I made this for yesterday’s prompt of Pixel Dailies: #scale. It’s based on my pixel font at original and 300 percent scale. Rotating a plane is some kind of scaling as well. Note that I’m in favor of human made pixel art, as opposed to a purely (and copyright-wise questionable) AI-based version.

I’m trying to make putting text onto my Pixoo64 much easier with (possibly) a pixel font. The matrix is 4 pixels wide and 6 pixels high, so there’s room for 10 lines of 16 characters (64 x 60 pixels in total) on the 64x64 pixels screen. I can has a scroll like in Star Wars 😂

When the clock strikes twelve…

This game is about getting the ball off the platform using the helicopter, yet without crashing it.

Didn’t expect to reach level 11 in the Divoom pixel art community so soon, so I had to put together something in a hurry.

An imbalance of power between a teapot and a teacup.

I imagined how Mega Man would look like sans armor. I can do a turn around of this character to learn more about character development. At least, that’s what I hope will happen. It could all end in disappointment.

I ran my first long endurance run, seven weeks before I want to run the Rotterdam Marathon (April 13). As expected, today wasn’t easy, but I’m confident I will cross the finish line. The injury that was plaguing me since October 2024 seems to have cured itself, by reducing mileage and speed. Yay me!

Since I clearly don’t understand how to construct the head, all I can do is the next best thing, try to learn by osmosis, by doing it often enough. I might develop an intuition for it, while a clear mental picture how to proceed keeps eluding me.

Divoom has a RetroTime2025 art competition, for which this is (one of) my contribution(s), the MITS Altair 8800, which started the personal computer revolution. It was soon followed by the Commodore PET, Atari 400 and 800, and the Apple II, all computers I grew up with, hence “retro” for me.

My new colors are rolling along.

I’m still learning about color palettes, contrast and such. It appears that different mediums have different requirements. Pixel art is very different from, say, quilting. So I edited a piece I did yesterday, making some of the mini-drawings more clear. Five is better than three grades of a color.

I made two noteworthy 64 x 64 pixel art pieces today. These are stills; the Divoom community got the animated versions.

It’s clear to me from these two recent pixel art pieces, that I need to be more patient (and deliberate) with my art. Especially the edges need work, but also the shading, if approaching realism was the goal. It’s pretty much absent or “wrong”, as is the contrast in the overall image.

I’m happy my contribution HUG got an honorable mention in Divoom’s winner announcement of Hug Day 2025 (link to pdf) on Singles Awareness Day.

Just don’t forget to eat your eggplant, or it’ll become a rotten-egg-plant. Pixel art made for the Divoom community.

So, the reason for Apple to maintain a closed App Store that’s completely safe for users has now been debunked. Review your iOS en iPadOS security features and remove any apps you haven’t used in a while and can easily redownload.

Apple Removed Apps Infested With Screen Reading Malware - MacRumors

As I expected, going up a level in the Divoom community is getting harder with each new level. I’m not going to fall for the attempt of the service to make me put in more time than I already am. For me it’s a pastime, not an actual (non-paying) job. Other than that, I can’t make users like my art.

I’m still trying teach myself coloring using color palettes based on human vision instead 19th century art philosophy. My idea that I should’ve mastered it by now was clearly over-estimated. Art as a subject matter is both wide and deep.

For all of you Whovians out there, I made this 64 x 64 pixel art piece for the Divoom community to celebrate me reaching level 10 on that platform.