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Rene van Belzen

Pixel art

  • 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.

  • 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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    pixel art with several identical Teddy bears at regular distances, and empty pixel frames with names of famous bears.

  • 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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    pixel art cartoon in Simpson art style with woman in red dress showing off her beehive hairdo, surrounded by flowers and bees

  • 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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    pixel art of running Pokémon character Gengar

  • 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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    cartoony pixel art of an angry fish

  • 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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    pixel art with movie poster image for High Society from 1954, with jolly actors Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra, and a trumpet playing Louis Armstrong.

  • What was I thinking? Work in Progress…
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    pixel art of movie poster with only the heads of four actors

  • My new Reddit avatar is based on the official avatar, upgraded into cute pixel art.
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    Pixel art version of generic Reddit user, but cuter.

  • 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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    Game Boy pixel art with Regatta Great Outdoors logo and a pair of outdoors Wellington boots (Wellies)

  • 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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    pixel art of Gudetama in his characteristic laid-back pose of a broken egg

  • 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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    pixel art of generic Reddit user avatar

  • 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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    pixel art of haunted house in moody atmosphere

  • 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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    dark colored pixel art with a goth girl in front of a worn out cottage

  • 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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    pixel art of a crayon drawing and a framed painting of a landscape

    *Actually, the title was The Circle of Life.

  • 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
    Game Boy Advance pixel art, 11 colors. 10 tattered book covers of books your grandparents had to read.

    Drawing time: 5h02' in 2 sessions.
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  • 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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    Game Boy Advance 240 by 160 pixel art, frightened Kermit the frog and absent-minded Miss Piggy meet Big Bird from Sesame Street

  • 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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    Cartoon pixel art in Game Boy format (160 by 144 pixels, 4 colors) with Pepe Le Pew and some unknown pussycat in an unlikely romantic relationship

  • 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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    Game Boy 160 by 144 pixel art, 4 colors. Shown is a plate of sandwiches on a set table.

  • 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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    Game Boy pixel art, 160 by 144 pixels, 4 colors, for r/SketchDaily, with a microscope and what can be seen magnified on the slide

  • 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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    pixel art of witch on a broom, a black cat familiar is with her