’t receive the most likes, but are still worthy of mentioning in my opinion. The designs are in no particular order.

Perspectively Rotating Cube

I found a Reddit thread on how to rotate a cube correctly in two-point 3D perspective. I traced the example and gave it my own spin. Sorry for the dad joke. Now it could be done for any object that can be drawn in perspective inside a cube, or inside several cubes on top of each other.

3 October 2025 - 64x64 - 2.1K views - 76 likes

Chibi Star Trek TOS

l used the stick puppets in the outro of the Netflix anime series "Qi Refining For 3000 years," and applied those on Spock, Kirk and McCoy of the 1960s SF series Star Trek (aka ST TOS). I hope you like it.

3 November 2025 - 64x64 - 1.5K views - 60 likes

Commodore 64 Ultimate

Thirty years after Commodore went bankrupt, someone has bought the brand and started producing official new 8-bit computers that are C64 in hardware, in which a field programmable gate array replaces the 1980s chips. That calls for a nostalgic celebration, since I owned several C64s in the 1980s and 1990s.

19 December 2025 - 64x64 - 2.3K views - 68 likes

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 07:06:51 +0100

WIP of today’s contribution to the Divoom community. The character is approximately 20 pixels high. There are supposed to be six poses, two extra per punch already drawn. It isn’t hard, just a lot of work. Enlarging the character would complicate things exponentially, though.

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 09:42:27 +0100

Between September 18 and October 20 this year my account’s level on the Divoom app shot up from 17 to 59. I managed to draw commemorative pixel art up to level 57, included, before the bug got fixed, and the level was demoted to 17. It feels a bit harsh, though.

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 07:38:28 +0100

When someone else reviews a new photo frame on YT and one’s pixel art is casually shown by the reviewer, one can’t but feel like proud of oneself. At least, I felt that way, searching for a review of the new 10.1 inch Divoom Time Frame, and found this video by Marc The Geek.

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:37:44 +0100

Rolling Down Without End, a Penrose staircase.

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 12:48:01 +0100

Here’s the animation celebrating that I reached level 30 in the Divoom community yesterday. No other artist has reached this level yet, and some are on the platform since 2021 (I only 9 months). I suppose posting on average more than once a day, and being recommended by the staff a lot helped.

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 06:33:27 +0100

I removed my image archive with Pixoo64 gifs from micro∙blog, because it didn’t work for me. I’m moving them (slowly) to my Flickr account. Flickr has its problems with animated gifs, but management isn’t one of those; on micro∙blog there’s no management for large (100+) collections.

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 06:28:33 +0100

I’m about to reach level 30 in the Divoom community, higher than any expert artist of the app, much more skilled than me at pixel art. I suppose I happened to tick the right boxes with the algorithm, since I’m only using the app since Christmas 2024, and most experts since 2021 or so. Anyway, I made a rough animatic based on a rough sketch with all the key poses, and made a pixel animation from the frames.

I will share the finished pixel animation if and when I’m awarded level 30.

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:33:39 +0100

Here is a process video of the sketch I did of the dragon from Bubble Bobble, and next the 64 x 64 pixel art animation of said sketch.

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:28:37 +0100

Since it’s inspired by his self-portrait, I call this one “Vincent.”

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 20:06:15 +0100

Heads are going to roll. No idea why.

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:06:15 +0100

Serving smoothies endlessly on my Pixoo-64 64 x 64 pixel art frame. Drawn in Procreate on an iPad.

Sat, 03 May 2025 20:56:18 +0100

I drew this stylized head of B.A. Baracus of the 1980s hit series The A-Team, played by Mr T.

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:23:58 +0100

It seems the basis of good 2D animation is solid drawing skills. Without it, the result will be poor, or, at best, occasionally hit, but mostly miss. I know where to spend my time in the coming months. I only hope I don’t lose my Divoom Master Pixel Artist status with still images.

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 08:51:08 +0100

I made a rough animation in the Animatic app on iPad and traced the frames into a pixel animation with Pixaki. It took much longer than I expected, but I’m pleased with the (very rough) result running on my Pixoo64 LED panel.

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:50:45 +0100

I’ll be running a marathon on 13 April 2025. It almost didn’t happen because of injuries, which only healed a week ago. To celebrate in advance I made this jumble of legs, arms, and a confused head. Its animation lives on the Divoom community, where I became a master pixel artist, also this week.

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:48:20 +0100

Using Quick Poses I found a reference for a pose. After pixeling the nude I put some clothes on her to avoid flagging on the Divoom community. BTW, it wasn’t quick at all.

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 20:13:58 +0100

A larger piece, and Fate/Apocrypha fan art. I know I can do better, if I weren’t so out of practice. I also might have traced a little to get it done, after spending more than 12 hours on it today,

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 07:58:06 +0100

It’s been a while since I posted some pixel art on here, while I’ve been inundating the Divoom community with my creations, being mostly recommended by the staff. I don’t judge it high art, but I can see why they want to see more of it. Most don’t seem to post anything, or at best it’s low-effort.

Sun, 30 Mar 2025 11:53:18 +0100

The @pixeldailies.bsky.social #PixelDailies theme was #ladder Link has to climb the ultimate infinite ladder.

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 18:33:05 +0100

I suppose if you always play it safe (read: draw for more likes), you will never learn new things, and keep repeating old things until you’ve bored and stop creating. For me, this is a place of experimentation, finding your artistic limits, go beyond them, then dial back a bit.

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 08:57:49 +0100

I started a new project in Procreate for pixel art. I already made a rough sketch and applied base colors (white, green and light-brown). It will become a 64 x 64 pixels piece for my Pixoo64. It’s been a while since I did a landscape, so it will be a challenge to finish it. Here’s a WIP.

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 18:28:09 +0100

Here’s the process video of the pixel portrait of Jean-Luc Picard.

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 17:31:53 +0100

I hand-made a pixel portrait of captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek TNG, using Procreate.

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 09:02:10 +0100

I tweaked yesterday’s still pixel art thoroughly, so I think it got more “readable.” Next I did some simple animation, since that’s preferred, apparently, in the Divoom community.

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:45:55 +0100

Here’s the finished version of a baby enthusiastically holding a puppy.

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 08:37:42 +0100

A little WIP. Yesterday I made this tiny 64 x 64 pixels baby head, based on reference.

Today I gave the baby a torso. The dots are to easily scale between 64x64 and 1280x1280 pixels in Procreate. The latter resolution I use to sketch a new layer before turning it into pixel art, pixel-by-pixel.

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:16:42 +0100

I repurposed a previous pixel drawing for today’s pixel drawing for the Divoom community. The little guy is supposed to represent a nasty germ. We’ll see how it’s received. I like it.

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:31:31 +0100

Sometimes a piece is just not worth sharing.

I made it for the Divoom community, even posted it on there, but soon deleted it, because it was not making me feel happy with it.

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:26:43 +0100

The @pixeldailies.bsky.social theme for 23 March 2025 was #jar #pixel_dailies

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 12:22:17 +0100

I used this image as a reference for my contribution to March of Robots 2025. Though I didn’t design the robot, I did the color palette and animation.

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:22:22 +0100

If you assume you’re right, you’re probably aren’t. This is the self-deprecating idea that sprouted from using the import filter of the Divoom pixel editor wrongly. I thought it needed more pixels to avoid blurring them, like web browsers. Not so, just import 92 frames or less of 64 x 64 pixels.

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:32:19 +0100

According to the robot 🤖 this is a snow leopard, which seems fair considering the coloring, but I meant to draw a tiger 🐅 Ah well, it was from memory, and hence didn’t look much like the real deal anyway.

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 09:46:28 +0100

In this time of glorification of autocrats it seems somewhat uncool to post a selfie, since it tends to narcissism, one of the traits of an autocrat. Nevertheless, it was a fun exercise in panning around a main subject, even if it’s me, represented in pixel art for the Pixoo64.

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 09:55:28 +0100

I used a reference photo—downloaded a long time ago—of a tiger walking in the snow, and thought of animating it as such. It didn’t come to that, yet, because of lack knowledge of animal anatomy. The creation started in Pixquare, refinement in Procreate, and final touches in Divoom’s pixel editor.

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:09:02 +0100

Dreaming at the dinner table when I was a preteen. We didn’t talk much, so I had to use my imagination to fill the silence. Vroooom-vroooom! And oh, it was todays theme #forklift from @pixeldailies.bksy.social #PixelDailies

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:40:40 +0100

I made a photo of a bunch of daffodils a few days ago, and made a 192 x 64 pixel drawing today, which I turned into an infinite panning frame of 64 x 64 pixels for my Pixoo64 Cloud LED display. I also entered it in the Bloom2025 competition of the Divoom community.

Here’s the reference.

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:52:33 +0100

The @pixeldailies.bsky.social theme was #castle #PixelDailies #Pixoo64

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 08:23:24 +0100

This was constructed for the #64x64 pixels #Pixoo64 and #PixelDailies theme #RobotController @pixeldailies.bsky.social

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 10:38:50 +0100

I made a pixel drawing of a #tiger refining it using this CC reference from Flickr. Thusly I didn’t mechanically copy the reference, and made my own version for @pixeldaily.bsky.social theme for 13 March 2025.

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 07:39:41 +0100

The theme of Pixel Dailies for 12 March 2025 was #frame #64x64 #PixelDailies #Pixoo64

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 10:59:07 +0100

The theme of Pixel Dailies for 10 March 2025 was #OversizedClothing #64x64 #PixelDailies

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:52:16 +0100

At least the robot 🤖 got the number right, otherwise putting candles on my humongous BD cake has become ridiculous, and a real chore. 🎂

Sun, 09 Mar 2025 17:34:49 +0100

For when I’m too busy making pixel art…

Sat, 08 Mar 2025 06:57:19 +0100

Yesterday I failed at the day before’s prompt #CharacterGenerator of the Pixel Dailies daily challenge. The idea was a normally clad person stepping into the booth and coming out as another person wearing spectacular clothes. Alas, it will never be completed 😕

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:07:25 +0100

I made an isometric cube rotate in 72 steps. After importing it into the Divoom app’s pixel editor, I found a limit for the number of frames in an animation (60 for 64x64 pixels). So I had to be creative with 36 frames. After reuploading to the Divoom app, I tweaked it to get it even more perfect.

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:20:15 +0100

A pixel art depiction of a smiling orange cat with its tail raised, set against a green circular background. That’s what the alt text says.

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:59:22 +0100

When I notice my peripheral vision, besides blurring, I can see distortion in the perspective. I tried to illustrate that effect in a pixel animation. Not sure it’s because of my bad vision, or if it’s more general for all seeing humans. It could also be my imagination playing tricks on me.

Sun, 02 Mar 2025 11:49:39 +0100

I made this for yesterday’s prompt of Pixel Dailies: #scale. It’s based on my pixel font at original and 300 percent scale. Rotating a plane is some kind of scaling as well. Note that I’m in favor of human made pixel art, as opposed to a purely (and copyright-wise questionable) AI-based version.

Sat, 01 Mar 2025 10:15:28 +0100

I’m trying to make putting text onto my Pixoo64 much easier with (possibly) a pixel font. The matrix is 4 pixels wide and 6 pixels high, so there’s room for 10 lines of 16 characters (64 x 60 pixels in total) on the 64x64 pixels screen. I can has a scroll like in Star Wars 😂

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:02:37 +0100

When the clock strikes twelve…

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 08:08:18 +0100

This game is about getting the ball off the platform using the helicopter, yet without crashing it.

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:21:34 +0100

Didn’t expect to reach level 11 in the Divoom pixel art community so soon, so I had to put together something in a hurry.

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 14:06:39 +0100

An imbalance of power between a teapot and a teacup.

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:45:26 +0100

I imagined how Mega Man would look like sans armor. I can do a turn around of this character to learn more about character development. At least, that’s what I hope will happen. It could all end in disappointment.

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:27:20 +0100

Divoom has a RetroTime2025 art competition, for which this is (one of) my contribution(s), the MITS Altair 8800, which started the personal computer revolution. It was soon followed by the Commodore PET, Atari 400 and 800, and the Apple II, all computers I grew up with, hence “retro” for me.

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:00:27 +0100

My new colors are rolling along.

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 07:07:00 +0100

I’m still learning about color palettes, contrast and such. It appears that different mediums have different requirements. Pixel art is very different from, say, quilting. So I edited a piece I did yesterday, making some of the mini-drawings more clear. Five is better than three grades of a color.

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:34:05 +0100

I made two noteworthy 64 x 64 pixel art pieces today. These are stills; the Divoom community got the animated versions.

Sat, 15 Feb 2025 07:12:43 +0100

It’s clear to me from these two recent pixel art pieces, that I need to be more patient (and deliberate) with my art. Especially the edges need work, but also the shading, if approaching realism was the goal. It’s pretty much absent or “wrong”, as is the contrast in the overall image.

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 15:36:15 +0100

I’m happy my contribution HUG got an honorable mention in Divoom’s winner announcement of Hug Day 2025 (link to pdf) on Singles Awareness Day.

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:59:36 +0100

Just don’t forget to eat your eggplant, or it’ll become a rotten-egg-plant. Pixel art made for the Divoom community.

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:23:59 +0100

I’m still trying teach myself coloring using color palettes based on human vision instead 19th century art philosophy. My idea that I should’ve mastered it by now was clearly over-estimated. Art as a subject matter is both wide and deep.

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:19:19 +0100

For all of you Whovians out there, I made this 64 x 64 pixel art piece for the Divoom community to celebrate me reaching level 10 on that platform.

Grappling with color theory

Sun, 09 Feb 2025 11:08:24 +0100

I was taught color theory in high school, and did self-study when I became more serious about art. That old theory is clearly not taking into account how the human vision system works. It told me how to mix paint (oil paint, and other particle-based coloring mediums), and get a harmonious color palette that appeals to the observer. Then you mixed what seemed right, after a lot artworks in which these loose ideas about color were applied, so based on experience. However, it remained a lot of guesswork, and I never got good results, at least, not consistent good results. So I kept second-guessing myself, and thought I must misunderstand the theory I was taught. It turned out I wasn’t wrong, the theory was.

Below (and in articles to follow) are my first steps into getting to grips with colors and how they interact in the observer’s vision system.

I used the accessible color palette generator at Venngage to create a random vivid color palette that contrasts enough with black text to be generally legible. The palette was based on the mid tone with RGB value #d0d57b.

#d8c7c2, #000000
#d8c38c, #000000
#d0d57b, #000000
#92b17a, #000000
#92a89d, #000000

Next, I converted each color to OKLCH, to check if these colors were even in the range of human perception:

oklch(84.23% 0.0204 37.03)
oklch(82.18% 0.0756 89.54)
oklch(84.95% 0.1136 111.35)
oklch(72.3% 0.0838 132.1)
oklch(71.13% 0.0292 164.02)

Next, I made a test animation at 32x32 pixels size to check if text indeed was legible with this color palette and black as the letter color, plus the reverse, this color palette as text color on a black background. It seemed to work, though I’m hardly a good judge, not having color blindness or poor vision, despite some astigmatism, which is (partially) corrected by my prescription glasses.

The AI micro∙blog uses could read it, so that’s a thing.

Text with a pixelated font says Can you read this clearly enough? against a background of squares in muted colors.

Though, the “muted colors” worried me a bit. Weren’t these supposed to be “vivid colors”? I suppose that’s the sacrifice one has to make in order for your creation to be have enough contrast to be legible. Of course, pixel art isn’t about text, like html documents clearly are, though readability plays an important part in what you want to convey to your audience, if you so wish—you might do this just for you own enjoyment, after all, as many seem to do. Not every artist is a professional, nor wants to become one.

