Pixel art

Pixel art texturing a pineapple.
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Today’s pixel art for Pixel Dailies has the prompt “avery.” Sometimes the literal interpretation is the only I can come up with.
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In pixel art, so I’m lectured, the artist has control over single pixels. To test this statement, I created a pixel portrait of Fred Astaire from a black and white photo reference. I guess it’s a work in progress.
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Pixel art for the Pixel Dailies prompt “gold.” I’m working in advance, since the PD account tweeter is on UK time, close to my local CET time zone.
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Pixel art for today’s Pixel Dailies required a rough sketch before pixeling. The prompt was garland, which is distinct from wreath and laurel, so you know (well, I didn’t beforehand).
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Pixel art Today’s Pixel Dailies prompt “windswept” I interpreted as a sailing boat in a storm.
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Pixel art 🚧 The ship is designed, scaled and rendered, despite a severe lack of ship design knowledge. My inspiration was the Heron from John Flanagan’s The Brotherband Chronicles, a fantasy Middle Ages young adult story about fictional Vikings, called Scandians.
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Pixel art for tomorrow. The way to get better at a skill is to think big and execute small, so you’ll have to make it up as you go.
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Pixel art. I always seem to post my images before they’re done. For some reason they don’t seem real until they’re published. No idea why that is.
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Pixel art, Pixel Dailies with an old-timey palette of muted colors.
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Pixel art gradients are best done by hand, not with an automated tool. That much is clear, and that it’s time-consuming.
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Today’s Pixel Dailies pixel art has gone piscine.
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Second pixel art entry for Pixel Dailies. I’m sure this is the warped reality for any parent or pet parent.
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Today’s Pixel Dailies pixel art theme is in the shadows.
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Today’s Pixel Dailies pixel art turned out quite different than I had imagined yesterday. I also did a little sketch beforehand.
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Pixel art. Can’t hurt to practice portraits. This one is from imagination, because I’ve drawn so many portraits already in the past twenty years.
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Pixel art 🚧 Experimenting with walk animation to see if an 16x16 px character is big enough for my purposes. I guess I want more canvas, though I know a tough restriction is good for the artist’s soul. Pixaki is sluggish and power hungry, as if I need a bigger iPad.
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Today’s Pixel Dailies pixel art has a 🎂 note.
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Today’s Pixel Dailies pixel art was a bit more involved. I took fungus to mean mushroom, and limited my set to three.
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Pixel art 🚧 for today’s Pixel Dailies. For size reference I drew Toad. I also embellished the border a bit. Now I “only” need to pixel some fungi.
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