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Pixel art

  • Pixel art 🚧 I suppose I drew a horse-drawn “mobile home,” aka gipsy caravan.
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    pixel art of gipsy caravan
  • 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 isβ€”or seems to beβ€”a lot better.
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    pixel art, alphabet and sample text
  • Pixel art for Pixel Dailies, theme “rainbow tree.” I never heard before of an Eucalyptus deglupta, aka rainbow tree.
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    pixel art rainbow tree
  • 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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    pixel art, vicky the viking finds a trumpet
  • Pixel art. There’s a lot to know πŸ™‡β€β™‚οΈ about linesβ€”curves in generalβ€”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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    pixel art lines drawn at angles
  • 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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    pixel art of cute knife
  • 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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    pixel art text
  • Pixel art. I refined the previous drawing, and made it into a funny statement. It’s a non-serious πŸ˜‰ Star Wars/Trek πŸŒŒπŸ–– crossover. I find it curious how publishing makes me see any flaws I didn’t notice beforehand.
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    pixel art, Obi-Wan Star Wars/Trek crossover
  • Pixel art 🚧 So this is my practice piece for today, being the 8th day of April Fool’s Month. It’s called “Obi-Wan πŸ’©πŸͺ” It was a lot of running around, but I’m still pleased with it, in a funny way.
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    pixel art Obi-Wan πŸ’©πŸͺ
  • Pixel art πŸ‘ΎπŸš§ 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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    screenshot of iPad app Pixaki
  • 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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    pixel art Gutamine in dress
  • Pixel art πŸ‘ΎπŸš§ 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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    pixel art with caption: Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently… Apple Inc.
  • 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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    pixel art animation of tower
  • Pixel art WIP πŸ‘Ύ 🚧 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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    pixel art tiny red car in heavy perspective and a text behind it indicating a fun ride
  • Pixel art. Today’s theme of Pixel Dailies was “embankment.” I kept it simple.
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    pixel art with a house along and rowboat in a waterway with on both sides the shallow embankments
  • 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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    pixel art Homer Simpson reading from Iliad scroll in ancient greek setting
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    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 … read more

  • 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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    pixel art with a wild-haired head and neck of a person
  • 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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    pixel art robot archie sitting on bench petting a cat
  • 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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    pixel art of floating city in the sky