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Rene van Belzen

Pixel art

  • 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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    pixel art of MLP pony with a Reddit antenna on its head, looking joyful

  • 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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    pixel art with movie scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark, where Indiana Jones is replaced by a cartoon rabbit

  • 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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    pixel art of an MLP pony

  • 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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    pixel art of a frame with Roger Rabbit, somepony, and Mario in it

  • 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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    pixel art of the London square in the Muppet Christmas movie

  • 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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    Pixel art of cartoon cat portrait

  • 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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    pixel art illustration of Galaxy Quest logo in Star Wars letter effect and with Star Trek laurels around the Galaxy Quest badge, with a star field chockablock with stars

  • For r/SketchDaily. Alt theme Donkey Kong. Pixel art Game Boy Advance (240 x 160, 32 colors).
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    pixel art of Donkey Kong offering flowers

  • Studying shadow on a ball in pixel art. This isn’t easy, and probably full of mistakes.
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    pixel art of a ball with a shadow

  • Pixel art for r/SketchDaily. Alt theme Olympics. Game Boy Advance pixel art (240 x 160, 32 colors).
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    pixel art of olympic rings with 5 favorite sports in them, gymnastics, track and field, water polo, volleybal, and swimming

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

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

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

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

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

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

    pixel art of bad lookalike panda bear Po

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

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

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

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