• Okay, web devs, artists, and other creatives who use colors, it’s time to rethink HSL color theory and adopt color theory based on perception! Here is what convinced me: YT video, blog read, web app.

  • Such a tiny canvas to play with, yet I made something interesting nonetheless for the Divoom community.

    A pixel art representation of a blue handheld gaming console with a grid design on the screen.
  • The Tenth Doctor gets a strange signal on his T.A.R.D.I.S. monitor: “What. What … WHAT!?”

    A person in a suit looks at a small monitor displaying a pixelated image of a cartoon character.
  • I hope you don’t mind I’ve used your avatar for my little pixel animation. @peterw

    A pixel art portrait of a person wearing glasses surrounded by red hearts is framed by animated drawings and text celebrating Happy Hug Day with a message promoting love and hugs.
  • In prep for reaching level 10 in the Divoom community (probably early next week), I’ve upgraded 🤖 yesterday’s Doctor. It’s a still from a 24 frames animation, running on my Pixoo64 as I’m typing this. Me happy 😊

    A pixel art character resembling a doctor, holding a tool and standing next to text that reads LEVEL X and WHO 10TH DOCTOR.
  • Sneak peak of an animation I’ve been working on today.

    A pixel art character in a blue coat stands in front of a large X with the word LEVEL above.
  • I suppose even for pixel art it’s sometimes smart to do a sketch before putting little blocks on a canvas.

    A sketched character in a suit is labeled LEVEL with surrounding faded images, including a LEGO figurine and a person in a long coat.
  • I already made this pixel drawing in 2022, and I uploaded it to the Divoom community. Apparently, they’re having a lot of inappropriate artwork over there, since it has to be approved first, which takes a day or so.

    A pixelated portrait in grayscale is displayed within an ornate frame.
  • If you’re rage-quitting from a service, and think that’s going to influence the maintainers, think who the service will be maintained for after you’ve left—spoiler, not you, who left and is of no longer a concern to anyone but yourself.

  • It seems I’m on my way back from a hip injury. I may even run the Rotterdam Marathon this year, though with readjusted expectations. I couldn’t put in the hours and am seriously overweight now. Still, it’s nice to enjoy life again without constant pain. Against expectations, it made time fly.

  • I made this 64x64 pixels portrait before, and I thought my skill has advanced enough to try to improve it. It’s for the Divoom community, titled Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.

    A pixelated, stylized artwork depicts a smiling face with curly hair against a dark background.
  • It isn’t hard to find articles on what to draw (drawing ideas). The hard part is to make a drawing that is as specific as possible, since anyone can draw a tree shape as an oval on top of a rectangle. Making it then more look like a tree like no other tree is the challenging part.

  • Listening to the series about sexual depravities and general mischief of Roman emperors in the The Rest is History podcast makes me think of the current (clearly) autocratic leader of America. I wonder, will he become the first US emperor?

  • A shrunken and improved version of an earlier piece I did for Pixel Dailies, prompted “paperweight.” This one I did for the Divoom community.

    A pixel art depiction of a smiling white cat wearing a red collar is displayed on a square digital screen.
  • For a contest by a user in the Divoom community. It’s my cat Maahir, a Muslim name which means skilled, skilful, proficient, experienced, clever, genius, and fits him perfectly. I used two photos as my reference, and the rest is drawn as in-betweens, with motion blur.

    A pixel art depiction of an orange cat rolling from side to side is accompanied by the text my favorite animal.
  • Only a week ago I reached level 7 in the Divoom community and told myself to pace myself with interacting with the app. How did that turn out? I’ve reached level 8 today. ’Nuff said.

    A framed artwork features pixel art with the text I've reached level eight! on a textured wall.
  • My entry for Divoom’s 2025 Hugging Day, with the description:

    There are other ways to show love than through embrace. Not everyone is a hugging person. Love isn’t an emotion; it’s a promise to take care of one another, despite what feelings are at play right now.

    A pixelated word HUG appears at the center with a colorful pattern background, surrounded by strawberries, flowers, and bows. It then animates into anagrams of the word, HUG, GHU, and UGH.
  • 我在中国除夕夜获得了跑步锻炼的徽章!

    Two stylized oranges with red diamond shapes are set inside an orange hexagon with 2025 written on a red banner.
  • Seeing how much effort it took to make this animation, I gave it away as a free template to the Divoom community for use in someone’s own projects, with a requirement to mention my username in the description. We will see if this has any legs…

    A pixel animation of an alternating blue and orange colored circle rotating on a pink background.
  • Some pixel art animation for the Divoom community I came up with in a few hours.

    A pixel art image of an alternating purple cat with blue eyes and orange cat with yellow eyes is displayed on a digital frame.