April 14, 2022 10:20am

Rene van Belzen

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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April 13, 2022 8:26pm

Rene van Belzen

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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April 13, 2022 11:38am

Rene van Belzen

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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April 12, 2022 3:15pm

Rene van Belzen

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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April 12, 2022 1:56pm

Rene van Belzen

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.

April 12, 2022 1:00pm

Rene van Belzen

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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April 12, 2022 9:18am

Rene van Belzen

Practicing pixel art animation.
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April 11, 2022 5:09pm

Rene van Belzen

Pixel art for today’s Pixel Dailies in April Fool’s Month. The theme was “pirate”.
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April 11, 2022 9:35am

Rene van Belzen

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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April 10, 2022 6:06pm

Rene van Belzen

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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April 10, 2022 2:40pm

Rene van Belzen

Pixel art 🚧 I suppose I drew a horse-drawn “mobile home,” aka gipsy caravan.
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April 10, 2022 9:58am

Rene van Belzen

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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April 9, 2022 6:18pm

Rene van Belzen

Pixel art for Pixel Dailies, theme “rainbow tree.” I never heard before of an Eucalyptus deglupta, aka rainbow tree.
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April 9, 2022 2:40pm

Rene van Belzen

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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April 9, 2022 9:54am

Rene van Belzen

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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April 8, 2022 9:13pm

Rene van Belzen

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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April 8, 2022 6:27pm

Rene van Belzen

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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April 8, 2022 2:04pm

Rene van Belzen

Pixel art. I refined the previous drawing, and made it into a funny statement. It’s a non-serious 😉 Star Wars/Trek 🌌🖖 crossover. I find it curious how publishing makes me see any flaws I didn’t notice beforehand.
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April 8, 2022 11:54am

Rene van Belzen

Pixel art 🚧 So this is my practice piece for today, being the 8th day of April Fool’s Month. It’s called “Obi-Wan 💩🪐” It was a lot of running around, but I’m still pleased with it, in a funny way.
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April 8, 2022 10:14am

Rene van Belzen

Pixel art 👾🚧 On the 8th day of April Fool’s Month I chose Obi-Wan to be my only hope 🌌 It’s not finished, but the head is. I didn’t trace, which explains why it took 2.5 hours to draw it. It’s drawn in Pixaki, an iPad app.
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