My work (Introducing myself)
Printed From: Pixel Joint
Category: Pixel Art
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Printed Date: 09 September 2025 at 12:38am
Topic: My work (Introducing myself)
Posted By: Game & Watch
Subject: My work (Introducing myself)
Date Posted: 29 May 2009 at 1:56pm
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Hello, members of Pixeljoint! I registered here a few days ago, and you've managed to impress me really well. I registered mostly because I need feedback and tips on how to improve my pixelling. What do you have to do to become a better pixelartist? What programs do you use? Anyways, I'll start by introducing myself: Ever since I got my first cellphone, a Sony Ericsson T610 for about... 5 years ago, I've been interested in making pictures pixel for pixel. I was quite good at drawing, epecially for my age (was about 12). And when I found out my cellphone had a drawing program, I started pixelling. So, these pictures are made by a 12-year-old on his cellphone:   English title: The Amulet of Samarkand. Book cover: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Amuletsamarkand.jpg - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Amuletsamarkand.jpg  This one was unfortunately never finished..            "SHL" are my initials. And yes, I was quite a Nintendo fan :P (and I still am) Later I have only been making graphics for my own games. Here's from a topdown game called "Gunther": http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/4300/police.png http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/4691/vtiles.tif Here's Gunther again, but in platform view: http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/7550/gunther.tif Once again Gunther, but this time it's made for use with fake 3d: http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/7784/prerender.png http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/8066/gunthersprites.png A fake 3d version of Samus Aran from Metroid: http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/3084/samussprite.png Sprites and inventory from a wannabe Age of Empires game: http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/4319/buildersprites.png And last, "The Lonely Pirate": http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/7225/pirate.png Hope you like my work :) I don't really need constructive critisism on the cellphone pictures, but criticism for the last ones would be nice.' |
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 29 May 2009 at 4:28pm
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12yo + cellphone + pixelart = good stuff So which is the new one, Samus? ------------- |
Posted By: Game & Watch
Date Posted: 29 May 2009 at 4:34pm
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Nah, the links at the bottom of my post. They are rather big, so I didn't put them in an [img] tag. |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 29 May 2009 at 4:40pm
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On man, that sux. Please place link to them at least for easy viewing, cuttin' and pastin' hurts. Pixelart in tif format is not cool, png8 or gif (these are the olny file types allowed here for pixelart. ------------- |
Posted By: Game & Watch
Date Posted: 29 May 2009 at 4:49pm
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I've never really understood what the difference between the filetypes is. But then again, I'm selftaught, so there's probably a lot I have missed. I'll reupload tomorrow, I'm tired like.. something that's tired. I tried putting the links into an [url] tag, but it didn't work, for some reason. |
Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 29 May 2009 at 5:36pm
Hey there.  What do you have to do to become a better artist? Practice. And I use MSpaint to draw, Giffy to set transparencies, and unFreeze to animate the individual frames. (Though I should probably upgrade by now.) -------------  "pwnage comes with patience, practice and planning." ~ Jalonso 
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Posted By: BlackDragon
Date Posted: 29 May 2009 at 6:14pm
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And never, ever, EVER turn into a Greenraven.
(He is lazy) ------------- "A little pain never hurt anyone." - Blueberry_Pie |
Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 29 May 2009 at 6:21pm
This is true. I'm not even going to argue that point. 
------------- "pwnage comes with patience, practice and planning." ~ Jalonso
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