I sent this over to the Divoom community with the caption:

I’m trying out new (to me) color theory. The old theory I was taught in school 50 years ago is out of date. This one is based on how our eyes perceive colors, rather than what some dude in the 19th century came up with. #colors #test #accessibility #oklch

So, this color palette seems totally usable for reading, even reading outlined characters on a pixelated screen (read: pixel art). However, there are other ways to present your art than through outlining. Putting an outline around a shape accentuates, makes it stand out. Sometimes you don’t want that, you want your art to integrate into the rest of the image. You could do away with outlines, or be more subtle about outlining, for example by adjusting the color from black to a color that contrasts with the surrounding colors (read: colored outline), or some combination of techniques.

So, how to test that?

I turned to Pixel Dailies for a prompt to use, and apply that with a color palette based on OKLCH, picking a color palette that suited (my interpretations of) the prompt. That day’s prompt was:

AoE

What the heck is that? I had to look it up, and found this on GameTree:

AoE (or Area of Effect), in video games, is an ability or action that affects multiple targets within a specified area simultaneously, rather than a single target. Can apply to damage, healing, or status effects.

Another meaning could be Age of Empires, which seems to be an online strategy game, which also abbreviates as AoE. Gotta love ambivalence! So, basically, I was “allowed” to do whatever I wanted, what usually is the case with Pixel Dailies; they’re are very flexible about interpretations, as long as the art is worthwhile looking at. Anyway, it was something to do with gaming, and I’m a casual gamer at best, certainly don’t own a gaming console or gaming PC. This seemed a disadvantage, but it really wasn’t, because I was free to use my imagination instead of some established gaming lore. I could think outside the box.

Remember, this wasn’t about the prompt, per se, but about using the prompt to get an idea about color theory. Still, it’s always worth putting effort into your art piece, at least think about what you want to create before even grabbing a drawing or painting utensil.

The basic ideo of Area of Effect is that one action has multiple results, so it’s about unanticipated “collateral effects”, a typical trope of storytelling, which makes the reader pay more attention, since the unexpected usually does that. So the author/creator sets an expectation, and does that opposite to make any bored or distracted reader/observer pay attention, and commit to engage fully with the piece in front of them. At least, those were my thoughts about the whole thingamabob, what was it already? Right, AoE, Area of Effect. I’m clearly not paying attention myself.

So, false expectations, and how to depict that using a color palette. A clear example of this is the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, with lead actor Judy Garland, which starts in black and white, and changes to full color when Dorothy steps into the Land of Oz. Another example, which clearly borrows from this movie, is the equally brilliant 1989 animated movie The Little Mermaid, in which in the prologue above the sea, muted colors tell us about a drab existence of sailors, while under the sea it’s so bright and vivid, that the contrast couldn’t be higher. It’s the Wizzard-of-Oz effect redone for the times, since moviegoers were accustomed to colors, unlike in the 1930s, when black-and-white movies were still quite normal.

It’s unfortunate I’m not a movie buff, but some knowledge has crept in through watching movies without even considering what thought had gone into it. I’m applying that half-baked knowledge to my current artwork, which has to be an animation, or an otherwise very clever juxtaposition in a still image, telling us a story we weren’t expecting. In traditional pixel art, we generally don’t have a lot of pixels in a frame, but we do have a lot pixels in consecutive frames we can use to tell a story. Of course, with modern computers, canvas size isn’t really a problem anymore, so limiting ourselves to it is more of a stylistic choice than a necessity, as it was in the 1980s with 8-bit computers and consoles.

So, my “trick” is to do a change in color palette, to aid in storytelling. The hero/heroine, after a failed attempt, has answered to the call, and is to embark on his/her journey to get (or remove) the idol, and bring it back/destroy it, to help those at home who are in need. Frodo will destroy the ring, and returns to the Shire a hero, broken, yet victorious, against all expectations. Yes, even in that movie (Lord of the Rings Trilogy) colors play an essential role in illustrating in what dire straits our hero is, almost dying in utter failure. Sorry for the spoilers if you haven’t watched those movies, which you really should in my opinion. And what does Dorothy bring home? Well, nothing good, but she is safe, for now, but clearly scarred by her experience and longing for Oz. Ariel is just happy to have her voice back, and live happily ever after with her true love. At least, that is what we’re supposed to believe, since Ariel must experience a culture shock after having lived “under the sea” whole her life, eating seaweed instead of animal flesh (fish). As far as I know that story was never told, but could be an interesting story to tell, more slice-of-life than the epic coming-of-age story of The Little Mermaid.

Now I have more ideas than time to implement them. That’s the problem if you deep somewhat deeper into a subject than casually approaching it, as I usually do; how to get out with a result that is just possible to implement with the skills that are at my disposal (or can be learned in the allotted time)?

As usual, I have to adjust my expectations, and do my best. It might succeed, might fail, but I will have learned something, one hopes.

I will let you know what I came up with, hopefully later today, or otherwise tomorrow. Stay tuned!

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 12:55:39 +0100

Such a tiny canvas to play with, yet I made something interesting nonetheless for the Divoom community.

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 08:44:36 +0100

The Tenth Doctor gets a strange signal on his T.A.R.D.I.S. monitor: “What. What … WHAT!?”

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 17:52:59 +0100

I hope you don’t mind I’ve used your avatar for my little pixel animation. @peterw

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:26:32 +0100

In prep for reaching level 10 in the Divoom community (probably early next week), I’ve upgraded 🤖 yesterday’s Doctor. It’s a still from a 24 frames animation, running on my Pixoo64 as I’m typing this. Me happy 😊

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:09:03 +0100

Sneak peak of an animation I’ve been working on today.

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 10:53:19 +0100

I suppose even for pixel art it’s sometimes smart to do a sketch before putting little blocks on a canvas.

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 08:42:28 +0100

I already made this pixel drawing in 2022, and I uploaded it to the Divoom community. Apparently, they’re having a lot of inappropriate artwork over there, since it has to be approved first, which takes a day or so.

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 08:52:15 +0100

I made this 64x64 pixels portrait before, and I thought my skill has advanced enough to try to improve it. It’s for the Divoom community, titled Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:10:24 +0100

A shrunken and improved version of an earlier piece I did for Pixel Dailies, prompted “paperweight.” This one I did for the Divoom community.

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:07:20 +0100

For a contest by a user in the Divoom community. It’s my cat Maahir, a Muslim name which means skilled, skilful, proficient, experienced, clever, genius, and fits him perfectly. I used two photos as my reference, and the rest is drawn as in-betweens, with motion blur.

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:51:28 +0100

Only a week ago I reached level 7 in the Divoom community and told myself to pace myself with interacting with the app. How did that turn out? I’ve reached level 8 today. ’Nuff said.

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 11:00:09 +0100

My entry for Divoom’s 2025 Hugging Day, with the description:

There are other ways to show love than through embrace. Not everyone is a hugging person. Love isn’t an emotion; it’s a promise to take care of one another, despite what feelings are at play right now.

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 08:34:05 +0100

Seeing how much effort it took to make this animation, I gave it away as a free template to the Divoom community for use in someone’s own projects, with a requirement to mention my username in the description. We will see if this has any legs…

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 21:13:59 +0100

Some pixel art animation for the Divoom community I came up with in a few hours.

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 09:52:19 +0100

I probably should stick around level 7 on the Divoom community for a while, since being there causes me to neglect my portrait drawing skills. Priorities, priorities…

Wed, 22 Jan 2025 18:40:08 +0100

I turned a selfie into a 64x64 subpixel animation for the Divoom community.

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 10:37:19 +0100

I wondered what would be a good animation for my Pixoo64 LED cloud display? I guess a cute cat on a floating cloud. Maybe this is the direction I should be going. It should also appeal to a younger audience.

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:45:44 +0100

I made two pixel animations, one to note that I have reached level 6 (whatever that means) in Divoom’s pixel editor, another to celebrate the occasion.

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 08:47:34 +0100

Based on yesterday’s find that more is better, I created a new canvas in #pixquare to give me room to sketch eight portraits in ibisPaint X. I used the CC Search Portal to find creative commons portrait photos, of which I added eight to my reference window. Now the only thing left is… sketch.

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 09:49:47 +0100

Being broke scars a person mentally for life. I know this from personal experience, having been without money several times, living above my means.

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 21:50:34 +0100

I solved the problem with fuzzy imported 64 x 64 pixel images into the Divoom pixel editor, by chopping up the original animation into four separate 32 x 32 animated GIFs, and per frame move each 32 x 32 layer into its correct position. It’s a real hack, and rather bothersome.

Sun, 05 Jan 2025 10:49:27 +0100

I drew Spyro the dragon, an old Playstation game character, in 32 x 32 pixels, which wasn’t easy. I both limited the color palette and animation, so I could do it within a day. Drawn in Pixaki on iPad, imported into Divoom’s pixel editor, and exported as a frame hanging on a wall.

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 19:43:00 +0100

I did an image search on a Yorkshire Terrier as pixel art to find a better color scheme, after applying that, it actually looks like the dog.

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 11:49:40 +0100

I’m always amazed how different a 32 x 32 pixel art piece looks from its reference. The color choice might not be the best, but I’m sticking with this pastel-colored palette, which probably demands a more stylistic approach than the realism I’m aiming for.

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 23:39:46 +0100

I found out that the Divoom pixel editor prefers 32 x 32 images for import. The 64 x 64 image import leads to fuzzy pixels. Of course, for animation this isn’t a big deal, since sprites are often smaller than 32 x 32 pixels. And I can import 32 x 32 as 64 x 64 pixels if I don’t mind the fuzzies.

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 13:12:17 +0100

I’m learning how to get a color palette from an image in Divoom’s pixel editor. So I created an image in Pixquare and imported that, so I could pick and add colors, and created this post’s animation from that. Since it took so long, I guess I’ll stick with this palette for a while.

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 12:50:03 +0100

I made the animation from scratch in Divoom’s pixel editor (the frame is from the app itself, of which on the display on top the tv set I changed 2021 in 2025). It took a really long time for such a simple 64 x 64 pixel animation.

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 09:52:37 +0100

When in Rome, do like Romans do, IOW, embrace the blurriness of the app that seems to have been slapped together to sell a product, judging by how poorly its features are implemented. Still, I imported my pixel art and retouched it a bit in Divoom’s pixel editor.

Happy New Year, everyone! 🎆

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 23:56:04 +0100

When you don’t succeed right away, try, try, and try again until you do.

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 21:05:16 +0100

You can’t win them all, it seems. This one went awry by a bad choice of colors.

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 19:24:45 +0100

I imported my previous pixel art portrait into the Divoom pixel editor and did some touch-ups before I exported it to my photo library.

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 11:17:01 +0100

I made a 64 x 64 pixel art portrait. For a longer description, see this blog post.

Sun, 29 Dec 2024 17:27:10 +0100

Here’s what I could come up with today, a duck in a pond drawn as 64 x 64 pixel art in Divoom’s pixel art editor.

Sat, 28 Dec 2024 10:37:23 +0100

There’s no better way to learn than to just jump in and start drawing and animating, I guess. Shown is a simple animation loop and a color gradient through the 16 colors of the Sweetie-16 color palette.

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 11:34:42 +0100

This 64 x 64 “selfie” pixel art portrait took much, much longer than it needed to. I drew an outline in Pixquare, and replicated that in the Divoom pixel editor, after which I colored the sketch. The image is a screenshot, framed in Procreate, because Divoom’s export filter is no good.

Wed, 25 Dec 2024 10:44:54 +0100

I reworked a pixel art piece I did earlier this year in Pixaki, imported it via the photo library into Divoom’s pixel art editor, took a screenshot inside the editor, and added a frame around it in Procreate. Of course, it is expected that I draw in Divoom’s app, which I find clumsy.

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:19:31 +0100

While awaiting the arrival of my LED panel I made this 64x64 pixel art portrait from imagination. Alas importing into the Divoom app introduces unwanted anti-aliasing, almost impossible to get rid of. Ah well, it works for smaller panels too.

Just got a notification, arrival within 15 minutes 😊

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:16:34 +0100

I refined yesterday’s stapler pixel art in the Divoom pixel editor at 64x64 pixels. Now I’m waiting for the LED panel to arrive, so I can test it. 🥁🥁🥁💥🎉🥳

Sun, 22 Dec 2024 16:59:26 +0100

I found this ornate stapler on Sketchfab and took a snapshot of a side view to study and draw. I wanted to see if I could turn it into 64 x 64 pixel art somehow. The sketch took me 4½ hours, and the pixel art version an hour or so.

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 09:10:09 +0100

The only reason I still frequented Twitter/X is because of Pixel Dailies. They now switched to Bluesky, so I follow them there. Alas, there doesn’t seem to be federation in place, unless you use a hack, so I can’t but share Pixel Dailies profile page.

Sat, 25 May 2024 06:57:01 +0100

Pixel art portrait
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Sun, 19 May 2024 06:48:31 +0100

Yet another pixel portrait.
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Sat, 18 May 2024 06:57:30 +0100

Pixel portrait.
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Thu, 16 May 2024 06:37:08 +0100

After a brief hiatus I started pixeling again.
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Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:58:45 +0100

Pentecost literally means fiftieth. Since it’s 49 days after Easter, it is an example of an off-by-one error. Another is that for marking 10 distances one needs 11 distance markers, instead of 10.
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Sat, 27 Apr 2024 11:29:28 +0100

Apparently, genAI doesn’t know what to make of this.
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Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:48:26 +0100

It’s funny how lack of confidence can effect one’s art output.
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Fri, 19 Apr 2024 13:58:55 +0100

G_μν + Λg_μν = κT_μν
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Thu, 18 Apr 2024 11:56:31 +0100

Is simple always best?
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Wed, 17 Apr 2024 14:32:03 +0100

Life is a long battle of endurance.
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Tue, 16 Apr 2024 07:40:10 +0100

Pixel art portrait, using this reference. 64 x 64 pixels, 2 colors.
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Mon, 15 Apr 2024 11:23:08 +0100

Inspired (somehow) by this post.
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Sun, 14 Apr 2024 07:35:34 +0100

Yet another self-portrait
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Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:48:23 +0100

Animated portrait in pixel art. 32 x 32 pixels.
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Mon, 08 Apr 2024 13:14:29 +0100

Pixel art of one of my cats. 80 x 80 px, 8 colors.
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Sat, 06 Apr 2024 07:38:50 +0100

To baa, or not to baa, that’s the question.

I made this 64 x 64 pixels, 4 colors pixel art piece, using this reference.
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Fri, 05 Apr 2024 07:14:42 +0100

Moo!

(64 x 64 pixels, 4 colors, using this reference photo)
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Thu, 04 Apr 2024 07:14:02 +0100

Somewhat inspired by micro∙blog’s April 2024 photoblogging challenge. 64 x 64 pixels, 11 colors.
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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:13:53 +0100

Was looking for a good ink drawing to recreate as pixel art, and found my own ink drawing from 2011. I believe I have improved somewhat since that time. There’s also a process video. 200 x 200 pixels. According to Apple Screen Time it took me 2h34m to draw.
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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:46:28 +0100

I found these 25 faces and tried to recreate them faithfully in pixel art. Below it is an animated GIF of the time lapse creating the drawing.
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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 09:25:13 +0100

Pixel art of a symbolic face I modified and colored with this color palette, using this reference. 64 x 64 pixels.
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Tue, 26 Mar 2024 09:16:29 +0100

Pixel art of a cloud using a vibrant color palette.
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Mon, 25 Mar 2024 09:44:29 +0100

I’m not very good at planning. Animators are supposed to plan ahead. So I end up with a mess.
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Sun, 24 Mar 2024 22:19:57 +0100

Animation is such a different beast, and it is sooo time consuming on an iPad. Unfortunately, this is only traced, not animated.
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Sat, 23 Mar 2024 09:31:33 +0100

I might be over-analyzing this cartoon drawing a teensy tiny bit. The idea is to make an animation out of it, using some real mutt running, inspired by the work of the great Eadward James Muybridge.

