A Still Life for Practicing Pixels
Printed From: Pixel Joint
Category: Pixel Art
Forum Name: WIP (Work In Progress)
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Printed Date: 11 September 2025 at 8:41am
Topic: A Still Life for Practicing Pixels
Posted By: chimchooree
Subject: A Still Life for Practicing Pixels
Date Posted: 08 February 2018 at 12:53pm
Colored version: 
Gallery link: http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/118812.htm#c577157 - http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/118812.htm#c577157 Palette: 
Gameboy version: 
My first pixel art is a little still life with a pill box, hand sanitizer, and a tissue box. I made this to learn and picked items with different textures. The first version used the Gameboy palette as many tutorials recommend, then I added color. Pixel art has so many new difficulties like anti-aliasing and avoiding banding, and I am not confident in identifying good and bad examples yet. Also, creating contrast and a vibrant color palette has always been my weakpoint in traditional art, and pixel art turns the difficulty up to 11. My goal is to use pixel art in a Ren'Py visual novel. Some of those Japanese DOS and Win-98 VNs are so lovely and vibrant with such a small palette and canvas, and I would love to make something similar. It would help a lot if you look over my pixels and colors for me! Pixel Joint has so many users with such a great eye for mistakes and successes. |