Ya there was definately a ref. so thats needs to be said up front. secondly the image does look reduced. in the bottom left of the image there is a key point of the picture that shows its reduction... the arched bamboo stick (or what ever the butterfly is standing on) there are quite a few pixels mising. In reduction sometimes pixels are erased or looked over, giving it a very jagged feel.
This was clearly not 100% hand pixeled, and definately had some sort of reference. 1/5 for being un-honest
No offense, but I think tomic and myself have a keener eye for these sort of things than you. Dithereing has nothing to do with it possibly being created using NPA techniques.
do you guys even bother to zoom in? lol you can clearly see the transitions btween colors, where he dithered, and all that. to me doesnt look brused or whatever at all....
what cure said.. i might be wrong, but for me there are a bit too much dotted lines so that it looks like reduced to 1bit and later on slightly colored
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Ya there was definately a ref. so thats needs to be said up front. secondly the image does look reduced. in the bottom left of the image there is a key point of the picture that shows its reduction... the arched bamboo stick (or what ever the butterfly is standing on) there are quite a few pixels mising. In reduction sometimes pixels are erased or looked over, giving it a very jagged feel.
This was clearly not 100% hand pixeled, and definately had some sort of reference. 1/5 for being un-honest