Next up, a running skeleton of a real mutt, and apply that to the cartoon mutt’s skeleton.
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Fri, 22 Mar 2024 19:21:04 +0100

This took quite some time, and I used a “Muybridge cheat” to speed things up. It’s called Z’brah, for obvious reasons. No? The pattern on the cube is based on zebra striping. I suppose not so obvi. Well, it kept me on the straight and narrow while it was being made.
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Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:45:19 +0100

If I’m correct, the woman runner in the photo is Claudia Gelsomino in her 2014 New York Marathon. Doing these more realistic pixel art drawings is tough, yet rewarding.
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Wed, 20 Mar 2024 20:52:28 +0100

Using this reference I drew this baboon, using a bit of tracing to get the rough proportions correct. 200 by 200 pixels, 12 colors.
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Tue, 19 Mar 2024 08:06:10 +0100

I used this reference and this vibrant color palette to draw a pelican in pixel art.
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Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:14:56 +0100

Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s April Showers, drawn in Game Boy compatible pixel art.
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Sun, 17 Mar 2024 13:38:56 +0100

Using this as my reference I drew a road race car. Perspective is always a hassle, so I took quite some liberties. I expect my next will be much better, with this one under my belt.
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Sat, 16 Mar 2024 09:48:27 +0100

A bed seems simple enough to draw in isometric perspective, until you actually do it, as I did. I need more pixels, but that’s silly, since seasoned pixel artists do not, although they do need more colors. Also, funny how details get lost in downscaling.
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Fri, 15 Mar 2024 09:20:32 +0100

Did some random characters.
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Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:13:26 +0100

Here is the final pixel art piece that is compatible with the Nintendo Game Boy. Many thanks to these photographers who allowed me to create sprites based on their kitten photos: ①, ②, ③, ④, ⑤, ⑥, ⑦, and ⑧
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Wed, 13 Mar 2024 10:45:27 +0100

WIP pixel art. The main focus points at this stage—besides finishing the piece—were variety and cuteness, so it’s more interesting to look at. So I replaced the same backgrounds on each of the eight frames with new backgrounds. And oh, I added a sixth 24x24 pixels kitten sprite 🥹 Only two left!
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Tue, 12 Mar 2024 16:42:35 +0100

WIP pixel art. I’ve added my .aseprite files to a Working Copy repository, so I can revert to an earlier version. With all this editing I already lost a version of the current project, maybe caused by an iPad app error while saving, or—more likely—PEBFAC, problem exists between finger and couch.

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 08:43:21 +0100

WIP pixel art. I suppose it makes all the difference if one is taking time to make a somewhat cohesive drawing . It sets an expectation. Here: You won’t get photorealism, but it’ll be fun nonetheless. The character design is still lacking, though. I need some guidance thru Aaron Blaise’s tutorial.
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Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:34:05 +0100

WIP. Drawing smaller is harder, or perhaps it’s at the small scale that my lack of drawing skills shows through. Though it’s probably mostly a lack of design skill. I’m working on it…
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Sun, 10 Mar 2024 19:30:42 +0100

I once bred Abyssinian cats, until it became too expensive. Still, I have deep admiration for the breed and their breeders. On my 64th birthday I drew one in pixel art from this reference.
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Fri, 08 Mar 2024 17:07:21 +0100

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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Fri, 08 Mar 2024 13:04:26 +0100

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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Fri, 08 Mar 2024 09:09:33 +0100

Game Boy compatible pixel art drawing, based on this photo
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Thu, 07 Mar 2024 09:53:59 +0100

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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Wed, 06 Mar 2024 13:47:40 +0100

Doing some character design in pixel art, Game Boy compatible.
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Tue, 05 Mar 2024 16:22:07 +0100

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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Tue, 05 Mar 2024 09:25:34 +0100

I have today’s work cut out for me with this portrait of a Bangladeshi girl from 2011.
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Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:27:57 +0100

Practicing dithering.
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Mon, 04 Mar 2024 08:09:03 +0100

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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Sat, 02 Mar 2024 07:47:16 +0100

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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Thu, 29 Feb 2024 10:15:07 +0100

I made this Game Boy compatible pixel art piece based on this excellent portrait.
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Tue, 27 Feb 2024 09:44:54 +0100

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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Mon, 26 Feb 2024 09:59:01 +0100

Oh boy, I need to learn about tilesets and game art to avoid attrocities like this one
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Sun, 25 Feb 2024 15:05:34 +0100

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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Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:19:59 +0100

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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Wed, 21 Feb 2024 11:23:05 +0100

I used a portrait and dolphin as my references for this fictional Game Boy game called “Delphine."
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Tue, 20 Feb 2024 12:10:49 +0100

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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Sun, 18 Feb 2024 08:19:52 +0100

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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Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:01:18 +0100

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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Sat, 17 Feb 2024 09:25:31 +0100

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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Thu, 15 Feb 2024 09:52:30 +0100

Pixel art version of this reference photo. I simplified the shapes so it was easier to draw on such a small canvas and so few colors (160 x 144 pixels, 4 shades of green). I think it got the message across, though.

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 10:04:46 +0100

I used this photo as my reference for both a 160 x 144 and 64 x 64 pixels versions of this portrait. I went for a more anime art style, which made the likeness suffer a bit.
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Tue, 13 Feb 2024 12:46:13 +0100

Besides changing my color palette I also bought (unlocked) a new pixel editor I hadn’t heard of before, Pixquare. There are others, but this one and Pixaki seem the most user-friendly. Some apps are just pushing too hard into in-app purchases. The harsh greens are a bit off-putting, though.
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Tue, 13 Feb 2024 08:41:44 +0100

Pixel art study, WIP. I hope I got the proportions right this time for a semi-realistic style drawing, nudging towards an anime art style. At least, that’s what I’m going for. I’m taught that studying proportions is key for a successful portrait drawing. Next, I want to simplify it into 64 x 64.
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Mon, 12 Feb 2024 19:30:00 +0100

Portrait study in a more realistic style, based on this photo and in Game Boy format (160 by 144 pixels, 4 shades of green).
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Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:42:35 +0100

A very rough work-in-progress of a Game Boy compatible pixel art portrait study. I’m struggling to get the proportions right without tracing. As with any realistic portrait, it takes time and patience, measuring, a lot of zooming, and breaks for a fresh look, as well as accepting I’m not perfect.
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Sun, 11 Feb 2024 19:01:51 +0100

When I made yet another Simpsons character from a reference, I thought it would be boring and predictable. It turned out quite challenging. I started with the bust pose, enlarged it to full body pose quadrupling the canvas, then shrank it back to Game Boy size (160 x 144 pixels). Not easy at all.
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Sun, 11 Feb 2024 09:00:40 +0100

Taking breaks from something that will take a long time to complete feels certainly wholesome. Of course, now it will take even longer, but my experience is that if I try to use brute force to complete, I will simply cast the project on a pile of things I’ll once complete (probably never).
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Sat, 10 Feb 2024 11:25:54 +0100

I used this Flickr photo as my reference to draw a Game Boy compatible pixel art portrait in the Simpsons art style. She will travel in space when she grows up.
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Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:22:03 +0100

I used this reference from Flickr to draw in an art style of The Simpsons animated sitcom. It’s compatible with the Nintendo Game Boy handheld game console (160 by 144 pixels, 4 colors).
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Fri, 09 Feb 2024 09:46:09 +0100

I waited until I was exited enough to continue my Amsterdam cityscape (2 days). I suppose this happens when doing projects that aren’t commissioned. Still only 2 whole and 2 half house to go for the layer with the merchant houses. It’s taking a lot longer than I expected.
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Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:52:52 +0100

Drawing from a reference on Flickr in Game Boy pixel art (160 by 144 pixels, 4 colors), with process animated GIF. Drawn in ibis Paint X, pixeled in Pixaki.
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Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:25:25 +0100

Pixel art for the Game Boy.
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Tue, 06 Feb 2024 15:30:31 +0100

This could be cover art for a Viking war game.
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Tue, 06 Feb 2024 10:37:23 +0100

I notice within myself a slight reluctance to continue this project, which reluctance is quite normal, I believe. As long as the desire to see this through is greater than doing much of the same thing day after day, I think I’ll manage the mental resistance to continue.
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Mon, 05 Feb 2024 10:02:58 +0100

Another day, an additional house. Paying attention to details, but especially adjusting what’s in the reference to what’s already drawn, takes a huge amount of time. I went with another color of brick to add variety. It’s all imagined, so I get to pick and choose.
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Sun, 04 Feb 2024 18:31:57 +0100

You’d think we’d developed something against male pattern baldness by the 24th century
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Sun, 04 Feb 2024 10:59:22 +0100

Another house added, plus the previous house edited. Creation is mostly revising what you previously made. Anyway, it’s giving me vibes of a Dutch city in summer. Only six whole and two half houses to paint before I get to invent the background.
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Sat, 03 Feb 2024 19:16:16 +0100

Game Boy Advance pixel art with Game Boy color palette
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Sat, 03 Feb 2024 09:41:47 +0100

There are so many details to even a single house with a step gable to copy from an illustration, that it took me almost 2 hours to make it. Next, I’ll try a neck gable, then a clock gable from reference. There are other architecture styles I noticed collecting photos. It’s a slow process overall…
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Fri, 02 Feb 2024 17:37:50 +0100

It doesn’t seem much, yet it represents hours of studying Midieval merchants' townhouses for their generic building plans and reasons for their dimensions. For actually understanding their historical relevance I’d have study much more, in the order of months.
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Thu, 01 Feb 2024 22:17:40 +0100

I was thinking “cityscape”, so I got some references of Amsterdam cityscapes, basically houses alongside canals. It turned out drawing a single house was already a big thing. I had to leave out so much details. I also forgot to add a human analog for scale, though the door is perhaps good enough.
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Mon, 29 Jan 2024 17:12:35 +0100

Games can (and should) have great artwork, but for gameplay it does nothing; players soon look past it if the game is any good. Something I learned from A Theory of Fun by Raph Koster.
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Mon, 29 Jan 2024 10:02:01 +0100

This is one of those random scribbles and then make something out of it. Maybe I’m reaching the bottom of the barrel here.
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Sun, 28 Jan 2024 21:57:22 +0100

Sometimes what I draw doesn’t make sense to me. Then after some time it begins to make sense, somewhat. My fantasy is weird, non-productive. I like the colors, though.
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Sat, 27 Jan 2024 23:24:59 +0100

This pixel art was crushed from 81.920 bytes into 3.473 bytes. It’s an Amiga LowRes 320 by 256 pixels drawing with 3 bit planes (8 colors), representing a rooster.
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Sat, 27 Jan 2024 10:20:33 +0100

For some reason, I can make art on the RPi using an old Amiga LowRes format. I suppose it’s the limitations that stimulate my creativity, while with the full-blown iPad I’m still struggling because of the many options. Meaning, I have to think much harder before drawing on the RPi.
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Fri, 26 Jan 2024 12:05:36 +0100

I suppose I still need to practice (a lot more) to reach a pro level of art. Is it a duck or an ostrich, or something else altogether? 🤷 If it’s a duck, it’s fugly!
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Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:06:43 +0100

I suppose with an iPad Pro 11 inch, and Apple Pencil 2 I can myself a “pro” now. At least I have added to Apple’s bottom line. They needed my contribution, surely. 🤣
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Wed, 24 Jan 2024 18:55:03 +0100

Maybe the last time for a while I drew with Multipaint from scratch, full of errors and slowness. Tomorrow I’ll go buy my replacement iPad.
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Mon, 22 Jan 2024 14:05:03 +0100

Doing all this drawing by mouse, cramping up my wrist, made me realize how dependent I am on an iPad with stylus. I realize a regular iPad is inadequate for my needs. Then a 256 GB M1 iPad Air is only €100 less than a 128 GB M1 iPad Pro. Only the Pro has Promotion⸺a must for artists.

😩 Decisions²

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Mon, 22 Jan 2024 09:26:18 +0100

Work in progress. I’m working with a mouse in Multipaint on my RPi.

What is he so happy about? I know, and you may too, once I’m done pushing pixels and uploaded it to my blog.
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Sun, 21 Jan 2024 11:24:44 +0100

A “little” thing as a broken iPad won’t stop me from making art. I made this when the iPad was almost gone.

And the other piece I made with a PETSCII editor on my RPi, based on a piece I did earlier this month.

Not having a backup for my Raspberry Pi makes me a bit nervous, as it should
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Sat, 20 Jan 2024 12:29:11 +0100

Analyzing @hutaffe’s (free) avatar from Make A pirate was a bit convoluted on my part…

Anyway, 100 by 100 pixel art, scaled up 8 times, with 53 unique colors, in isometric perspective, so typical for 2D games nowadays.

There’s a story here, stereotypical even, though better than I can ATM. 💡👾

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 14:48:56 +0100

As Hanna-Barbera cartoons of the eighties have taught us, cats can without most clothes, except the most essential, like a hat or a cane.
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Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:29:53 +0100

I find it always such a surprise how a pixel art drawing I made subtly (or sometimes radically) changes to conform to the rigors of the C64 multicolor bitmap.

Other than that, I used some of the edging techniques (sharp, lost and soft edges). So there’s that too. Happy 😊 camper here!
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Tue, 16 Jan 2024 10:59:54 +0100

Searching on Flickr for Creative Commons photos of kittens I found this cute black and white one. I used it as reference for my C64 hi-res bitmap pixel art drawing.

Sometimes less color is better. Especially if the one depicted is staring into your soul.
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Mon, 15 Jan 2024 15:58:29 +0100

I didn’t get to experiment with edges. Still, I drew something I love, so that’s good.

Maybe advice from an oil painter doesn’t translate all that well to pixel art. Pixel art has more in common with decorative art (like embroidery) than with traditional art you can hang on a wall.
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Sun, 14 Jan 2024 18:22:50 +0100

Public domain now?
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Sat, 13 Jan 2024 09:46:38 +0100

I suppose the lesson to be learned here is:

Don’t look into the spiral, or you’ll go cuckoo, bananas, Dada

A quick peek is no problem, though.
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Fri, 12 Jan 2024 16:02:30 +0100

Another day, another cat drawing. This time our more blocky version of a feline fellow creature. Sketch in ibisPaint X and final drawing in Commodore 64 multicolor bitmap (160 x 200 resolution, 16 colors). If I could, I’d knit him a cozy sweater.
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Thu, 11 Jan 2024 15:15:25 +0100

I think I’m starting to grasp how to draw in C64 multicolor. You get three colors that can be used anywhere, and per 8 by 8 pixels block you get to pick another color out of 16 possible colors. Careful placement of the pixels is key. If you do it right, you can have a very colorful image
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Wed, 10 Jan 2024 13:55:31 +0100

Another day, another cat drawing for the old Commodore 64
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Wed, 10 Jan 2024 00:23:47 +0100

I reworked an older self-portrait that I made last year as a pixel art drawing, and turned it into an image on the Commodore 64. I like that the limited color palette doesn’t seem to limit me as much as it used to. It takes some effort (well, a lot of effort), but I think it was worth the time.
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Tue, 09 Jan 2024 11:32:11 +0100

Here are some of the steps I took to create a multicolor pixel art drawing of a cat.

drawn in ibisPaint X in 4 colors

traced and redrawn in Pixaki

made into C64 runnable multicolor art with MultiPaint, loaded into VICE C64

It’s a process, taking many hours to complete. I think I’m improving.

