Human Maggot

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Human Maggot



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Title: Human Maggot
Pixel Artist: gawrone  (Level 11 Pixeljoint :: 95180 points)
Posted: 3/24/2024 08:31
Palette: 24 colors
Statistics:  39 comments    68 faves    0 avatars

I started to work on this piece in November, so it took almost five months to finish, but there was a long period when I wasn't touching it at all because I was so tired of it.

It is the third part of what became a series. I've discovered three constant themes in all of them: "growing", "cross-section", and some form of "misanthropy". It was not intentional, but from now on I will start including them deliberately because I identify with them and it's a good way to unify the series, and I'm really curious where they will take me.

First piece and second one, for comparison.


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khud0 (Level 2 Flatfoot) @ 6/8/2024 04:57

Mind-blowing art! Also, 666x666  


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gawrone (Level 11 Pixeljoint) @ 4/19/2024 02:59

Thank you. It's a very slow roll, but at least it keeps moving.


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Theoden (Level 11 Special Agent) @ 4/16/2024 14:55

Another excellent work, you are on a roll buddy! :D


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gawrone (Level 11 Pixeljoint) @ 3/31/2024 05:33

@Oldfashioned you are very kind. I'm glad you like the piece.


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gawrone (Level 11 Pixeljoint) @ 3/31/2024 05:31

@DracoDragon42 I'm very flattered. I belive we, here on Pixel Joint, are all about "pixel art as something more than just old game sprites".


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specialmin64 (Level 7 Assassin) @ 3/30/2024 08:52

@gawrone I hadn't realized you only joined in 2019! Looking through your gallery, the improvement is really marked, with one big "jump" happening in 2019 and another in 2023. You might be right about the elements I mentioned dating back to your swamp thing drawings, but I think I started recognizing it as a trademark style on "NSFA"... If I'd seen this pic with no attribution whatsoever, I'd have still immediately known you painted it


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gawrone (Level 11 Pixeljoint) @ 3/30/2024 04:20

@specialmin64, you made me think about it again. I enjoy browsing through artist galleries to watch how their style develops through years. Thanks to your comment, I tried to do this to myself. It's not easy, becasue I do not post chronologically. I mix up pieces from work, which have to wait, with pieces I do for myself, which I publish instantly. But the elements you are referring to may be traced back to the Pixelween 2021.

The composition is two basic types of it mixed up together. I did that in thre previous piece and I liked the result, so I did it again. www.muddycolors.com/2021/04/15-types-of-composition/


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Oldfashioned (Level 3 Chief) @ 3/30/2024 02:00

It certainly is repulsive, but not enough to keep me from being fascinated by the details and amazed by the skill involved.


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DracoDragon42 (Level 3 Mi-Go (The Whisperer in Darkness)) @ 3/29/2024 21:56

WOW. Amazing and wonderful piece. The use of color here is incredibly and theres so much detail. This is a really good piece to show how far you can take pixel art as a medium. Definitely going to add it to my list of pixel art to show people when I want them to see pixel art as something more than just old game sprites. Really incredible work, and probably one of my favorite pixel art pieces ever now!


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specialmin64 (Level 7 Assassin) @ 3/29/2024 16:53

in a way, I suppose this is an incremental improvement of elements from previous pieces like "Lies of P Demake" and "NSFA", which are quite good in their own right, but I still think it's your best. All the elements (slimy viscera, tiny corpse men, mottled colors) are synergized and executed perfectly. The composition makes an immediate impact too, I could see it as a real album cover


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gawrone (Level 11 Pixeljoint) @ 3/29/2024 12:34

Getting praise from artists you look up to is like healthy sweets.


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Morganne (Level 6 Tsathoggua (The Horror in the Museum)) @ 3/29/2024 04:34

All I saw was the preview text before I decided that this must be a piece by you. Anyway, I love it, its beautiful.


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Umbohr (Level 7 Merfolk) @ 3/29/2024 04:09

I love when people read too much into everything   (edit : specialmin64 not StevenM sorry) comment saying this was your best piece had me thinking alot about it, and i definitely think this is an amazing piece, the textures, flow/energy, framing even, I love it, but I think the Crows one better speaks to me. (Proof is that I Didn't comment on the Crow one because it left me absolutely speechless )

(By no mean i'm saying that this one is lesser than the crow one, just that you reached another level where we focus less on the technical greatness and more about the theme and the meaning. Congrats and keep up)


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gawrone (Level 11 Pixeljoint) @ 3/29/2024 01:04

@Umbohr, I hope I'm not reading too much in to a joke. So please forgive me if my reply is too serious. I wanted to say that I identify with 3 ideas all those pieces share in sense that it is my adequate expression.

First one is growing. The tree in the first one, the grass in the second one and dead bodies growing inside of the belly of the giant larvae.

Cross-section is the second idea. To cut something is the quickest, most brutal and painful, but also most simple way to open it and look inside to understand it. Like the gordian knot.

