Late happy new years!

I come back and check purely to see people older than me, which gets increasingly more difficult on the rest of the internet but PJ never lets me down

Happy new years

The first one. Never played through it before but definitely enjoying it

I'm playing Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak on the weekends with some friends and am enjoying it a lot.

Was a huge fan of the PSP era MH games up to MHFU and came back to the seriens with MHW, which felt a bit disappointing (still enjoyed it tho) so I'm glad I'm getting a lot out of the current game.

Other than that i have a baldurs gate save that is waiting for me to return but haven't managed to set time aside for it (not because of busy but because of terrible time management)

The name "oekaki" comes from the program which was an old in-browser drawing program that was integrated into imageboards and such. The old standard brush of it was binary (without AA) which resulted in the pieces often displaying visible pixels, just like when you draw with a binary brush in any other program.

Around pixel art communities the term established itself (much to my dismay since it has nothing to do with the program itself) to stand for drawings or paintings with binary brushes that result in visible pixels but without the pixel level care put into them.

There was a decent amount of the actual oekaki art (that was done in the actual program) had some pixel level touch up too, not necessarily to make it more into "pixel art" but rather to clean up the more faulty looking strokes.

Of course you can make a pixel art piece in oekaki from ground up or clean a drawing up until it becomes one just as in any other drawing software I'm aware of.

But also considering how the program was used for the most part (in imageboards etc) the aspect that i think resonated most with it was the community part and sharing drawings quickly which is great and has its own merrit. It was the social drawing experience before things like drawpile and their serverside equivalents really took off.

The word itself means "drawing", but since japanese has some other more common words for that I'm not sure if it may have a more nuanced meaning to it.

Regardless drawing with binary brush is a lot of fun imo and drawing and painting in general helps ramp up your understanding of more universal art concepts.

I think calling it pixel art is a disservice to the its strengths because from that perspective it gets reduced to "more chaotic pixel art" while when seen as its own thing it's not chaotic anymore since the judgment criteria becomes the stroke and overall craftsmanship, not the pixel

I wrote a big novel at first but decided to try to spare you all and instead made a summary of what i tried to write - altho I'm tired so excuse in advance if i worded something weirdly

• to me "pixel art" means that a piece is mostly done with care on a pixel by pixel level. Which doesn't mean each pixel is placed individually or even relates to any tool as much as it relates to a certain level of mindfulness to pixel level details for a lack of a better way to describe it. Doing a few elements that themselves aren't pixel art (like a transparence sunbeam or windows with gradients) doesn't make the rest not-pixel-art
• i understand and accept that people less nerdy than me use the term "pixel art" more to describe art that has visible pixels.
• I don't think pixel level care makes an art piece necessarily better, it's just about whether it's pixel art or not. I think a lot of the spice in these kind of arguments come from calling a piece not pixel art sounds like it's degrading the overall value of the piece which i don't agree with.
• I see this place as a place for pixel nerds with the more puritan definition of pixel art. It's a relatively small and pretty niche community so i also never understood the gatekeeping argument in PJ's specific case
• that said despite having a more puritan definition myself i still enjoy "oekaki" art (i dislike the term tho) and more experimental pieces with a broader definition. I also like to draw with a binary brush, just that i wouldn't call it PA.
• also I'm very against holding up puritan arguments at places outside of dedicated places like this, whenever i see someone argue about it in places like twitter i die a little inside.

tl;dr i think puritan pixel art as well as pieces that push the definition are cool and have their place but i also think this is the place for the more puritan pieces

I realize i crammed in some points from past discussions about these topics that weren't brought up now specifically so forgive the tangents (i blame my sleepyness) but i think they are still related enough (and people here are familiar enough with them) to leave them in (and go to bed, good night!)

That was cute.

Also i take that as approval of my suggestion!

a waterslide would be cool.

i haven't figured out the excuse- i mean reasoning for having it in a gallery yet but I'm sure it will enhance the experience and appreciation for art!

nice full moon

Impressive...

Happy new year!

The problem i mean is not the wrong gallery link but when someone clicks the second page and it shows the second page of my favs instead of my arts

My main gripe with that bug is when you share your gallery with someone outside of PJ, i don't want anyone to assume i made the great art in my favorites but i also don't always want to put a disclaimer explaining PJ's behaviour about it that most people won't bother reading anyway...

Legends say that mods have to perform a summoning ritual including sacrifices and other questionable actions each time they attempt to contact the sedge

i gotta say looking at the chatterbox after a long time and reading about technical problems with the site has a homely feeling to it :D

It used this template

The old instructions about what to do where here.

If you want technical insight how the site works to display them you better ask Ennea/Crow who made the site since i only understand the theory not the actual code part :)

Ironically reading about this makes me want to do a partial turn around (spoiler: i won't).

I have an aversion to backgrounds/scenes but sounds like a fun challenge regardless.

Btw pixonomicon made something, somewhat related:

link to all entries (you click on one room and then can move the view by holding the mouse button, close with the x at the bottom text)

my entry as example and shameless plug

Better late than never 

Very cute~~

Looking forward to some kiwis!

poggy woggy my dude

Happy birthday Hapiel

@Theo
Oh, I remember tha from Blazing Dragons on the PS

Happy belated birthday Cyangmou and Mandrill

Hope you both had a good one!