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Mon, 08 Jan 2024 08:28:00 +0100

I fired up my art app and sculpted on a canvas the size of a retro-computer’s text character (8 pixel wide and 8 pixels high). I had to struggle, because the app wanted it to look nicer than it really was.

I suppose you can already guess what it represents. You can do a lot in 64 bits of data 👨‍💻🎨

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 15:35:55 +0100

I would prefer owning a Mac, but I simply can’t rationalize the “Apple tax.” I used to be Mac or Die. A computer is more like a way to access the Internet nowadays, anyway 👨‍💻👾

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 10:20:12 +0100

It’s all very technical, this Commodore 64 multicolor mode. I made a special 2x1 grid in my iPad pixel editor to help me, but still I need to check in an actual multicolor editor if I made a mistake. Anyway, I’m improving as a C64 pixel artist, and that’s very cool 👨‍💻

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 23:04:34 +0100

Since I took the picture myself, I can copy it, I guess.

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 12:11:52 +0100

Creating something colorful that can be displayed on a Commodore 64 by loading and running a file involved a lot of (impossible to automate) creative steps. It took me around 4 hours for this simple drawing of my cat Aziz. 👨‍💻

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 17:46:18 +0100

I found an image editor that is able to draw Commodore 64 multicolor images. It can load PNG images, so I could draw on my iPad and color in this Java app on my Raspberry Pi-400. Yay!

I’m still learning, though. Also found a SID tracker to compose music on the C64, and my musical knowledge is meh.

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 08:46:12 +0100

Based on my previous sketch I made a pixel art version. To me it doesn’t look very convincing, which probably means I have to revise my process.
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Thu, 05 Oct 2023 07:33:26 +0100

I knew Ibispaint on iPad can do pixel art, sort of. However, its pixel brushes give more an impression of pixel art, than actual pixel art, more as an art meme rather than something to be displayed on a cathode ray tube. That isn’t a bad choice, especially since it allows art forms to be mixed.
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SepPixel 2023

Sat, 30 Sep 2023 18:03:48 +0100

For the month of September 2023 micro∙blog organized a photo blogging challenge with daily prompts, and I adopted it for pixel art.
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It was mostly a fun experience. Sometimes I had to try another, less ambitious drawing, on other occasions I accepted a bad drawing for that day. I certainly did a lot of tracing to speed things up.

Sat, 30 Sep 2023 07:26:42 +0100

SepPixel for September 30, 2023, prompt: “Treasure."
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Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:06:35 +0100

SepPixel for September 29, 2023, prompt: “Contrast."
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Thu, 28 Sep 2023 06:43:32 +0100

SepPixel for September 28, 2023, prompt: “Workout."
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Wed, 27 Sep 2023 06:03:58 +0100

SepPixel for September 27, 2023, prompt: “Embrace."
👾 xɐɯ oɹd ϛƖ ǝuoɥdᴉ ʍǝu ɹnoʎ ʎoɾuǝ

Tue, 26 Sep 2023 06:39:06 +0100

SepPixel for September 26, 2023, prompt: “Beverage."
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Mon, 25 Sep 2023 05:40:09 +0100

SepPixel for September 25, 2023, prompt: “Flare."
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Sun, 24 Sep 2023 13:41:52 +0100

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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Sun, 24 Sep 2023 09:16:04 +0100

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

Sat, 23 Sep 2023 16:03:27 +0100

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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Sat, 23 Sep 2023 08:47:39 +0100

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

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 06:27:04 +0100

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

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 06:20:43 +0100

SepPixel for September 21, 2023, prompt: “Fall."
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Wed, 20 Sep 2023 08:10:29 +0100

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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Wed, 20 Sep 2023 07:03:58 +0100

SepPixel for September 20, 2023, prompt: “Disruption."
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Tue, 19 Sep 2023 05:15:32 +0100

SepPixel for September 19, 2023, prompt: “Edge."
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Retrospect: 2023 Reddit Sketch Daily challenge

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 14:36:12 +0100

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.

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 07:38:49 +0100

SepPixel for September 18, 2023, prompt: “Fabric."
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Sun, 17 Sep 2023 08:59:25 +0100

SepPixel for September 17, 2023, prompt: “Intense”
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Sat, 16 Sep 2023 05:58:28 +0100

SepPixel for September 16, 2023, prompt: “Oof!"
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Fri, 15 Sep 2023 08:39:37 +0100

SepPixel for September 15, 2023, prompt: “Red."
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Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:15:00 +0100

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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Thu, 14 Sep 2023 10:00:00 +0100

SepPixel for September 14, 2023, theme: “Statue."
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Wed, 13 Sep 2023 10:00:00 +0100

SepPixel for September 13, 2023, theme: “Glowing."
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Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:06:21 +0100

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

Tue, 12 Sep 2023 10:00:00 +0100

SepPixel for September 12, 2023, theme: “Panic."
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Mon, 11 Sep 2023 07:50:48 +0100

SepPixel for September 11, 2023, theme: “Retrospect.” If books like Animal Farm have taught us anything, it is that civil society is the only way to advance humanity from the notion that being different is a bad thing.
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Sun, 10 Sep 2023 05:58:36 +0100

SepPixel for September 10, 2023, theme: “Cycle”, or perhaps “BiCycle."
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Sat, 09 Sep 2023 07:38:34 +0100

SepPixel for September 9, 2023, theme: “Language."
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Fri, 08 Sep 2023 14:56:35 +0100

SepPixel for September 8, 2023, theme: “Yonder."
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Thu, 07 Sep 2023 14:37:07 +0100

There’s a new set of 7 prompts for the micro∙blog photo blogging challenge for September 2023. There was a request for more prompts, but I failed miserably by suggesting a very negative word. I was never any good at words or writing or narrative. Not for lack of trying, though. There was more than enough of the latter, just too few successful attempts to matter.

Words, how do they even work?

As for my contribution in pixel art… Let’s say it’s a work in progress.
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Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:00:00 +0100

SepPixel for September 7, 2023, theme: “Panorama."
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Wed, 06 Sep 2023 10:00:00 +0100

SepPixel for September 6, 2023, theme: “Well."
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Tue, 05 Sep 2023 10:00:00 +0100

SepPixel for September 5, 2023, theme: “Forest."
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Mon, 04 Sep 2023 08:15:45 +0100

SepPixel for September 4, 2023, theme: “Orange."
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Sun, 03 Sep 2023 08:26:16 +0100

SepPixel for September 3, 2023, theme: “Precious."
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Sat, 02 Sep 2023 10:00:00 +0100

SepPixel for September 2, 2023, theme: “Buildup."
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Fri, 01 Sep 2023 09:56:59 +0100

SepPixel for September 1, 2023, theme: “Abstract."
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Thu, 31 Aug 2023 15:10:21 +0100

Why, as I grow more mature as an artist, am I still shooting for what I can’t possibly reach with my art skills? Anyway, I’m prepping myself for another 30 days of pixel art.

Did you know the art of the original Mac was inspired by Matisse, not Picasso? Both are conceptual, abstract artists.
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Thu, 31 Aug 2023 07:48:24 +0100

Pixel art for Pixel Dailies, theme: “Transporter”, for August 30, 2023 (so, with a day delay). I got all VW Transporters in my image search, so I opted for a vehicle in extreme perspective. Game Boy format (160 x 144 pixels, 4 colors). Drawing time ± 1 hour.
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Tomorrow starts “SepPixel.”

Wed, 30 Aug 2023 14:25:17 +0100

It’s September 0 negative one, and I hope to join the Micro∙blog September 2023 challenge ~~tomorrow~~the day after tomorrow, not with photography, but with pixel art 🙃

I call it “SepPixel.” Let’s see how this one goes…
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Wed, 30 Aug 2023 08:33:29 +0100

Yesterday’s theme on Pixels Dailies was: “Reaction Image.” I did a quick image search to get an idea and then drew from imagination a WTF face. Pixel art 32 x 32 pixels, 4 colors on an 160 x 144 Game Boy canvas. Drawing time: 1u26m. Not posted on Pixel Dailies.
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Tue, 29 Aug 2023 15:32:12 +0100

Pixel art. I made a Game Boy compatible base image (160 x 144 pixels, 4 colors), though with a different color palette (called “Candypop”). I can now easily add the theme and change the date. Though, the date is today 😬 That’s global timezones for you. I’m happy with it ☺️ … Time: 2u22m, oops 😅
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Tue, 29 Aug 2023 09:41:48 +0100

Pixel art at Game Boy resolution (160 x 144, 4 colors), using a different color palette (candy pop). This is me leaning out from art challenges a bit, not going into details too much. Still, drawing time was 2u25m. Not posted on Pixel Dailies.
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Mon, 28 Aug 2023 16:56:09 +0100

For r/SketchDaily. The final pixel art drawing for this streak of 30 days, illustrating the concept of evolution. As always, I reached for the sky, but got a slight hop out of it in reality. Pixel art for Game Boy Advance (240 x 160, 32 colors).
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Mon, 28 Aug 2023 12:13:00 +0100

Taking breaks is important, especially on days you’d rather spend in bed than making pixel art for the last day (for now) on r/SketchDaily.
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Sun, 27 Aug 2023 10:27:16 +0100

For r/SketchDaily. Off-topic: “News headline.” I obviously misread today’s theme, which is: “Not the onion” (alt theme: onion), and pick a weird headline to illustrate. Nah, I stuck with positivity instead. There’s enough downbeat “news” around. India reached the Moon–unlike Russia–in one piece 👏
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Sat, 26 Aug 2023 14:17:32 +0100

I updated my Reddit avatar (was alt theme on August 23, 2023). It’s 144 x144 pixels, 8 colors, which would fit easily on a Game Boy Advance screen. It illustrates my username, Rasheedity. It’s a mashup between the default Reddit alien and a pony I drew earlier this week.
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Sat, 26 Aug 2023 10:32:40 +0100

For r/SketchDaily. Theme: Movie Week Free Draw Finale, where you draw a favorite that wasn’t mentioned. I chose “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, with a twist. Drawing time: 7 hours in several sessions. Pixel art for Game Boy Advance (240 x160 pixels, 32 colors).
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Fri, 25 Aug 2023 13:51:22 +0100

Two days ago I felt I hadn’t the chops to draw a pony in MLP style to illustrate my Reddit username for r/SketchDaily. Today I remedied that omission by doing just that, draw a pony, in glorious 4-colors 160 by 144 pixels Game Boy art.
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Fri, 25 Aug 2023 13:03:03 +0100

For r/SketchDaily. Theme: “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” He’s literally in a frame, together with a Flash animated MyLittlePony, and videogame Mario. Pixel art for Game Boy Advance (240 x 160 pixels, 32 colors). Drawing time: 5u24m.
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Thu, 24 Aug 2023 12:27:57 +0100

For r/SketchDaily. Theme: “The Muppet Christmas Carol.” I didn’t want to blatantly copy an image from the Internet, so I did sloppy environment drawing and then tried to fix it the best I could. Pixel art for Game Boy Advance (240 x 160, 32 colors).

Added a dancer with 🎩
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Wed, 23 Aug 2023 14:20:02 +0100

For r/SketchDaily. Alt Theme Reddit name illustrated. Actually, it was made for r/MLPDrawingSchool, because it was big 11 years ago, “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.” My pony drawing skills have been worsened since.
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Tue, 22 Aug 2023 14:10:23 +0100

For r/SketchDaily, theme Galaxy Quest. Pixel art for Game Boy Advance (240 x 160, 32 colors). I decided to do a mash-up of the logo’s of Galaxy Quest, Star Wars, and Star Trek.
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Mon, 21 Aug 2023 15:31:55 +0100

For r/SketchDaily. Alt theme Donkey Kong. Pixel art Game Boy Advance (240 x 160, 32 colors).
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Mon, 21 Aug 2023 09:39:36 +0100

Studying shadow on a ball in pixel art. This isn’t easy, and probably full of mistakes.
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Sun, 20 Aug 2023 17:17:54 +0100

Pixel art for r/SketchDaily. Alt theme Olympics. Game Boy Advance pixel art (240 x 160, 32 colors).
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Sat, 19 Aug 2023 14:05:00 +0100

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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Sat, 19 Aug 2023 08:36:25 +0100

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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Fri, 18 Aug 2023 18:46:32 +0100

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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Fri, 18 Aug 2023 14:46:10 +0100

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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Fri, 18 Aug 2023 07:57:07 +0100

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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Thu, 17 Aug 2023 15:03:11 +0100

🤣 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.

In other news, I seem to have misplaced my bottle of alien gummi juice.
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Thu, 17 Aug 2023 10:10:07 +0100

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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Wed, 16 Aug 2023 17:06:30 +0100

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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Wed, 16 Aug 2023 14:49:40 +0100

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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Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:14:24 +0100

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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Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:12:51 +0100

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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Mon, 14 Aug 2023 10:45:11 +0100

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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Sun, 13 Aug 2023 13:44:39 +0100

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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Sun, 13 Aug 2023 10:14:36 +0100

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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Sat, 12 Aug 2023 17:34:26 +0100

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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Sat, 12 Aug 2023 12:26:10 +0100

What was I thinking? Work in Progress…
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Thu, 10 Aug 2023 10:23:23 +0100

My new Reddit avatar is based on the official avatar, upgraded into cute pixel art.
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Thu, 10 Aug 2023 10:03:00 +0100

Today’s theme for r/SketchDaily is Regatta. A search revealed Regatta is an outdoor fashion brand, so I went with that, instead of a boat race. Game Boy pixel artwork (160 by 144 pixels, 4 colors). Drawing time: 2u48m.
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Wed, 09 Aug 2023 13:03:32 +0100

r/SketchDaily alt theme was Gudetama. Small pixel art drawing of this Japanese cartoon character on a Game Boy Advance canvas and a 16-colors palette.
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Tue, 08 Aug 2023 16:59:24 +0100

As most of you may know, the only way to learn something is to commit to it, be it cats, iOS betas, or pixel art. I’m liking my experience with r/SketchDaily, though I realize many of the art subreddits are dead (sometimes no posts since over 3 years). I guess those have gone to Facebook.
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Tue, 08 Aug 2023 10:07:54 +0100

For r/SketchDaily, theme Bump in the Night. Didn’t have much time, so I shrunk it down to 32 by 32 pixels, on my Game Boy compatible canvas (160 x 144 pixels, 4 colors). Drawing time: 1u18m, using Pixaki on 9th gen iPad. I didn’t copy the reference slavishly—it doesn’t work at such a small scale.
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Mon, 07 Aug 2023 16:19:17 +0100

Today’s drawing for r/SketchDaily, theme Moody. Wednesday Addams in front of a decrepit cottage. Reference was heavily used to speed up drawing. Pixel art Game Boy Advance (160 x 140 pixels, 10 colors). Drawing time 3u48m.
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Sun, 06 Aug 2023 10:09:00 +0100

Today’s theme for r/SketchDaily was The Cycle* of Life. I interpreted today’s theme as “young artist” and “mature artist.” Game Boy Advance pixel art 240 x 160, 9 colors. Drawing time 2u58m.
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*Actually, the title was The Circle of Life.

Sat, 05 Aug 2023 14:54:44 +0100

For r/SketchDaily, theme Dusty Old Books. Game Boy Advance pixel art (240 x 160, 11 colors). Titles from a Good Reads list tagged “dusty books.”

