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  • March 5, 2024 10:25am
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    Art

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    I have today’s work cut out for me with this portrait of a Bangladeshi girl from 2011.
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    screenshot of blank canvas in Pixquare app, with a color palette called baba32 and a reference photo of girl in traditional foreign dress
  • March 4, 2024 4:27pm
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    Practicing dithering.
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    pixel art with a block, sphere and some kind of triangle
  • March 4, 2024 9:09am
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    I made this 64 by 64 pixel art portrait, referencing this photo of Raymond and using only four colors from the 2-bits-pips color palette.
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    pixel art portrait of a bearded man
  • March 2, 2024 3:30pm
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    I did some work on my Dutch language running blog, and broke the site. Once I had repaired the damage, I permanently lost additional functionality (links to next and previous posts). You see, the service has changed, and my hack hadn’t kept up with the times. I guess the lesson is, use the default.

  • March 2, 2024 8:47am
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    Drawn while listening to A Legacy of Biffs on The Incomparable Mothership podcast about Back to the Future 2. It’s an audio podcast, so I got to draw from imagination.
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    pixel art with painting of person on a hoverboard in Back to the Future 2
  • February 29, 2024 11:15am
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    I made this Game Boy compatible pixel art piece based on this excellent portrait.
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    pixel art Game Boy screen with a frame, containing a portrait of a girl, her name and some stars
  • February 27, 2024 10:44am
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    Pixel art

    I tried drawing the same character in two different art styles, referencing a photo I took myself. The one on the right is (loosely) based on someone else’s art style.
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    pixel art with a bolding man in sportswear drawn in two different styles
  • February 26, 2024 10:59am
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    Oh boy, I need to learn about tilesets and game art to avoid attrocities like this one
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    pixel art with bushes and stones using tilesets
  • February 25, 2024 4:05pm
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    I tried to create an animated sprite of my cat. All I have to do now is give him a world to live in. That’s easy, right? ๐Ÿ˜‚
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    animated pixel art with a cat blinking its eyes and wagging the tip of its tail
  • February 25, 2024 8:19am
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    I wrote the previous post in the Strata app, shared the selected markdown text with Pythonista’s Preview Markdown to preview it, counted the characters with Word Counter Tool, then shared it with the Micro.blog app, and removed the > before publishing. All done on an iPad with stage manager enabled ๐Ÿ˜…

  • February 25, 2024 8:02am
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    This week I did three training sessions for running, two on a track, one on the road. While I’m recovering from an ankle injury, I have to keep the weekly mileage low, the tempos slow. My guess is that it’ll take until May before I’m back into my normal training regime of 60 km/week (37 mpw).

    running track just before sundown
  • February 23, 2024 11:19am
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    I used this photo as a reference for a small pixel art drawing of a deer. I tried to concentrate on clumps of pixels, but I see I need to study more to be effective. The shape’s okay-ish, which is an accomplishment at this scale, I think.
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    small 32 by 32 pixels drawing of a deer
  • February 21, 2024 12:23pm
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    Pixel art

    I used a portrait and dolphin as my references for this fictional Game Boy game called “Delphine."
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    pixel art of a Game Boy game of a fictional game called Delphine
  • February 20, 2024 1:10pm
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    The original Macintosh, aka 128K Mac, is often referred to as the computer that changed the world. It was the first commercially available computer with a graphical user interface. Pixel art for the Nintendo Game Boy screen (160 x 144 pixels, 4 shades of green).
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    pixel art of the Apple 128K Macintosh computer
  • February 19, 2024 2:34pm
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    Sometimes you want your cat to play with their food. It keeps them happy if you surprise them once in a while by offering hidden food, so theyโ€™ll have to think how to get to it

    Cat eating with food hidden in a food bowl
  • February 18, 2024 9:19am
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    I thought pixel animation would be easier. Alas, with iPadOS it still is too hard, so it seems, and Aseprite is still the desktop app to emulate. Yes, you can do animation on the iPad, but it takes a lot of time compared to what I’m used to on the desktop 20 years ago, using Moho.
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    animated bouncing ball
  • February 17, 2024 3:01pm
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    I used Noppa, Charley, and Latte as inspirations for this pixel art piece.

    It is compatible with the Nintendo Game Boy screen (160 x 144 pixels, 4 shades of green).
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    pixel art with guinea pigs on a spread
  • February 17, 2024 10:25am
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    My reason to share a work-in-progress shot is to set a milestone, so I stay motivated working on the piece. Since I share it publicly, it also keeps me honest. Now I have to finish it.
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    screenshot of pixel art work in progress, showing in pixel art the title Guinea Pig, a spread, a guinea pig, a carrot, a flower and a clover leaf, and two reference photos on the side of guinea pigs
  • February 15, 2024 10:52am
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    Pixel art version of this reference photo. I simplified the shapes so it was easier to draw on such a small canvas and so few colors (160 x 144 pixels, 4 shades of green). I think it got the message across, though.

    pixel art drawing of a tabby cat lying in front of concrete stairs
  • February 14, 2024 11:04am
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    Art

    Pixel art

    I usedย this photo as my reference for both a 160 x 144 and 64 x 64 pixels versions of this portrait. I went for a more anime art style, which made the likeness suffer a bit.
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    pixel art portrait of a laughing young girl, both large and small versions
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