I do not want to talk much about misanthropy. There are plenty of individual people I love, but let's say I do not hold humanity in the highest regard (especially lately). In the first piece the most important thing is the baby being born into a humanity build on pain and filth somewhere in the middle between the half meted and dysmorphic base/roots and dry and lifeless ends/branches. The second piece is very ecological or anarcho-primitivist even. Shows the hidden costs of industrialism. And this piece is about the idea of disgusting worms growing inside you and killing you from inside, but in reverse, the humans are the actual maggots growing in your guts waiting to burst open, or something like that :3


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gawrone (Level 11 Pixeljoint) @ 3/29/2024 00:35

@MrQuetch Thank you so much for putting so much effort in contemplating my piece and sharing your experience. Reading messages like that adds +100 to motivation.


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Esven (Level 2 Dealer) @ 3/28/2024 15:13

Insanely well done.


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hby (Level 5 Elder Thing (The Mountains of Madness)) @ 3/28/2024 13:15

Amazing, speaking as a fan of both humans and maggots.


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Umbohr (Level 7 Merfolk) @ 3/28/2024 11:07

Disgustingly good. So do you identify with the eventrated Worm being trap in his own guts or with the skeletons already digested by it?


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MrQuetch (Level 6 GBC) @ 3/28/2024 08:16

I was shocked when I first saw this piece. A mix of both amazing and disgusting. It's the kind that made me sit there longer, studying everything in your art. At first, I thought there were two bugs, but as I write this - I can clearly see now it is the one bug with a giant split down its stomach - with skeletons inside trying to escape; or so it seems. You picked a great resolution because you were able to pack so much detail in there, such as the strings hanging from the edges, and even the thicker bubbly ones which are much more stressed than the smaller ones. The contrast between whites, purples, blacks, and reds is huge. This really is a fantastic piece! I especially love the bleeding pixels in your preview.


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gawrone (Level 11 Pixeljoint) @ 3/27/2024 14:23

You shall love your pixels as you love your neighbours pixels.

The Book of Antialiasher 22:22


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SmilingMustache (Level 4 Button Man) @ 3/27/2024 13:47

And may every Pixelartist tremble before his presence,as this marterpiece is an art he gave up upon developing, and it is still better than 90% of all we can do using everything we have. Oh lord of the pixel please shower thy mercy upon our poor souls.

Pixelations 20:12


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Irenaart (Level 10 HP Lovecraft (Author)) @ 3/27/2024 09:26

Wow! Some amazing PA my friend! Sick, but amazing..


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gawrone (Level 11 Pixeljoint) @ 3/26/2024 15:14

@warpixel, that's great, because I'm in the fanclub of yourself.


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gawrone (Level 11 Pixeljoint) @ 3/26/2024 15:11

@Flinigan, drawing those reflecions forced me to work on my high contrast fear. 


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gawrone (Level 11 Pixeljoint) @ 3/26/2024 15:05

Thank you Duke!


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warpixel (Level 3 Stalker) @ 3/26/2024 13:38

You did it again! Huge fan right here.


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Flinigan (Level 6 Bird) @ 3/26/2024 11:26

morbidly nice artwork! I really enjoy how you did the reflected light especially! Theme in line with the 666x666 canvases as well =P


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DukeDarer (Level 4 Scientist) @ 3/26/2024 05:23

Wow!!!


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gawrone (Level 11 Pixeljoint) @ 3/26/2024 02:12

@Luca, I'm getting hungry too.
Just need a cool font and a fast food ad is done
(if you allow me to quote your phrase).


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gawrone (Level 11 Pixeljoint) @ 3/26/2024 02:06

Thanks elwis


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Luca (Level 5 Trash) @ 3/26/2024 01:24

Mmmm gooey and glossy. Love it.


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elwis (Level 2 Flatfoot) @ 3/25/2024 15:05

This is a masterpiece! I can't imagine how one can draw like this.


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gawrone (Level 11 Pixeljoint) @ 3/25/2024 12:20

Mission accomplished 


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had0c (Level 3 Stalker) @ 3/25/2024 06:27

That's pretty disgusting in more than one way 


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gawrone (Level 11 Pixeljoint) @ 3/25/2024 02:11

@bluexel, I would say that an attempt at polishing was made for sure, and did take a lot of time, but it is nowhere near of the ideal. I left it very raw, because I need to move on with my life :P (read - start another piece).


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gawrone (Level 11 Pixeljoint) @ 3/25/2024 02:09

Thank you Mune.


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bluexel (Level 6 Tsathoggua (The Horror in the Museum)) @ 3/24/2024 18:37

To polish such a big piece is really a hard,long work,but it deserved,really beautiful colour contrast and detail mindblow!


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Mune (Level 2 Tulip) @ 3/24/2024 17:27

Absolutely insane. I have no words! 


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