Animal Farm, by George Orwell

The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins

The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien

Lord of the Rings; Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling

The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern

Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

1984, by George Orwell

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

Lord of the Flies, by William Golding

Drawing time: 5h02' in 2 sessions.
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Thu, 03 Aug 2023 10:39:15 +0100

My daily creations for r/SketchDaily were becoming ridiculously long-winded. Art engagement ≠ art skill. Likes can soon develop into a soul-sucking experience on social media sites. So I simplified. 6 is often enough for one’s art volume. I rather reserve my 11s for special occasions.
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Wed, 02 Aug 2023 15:39:22 +0100

For r/SketchDaily: Puddy Cat and Pepe Le Pew as Romeo and Juliet in disguise. Game Boy pixel art 160 x 144 pixels, 4 colors. Animation frame used as a loose reference.

I am ze locksmith of love, no?

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Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:44:44 +0100

Finishing up the sandwiches wasn’t really that big of a deal. I suppose that’s my subconscious at work. Still, I worked 7 hours on it in 3 sessions over roughly 17 hours. That’s 10 hours of subconscious internal deliberation. IOW, I slept over my art piece. Next time a bit less intensive, please!
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Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:52:42 +0100

I drew the microscope from reference (no tracing) and the enlargement of the slide from imagination. I’m particularly proud of the 16 by 16 texture tile made more or less seamless. The microscope and its light and shadows are excellent too, for my usual execution of such objects.
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Sun, 30 Jul 2023 15:41:23 +0100

Instead of running a 26 km long run, I decided to do another sketch for r/SketchDaily. I was feeling somewhat tired and thought it wise to not overreach. The evildoer has won, I guess.
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Sun, 30 Jul 2023 08:16:33 +0100

Despite Reddit being on the fritz, there are still active communities. We artists need challenges to improve, or to just maintain our skill level, even if it means to do the unthinkable (read: surf Reddit with a web browser).
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Sat, 29 Jul 2023 13:21:31 +0100

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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Sat, 29 Jul 2023 09:56:06 +0100

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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Fri, 28 Jul 2023 11:08:26 +0100

Pixel art portrait from a photo.

The dithering looks wonky, but that’s just inexperience on my part. I need more practice on the drawing fundamentals, specifically for pixel art. Still, it’s the best I could do in a 24 hour period since my previous sketch. So I’m happy 😊
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Thu, 27 Jul 2023 08:52:48 +0100

I wonder… If there would’ve been a descent sketching app on the GameBoy, would I’ve been able to sketch like this? Ah well, it’s a challenge nonetheless, and I hope to get “good” enough to post on there. I’m competing with 4-color pixel art against pencil and paper, after all.
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Wed, 26 Jul 2023 21:19:02 +0100

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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Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:15:48 +0100

An attempt at isometric perspective and texture tiling in pixel art. This doesn’t come easy, and requires more practice than a day, obviously.
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Tue, 25 Jul 2023 13:56:46 +0100

MapCrunch.com pixel art shrunken to a tiny scale and only five colors.
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Tue, 25 Jul 2023 09:55:28 +0100

Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall…
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Mon, 24 Jul 2023 15:12:54 +0100

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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Mon, 24 Jul 2023 07:44:39 +0100

After more of the tutorial, it’s clear to me that to keep the art interesting, you need to be inventive in every piece, much like in engineering. This is also the case with traditional art, but far less so. Ever pixel piece is practice to learn new techniques, try out new ideas.
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Sun, 23 Jul 2023 09:53:37 +0100

Self-portrait.
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Sat, 22 Jul 2023 14:41:39 +0100

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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Sat, 22 Jul 2023 09:47:42 +0100

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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Fri, 21 Jul 2023 15:01:36 +0100

Call me ignorant for never having heard of Robert Henri before @thatkruegergirl mentioned him in a quote.
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Fri, 21 Jul 2023 09:08:11 +0100

There couldn’t be more opposite movies in cinemas, while two strikes are going on in Hollywood over streaming residuals and a ban on AI script writing. It all is in our heads, in our heads.
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Thu, 20 Jul 2023 08:48:07 +0100

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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Wed, 19 Jul 2023 08:58:10 +0100

For some a promise is just a bunch of words to keep the masses busy with their silly expectations.
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Tue, 18 Jul 2023 07:06:11 +0100

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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Mon, 17 Jul 2023 16:30:14 +0100

Good gracious me, it’s more like 60 minutes than 60 seconds. I have no idea how artists are able to draw so fast. I get lost in details as soon as I pick up a stylus to draw, and forget about any time limit.
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Mon, 17 Jul 2023 08:30:00 +0100

The idea was quick sketches of one minute to speed up my drawing. I failed on the first one, which was more like 30 minutes. Ah well, still 11 to go…
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Sun, 16 Jul 2023 12:54:55 +0100

I suppose I need to practice a lot a lot to even approach the level of a videogame character designer. I comfort myself by stating that, from now on, it only can get better, right?
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Sun, 16 Jul 2023 09:22:09 +0100

I clearly lack the skill and experience of the artists of Street Fighter Alpha, which I need to complete my weekend project 😅 I’m smelling a big F here…
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Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:14:01 +0100

This work in progress shows I have still a lot to learn. How in tarnation did they draw these game characters? My guess is that this piece of mine will land in the 🗑️ soon enough 😔 Back to the 🎬 I mean.
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Sat, 15 Jul 2023 08:22:12 +0100

Planning my ambitious weekend project of sideline commentary on bulbous sacrilegious smrq* between tech silo ceos.
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*: shameless male raging quibble

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 09:13:57 +0100

I’m trying to draw smaller than 32 by 32, which should teach me to make every pixel have at least one function, as well how to make clumps of pixels be something that can be interpreted through imagination. I still have a long way to go.
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Thu, 13 Jul 2023 10:05:23 +0100

While trying to improve it’s disheartening that the artist lacks an overview of their progress, since they go from artwork to artwork, never seeing a breakthrough, nor an overnight success. What remains is the joy of drawing. Of course, that can easily be had without intent of getting better at it.
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Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:48:57 +0100

Pixeling on a 32 by 32 pixel canvas is getting easier with every next attempt. Of course, the movie Terminator (1984) has already an 80s look to it, and a 2D platformer on a game console would not surprise me.
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Tue, 11 Jul 2023 07:43:03 +0100

It is said that good artists draw everything. So I drew a bike on a 32 by 32 pixel canvas using a limited color palette. Of course, I used a reference.
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Mon, 10 Jul 2023 15:48:57 +0100

I suppose when taking symbolism too seriously it turns into stereotyping. Here I combined some of the state symbols of Texas ⭐️ into a 16 by 16 pixel character.
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Mon, 10 Jul 2023 08:33:38 +0100

I used a photo reference I took myself of my cat Aziz and tried to recreate a somewhat realistic piece in pixel art on a 32 by 32 canvas. The light is coming from the left and the cat is grounded by a shadow. I’m happy I could capture his cautious nature.
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Fri, 07 Jul 2023 15:53:18 +0100

I don’t put myself above tracing to better understand what I’m drawing. It’s a shortcut used by artists since the invention of the camera obscura, and known to be popular around the second half of the 16th century. It’s like with cheat sheets in school; not needed if you’ve written enough of them.
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Fri, 07 Jul 2023 07:28:55 +0100

Not caring so much about the final result doesn’t always bring greatness, but it brings results which may turn out to be great, or at least descent. Art is as much about the making as it is about showing what you made. Artists, great or not, ship.
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Thu, 06 Jul 2023 09:10:18 +0100

I remember The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as a great spy series from the early 1960’s, starring Robert Vaughn and David McCallum as American Napoleon Solo and Russian Illya Kuryakin. So I drew Solo in pixel art from reference. I haven’t seen it in ages, so I don’t know if it holds up to today’s standards.
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Wed, 05 Jul 2023 14:40:35 +0100

It is sometimes said that practice makes perfect, but a better saying is that practice brings improvement. This is even without a conscience effort—i.e. an art self-critique—to improve. In pixel art readability is always an issue, as with any stylized art. It often relies on shape and contrast.
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Tue, 04 Jul 2023 07:25:13 +0100

The funny thing is how much you need to compromise your art to keep a likeness if your canvas is only 32 by 32 pixels. Still, it IS possible to cram a whole scene into it, if you put your mind to it and squint a lot. I’ll be so happy once I’m able to do that.
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Mon, 03 Jul 2023 07:44:12 +0100

Another pixel portrait, building on some of the art fundamentals I refreshed recently, and really need to do more of to continue. Still using the 16 bit art nouveau palette, which I like a lot. More in the alt description.
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Sun, 02 Jul 2023 16:35:44 +0100

This is still a crude study of a master painting by a 19th century animal painter under the pseudonym “Raphael Olaria”, which I partially painted over with pixel art (256 x 173) on my iPad with a limited color palette called “16 color art nouveau."
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Sun, 02 Jul 2023 07:35:50 +0100

I suppose one has to start somewhere. My animal drawing is still lacking, especially of those long-haired breeds. Still, I gave it my best attempt. Maybe I need to study some master paintings.
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Sat, 01 Jul 2023 14:46:29 +0100

This one of 32 by 32 pixels took me several hours and two iterations to complete.
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Sat, 01 Jul 2023 07:14:20 +0100

More creativity, I suppose?
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Fri, 30 Jun 2023 08:54:10 +0100

I suppose it’s good to try being creative…
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Mon, 05 Dec 2022 08:26:01 +0100

Seat

The red and blue chair, designed by Gerrit Rietveld between 1919 and 1922. It was an attempt to make good minimalist furniture available to the masses. It was priced in 1923 at ƒ15 (± €126 nowadays). Professionally made replicas retail for €1500 and up.
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Mon, 26 Sep 2022 12:37:35 +0100

Silly idea in pixel art 🎨 for a Strava profile pic. I won’t be using it, though.
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Aside from the clear spelling error.

Sat, 10 Sep 2022 07:33:46 +0100

More experimenting. I made a frame of 120 x 108 mm on paper in my notebook and sketched a fox from a photo reference with ballpoint pen. Next I scanned it and tried to create a pixel art outline, which I filled with flat colors. 🎨 It’s too many steps to feel “easy to do."
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Fri, 09 Sep 2022 15:23:41 +0100

So perhaps I should do some urban sketching with a notebook and a pen. Here’s two sketches of my two Bengal cats in low-low resolution (16x16) 🎨🐱Perhaps the resolution should be more like 64x64 pixels for better recognizability, or even higher, 160x144. So more experiments…
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Fri, 09 Sep 2022 14:01:56 +0100

So swordtember turned out to be a big failure. It seems I’m really bad at routine and habit forming. Nevertheless, I turned to Reddit gets Drawn, and drew this woman 🎨 No idea if I can keep this up. I haven’t posted it on Reddit, because I don’t like it myself, so why would she?
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Mon, 05 Sep 2022 09:47:04 +0100

This month I’m doing swordtember. Number 1 is the longsword, done as pixel art
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Mon, 05 Sep 2022 08:26:44 +0100

I like the design esthetics of this pixel art drawing I made in August. After being burnt out from self-challenges earlier this year, maybe I should pick up my Apple Pencil again, and join one of the many online suggestions for artistic self-challenges, only more selective this time. If a criterium (draw every day) becomes a target, it loses its usefulness
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Wed, 18 May 2022 08:04:45 +0100

Another reason for me to avoid challenges, or, at least, put a strict limit on the number of challenges. I can really break down mentally. Ah well, we do what we can, don’t we? I’m happy I caught it and acted appropriately. No more challenges for a couple of months for me.
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Wed, 11 May 2022 12:27:42 +0100

Micro∙blog May challenge day 11, “maroon.” Marooned with a tricylce on a maroon colored brick wall.
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Tue, 10 May 2022 11:57:24 +0100

Pixel Dailies for 8 May 2022 was a quicky, because I was behind. The theme was “organic.” Playing organ with fruit in my mind.
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Tue, 10 May 2022 07:23:25 +0100

Micro∙blog May challenge, day 10, “pot.” As usual, words have different meanings, be it a jar or a herb.
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Mon, 09 May 2022 12:42:37 +0100

Day 9 of micro∙blog May challenge #mbm, “bloom.” I have added two kinds of “bloom.” The third is made of iron.
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Sun, 08 May 2022 07:10:57 +0100

Today’s prompt for Pixel Dailies was “clock.” I chose a water clock, the most ancient version of a timepiece, assumably, as an artifact over 6000 years old.
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Sat, 07 May 2022 11:44:00 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies task was to “pixel a set of units for a Tower Defense game.” I had to look that up, because I had no clue of what was meant, and now I do, nor what I was supposed to draw.
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Sat, 07 May 2022 07:54:21 +0100

Today’s prompt for the micro∙blog May challenge #mbm was “park.” I recently visited the chapel dedicated to Saint Gertrude of Nivelles, and added some pixel art.
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Fri, 06 May 2022 08:19:00 +0100

Pixel art. Today’s Pixel Dailies theme was “mario64.” I had this complicated fake 3D walk cycle in mind, when I remembered the slogan “think big, draw small.” This usually works when in time constraint.
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Thu, 05 May 2022 23:12:21 +0100

Pixel art 🚧 What have I set myself up to for the Pixel Dailies challenge? This may take more hours than there are in a single day.
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Thu, 05 May 2022 10:51:00 +0100

Today’s micro∙blog May challenge was “earth.” I tried to imagine how Shovel Knight would do a workout in his free time. He moves earth… with a shovel.
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Thu, 05 May 2022 07:20:03 +0100

The theme for today’s Pixel Dailies was “split.” I loosely based my drawing on the James Bond character Oddjob.
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Wed, 04 May 2022 11:05:00 +0100

The fourth day of the micro∙blog May challenge was hard, because I had too many solutions. People afraid of burglars can get in a thorny situation when people cutting their hands in a nightly climbing exercise sue the owners for damages, like cuts.
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Tue, 03 May 2022 16:24:04 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies theme was isolated, and I chose Worf’s discommendation (from Star Trek NG s03e17 “Sins of the Father."
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Tue, 03 May 2022 07:52:00 +0100

Micro∙blog May challenge, day 3, prompt “experimental.” This is an experimental flying carpet, clearly.
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Mon, 02 May 2022 17:56:00 +0100

My entry for the MB May challenge, day 1, prompt “switch.” The switch is connected to the lamp in the pixel drawing. #mbmay
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Mon, 02 May 2022 16:22:20 +0100

Pixel art. Today’s Pixel Dailies theme was “Treasure Hunter.”
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Sun, 01 May 2022 16:56:57 +0100

Pixel Dailies for 1 May 2022, theme “Treasure Guardian."
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Pixel Dailies for the month of April 2022

Sat, 30 Apr 2022 19:05:56 +0100

I titled this month April Fool’s Month, to extend the first day of April to a whole month of pranks and fun. It was also the month Elon Musk tried to buy Twitter, with the premise that “free speech” would be his overall theme for changing the social media service.

Like so many with me, I’ve weaned myself from Twitter (and Facebook). The only exceptions for me are the Pixel_Dailies account, and daily theme bot PD_Theme. Those accounts kept me there for my daily pixel art prompt. My reasoning was that if I want to improve my pixel art, I should do it more often. Spending many hours every day on pushing pixels in the Pixaki app on my regular (non-pro) iPad would certainly do that!

Judging from the 30 pixel art drawings below, I think I reached a next skill level. More importantly, I kept at it. All too often with previous challenges I gave up, didn’t take it seriously anymore, because that it the easy way to deal with a challenge. In the past month I regularly had to give myself a talking to motivate myself to pick up the iPad and start drawing.

