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  • Running

    Yesterday I did another long run, 26 km with 20 km at marathon tempo. This doesn’t sound all too impressive, until you consider what came before (32 km a week before, 23 km 4 days before). See my training session on Strava. It felt like a race.

    photo of me running, taken by a friend who happened to ride his bike here

  • Art

    Pixel art

    For r/SketchDaily. Off-topic: “News headline.” I obviously misread today’s theme, which is: “Not the onion” (alt theme: onion), and pick a weird headline to illustrate. Nah, I stuck with positivity instead. There’s enough downbeat “news” around. India reached the Moon–unlike Russia–in one piece 👏
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    pixel art for Game Boy Advance (240 by 160 pixels, 4 colors, drawn in 2u52m), illustrating a news headline, a successful rocket launch over the India national flag
  • doublely cushioned cat

  • Art

    Pixel art

    I updated my Reddit avatar (was alt theme on August 23, 2023). It’s 144 x144 pixels, 8 colors, which would fit easily on a Game Boy Advance screen. It illustrates my username, Rasheedity. It’s a mashup between the default Reddit alien and a pony I drew earlier this week.
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    pixel art of MLP pony with a Reddit antenna on its head, looking joyful

  • Art

    Pixel art

    For r/SketchDaily. Theme: Movie Week Free Draw Finale, where you draw a favorite that wasn’t mentioned. I chose “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, with a twist. Drawing time: 7 hours in several sessions. Pixel art for Game Boy Advance (240 x160 pixels, 32 colors).
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    pixel art with movie scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark, where Indiana Jones is replaced by a cartoon rabbit

  • Art

    Pixel art

    Two days ago I felt I hadn’t the chops to draw a pony in MLP style to illustrate my Reddit username for r/SketchDaily. Today I remedied that omission by doing just that, draw a pony, in glorious 4-colors 160 by 144 pixels Game Boy art.
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    pixel art of an MLP pony

  • Art

    Pixel art

    For r/SketchDaily. Theme: “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” He’s literally in a frame, together with a Flash animated MyLittlePony, and videogame Mario. Pixel art for Game Boy Advance (240 x 160 pixels, 32 colors). Drawing time: 5u24m.
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    pixel art of a frame with Roger Rabbit, somepony, and Mario in it

  • Art

    Pixel art

    For r/SketchDaily. Theme: “The Muppet Christmas Carol.” I didn’t want to blatantly copy an image from the Internet, so I did sloppy environment drawing and then tried to fix it the best I could. Pixel art for Game Boy Advance (240 x 160, 32 colors).

    Added a dancer with 🎩
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    pixel art of the London square in the Muppet Christmas movie

  • Art

    Pixel art

    For r/SketchDaily. Alt Theme Reddit name illustrated. Actually, it was made for r/MLPDrawingSchool, because it was big 11 years ago, “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.” My pony drawing skills have been worsened since.
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    Pixel art of cartoon cat portrait

  • Art

    Originally I wanted to mash up all these shows for my Galaxy Quest r/SketchDaily theme, which would have been to ambitious for a one-day challenge:

    • Doctor Who
    • Farscape
    • Quantum Leap
    • Aliens
    • Lost in Space
    • Galaxy Quest
    • Battlestar Galactica
    • Star Wars
    • Babylon 5
    • Star Trek
    • Stargåte
    11 SF movie and tv series logos

  • I wasn’t aware disboard.org was a thing for exploring the Discord universe of communities.

  • Art

    Pixel art

    For r/SketchDaily, theme Galaxy Quest. Pixel art for Game Boy Advance (240 x 160, 32 colors). I decided to do a mash-up of the logo’s of Galaxy Quest, Star Wars, and Star Trek.
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    pixel art illustration of Galaxy Quest logo in Star Wars letter effect and with Star Trek laurels around the Galaxy Quest badge, with a star field chockablock with stars

  • Running

    Yesterday I ran 32 km in 3h46m (see my Strava) as a part of my fall marathon preparation. I was quite exhausted at the end, so I need to do it again to be sure. The marathon is end of October.

    narrow straight dirt road with bike lane alongside asphalt road alongside a waterway year market in the village of Woensdrecht forest path with the sun beating down

  • Art

    Pixel art

    For r/SketchDaily. Alt theme Donkey Kong. Pixel art Game Boy Advance (240 x 160, 32 colors).
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    pixel art of Donkey Kong offering flowers

  • Art

    Pixel art

    Studying shadow on a ball in pixel art. This isn’t easy, and probably full of mistakes.
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    pixel art of a ball with a shadow

  • Art

    Pixel art

    Pixel art for r/SketchDaily. Alt theme Olympics. Game Boy Advance pixel art (240 x 160, 32 colors).
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    pixel art of olympic rings with 5 favorite sports in them, gymnastics, track and field, water polo, volleybal, and swimming

  • Art

    Pixel art

    Pixel art for r/SketchDaily, alt theme The Matrix. I decided to make a simple animation with some text and graphics. However, the subreddit doesn’t allow animated GIF, it seems, so I shared one frame instead. Game Boy image format, 160 x 144, 4 colors.
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    pixel art animation of an expanding square, a choice between a red and blue pill, and the cryptic text You Are the One.

  • Art

    Pixel art

    Practicing pixel art… I continued working on yesterday’s pixel art in Pixaki (it rocks!) To do it justice I’ll need a proper pixel editor like Aseprite, the industry standard. Ah well, tools not art make. If I happen to become a pro, buying a Mac will make much more sense.
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    pixel art of my cat Aziz, both the original and his head 3 times enlarged, pixel-wise

  • Art

    Pixel art

    When I saw Pixaki could use the iPad’s pasteboard, I tried copy-and-pasting existing pixel art into Procreate, which has an 1-pixel brush installed. I enlarged the original three times, recreated the color palette, and drew over it in a new layer. I can see that having value, though it’s very slow.
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    screenshot of Procreate app on iPad, showing pixels drawn over 3 times enlarged original.

  • Did a quick search on payment processors and the industry leaders are Stripe and PayPal. For micro-payments (which I’m interested in, anything less than $10 USD, for letting people support my art), PayPal seems best suited, esp’ly for someone outside the US, as I am. Stripe beats PayPal otherwise.