Thank you! It's a fun technique to use.

Thank you very much! Even with pixels you can sometimes blend too much. So I try to pay attention to that and sometimes I'll rework an area to a more clipped style if it starts getting too fuzzy. Finding the right focus can take a bit of time but it's worth it!

It's certainly not an easy palette to handle... but it can be done!

Thanks for liking the hair!

Thank you, I'm glad you like it!

There's an amazing variety of shapes and textures. Even though from a technical perspective you could call it "retro" the visual design and color choices make it entirely modern. Very inspiring!

This is really cool! I've thought myself that palettes with an unusual tone might work well if you think of it as having a sort of color grading or tint. You've executed that idea beautifully here and the drawing/composition is also excellent.

Thank you!

Thanks! I like to combine different textures and effects in my pictures. I'm glad you enjoy it.

Thank you very much! This was actually a kind of mixed media piece, I made a rough traditional painting to get the colors for the palette and build the overall composition. For the pixel rendering I started with the character but I jump around the piece to make it progress somewhat in unison, like "okay, that's enough work on the face for now, I guess I should start messing with this part of the background". So you could say the chaos element was there from the beginning but it has been constantly refined.

Thank you! I felt that some chaos and rule breaking was necessary to bring out the theme. Working this way has given me a lot of new ideas.

The forms look very solid and I like how the vibrant details work with the muted base colors. Good work!

Wow! That's a crazy technique, never seen anything quite like it. Great stuff.

Thank you! Using pixels for this kind of style worked surprisingly well.

Thanks! That was one of my favorite parts as well.

Thank you! I enjoy your works a lot.

Thank you! It's very surreal so I decided it's best to keep the silhouette as clear as possible.

Wonderful forms and detailing. I also like the somber mood of the plain black background.

Thanks for the comments everyone!

Thank you!!

Thank you!

You're welcome! There are many ways to use reference so it's good to try different approaches.

I like the sketch! With the refined version the perspective on the bridge support beams has drifted a bit and the church in the back is kind of wedged in there so it loses a bit of the flow and dynamicism in the sketch version... on the other hand I enjoy the dithering you've done with the water and background.

I also often enjoy working without reference but sometimes I search for it as the picture starts to progress. For the refined version you might consider using some reference for the bridge to make the details more convincing, or you could go even further with the abstraction.

The pixels are pretty good I think, there's always possibilities to fiddle with them but really I don't think good pixel art depends that much on the pixeling. It's more about the fundamentals: composition, contrast, use of color and such. Focusing on pixel rendering techniques is then something that can turn a solid picture into a really fantastic one.

Thanks!

Thanks! That's true, could be an LP too.