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Rene van Belzen

Pixel art

  • Inspired (somehow) by this post.
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    pixel art of cat medaillion

  • Yet another self-portrait
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    pixel art self-portrait

  • Animated portrait in pixel art. 32 x 32 pixels.
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    animated pixel art of cat portrait on a tv set

  • Pixel art of one of my cats. 80 x 80 px, 8 colors.
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    pixel art of bengal cat, sitting

  • To baa, or not to baa, that’s the question.

    I made this 64 x 64 pixels, 4 colors pixel art piece, using this reference.
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    pixel art of orating anthropomorphic goat

  • Moo!

    (64 x 64 pixels, 4 colors, using this reference photo)
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    pixel art of cow head

  • Somewhat inspired by micro∙blog’s April 2024 photoblogging challenge. 64 x 64 pixels, 11 colors.
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    pixel art with flower wearing a cartoony face

  • Was looking for a good ink drawing to recreate as pixel art, and found my own ink drawing from 2011. I believe I have improved somewhat since that time. There’s also a process video. 200 x 200 pixels. According to Apple Screen Time it took me 2h34m to draw.
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    pixel art of an ink bottle with cross hatching animated GIF of drawing process

  • I found these 25 faces and tried to recreate them faithfully in pixel art. Below it is an animated GIF of the time lapse creating the drawing.
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    pixel art of 25 cartoon faces time lapse of pixel art drawing

  • Pixel art of a symbolic face I modified and colored with this color palette, using this reference. 64 x 64 pixels.
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    pixel art of colored symbolic face

  • Pixel art of a cloud using a vibrant color palette.
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    pixel art cloud over a forest

  • I’m not very good at planning. Animators are supposed to plan ahead. So I end up with a mess.
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    animated pixel art of schematic dog running

  • Animation is such a different beast, and it is sooo time consuming on an iPad. Unfortunately, this is only traced, not animated.
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    pixel art animation mutt running on top of a running dog

  • I might be over-analyzing this cartoon drawing a teensy tiny bit. The idea is to make an animation out of it, using some real mutt running, inspired by the work of the great Eadward James Muybridge.

    Next up, a running skeleton of a real mutt, and apply that to the cartoon mutt’s skeleton.
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    original cartoon drawing with bounding box pixel art cartoon drawing with bounding box

  • This took quite some time, and I used a “Muybridge cheat” to speed things up. It’s called Z’brah, for obvious reasons. No? The pattern on the cube is based on zebra striping. I suppose not so obvi. Well, it kept me on the straight and narrow while it was being made.
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    animated pixel art with zebra patterned rotating cube and white walking horse

  • If I’m correct, the woman runner in the photo is Claudia Gelsomino in her 2014 New York Marathon. Doing these more realistic pixel art drawings is tough, yet rewarding.
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    pixel art of road runner woman with race bib

  • Using this reference I drew this baboon, using a bit of tracing to get the rough proportions correct. 200 by 200 pixels, 12 colors.
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    pixel art of a baboon

  • I used this reference and this vibrant color palette to draw a pelican in pixel art.
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    pixel art of a pelican standing on a beach

  • Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s April Showers, drawn in Game Boy compatible pixel art.
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    pixel art abstract geometric patterns

  • Using this as my reference I drew a road race car. Perspective is always a hassle, so I took quite some liberties. I expect my next will be much better, with this one under my belt.
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    pixel art of a Porsche race car