If Twitter eventually changes into a place I no longer can identify with, there are other avenues for art prompts, specifically for pixel art. And if even that wouldn’t work, I can always go back to drawing with a pencil on paper.

Now I’ve tasted a modicum of success, I want more!

I also discovered why artists keep their intermediate steps to themselves. It spoils the surprise. Presentation is an important part of enjoying art, so the artist needs to make it as impactful as possible. I certainly am a novice when it comes to presenting my art.

Then there’s learning the tricks of the trade, art as a skill, instead of a vision. As usual, there are many approaches, and not every approach suits every artist. However, the human vision system is as it is, and using it to the artist’s advantage is a basic ability every artist worth their efforts should apply to their art.

Pixel art is limited by its small size, so placing pixels of the correct color in a meaningful pattern is rather important, if not crucial to the art form. It makes it highly suggestive and imaginative, and that is especially why it appeals to me. The tedium of likeness of more traditional art can bore the art maker so that they try to find stylistic shortcuts to avoid it, leaving out details the eye expects and can infer from what’s already there. Room for interpretation by the beholder is as old as the cave paintings of the Stone Age. Pixel art is no different in that respect. Still, there’s a lot to learn here for me.

There are certainly art styles, personal and cultural preferences of how to implement an artistic vision, as I discovered, but I haven’t scratched the surface on those either. Since I couldn’t find much publicly available in writing about pixel art style specifically, I guess I have to use insights of art teachers and critics in other art disciplines. There certainly are lesson plans available, but those are mostly restricted to a (local) educational system behind a paywall.

As is often claimed by experienced artists: “Art as a field is both wide and deep.” Even veterans in pixel art keep learning new things, improving their skills. It’s impossible to know everything and no longer improve as an artist.

Ah, there’s no end to this, bliss!
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Sat, 30 Apr 2022 16:52:00 +0100

Pixel art animation for the final day of April Fool’s Month 2022, using Pixel Dailies and the theme “Loop.” I could’ve gone allout, but decided to apply “think big, draw small."
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Sat, 30 Apr 2022 08:55:06 +0100

Pixel art 🚧 It’s the ultimate day of April Fool’s Month. I was inspired to draw one of the Terminators in the border. Will it be a dystopian future of abandonment, or will I start a new chapter in my artistic journey? Only time will tell…
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Fri, 29 Apr 2022 16:28:00 +0100

Pixel art for Pixel Dailies on the penultimate day of April Fool’s Month, themed “paperweight.” I searched for Ghibli cat and got among others a plushy, which I used as reference.
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Thu, 28 Apr 2022 20:20:40 +0100

Pixel art for Pixel Dailies on the 28th day of April Fool’s Month, using the theme “dive.” I went for a cartoon duck diving into a swimming pool, because silliness? Anyway, loads of fun making this one .
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Wed, 27 Apr 2022 18:23:00 +0100

Pixel art. Today is the 27th day of April Fool’s Month and the Pixel Dailies theme was “skewer.” It’s Kuroko Shirai from the Anime series “A Certain Scientific Railgun”, a 13 year old level 4 teleport master, who can teleport those spikes into baddies.
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Wed, 27 Apr 2022 12:22:51 +0100

I don’t yet know what today’s theme will be for Pixel Dailies. I do know that day 27 of April Fool’s Month is Kingsday here in the Netherlands, or, as we call it: “Koningsdag.” It’s one of those oddities in a parliamentary monarchy.
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Tue, 26 Apr 2022 15:47:03 +0100

Pixel art animation. On the 26th day of April Fool’s Month the Pixel Dailies theme was “phonebooth.” It immediately reminded me of the S-guy.
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Tue, 26 Apr 2022 07:06:57 +0100

Pixel art. I suppose an abandonned family pet best illustrated today’s Pixel Dailies theme “bleak."
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Mon, 25 Apr 2022 10:05:16 +0100

Pixel art. I spent too much time on this piece. One thing I learned is that lettering in perspective is hard and the result rather disappointing. I suppose it’s best to avoid it, whenever possible.
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Sun, 24 Apr 2022 15:13:06 +0100

Pixel art. The 24th day of April Fool’s Month had a Pixel Dailies theme “table.” I tried to make it a fancy table in isometric perspective.
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Sat, 23 Apr 2022 17:59:32 +0100

Pixel art. On day 23 of April Fool’s Month the Pixel Dailies theme was “sea food.” I interpreted as “sea banquet”, which is a kind of chocolate delicatessen in the shapes of stylized sea creatures.
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Sat, 23 Apr 2022 08:43:20 +0100

Pixel art. I made this piece to practice design and lettering, both subjects that need practicing a lot in my case (I’m weak in these). My inspiration were the Viking myths. FYI, horned helmets on warriors were never a thing in reality, nor would they’ve been practical.
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Fri, 22 Apr 2022 16:28:00 +0100

Pixel art. Today’s Pixel Dailies theme was “garnish.” I combined it with the feisty Evanlyn from John Fanagan’s The Ranger’s Apprentice medieval fantasy series.
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Fri, 22 Apr 2022 11:42:34 +0100

Pixel art. I made a black and white drawing with Grafx2 on my Raspberry Pi 400, using a mouse. I refined it on my iPad using Pixaki, and created a simple (though crude) animation.
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Thu, 21 Apr 2022 15:47:36 +0100

Pixel art. The Pixel Dailies theme for day 21 of April Fool’s Month is “prize”, which I interpreted as a token for a final position in a competition (in this case, first place).
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Thu, 21 Apr 2022 06:18:49 +0100

Pixel art. For the 20th day of April Fool’s Month the Pixel Dailies theme was “Healing Item.” I’m pretty sure this is a fantasy videogame thing, so I went for a more mundane solution, a band-aid.
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Tue, 19 Apr 2022 21:59:00 +0100

Pixel art for the 19th day of April Fool’s Month. I suppose this piece got “shatnered.” It’s today’s theme of Pixel Dailies, “shattered” which I basterdized with some James T. Kirk.
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Mon, 18 Apr 2022 18:59:17 +0100

Pixel art. Today’s theme of Pixel Dailies was “Heavy Machinery.” This truck came out of my youthful imagination.
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Sun, 17 Apr 2022 19:42:00 +0100

Pixel art. On the 17th day of April Fool’s Month the Pixel Dailies theme was “Isometric Room.” You can shift around furniture without bothering about redrawing perspective 🪑🖥👨‍🎨🎨

PS The next morning I redrew part of the room, fixing mistakes I made.
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Sat, 16 Apr 2022 19:58:58 +0100

Pixel art on the 16th day of April Fool’s Month for Pixel Dailies. Today’s theme was “elephant."
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Fri, 15 Apr 2022 15:55:39 +0100

Pixel art for Pixel Dailies. First person perspective is hard, because we know it so well, we see any and every flaw, especially if it’s with hands.
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Fri, 15 Apr 2022 12:54:02 +0100

Pixel art 🚧 My cat was sleeping, so I tried to use his shape for my pixel drawing. Now waiting for Pixel Dailies at the halfway point of April Fool’s Month.
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Thu, 14 Apr 2022 18:57:34 +0100

Pixel art. Today’s Pixel Dailies theme was “hair accessory.” I simply drew closely to the photo reference, though not copying, rather re-interpreting the photo.
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Thu, 14 Apr 2022 09:20:00 +0100

Pixel art 🚧 As a warmup for day 14 of April Fool’s Month, featuring Pixel Dailies, I’m following a YT tutorial on a stylized aquatic bird man. I got as far as these two guides.
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Wed, 13 Apr 2022 19:26:35 +0100

Pixel art. Today’s Pixel Dailies theme was “exploded view.” I made an animation of a running shoe in such a view.
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Wed, 13 Apr 2022 10:38:12 +0100

Pixel art animation. Practicing sub-pixel animation with a 32x32 pixels canvas. It’s supposed to illustrate “storm.” It all started with the umbrella. Don’t many story ideas do? Umbrellas are magical story devices, protecting us from the elements and possible assailants.
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Tue, 12 Apr 2022 14:15:39 +0100

Pixel art for Pixel Dailies, theme “trash.” I threw in two half-eaten apples, some crumpled up paper, a soda can, an Oscar statue, and some indistinguishable bits.
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Tue, 12 Apr 2022 12:00:30 +0100

Pixel art 🚧 I searched for llama and tried to sketch one in pixels without tracing 🦙 Now waiting for today’s Pixel Dailies theme.
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Tue, 12 Apr 2022 08:18:47 +0100

Practicing pixel art animation.
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Mon, 11 Apr 2022 16:09:16 +0100

Pixel art for today’s Pixel Dailies in April Fool’s Month. The theme was “pirate”.
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Mon, 11 Apr 2022 08:35:17 +0100

Pixel art 🚧 Grasping at straws for ideas on the 11th day of April Fool’s Month is bringing out the honking 🤡 stereotypes. Practicing for Pixel Dailies, later today.
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Sun, 10 Apr 2022 17:06:00 +0100

Pixel art. Wow, this was rather complicated to make! Today’s Pixel Dailies theme was “puzzle.” I made a solvable jigsaw puzzle of Qbert
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Sun, 10 Apr 2022 13:40:01 +0100

Pixel art 🚧 I suppose I drew a horse-drawn “mobile home,” aka gipsy caravan.
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Sun, 10 Apr 2022 08:58:00 +0100

Pixel art. Now I’ve included the description of the Pixel Dailies theme daily in every piece for some time, I suppose it’s time to develop my own (more readable) pixel font. I had an impromptu font, but it wasn’t all that good. This one is—or seems to be—a lot better.
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Sat, 09 Apr 2022 17:18:08 +0100

Pixel art for Pixel Dailies, theme “rainbow tree.” I never heard before of an Eucalyptus deglupta, aka rainbow tree.
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Sat, 09 Apr 2022 13:40:00 +0100

Pixel art 🚧 Today’s practice piece is probably again more elaborate than the actual Pixel Dailies piece. This one is based on Vicky the Viking.
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Sat, 09 Apr 2022 08:54:00 +0100

Pixel art. There’s a lot to know 🙇‍♂️ about lines—curves in general—in this art form, as it is a basic component of drawing and drafting, and the separation the human vision system perceives between differently colored blocks. Smoothing is done selectively with anti-aliasing.
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Fri, 08 Apr 2022 20:13:00 +0100

Pixel art. Today’s Pixel Dailies theme was rather late (hence I had to rush it), and called “cute but deadly.” I opted for a cute knife with a curly pink heft.
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Fri, 08 Apr 2022 17:27:26 +0100

While waiting for the new Pixel Dailies theme, I explored the magic of bitmapped text, as applied to pixel art. I wrote in Adobe Fresco, posterized to 5 levels, then pixeled the letters pixel-by-pixel, with imagination. It hasn’t received anti-aliasing, which is tricky.
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Fri, 08 Apr 2022 13:04:51 +0100

Pixel art. I refined the previous drawing, and made it into a funny statement. It’s a non-serious 😉 Star Wars/Trek 🌌🖖 crossover. I find it curious how publishing makes me see any flaws I didn’t notice beforehand.
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Fri, 08 Apr 2022 10:54:50 +0100

Pixel art 🚧 So this is my practice piece for today, being the 8th day of April Fool’s Month. It’s called “Obi-Wan 💩🪐” It was a lot of running around, but I’m still pleased with it, in a funny way.
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Fri, 08 Apr 2022 09:14:48 +0100

Pixel art 👾🚧 On the 8th day of April Fool’s Month I chose Obi-Wan to be my only hope 🌌 It’s not finished, but the head is. I didn’t trace, which explains why it took 2.5 hours to draw it. It’s drawn in Pixaki, an iPad app.
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Thu, 07 Apr 2022 20:10:09 +0100

Pixel art. Today’s Pixel Dailies theme was “robes.” I know little of clothing, so this was an impossible challenge for me. Ah well.
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Thu, 07 Apr 2022 09:43:34 +0100

Pixel art 👾🚧 Intuitively, both Idefix and Apple’s quote seemed appropriate for the 7th day of April Fool’s Month. BTW, I’m still waiting for today’s Pixel Dailies theme.
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Wed, 06 Apr 2022 15:13:41 +0100

Pixel art. Today’s Pixel Dailies theme was “tower.” The restriction of exact dimensions didn’t feel restrictive, so I added animation in the 20x60 pixels frame.
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Wed, 06 Apr 2022 09:48:00 +0100

Pixel art WIP 👾 🚧 On the 6th day of April 🤡 Fool’s month, I’m sure the Pixel Dailies art prompt will be challenging and grand.
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Tue, 05 Apr 2022 17:43:08 +0100

Pixel art. Today’s theme of Pixel Dailies was “embankment.” I kept it simple.
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Tue, 05 Apr 2022 10:59:00 +0100

Pixel art 🚧 Continuing April Fool’s Dayish silliness. Not knowing what today’s PD theme will be is perhaps twice as fun as knowing.
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I don't like likes

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 08:35:00 +0100

I’m still present on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, but I don’t frequent those places anymore, for various reasons. One common reason is that they use public bookmarks, also known as “likes.” Because of the glyph (heart or thumbs up), people seem to equate this feature to a token of appreciation, or even approval. While this is great for the platform owner (read: user engagement and stickiness of the platform), and the giver of said tokens (positive social interaction and a feeling of accomplishment), for the receiver these tokens are rather impersonal and meaningless.

At the moment, I’m trying to improve my skills on pixel art. Unlike traditional art, there doesn’t seem to exist a formal education for this art form (some even don’t consider it art, but that’s another story). So most pixel artists are self-taught, which is totally fine. However, artists need feedback about their art, which they can get from other artists, by example. By studying other artists you can learn a lot about the art in general, technique, subject matter, etc.

So I joined Pixel Dailies on Twitter. This is a daily art prompt (called a theme) for pixel art. You can post your attempt on Twitter with a hashtag #pixel_dailies So I did, for more than a month. I noticed some (slow) change in my behavior. I kept looking for statistics, specifically how many likes each piece got. I didn’t look at other artists' pieces, just at how many likes my piece got. I suppose this is how Twitter tries to draw people in, by an obsession over empty social interaction.

So I stopped, cold turkey. This wasn’t helping me at all. Now I need to wean myself (again) of an addiction to likes.

Likes are, in my opinion, meaningless and hollow because of lack of context. Likes can be out of pity or even habit. They can be a sign of approval, and withholding likes can be seen as a micro-critique. I just don’t know, unless the like goes with a comment. The only comments I got were similar to like your work. While this is encouraging, sweet and polite, no word about what specifically they liked about my work and what they possibly didn’t like, so I could possibly focus on that next time, if I agreed.

The problem, of course, is that people feel tongue-tied because all conversation on Twitter is in public. All too often a gentle back-and-forth between two people is spoiled by bystanders (and bots) who use it to create a debate, or—hopefully in their thinking—drama, as to relieve boredom (supposedly, because I don’t know them and their circumstances either). So hitting the “like” button is safer for everyone, but, because it’s rather meaningless in low specificity, the effect is the opposite from what the sender might expect. It annoys the artist, specifically this artist.

Perhaps I’m expecting too much from places like Twitter. Twitter isn’t an artists' community, of course, but rather a hen house, a place where like-minded people seek confirmation of their thoughts and ideas, or act out their petty behavior towards fellow humans.

Anyway, this piece of text was about likes, and how I came to experience that I don’t like them. If you don’t want to interact with specifics, only through empty tokens, why interact at all, aside from addiction to likes?

Likes on social networks, in my experience, are a bug, not a feature.

