Had my 2nd booster shot against COVID 💉🦠 Travel took less time than I imagined, despite the train delay and a detour (road construction). I guess I needed 3.5 hours in total. With a car it would’ve been more like 45 minutes. Soon protected against the new omicron variant 😊

It’s official, I’ve turned off the payment renewal of my Wordpress.com site and .blog domain. Both will expire next year. I don’t trust WP’s plans after they announced price increases, and, worse, denounced blogging. They advertize themselves as “website hosting company.”

Pixel art. Today’s Pixel Dailies theme was “hair accessory.” I simply drew closely to the photo reference, though not copying, rather re-interpreting the photo.
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Pixel art 🚧 As a warmup for day 14 of April Fool’s Month, featuring Pixel Dailies, I’m following a YT tutorial on a stylized aquatic bird man. I got as far as these two guides.
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Pixel art. Today’s Pixel Dailies theme was “exploded view.” I made an animation of a running shoe in such a view.
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Pixel art animation. Practicing sub-pixel animation with a 32x32 pixels canvas. It’s supposed to illustrate “storm.” It all started with the umbrella. Don’t many story ideas do? Umbrellas are magical story devices, protecting us from the elements and possible assailants.
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Pixel art for Pixel Dailies, theme “trash.” I threw in two half-eaten apples, some crumpled up paper, a soda can, an Oscar statue, and some indistinguishable bits.
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Got invited for a COVID booster 💉 shot. Clearly people don’t want such stations in their neighborhoods or city centers, so it’s hard to get to, unless you own a car. That’s saying a lot in the Netherlands. It’ll take the whole morning (5 hours) to get there and back home.

Pixel art 🚧 I searched for llama and tried to sketch one in pixels without tracing 🦙 Now waiting for today’s Pixel Dailies theme.
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Practicing pixel art animation.
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Pixel art for today’s Pixel Dailies in April Fool’s Month. The theme was “pirate”.
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Pixel art 🚧 Grasping at straws for ideas on the 11th day of April Fool’s Month is bringing out the honking 🤡 stereotypes. Practicing for Pixel Dailies, later today.
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Pixel art. Wow, this was rather complicated to make! Today’s Pixel Dailies theme was “puzzle.” I made a solvable jigsaw puzzle of Qbert
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Pixel art 🚧 I suppose I drew a horse-drawn “mobile home,” aka gipsy caravan.
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Pixel art. Now I’ve included the description of the Pixel Dailies theme daily in every piece for some time, I suppose it’s time to develop my own (more readable) pixel font. I had an impromptu font, but it wasn’t all that good. This one is—or seems to be—a lot better.
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Pixel art for Pixel Dailies, theme “rainbow tree.” I never heard before of an Eucalyptus deglupta, aka rainbow tree.
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Pixel art 🚧 Today’s practice piece is probably again more elaborate than the actual Pixel Dailies piece. This one is based on Vicky the Viking.
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Pixel art. There’s a lot to know 🙇‍♂️ about lines—curves in general—in this art form, as it is a basic component of drawing and drafting, and the separation the human vision system perceives between differently colored blocks. Smoothing is done selectively with anti-aliasing.
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Pixel art. Today’s Pixel Dailies theme was rather late (hence I had to rush it), and called “cute but deadly.” I opted for a cute knife with a curly pink heft.
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While waiting for the new Pixel Dailies theme, I explored the magic of bitmapped text, as applied to pixel art. I wrote in Adobe Fresco, posterized to 5 levels, then pixeled the letters pixel-by-pixel, with imagination. It hasn’t received anti-aliasing, which is tricky.
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