Category: graphics
Pixel Art: The Flash
Pixel Art: Gambit
Notes:
- I used three shades of brown. The hair and the inside of the trenchcoat are the middle brown, the outside of the coat is lighter, and I used a third color brown for the quarterstaff because if I need to animate it, it’s bound to conflict with the other brown, leading to parts of the drawing getting lost in the muddle.
Pixel Art: Ghost Rider
Notes:
- Flames, chains, black-on-black leather… a lot of difficult things to do well in detail. But I think the hinting that I do here works pretty well, albeit primitively. I think the skull is decent. I could do a higher resolution version of this, too, if I wanted, and make it look a little more menacing, maybe, but I don’t think I need the detail to get across who this is.
Pixel Art: Pug
16x16px
32x32px
64x64px
Notes:
- I like pugs
- The color theme for the web site is based on the colors of a fawn pug.
- It’s hard to do wrinkles in pixel art. Hinting seems to work pretty well though.
- I like pugs.
Pixel Art: Beavis
Here’s a refinement, with the same skinny arms that I used for the second Butt-Head.
Pixel Art: Butt-Head
Notes:
- My first pixel art character in this series with a face. I went all the way down to 256×256 resolution to do the fine details on the face.
- I did not bother with the “AC/DC” on the shirt as that is still inessential, even though the detail level in the face makes it justifiable to go to that level of detail on the shirt.
- Even without the facial detail, I liked it enough, and could recognize it. I could have considered this “finished” even at 16x16px:
(Zoom the page to check it out, huh huh.)
Here’s a second attempt, after I decided that the body was a little too chunky. Instead of going for chunky style, I’m following the detail level of the head to allow the arms and legs to be more in proportion:
Pixel Art – Catwoman
Notes:
- Another female form, this one I think I like a bit better than the first female attempt that I made with Invisible Woman. The body is a bit more properly proportioned and is curvy yet chunky-square-y at the same time.
- After wondering about it, I googled and found that Catwoman does not in fact have a tail as part of her costume. I should have checked this before, whoops. It seems *really* impractical for a cat burglar to have something long dangling behind them that could trip them up when they’re trying to be sneaky.
Pixel Art – J. Jonah Jameson
Pixel Art – Mr. Fantastic
Notes:
- Mr. Fantastic is really fun!
- I left one leg normal. Usually when he’s drawn, there’s at least one part of him that stays normal.
- I could have done a lot of different things with him, pretty much anything would go.
- Animating this would be extremely challenging.