Pixel art

February 8, 2024 12:52pm

Rene van Belzen

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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February 7, 2024 6:25pm

Rene van Belzen

Pixel art for the Game Boy.
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February 6, 2024 4:30pm

Rene van Belzen

This could be cover art for a Viking war game.
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February 6, 2024 11:37am

Rene van Belzen

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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February 5, 2024 11:02am

Rene van Belzen

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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February 4, 2024 7:31pm

Rene van Belzen

You’d think we’d developed something against male pattern baldness by the 24th century
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February 4, 2024 11:59am

Rene van Belzen

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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February 3, 2024 8:16pm

Rene van Belzen

Game Boy Advance pixel art with Game Boy color palette
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February 3, 2024 10:41am

Rene van Belzen

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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February 2, 2024 6:37pm

Rene van Belzen

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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February 1, 2024 11:17pm

Rene van Belzen

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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January 29, 2024 6:12pm

Rene van Belzen

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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January 29, 2024 11:02am

Rene van Belzen

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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January 28, 2024 10:57pm

Rene van Belzen

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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January 28, 2024 12:24am

Rene van Belzen

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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January 27, 2024 11:20am

Rene van Belzen

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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January 26, 2024 1:05pm

Rene van Belzen

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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January 25, 2024 5:06pm

Rene van Belzen

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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January 24, 2024 7:55pm

Rene van Belzen

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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January 22, 2024 3:05pm

Rene van Belzen

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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