Secretly checking monthly awards
Still seeing pixel purist discussions, never change pixel joint. :)
I don't really do art much as I shifted into working IT in banks,absolutely boring and not really well paid. I long to just sit, exist and do some art, no matter how bad it is, but the time is very limited, need to put food on the table.

In the end, did someone manage to contact Jal? Did he pass away? I always had that in mind.
 

Thank you, I need to do smaller things,  I'm used to painting, gotta shift mentality. 

pixeljoint 3.0 yearly discussion lol.
The forum used to be active when jal was active, simply not enough people commenting on there.
Pixelation did it better and it's dying a bit too, maybe everyone is hopping on twitter.
But twitter's population....meh

Umh, I still visit PJ every so often, but I didn't feel alright in the discord server. But that's like years ago.
I don't really talk about it with anyone atm.

EDIT: btw, did anyone have the habit of downloading any nice PA piece they see? I lost most of my collection after I had to format and forgot to back it up, would someone share his collection?
I like having stuff offline.

Love this.

Because if you're going to gift stuff you'd expect it to be fairly good, not below average, but mostly it was the article saying "praised for its unique and beautiful pixelart. "

looks quite boring actually...

The OPP project is lightyears ahead.

Reporting.
Working fine on FireFox nightly (W7), ublock origin.

EDIT: refreshed, now it doesn't work well for me too. Nice.

@Showtime I us honeyview, it's ok to read a lot of formats and sizes like books scans too.

@DB Thank you a lot DB, thse are amazing as always! And the landscape script, I do that on Uniy for fast maps lol

It's amazing, but I'd clean sun/planet  since they are mostly still objects, the fox messy as it is, it's ok, implies moviment

Oh, it's DB...
proceeds to give max points.

This is actually an illuminati complot so that certain individuals get easy badges...
No one is safe!

amazing

instantly knew it as you.

while I do like it, I feel like the composition is really messy and that it hurts your focal point (human figure?), 77 colors are a lot for the piece too, I'm sure you could have cut some for consistency.

the human neck position seems strange and the right hand doesn't seem perfect.
I would have probably prefered the sea / skull bg / human in 3 diferent pieces, since they're not bad.
btw, it's an UFO the one over the human?

Great!
We really needed this news

Another cool piece!

It's great.
I love when the resolution is low but the subject is so realistic.

"It will force you to acquire those skills, that is true. But I regret most of  the time I spent working on PA, I think I could have acquired those skills much more cleanly and effectively through trad art practice. The main reason being PA's coarseness -- which is excellent for learning design, but not much good for developing more exacting perception."
The 'I wish I learned it differently...' is something a lot of older artists say, you can read articles from Disney animators about it for example. In my opinion, the way you learnt something is the way you had to learn it.  I think you liked PA like most of us and continued with it because you liked what you did. Who knows what would have happened otherwise. btw I think that there are a lot more skills in PA that we don't notice, because they're obvious to us and are harder to other media to figure out.
 

"I disagree. It can be used as a way to bridge two colors with a third color. But more advanced usage of dithering applies it to create texture as well (illke's gallery, or demoscene pics, demonstrate this).  On a higher level, the principles behind dithering are just the principles of how to distribute things so they appear uniform -- the same principles as halftoning.

So you can't always swap out for a third color, eg If I were to swap out the dithering on the steps in this picture for a third color, it would destroy the texture."

Oh, sure you can apply it as texture, but it's not that used, rather it's misused a lot, it's quite stressing to make too and to use it like that you need a farly big canvas, thing that I'd avoid with PA, since the work increases really fast with the size. If you have something that big, you'd probably want to paint it rather than use PA, but well, if you want to force it, force it. Demosceners can do it and are amazing at it, still they're extreme.
About that piece...a lot of that dithering mimics a gradient, thing you could easily do in digital art. The texture of the cloth could be done with a particular brush. I'm sure that dither translates perfectly into a middle color in digital art, looking at that piece.

And I have the suspect we're losing the point...My point was: PA gives skills not just in typography, but art in general. You could acquire skills faster in other media since you have less restrictions, my answer to that is that you did PA because you liked it more than the traditional art, you would have never started it if you hated it, maybe you wouldn't have got into art at all. 

I applied the filters of waifux2(1.6x & noise reduction) over the PA of before to see it with less dither.
https://screenshots.firefox.com/iudPDam0eVNzsp5j/waifu2x.udp.jp

Nah, PA traslates fairly well in traditional/digital art. It gives a decent understanding over volume, light and color management, since you won't do decent PA without those. Dithering is just a way to bridge 2 color clusters without a third color, at this point most would just use a third color since we hardly have restrictions, you'd do that in other media too. The technical parts like 'perfect lines' and AA, aren't too useful, but can still be used somehow? I wonder... Well, I still suck at art.

Really cool altar!

https://darudado.deviantart.com/art/Clavis-angemon-hackmon-482347424
Two more if you like 'em.

I'm a fan since forever...gotta do some appmons too.

11. cats 

Saw you making it, told ya it was great. 

You can't simulate pixels in high-res and think it looks right lol
It's like trying to fit a square in a circle, maybe doable, but not perfect. 
 

btw, I really like voxels.