Yes I know, I have too many projects at the moment.
But don't worry, I can handle it, I might even make a (worthy) weekly challenge entry.

Anyway, I do not need your critique on this thing so much. Id prefer your support much more.
What I am going to do? Ill keep it a mystery for as long as possible. For your pleasure
The first one who Guesses what I am going to do gets a cookie :)

Anyway lets continue to the artwork



Do not bother to discuss the choice of colors. I wont change them anyway :)

My restrictions:

38x38
3 colors (these 3)
Max 635 pixels of the darkest shade
Max 455 pixels of the middle shade
Max 368 pixel of the lightest shade.

Currently I use
634 dark,
455 mid,
355 light.

All your comments are welcome, but please keep in mind that I might not be able to modify everything because of these restrictions.

I need your support to finish this. In return ill keep posting updates :)

MrLollige

Of course I won't hate you for it! Actually, I even really like the raised nose :)
For the record: Your piece did contain however 2 light pixels too much ;)


Ha, I have just started ;)


As I said, I can not change my palette :). Yes, the contrast will be a problem later on.

Anyway, due to a little material problem my progress is delayed. (yes, materials for pixel art o/O)
Most of what I am going to use now is here, with exception of the canvas xD
But because I have bought quite a lot of stuff already there is no way back. So I will finish this, no matter how long it takes.

Wondering already what I am up to?
I might post some pictures tonight, because I am planning to start on cleaning my pixels :)

New image:







Edited by Lollige - 25 March 2009 at 9:12am

I agree, small pallets are like a fetish to me...almost like bondage.

But I still don't like the choice of colours. Contrast...
Now where's this picture you making with materials. I presume paper block cuttings on a canvas are going to appear some time?

Also you say you've only started? so is it going to be like a huge project with loads of pieces with this colour pallet stuck on to a piece of canvas or what's going on?

Here, fixed the ear kinda

You should really know your facial anatomy!

I'm going to college too. But I can't do art there as I didn't do it as a GCSE. Looks like I'll be teaching myself for life XD

Well, Sounds fun. Restrictions and cleaning? Looking forward to see.

No, ministeck would not be original enough for me ;). Also, there are more than 3 colors on that right? However, it is true that my number of pixels limit is because I have so many things of that color.
well color... Actually, all my pixels have the same color xD

I thought you were younger :p

Anyway, I tried to clean my dark pixels, but that did not had the amount of effect I wanted. It did deliver me some nice pictures. But posting those would remove all mysteries ;)
I am not sure yet if I am going to clean my lighter pixels too.

All the stuff I am going to use:


Hehe, hard to see what it is right?
I actually started measuring things too. Might start pasting today even.
Ill keep you updated!

Mosaic would not be very original too. Of course, dithering in mosaic is new, but there are a thousand of mosaic artists doing this much better than I ever can do xD

Anyway, I really got myself in to something that takes a lot of time.
The progress consists of 2 things:
Preparing pixels
Placing pixels

I have just started on preparing pixels.. I can prepare a full row of 38 pixels in about 6 minutes if I do it very quickly. That means I will spend at least 4 hours on preparing pixels. Now I believe that placing pixels will take about 1.5 times as long.. so that makes.. 10 hours of working.
Oh that sounds doable. But when I am actually working, it goes soo slow xD
10 hours of working on a 38x38 piece. I will get patient for sure :). But placing pixels is much easier than preparing pixels. So as soon as preparing is ready, I can just place a few pixels whenever I get home or so, and I don't have to sit down for at least 10 minutes.

My feet, together with my work


Zoomed in on my work, you can see the pixel preparation :)



Ill give a tiny hint: Whatever happens to this project, the result will be valuable.

You are getting closer


Take in mind that everything I say is a hint ;)

The squares you see are photo stickers. Which actually are precut pieces of double sided tape yes :)

Well.. I think I can see 3 cups on the first picture you've posted with what looks like 5 euro cents coins.. But I don't get the 3 color effect (or you are using 4 coins for dark areas and 1 coin for light areas) <---- note to self: that's called dithering idiot

Ok so you're using new (shiny) coins and older (not so shiny anymore coins) and something in between?

Both are wrong.

Well well, we have a little Scrooge McDuck here . But still I can't figure out the different color approach. Or are you tilting the coins in different directions?

How many coins per pixel?

Your eyes are too high on his head.
The top of his head is too small.

It looks quite messy to me.
You dropped right into detail and volumes without actually getting the lines right.

Your using depth right? 1 coin for darker areas and a 3 coin stack for darker areas.

i would use gum or super glue


Edited by geminoid - 29 March 2009 at 12:57am

Looks very cool and original!!I'm looking forward to see the end result.

Ha! See you never said you had 1's and 2's too! I thought you only had 5's. And ewww at the nekkid feet .

But hell, man that looks like a painful job you're doing there. You might want to go to a Gamma and buy some 24,563 second glue, or buy a glue gun and put a drop of that stuff underneath each coin because I don't think the coins will stay on there if you lift the board.


Edited by Club Beuker - 30 March 2009 at 1:46am

this looks reeeealy cool but isnt it hard to do with coins ?? they dont come in wery many colours :P

Indeed I am. It is hard to see the difference now, but on the camera where I had a very small image the effect was visible already! Ill just have to wait until more is finished, and than take a look at it from a distance :)

I just finished the third row, for the next row ill use a stopwatch to see how long it takes. (LONG!)

The last line took me 24 minutes.
4 rows done now.

It means that I have around 14 more hours to go.. :p

you still look like a chick to me dan.

D:

My brother, I complained about not having any pictures of myself working (with nekkid feet). Yesterday someone said ewww your feet too btw. They always are nekkid. (and so they get ewwww). But the person who said that should not complain. Because of what she did with her own feet. Anway, back on topic: ... ill make some more rows -_-

are you still working on this?

I've always wanted to do some pixel-kind experiment like this!
Good luck man, it will look awesome!

as I said, next weekend ill work on it again, a lot most likely, and I have 2 weeks of vacation mostly unfilled after that, so I expect it to be at least half done afterwards. Be patient :D