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Quote yuji Replybullet Topic: Time and effort dedicated to pixeling
    Posted: 12 November 2008 at 7:47pm
I know you're all responsible people..
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Anyways, I want to know how much time do you dedicate in your life to drawing pixel art, and all related activities, such as sketching and stuff.

I'm pretty much sure most of you don't do pixel art for a living, which means that you must do it in your free time, and this will most likely conflict with other activities, which depend on what you do as a main activity, such as homework, your job, your girlfriend/boyfriend/spouse, or in my case, research.

I'm doing pixel art about 1-3 hours every night after I get back from the lab at school, and probably some 5-7 hours every day on my weekends, but this doesn't seem to be enough, and there are so many things I have (not to mention the other things I -want-) to do, I barely have time for pixeling.

What do you think? Everything in life takes time, and I'm pretty much sure that most of the pixel art masters in this page weren't born like that, and that they're masters because they have practiced a lot, which requires enormous amounts of time.

How do you fit pixel art in your life?

Yuji



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Quote greenraven Replybullet Posted: 12 November 2008 at 8:00pm
I do it as hobby. But I'd LOVE to do it for a living.

So yeah, I only pixel when I have the spare time. Sometimes I spend several days pixeling. Sometimes I'll go whole weeks without pixeling. Depends on the amount of free time I have.
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Quote jalonso Replybullet Posted: 12 November 2008 at 8:50pm
I spend every minute possible working at it, as a hobby and as a job.
Practice, practice, practice :)
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Quote greenraven Replybullet Posted: 12 November 2008 at 9:09pm
Yes we remember that issue of Time Magazine. 
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Quote pixelblink Replybullet Posted: 12 November 2008 at 9:28pm
my involvement wains from time to time. Currently I feel fully into the art again. Other times I can barely even think about it.

I just completed some professional pixels recently that have brought me back into the fray... so huzzah!

Regardless, I will always be into some creative endeavor of some sort.
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Quote yuji Replybullet Posted: 12 November 2008 at 10:30pm
These past days I've been drawing well into 3 AM or so, and then I end up either waking up as a zombie, or even missing a whole class because I couldn't wake up early...

But then, it's from 10PM to 2AM that I'm at the (very low for now) peak of my creativity, so it would be a waste to sleep at that time...

Hmm, maybe I should join pixel artists anonymous? ^^
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Quote Zeratanus Replybullet Posted: 17 November 2008 at 12:47pm
Every minute I'm off of work (and a lot of times while I'm at work xD) and school I'm either gaming (less likely these days) or drawing/CGing/Pixeling. Trying to work Writing and Reading into there again slowly too.

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Quote Antiboton Replybullet Posted: 16 December 2008 at 3:50pm
I just draw pixel art when I'm inspired... it is for ages. (I don't know how to say id in english) But when I star I can spend 3 to 5 hours a day.
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