I’ll keep using Twitter for the daily art prompt, and look at other artists' art, but I’m no longer posting pixel art that is taxing my artistic skills. Sure, once I’ve established myself, I might again use Twitter to interact with art lovers. However, that’s far into the future. Right now I need to focus on my skills and how to improve them. Spending hours on Twitter isn’t going to accomplish that, I’m afraid..
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Mon, 04 Apr 2022 18:52:34 +0100

Pixel art. Today’s Pixel Dailies theme was “wild”, which I interpreted as a “wild man”, reaching from my wild imagination.
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Mon, 04 Apr 2022 09:01:00 +0100

Pixel art 🚧 While waiting for today’s PD theme, I sketched Robot Archie. I always thought of him (it?) as a modern day knight, with a remote.
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Sun, 03 Apr 2022 20:31:06 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies pixel art theme was Castle In The Sky, or Laputa. I based it on the original, by Jonathan Swift, not the adaptation by Studio Ghibli.
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Sun, 03 Apr 2022 07:57:21 +0100

Pixel art 🚧 The PD theme has yet to be announced, so I can better be squarely 🧽 ready for third 🤡 April Fool’s day.
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Sat, 02 Apr 2022 16:59:49 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies pixel art theme on second April’s Fools day was 🦇🤦‍♂️ Batman 🤔 but which one, the one bitten by a ☢️🕷radioactive spider, perhaps?
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Sat, 02 Apr 2022 08:18:54 +0100

Pixel art practicing anti-aliasing. Based on the ebook I bought recently.
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Fri, 01 Apr 2022 21:12:58 +0100

Pixel art for Pixel Dailies, which seemed like a joke theme. I took it seriously, though.
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Fri, 01 Apr 2022 18:10:51 +0100

Pixel art 🚧 I guess PD is pulling our legs with this theme on the day after March 31.
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Fri, 01 Apr 2022 12:26:00 +0100

Trying to apply my new knowledge to pixel art.
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Thu, 31 Mar 2022 17:19:00 +0100

Pixel art. Before I looked it up, I had no idea what today’s Pixel Dailies theme warp pad was.
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Thu, 31 Mar 2022 07:27:32 +0100

Animating still pixel art is certainly the next level up, which I have yet to reach. All the elements are there, just not the execution. Creating strong key poses is a big leap, in between poses probably even more so.
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Wed, 30 Mar 2022 17:02:33 +0100

Today’s (second) pixel art theme of Pixel Dailies is shopping mall, a place I prefer to avoid whenever possible.
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Wed, 30 Mar 2022 07:41:28 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies pixel art theme was “seal.” I chose the cuter meaning of that word.
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Tue, 29 Mar 2022 12:24:47 +0100

Pixel art. The stay-at-home sea pirate needed a lot more than a hat. I’m putting this project on hold, for it’s too complicated for a quick fix.
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Tue, 29 Mar 2022 11:04:00 +0100

Pixel art. Testing my new Twitter avatar, inspired by the old stay-at-home sea pirate. I think he still needs a hat worthy of a captain.
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Mon, 28 Mar 2022 19:57:45 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies pixel art theme was all about the bird’s eye view perspective. Lots of new things I had to invent here.
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Sun, 27 Mar 2022 19:19:50 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies pixel art theme “construction” I interpreted as repair work, which I assume is a kind of construction, although sometimes it feels more like wrecking, especially how I do my repairs (badly).
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PS Notice my totally Freudian artist’s slip of two left hands.

Sun, 27 Mar 2022 09:37:45 +0100

Pixel art animation at only 24x24 pixels.
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Sat, 26 Mar 2022 18:41:00 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies pixel art theme was “shrub.” I felt inspired by the Knights who say “Ni.” Made a typo, tho.
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Sat, 26 Mar 2022 12:38:12 +0100

Pixel art with GrafX2 on Raspberry Pi OS. I did some tweaking in Pixaki on the iPad. An elderly pixel editor like GrafX2 certainly has its own look and feel.
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Sat, 26 Mar 2022 09:08:29 +0100

Pixel art. Some C64 multicolor high resolution graphics. Well, it was hires for the time, 320 x 200 pixels, reduced to 160 x 200 double pixels in m.c. hires.
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Fri, 25 Mar 2022 19:28:26 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies pixel art had the theme Kirby. I know not of any Kirby, videogame, vacuum cleaner, or otherwise.
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Fri, 25 Mar 2022 08:41:04 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies pixel art was hard to come up with, easy enough to implement. Of course, everything is easy once you know what to do.
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Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:58:33 +0100

Pixel art. A modest cup of coffee.
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Wed, 23 Mar 2022 22:37:46 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies theme was “smear frame.” I had no idea how to implement this, but I finally arrived at this solution for pixel art.
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Wed, 23 Mar 2022 14:36:00 +0100

Pixel art 🚧 This must be a videogame term, since I never heard of the term smear frame.
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Tue, 22 Mar 2022 23:15:13 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies prompt was “flyer.” I had to fold an actual airplane out of paper to be able to make the animation.
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Tue, 22 Mar 2022 15:15:00 +0100

Pixel art for Pixel Dailies for the prompt “Red Panda.” This was, again, a lot a lot of work and fiddling, yet rewarding in the end.
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Tue, 22 Mar 2022 09:38:00 +0100

Pixel art 🚧 Today’s PD prompt is Red Panda. I finished the border and background in roughly four hours, and I still haven’t done the actual panda(s). It wouldn’t surprise me if I needed at least a similar amount of time to finish this piece—much too long for a daily prompt.
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Mon, 21 Mar 2022 21:40:00 +0100

I shrunk down a pixel art piece I did earlier today (lunchbox) from 160 x 144 to 32 x32 oixels, to its bare essentials, I hope.
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Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:34:22 +0100

Pixel art for Pixel Dailies, with the prompt “lunch box.” It’s like it takes me longer every time to make one of these. Some of these are more popular than others on Twitter, but that might just be the algorithm trying to lure me into spending more time on Twitter.
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Mon, 21 Mar 2022 08:18:46 +0100

Pixel art 🚧 I only hope spending two hours on the frame, not the content, was time spent well, probably not.
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Sun, 20 Mar 2022 09:19:30 +0100

Pixel art. Get set, ready, go-o-o! Just for fun.
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Sat, 19 Mar 2022 21:12:02 +0100

Pixel art for Pixel Dailies, prompt “Rusty.” My take was the good Dalek from the Peter Capaldi era (Doctor Who).
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Sat, 19 Mar 2022 16:29:43 +0100

Pixel art 🚧 I want this to be a more elaborate piece, so I’ll be taking my sweet time. The rectangles are for designing two characters interacting semi-hostile. The brunt of the art will be in setting the mood with props and background.
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Sat, 19 Mar 2022 11:19:57 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies pixel art prompt was “treasure map."
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Fri, 18 Mar 2022 12:35:11 +0100

Pixel art. 1-bit battle cry.
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Fri, 18 Mar 2022 10:26:39 +0100

Pixel art. I asked myself, am I good enough to demo my pixel art making on Twitch, despite most artists using a Mac or Windows? To test, I video screenshot my creation of a sprite in Pixaki on iPad, sped up the video 10 times. I guess not yet, too slow.
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Thu, 17 Mar 2022 23:17:00 +0100

Pixel art texturing a pineapple.
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Thu, 17 Mar 2022 17:15:23 +0100

Today’s pixel art for Pixel Dailies has the prompt “avery.” Sometimes the literal interpretation is the only I can come up with.
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Thu, 17 Mar 2022 09:54:00 +0100

In pixel art, so I’m lectured, the artist has control over single pixels. To test this statement, I created a pixel portrait of Fred Astaire from a black and white photo reference. I guess it’s a work in progress.
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Wed, 16 Mar 2022 22:41:00 +0100

Pixel art for the Pixel Dailies prompt “gold.” I’m working in advance, since the PD account tweeter is on UK time, close to my local CET time zone.
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Wed, 16 Mar 2022 12:13:15 +0100

Pixel art for today’s Pixel Dailies required a rough sketch before pixeling. The prompt was garland, which is distinct from wreath and laurel, so you know (well, I didn’t beforehand).
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Tue, 15 Mar 2022 12:31:36 +0100

Pixel art Today’s Pixel Dailies prompt “windswept” I interpreted as a sailing boat in a storm.
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Tue, 15 Mar 2022 09:15:29 +0100

Pixel art 🚧 The ship is designed, scaled and rendered, despite a severe lack of ship design knowledge. My inspiration was the Heron from John Flanagan’s The Brotherband Chronicles, a fantasy Middle Ages young adult story about fictional Vikings, called Scandians.
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Mon, 14 Mar 2022 20:08:23 +0100

Pixel art for tomorrow. The way to get better at a skill is to think big and execute small, so you’ll have to make it up as you go.
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Mon, 14 Mar 2022 13:06:48 +0100

Pixel art. I always seem to post my images before they’re done. For some reason they don’t seem real until they’re published. No idea why that is.
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Mon, 14 Mar 2022 12:13:40 +0100

Pixel art, Pixel Dailies with an old-timey palette of muted colors.
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Sun, 13 Mar 2022 11:16:14 +0100

Pixel art gradients are best done by hand, not with an automated tool. That much is clear, and that it’s time-consuming.
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Sun, 13 Mar 2022 08:33:00 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies pixel art has gone piscine.
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Sat, 12 Mar 2022 18:11:00 +0100

Second pixel art entry for Pixel Dailies. I’m sure this is the warped reality for any parent or pet parent.
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Sat, 12 Mar 2022 09:51:57 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies pixel art theme is in the shadows.
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Fri, 11 Mar 2022 10:28:00 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies pixel art turned out quite different than I had imagined yesterday. I also did a little sketch beforehand.
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Thu, 10 Mar 2022 22:43:34 +0100

Pixel art. Can’t hurt to practice portraits. This one is from imagination, because I’ve drawn so many portraits already in the past twenty years.
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Thu, 10 Mar 2022 22:32:47 +0100

Pixel art 🚧 Experimenting with walk animation to see if an 16x16 px character is big enough for my purposes. I guess I want more canvas, though I know a tough restriction is good for the artist’s soul. Pixaki is sluggish and power hungry, as if I need a bigger iPad.
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Thu, 10 Mar 2022 10:01:00 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies pixel art has a 🎂 note.
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Wed, 09 Mar 2022 12:25:36 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies pixel art was a bit more involved. I took fungus to mean mushroom, and limited my set to three.
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Wed, 09 Mar 2022 08:44:15 +0100

Pixel art 🚧 for today’s Pixel Dailies. For size reference I drew Toad. I also embellished the border a bit. Now I “only” need to pixel some fungi.
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Tue, 08 Mar 2022 21:19:00 +0100

Tomorrow’s Pixel Dailies pixel art will give Toad some friends.
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Tue, 08 Mar 2022 14:06:04 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies pixel art was easy enough to grasp, but how to illustrate it? This was my take.
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Tue, 08 Mar 2022 08:41:00 +0100

Pixel art 🚧 for Pixel Dailies. I already have a box to put the 🍕 in.
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Mon, 07 Mar 2022 14:44:02 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies prompt I implemented somewhat cartoony.
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Mon, 07 Mar 2022 08:49:00 +0100

Pixel art. One thing that needed change desperately was the frame around my 160 x 144 pixels artwork. Other than that, there’s today’s Pixel Dailies prompt. I have some ideas, and an inkling of a visual story.
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Sun, 06 Mar 2022 14:21:10 +0100

Pixel art, 64x64px. Combining a guinea pig and the look of its caretaker.
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Sun, 06 Mar 2022 08:29:45 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies pixel art went to Mars.
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Sat, 05 Mar 2022 16:04:28 +0100

I’m already preparing for tomorrow’s Pixel Dailies pixel art, using photography from NASA’s JPL missions to the Red Planet.
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Sat, 05 Mar 2022 10:50:00 +0100

Pixel art for Pixel Dailies was relatively quick. It was only 30 x 24 pixels, but also a lot of squinting.
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Sat, 05 Mar 2022 08:30:30 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies is a challenge, since it’s such a small canvas. A further restriction I put on myself is a 6-color palette called snail village.
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Fri, 04 Mar 2022 18:52:00 +0100

Pixel art. Practicing textures in isometric perspective.
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Fri, 04 Mar 2022 10:27:08 +0100

Pixel art for Pixel Dailies in isometric perspective.
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Thu, 03 Mar 2022 15:47:14 +0100

Pixel art isometric perspective starts to make more sense now.
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Thu, 03 Mar 2022 09:42:13 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies was a tough one for me. I suppose it’s as tough as you make it, though.
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Wed, 02 Mar 2022 15:28:22 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies pixel art took like forever😞
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Tue, 01 Mar 2022 16:20:38 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies prompt was not easy. My pixel art interpretation of a gathering of vases🏺Alas, I didn’t have time to shade it.
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Tue, 01 Mar 2022 08:13:29 +0100

Pixel art 🚧 Instead of going for the obvious for video gamers, I’m going for a collection of vases for today’s Pixel Dailies prompt 🖥👨‍🎨🎨

PS I have remind myself it’s a challenge, not a popularity contest.
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Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:28:24 +0100

Pixel art (animated). How things evolve, or maybe put a “d” in front of that verb.
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Mon, 28 Feb 2022 08:21:51 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies prompt and lack of time made this a relatively quick exercise (2 hours instead of 8).
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Sun, 27 Feb 2022 16:29:30 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies was rather involved as pixel art. I had to be inventive.
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Sat, 26 Feb 2022 17:08:00 +0100

Pixel art for Pixel Dailies. Link grew in size and complexity over the years. Gameboy sized canvas and color palette.
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Sat, 26 Feb 2022 08:48:03 +0100

Pixel art 🚧 Not at all representative of the end result. I used the 4-color Gameboy color palette, even though most of the originals are full-color. Also, the pixel count of all but the two smallest sprites is twice that of mine. It’s study for inspiration and growth… ISWTDT.
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Fri, 25 Feb 2022 23:25:11 +0100

I’m so excited about tomorrow’s art prompt by Pixel Dailies.
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Fri, 25 Feb 2022 14:35:00 +0100

Pixel art for Pixel Dailies. Some prompts are more challenging, and I guess that’s why this kind of exercise is referred to as a challenge.
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Thu, 24 Feb 2022 17:07:50 +0100

Today’s prompt in the Draw Every Day app was “picture.” Pixel art, 256 x 192 pixels.
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Thu, 24 Feb 2022 13:34:00 +0100

Banging out pixel art for Pixel Dailies.
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Wed, 23 Feb 2022 15:25:03 +0100

One thing leading to another. Pixel art (160 x 144 pixel).
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Wed, 23 Feb 2022 10:13:00 +0100

Pixel art for Pixel Dailies, a bloody ‘bard’s business (160 x 144 pixels).
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Wed, 23 Feb 2022 08:08:22 +0100

So Pixel Dailies. A halberd (aka halbard) is a spear on top of an axe, mounted on a long pole, with opposite to the axe a hook to grab soldiers on horseback. It’s approximately the length of a footsoldier’s height.
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Tue, 22 Feb 2022 16:39:00 +0100

Pixel art for Pixel Dailies. Okay, it’s possible to create a shape that can be tessellated so, that it’s still possible to recognize an animal in it. Well, I tried.
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Tue, 22 Feb 2022 15:00:23 +0100

I’m pretty sure this doesn’t qualify. Still, why use such fancy words if you want people to participate? Pixel art.
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Tue, 22 Feb 2022 10:18:48 +0100

