365 days of pixel art • Hacker News Board

Re: 365 days of pixel art

#31

Post by eigenbom » Fri, Jun 26, 2015, 12:20 AM UTC

ZenoArrow wrote: post #19

eigenbom wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Pixel art has a 'digitalness' to it that attracts me, but I can enjoy any style that is done well. A recent vector art game that blew me away, for example, was Hohokum. Pixel art may be overdone but I think it's a pretty flexible art form and has a long way to travel yet. Just in the last year I've seen a lot of new and different styles, some of which are already appearing in games.

Talking of different styles, I think Cuphead looks incredible... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TjUPXAn2Rg

I agree :)

Re: 365 days of pixel art

#32

Post by eigenbom » Fri, Jun 26, 2015, 12:21 AM UTC

chazu wrote: post #17

I've enjoyed #pixeldailies immensely. Its one of the few things on my twitter feed that consistently brings me joy. Its also motivational - though I haven't tried my hand at pixel art, I've been drawing at least a little bit every day. Thanks for the pixels!

Great, I'm glad so many people seem to enjoy it! :)

Re: 365 days of pixel art

#33

Post by eigenbom » Fri, Jun 26, 2015, 12:23 AM UTC

cxa wrote: post #28

Nice work. If you're into this sort of thing, you might also appreciate https://instagram.com/pxlpeeps/ , though the style is more constrained, and the focus is on pop culture characters.

Neat :)

I'm also reminded of http://davegrey.net/tagged/pixel-art and http://iotacons.blogspot.com.au/ wrt small pixel art drawings from pop culture. It's amazing that you can capture character in so few pixels sometimes.

Re: 365 days of pixel art

#34

Post by eigenbom » Fri, Jun 26, 2015, 12:30 AM UTC

potomak wrote: post #20

Great project! I'd like to tell to everyone who want to start drawing pixel art, I built a very simple tool to get started with this technique: http://drawbang.com . Try it, give me your feedback, and share your pixel art masterpieces!

Neat :)

I definitely need a right-click colour picker (or shift-click) to work more easily. Can I suggest cutting back your GUI, removing that 3d look, or if you like it too much, then making the pixel art pictures also be 3d like that.

Also your palette is way too saturated. Check out something like http://androidarts.com/palette/16pal.htm for a much nicer set of colours.

Re: 365 days of pixel art

#35

Post by potomak » Sat, Jun 27, 2015, 5:22 PM UTC

tantalor wrote: post #21

potomak wrote: post #20

Great project! I'd like to tell to everyone who want to start drawing pixel art, I built a very simple tool to get started with this technique: http://drawbang.com . Try it, give me your feedback, and share your pixel art masterpieces!

Er, why can I move right or up but not left or down?

Because I was lazy and you can move left or down by 1 by moving right or up by 15 :)

Re: 365 days of pixel art

#36

Post by potomak » Sat, Jun 27, 2015, 5:27 PM UTC

eigenbom wrote: post #34

potomak wrote: post #20

Great project! I'd like to tell to everyone who want to start drawing pixel art, I built a very simple tool to get started with this technique: http://drawbang.com . Try it, give me your feedback, and share your pixel art masterpieces!

Neat :) I definitely need a right-click colour picker (or shift-click) to work more easily. Can I suggest cutting back your GUI, removing that 3d look, or if you like it too much, then making the pixel art pictures also be 3d like that. Also your palette is way too saturated. Check out something like http://androidarts.com/palette/16pal.htm for a much nicer set of colours.

Nice, thanks for the suggestions!

I definitely must find some time to make a lot of planned features/fixes. See a list of them at https://github.com/potomak/drawbang/issues.