Some of you may already know Hayo Van Reek, personally I think he is an amazing artist. He has recently created an online portfolio that just takes my breath away. http://www.hayovanreek.nl - have a look at the art section and there is loads of pixel art. What do you think of it? - maybe he should write a tutorial or something

 Yeah, why is this in collabs?

Maybe you should look at the other stuff too, its a shame you don't enjoy his style as much as I do - sorry for posting in the wrong place 

I do pixel a little but i havn't done so for some time

might have some trouble seeing it on a low-contrast monitor lol (its also a bit pillow shaded in places ICK, but like I said: I did it some time ago, the lineart is good, but I don't like the back leg, its too short)

Can't say the welcome has been too nice here, why would I recommend it? I guess I set myself up for it.

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lol well it doesn't help with the spam-like post in the wrong place  - whoops

ok this is going to sounds real noobish - how do you add an avatar lol?

Thanks Monkey 'o Doom - will wait for my avatar to be added. That was my first attempt at dithering by the way

Hey! You're that dude!

I actually agree my site is not something to write home about...tis just my portfolio for the art academy I am on, and my pixelart is pretty mediocre compared to the great stuff here. Maybe I will hang around and try to get better at it.

The welcome just insn't official till Larwick gets to it.

Damm you Larwick

Well I think your work is something to talk about hayo, it might not be amazing in its detail or number of colours (the bernard and hank stuff anyway) but it suits its application perfectly. Really I see no point in pixel art unless your creation is going to serve a purpose, the dragon was more of a dither practice than anything useful, but still pointless  I guess if all you want is fine details then it becomes less useful to any application other than its pretty to look at. Thats a lot of time to spend on something so unrewarding. That may be a little unfair because people do get a lot of satisfaction from creating a good piece of art but then it becomes a showing off contest in many cases which I hate with a passion. I feel being able to apply pixel art for a specific task is more rewarding and should be highlighted more in critiques than it has done in the past.

Thanks for the welcome, hope that was more of an official (yet contraversial) introduction

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...said Teh n00b Hunter.

Pixel art should serve a purpose? l'art pour l'art?

nah, I like doing stuff for games more actually. I don't do them on sheets tho.

Most of my pixelart is graphics for some kind of game project. Game creation gives me enough motives to pixel. Too bad that almost nothing is in game yet...

so far freelancing for me means people tell me to do 3d rendered stuff cuz they don't know what pixelart really means 

Shark- freelancing is great, it means you dont have to think about
what to pixel. i havent pixelled for fun for months now :(

Pixel art is fun even when its for a job. I'm booked solid and still take
a break daily to make my own stuff.

i have loads of creative ideas, just no time.