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Pixel art

  • More creativity, I suppose?
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    pixel art portrait of a man broadly smiling
  • I suppose it’s good to try being creative…
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    pixel art portrait of bearded man with sunglasses
  • 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 Ζ’15 (Β± €126 nowadays). Professionally made replicas retail for €1500 and up.
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    Digital sketch of a Red and Blue chair, drawn in Procreate on iPad.

  • Silly idea in pixel art 🎨 for a Strava profile pic. I won’t be using it, though.
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    pixel art of runner tagged know wing

    Aside from the clear spelling error.

  • 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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    ballpoint pen sketch of a foxpixel art sketch of a fox

  • 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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    Notebook page with initial pixel art sketchesdigital pixel art of two cats in a 16x16 pixel grid

  • 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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    pixel art of woman with goggles on her hair
  • This month I’m doing swordtember. Number 1 is the longsword, done as pixel art
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    Swordtember number 1, longsword pixel art

  • 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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    bengal cat pixel art

  • 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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    pixel art animation mister T
  • Microβˆ™blog May challenge day 11, “maroon.” Marooned with a tricylce on a maroon colored brick wall.
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    wall with maroon colored brick with a pixel art toddler on a tricycle
  • 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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    pixel art keyboard playing organic fruit
  • Microβˆ™blog May challenge, day 10, “pot.” As usual, words have different meanings, be it a jar or a herb.
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    pot of mustard on dinner table with pixel art stoner
  • Day 9 of microβˆ™blog May challenge #mbm, “bloom.” I have added two kinds of “bloom.” The third is made of iron.
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    flower bloom and Harold Bloom pixel art in a bush
  • 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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    pixel art water clock
  • 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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    pixel art of defense units
  • Today’s prompt for the microβˆ™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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    city park with fantasy rocket drawn in pixel art
  • 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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    Pixel art Mario in a single running pose in a fake 3D circle
  • 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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    screenshot pixaki app on iPad with very rough W.I.P.
  • Today’s microβˆ™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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    photo with small hill and a pixel art bare muscleman with a shovel in front of it