After the Ohio Game Dev Expo, I felt like doing some pixel art exercises, so I did these.
The style I’m employing here is chunky minimalism, so I’m not striving for a lot of detail. Rather, I’m going for the least amount of detail and work to make a recognizable character. This style enables me to work very quickly (it took me maybe 20 minutes to do the entire set) and emulate a resolution and palette constrained system like the Atari 2600.
I could definitely add more detail, and especially shading, to improve the depth and likeness. It would slow me down considerably, but would be worth it if I was interested in prettier pixel art, not emulating the look of a classic console. Properly speaking, for a preliminary pass, they are acceptable as far as the recognizability criteria goes, but most of them have palette challenges, mainly due to light color on light colors. If I was going to do something serious with these, I’d work on them more to address those issues.
I did these up at 64×64, and blew them up to 512-wide to display on the web site without having to scale them up.
R2-D2
![512x512_R2D2](https://i0.wp.com/csanyk.com/rants/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/512x512_R2D2.png?resize=512%2C512&ssl=1)
C-3PO
![512x512_C3P0](https://i0.wp.com/csanyk.com/rants/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/512x512_C3P0.png?resize=512%2C512&ssl=1)
Luke Skywalker
![512x512_LukeSkywalker](https://i0.wp.com/csanyk.com/rants/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/512x512_LukeSkywalker.png?resize=512%2C512&ssl=1)
Obi Wan Kenobi
![512x512_ObiWanKenobi](https://i0.wp.com/csanyk.com/rants/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/512x512_ObiWanKenobi.png?resize=512%2C512&ssl=1)
Han Solo
![512x512_HanSolo](https://i0.wp.com/csanyk.com/rants/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/512x512_HanSolo.png?resize=512%2C512&ssl=1)
Chewbacca
![512x768_Chewbacca](https://i0.wp.com/csanyk.com/rants/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/512x768_Chewbacca.png?resize=512%2C768&ssl=1)
Princess Leia
![512x512_PrincessLeia](https://i0.wp.com/csanyk.com/rants/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/512x512_PrincessLeia.png?resize=512%2C512&ssl=1)
There are so many different characters and costumes that I could keep doing Star Wars pixel art pretty much endlessly.
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