Pixel art. It seems visual storytelling is a thing, and it requires constant practice. So setting myself this challenge can’t be bad, can it? Gameboy resolution (160 x 144 pixels).
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Mon, 21 Feb 2022 13:55:37 +0100

At least I’m not shooting myself in the foot with this pixel art walk animation.
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Mon, 21 Feb 2022 08:53:46 +0100

Pixel art. A first attempt at a living room in top down perspective.
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Sun, 20 Feb 2022 08:31:00 +0100

Pixel art. Some simplified human anatomy to better understand how it works while moving.
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Sat, 19 Feb 2022 17:27:39 +0100

Pixel art. Refinement of an animation I did earlier today. I’m pleased with the result, even as crude as it is.
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Sat, 19 Feb 2022 11:04:58 +0100

Quick project, I thought, a pixel art walk cycle. Now it’s 3 hours later, anything but completed. 🤔 Huh?
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Wed, 16 Feb 2022 08:36:49 +0100

Pixel art, narcissus.
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Tue, 15 Feb 2022 08:35:00 +0100

Pixel art, for single awareness day (for realz this time).
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Mon, 14 Feb 2022 10:59:00 +0100

A pixel art begonia in isometric perspective. Happy Valentines Day, aka (day before) singles awareness day.
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Sun, 13 Feb 2022 10:11:00 +0100

Cat and mouse pixel art.
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Sat, 12 Feb 2022 15:55:17 +0100

I’m missing an essential insight about character design in isometric perspective, probably more than one.
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Sat, 12 Feb 2022 08:16:38 +0100

Pixel art. I suppose it can only go up from here 😉 — 🖥👨‍🎨🎨👾

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 12:42:22 +0100

Exploring rotation in isometric perspective. It seems there are rules to make it seem more convincing. Interesting…
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Tue, 08 Feb 2022 12:07:51 +0100

Writing in isometric perspective; it’s rather tricky with pixel art.
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Mon, 07 Feb 2022 17:07:29 +0100

More isometric pixel art practice, a hello-world? It seems so easy, until you implement it.
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Mon, 07 Feb 2022 10:59:00 +0100

I constructed my first house in isometric perspective pixel art. It’s rather tedious and error prone, as you may spot here and there. I suppose practice will bring improvement.
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Sun, 06 Feb 2022 10:38:04 +0100

Pixel art practice. Six basic emotions of the human face.
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Sat, 05 Feb 2022 09:32:44 +0100

Pixel art, seasonal affective disorder.
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Fri, 04 Feb 2022 12:00:52 +0100

Pixel art based on a sketched idea.
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Thu, 03 Feb 2022 09:51:21 +0100

Today I turned the traced image into a top view. This will enable me to create an isometric perspective view tomorrow. The animation shows the workflow I want to use: trace 👉 floorplan 👉 isometric view. There’s some creative license with only one reference photo.
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Wed, 02 Feb 2022 16:35:00 +0100

I traced architecture in pixel art as a study. I wanted to create an isometric perspective, but realized I’m still too inexperienced in architecture drawing to pull it off.
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Tue, 01 Feb 2022 11:36:33 +0100

Isometric chess horse.
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Mon, 31 Jan 2022 12:20:11 +0100

Isometric jam session. Pixel art.
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Sun, 30 Jan 2022 09:35:00 +0100

Sunday morning pixel art doodles.
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Fri, 28 Jan 2022 21:37:47 +0100

I suppose most screens nowadays are 16:9, so perhaps I should use that as well. Pixel art at 320 x 180 pixels.
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Fri, 28 Jan 2022 15:47:33 +0100

Practicing isometric perspective with a rhino. Pixel art 160 x144.
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Fri, 28 Jan 2022 11:20:11 +0100

For isometric perspective pixel art sprites, there are (hardware) restrictions to what can be drawn, and (geometry) rules for how to draw. Both can be bent, but at a cost, either in performance or artistically. The clear benefit is a 3D look without perspective scaling.
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Thu, 27 Jan 2022 15:08:28 +0100

It took me more time than I wished to create a rough animation of the same character pose from eight different directions. iPad OS clearly lacks the functionality of a full-blown desktop OS, especially for easy creation of animation.
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Thu, 27 Jan 2022 09:18:03 +0100

From the AdamCYounis YouTube channel I got some important insights about character design with pixel art:

smaller canvases are harder
topdown is like looking down at 45°
horizontal and vertical lines are key for coherent look
clear pose beats realism

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Wed, 26 Jan 2022 17:01:13 +0100

Today’s pixel art self-prompt was cuteness.
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Mon, 24 Jan 2022 09:17:57 +0100

Converting a “normal” perspective drawing into an isometric perspective drawing proves to be more challenging than I expected. Muttering 😖 on thru this pixel art mud.
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Sun, 23 Jan 2022 09:20:22 +0100

Many things are to be considered when drawing pixel art in isometric perspective. I should practice it, since it’s a prevalent perspective in 2D games nowadays, as far as I can see from following pixel artists online.
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Sat, 22 Jan 2022 10:10:25 +0100

I suppose pixel art is best described as an art form where pixel placement matters most. Unlike digital natural medium art, in pixel art what you say and how you say it are the same.
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Fri, 21 Jan 2022 09:06:00 +0100

Some simplistic pixel art animations I made in the past two days.
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Tue, 18 Jan 2022 11:25:50 +0100

I’m not sure why it takes so long, but I guess that goes with the creative process; it’s not as straightforward as one would want.
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Sun, 16 Jan 2022 11:32:00 +0100

Cat walk as 2-frames pixel art animation. Took me long enough.
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I suppose 3 frames is the minimum.

Sat, 15 Jan 2022 18:37:14 +0100

I picked one of the pencil sketches and turned it into pixel art, as practice.
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Fri, 14 Jan 2022 12:59:33 +0100

Scaling down often means (partially) redrawing a pixel art drawing.
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Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:19:59 +0100

Donkey Kong on C64 (VICE on Raspberry Pi OS) 🕹💻👾🦍🗝

Fri, 14 Jan 2022 08:43:19 +0100

My flatbed scanner isn’t functional anymore, so I had to scan with iOS. After importing the doodle as a reference, I drew this critter in Pixaki.
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Wed, 12 Jan 2022 14:46:15 +0100

Great Scott, BTTF inspired pixel art, started on Linux GrafX2, completed on iPad Pixaki app. 160x144 px, 6 colors.
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Wed, 12 Jan 2022 13:11:42 +0100

I made a 32x32 pixel image with GrafX2 on Linux, imported it via the Secure ShellFish app to my iPad, and refined it with the Pixaki app.
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Mon, 10 Jan 2022 12:06:55 +0100

Stylized cat in a hero pose.
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Sun, 09 Jan 2022 09:50:00 +0100

🐱 pixel art 🖥👨‍🎨🎨👾

Thu, 06 Jan 2022 10:31:00 +0100

I wish y’all a happy 2022!
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Mon, 03 Jan 2022 11:47:46 +0100

Tracing still feels like cheating. Pixel art.
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Sat, 01 Jan 2022 14:45:57 +0100

I suppose understanding a face is half the (artistic) battle. Pixel art.
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Fri, 31 Dec 2021 16:29:10 +0100

🤔 Good enough for now. I need to be less critical on myself while learning pixel art.
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Fri, 31 Dec 2021 09:41:43 +0100

I wonder if it’s worth to continue working on the pixel portrait.
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Wed, 29 Dec 2021 12:09:47 +0100

Another approach for another day.
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Tue, 28 Dec 2021 19:03:00 +0100

I suppose every obscure famous person (fame is ephemeral) has a fansite. I just draw ‘em in pixels.
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Tue, 24 Aug 2021 16:34:00 +0100

Not sure if this qualifies as a favicon. It’s 32 x 32 pixels.
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Wed, 23 Jun 2021 20:16:37 +0100

And here’s my 24 x 24 pixel art IRL (6 cm x 6 cm, 4 mm² per pixel mosaic brick).
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Wed, 23 Jun 2021 11:44:53 +0100

Here’s a concept of how a piece of pixel art could brighten up a boring bathroom door. The materials for creating said art have yet to arrive, and the door still needs a layer of paint. Well, one can dream of the result, can’t one?
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Mon, 21 Jun 2021 09:50:29 +0100

Couldn’t find a 32 x 32 baseplate for pixel art with beads, but I did find a 24 x 24 baseplate. So I adjusted my design for the bathroom door.
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Mon, 21 Jun 2021 07:45:15 +0100

Wanted a decoration for my bathroom door, but the only things I could find was either from a sketchy company (possibly a swindler on Amazon.nl) or from far away (high shipping costs). So I guess I’ll have to craft my own, from beads.
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Sun, 13 Jun 2021 16:11:16 +0100

New profile picture. 🎨 64 x 64 px, 3 colors.
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Tue, 18 May 2021 19:33:00 +0100

Xena Xantippes. Pixel art 🎨 160x144px, 12 colors.

For r/SketchDaily, theme: “Xena xeroxes xenarthra x-rays.”
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Mon, 17 May 2021 18:23:00 +0100

Worrywart. Pixel art 🎨 160x144px, 10 colors.

For r/SketchDaily, theme: “Worried woman wrestles with wild wombat.”
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Sun, 16 May 2021 17:02:06 +0100

Ve nice bye nite. Pixel art 🎨 160x144px, 7 colors.

For r/SketchDaily, theme: “Vacationing vampire vandalizes Venice.”
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Sat, 15 May 2021 13:43:00 +0100

Savvy with balloons. Pixel art, 160x144px, 7 colors. 🎨

For r/SketchDaily, theme: “Upset urial undermines ugly unicorn.”
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Thu, 13 May 2021 19:05:23 +0100

Peanuts winter wonderland. Pixel art, Gameboy (160x144px, 4 colors) 🎨

For r/SketchDaily, theme: “Shocked Snoopy surveys sensual snowmen.”
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Wed, 12 May 2021 16:15:58 +0100

Round robin ruffle. Pixel art 🎨 Gameboy, 160x144px, 4 colors.

For r/SketchDaily, theme: “Religious reindeer relentlessly rejects rowdy robin’s ridiculous rap."
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Wed, 12 May 2021 12:13:26 +0100

Two things I know little to nothing about, religion and rap. Or is that latter one wrap? Who’s to say in their righteous rapturing reasonless mind? WIP 🎨 pixel art for the subreddit Sketch Daily.
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Tue, 11 May 2021 19:21:56 +0100

Quail Quilting Quorum 🐦 🖌 Gameboy pixel art (160x144px, 4 colors)

For r/SketchDaily, theme: “Quarreling Quail Quibble Quietly, Questioning Quilting Qualifications."
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Mon, 10 May 2021 16:12:26 +0100

Da-da-da-daaah! 🐼 🎹 Gameboy pixel art 📺 160x144 🎨 4 colors.

For r/SketchDaily, theme: “Pleasantly plump panda plans possible piano performance.”
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Sun, 09 May 2021 13:47:52 +0100

Herding Ocelots. Gameboy Pixel art 📺 160x144 🎨 4 colors

For r/SketchDaily, theme: “Overwhelmed owl officiates over ornery ocelots.”
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Fri, 07 May 2021 09:50:53 +0100

And done! Gameboy pixel art 📺 160x144 🎨 4 colors. 👾

For r/SketchDaily, theme: “Merry mongoose makes moaning mallard mailbox.”

Thu, 06 May 2021 13:26:56 +0100

Lemming launcher? 📺 160x144 🎨 6 colors.

For r/SketchDaily, theme: “Loathsome lemur laughs, loads lemming launcher."
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Wed, 05 May 2021 17:22:01 +0100

Koala knight and pirate kakapo. 📺 160x144px 🎨 18 colors.

For r/SketchDaily, theme: “Knightly koala kicks knavish kakapo kid."
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Tue, 04 May 2021 15:16:04 +0100

Jackal joyriding. Pixel art. 📺 160x144px, 🎨 18 colors.

For r/SketchDaily, theme: “Jittery jackal jeopardizes journey jumpstarting joyride.”
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Mon, 03 May 2021 09:06:49 +0100

Crazy Conspiracy Concept. Pixel art 📺 160x144px 🎨 19 colors.

For r/SketchDaily, theme: “Injured iguana inconveniently illustrates ideal illuminati infiltration.”
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Sun, 02 May 2021 15:31:03 +0100

Ancient Greece themed harpies 🦅🧚‍♀️ and hamsters 🐹 Pixel art, Gameboy compatible (📺160x144px 🎨4 colors).

For r/SketchDaily, theme: “Hallucinating harpies haunt horrified hamsters."
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Sun, 02 May 2021 08:40:31 +0100

Today’s theme on the Sketch Daily subreddit and the reference photos I’ll be using on a 160x144px canvas, 4 color palette, compatible with Nintendo Gameboy. It’s a lot.
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Sat, 01 May 2021 14:22:37 +0100

Recycling goblin. Pixel art, 🎨 Sweetie-16, 160x144px, 13 colors.

For r/SketchDaily, theme: “Green Goblin gentrifies grumpy geese, gratifying glistening goldfish."
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Sat, 01 May 2021 08:57:45 +0100

Rich Uncle Pennybags. Pixel art 🎨 Sweetie-16, 160x144px, 7 colors.

For r/SketchDaily, theme: “The guy from Monopoly."
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Thu, 29 Apr 2021 11:04:10 +0100

Quick and dirty (unedited) self-portrait, based on a rapid 2-minutes pencil sketch. Pixel 🎨 Gameboy (160x144px, 4 colors).

For the Sketch a Day app, prompt “portrait.”
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Wed, 28 Apr 2021 20:05:19 +0100

The little shop of horrors (1960). Pixel 🎨 Gameboy (160x144px, 4 colors).

For the Sketch a Day app, prompt “shop.”
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Tue, 27 Apr 2021 08:50:00 +0100

GET TO DA CHOPPA! Pixel 🎨 Gameboy (160x144px, 4 colors).

For the Sketch a Day app, prompt “helicopter.”
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Mon, 12 Apr 2021 12:24:27 +0100

Alternative parking road sign. Pixel art, 64x64px, 10 colors.

For the Sketch a Day app, prompt “parking."
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Fri, 09 Apr 2021 07:40:00 +0100

For the Sketch a Day app. The concept “sharp” as pixel art, 32x32px, 7 colors.
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Thu, 08 Apr 2021 12:11:00 +0100

A man rag of reserve. Pixel art 32x32px, 11 colors. 🎨 For the Sketch a Day app.
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Fri, 02 Apr 2021 20:48:29 +0100

My contributions for PixelJoint are often more considered, since it is a community of such excellent artists, making me want to do just a little bit more effort. This one is called: “Early Catch.” It’s 60 x 48 pixels, 10 colors and pixel.
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Mon, 29 Mar 2021 22:07:00 +0100

Today’s Pixel Dailies theme was Daffodils. I added a unicorn called Daffodil.
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Fri, 26 Mar 2021 12:14:15 +0100

Pixel art, 32 x 32, 2 colors, inspired by 1984 Mac OS icons. For Sketch-a-Day app, prompt “dive”.
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Fri, 26 Mar 2021 09:16:11 +0100

DDC 2306. Pixel art, 16x16, 2 colors. Inspired by the very first pixel artist, Susan Kare, designer of 1984 Mac OS' B+W desktop icons on a 32x32 grid. She was able to provide clarity and whimsy. I tried to give this octopus some personality within the limits. (enlarged 4x).
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Thu, 25 Mar 2021 17:58:17 +0100

DDC 2305, pixel art, 64 x 64 pixels, 13 colors.
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Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:11:29 +0100

Pixel art, 160 x 90 pixels, 8 colors. Abstract arabic scribblings on a crab.
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