Pixel art! (digital and physical alike)

When I think pixel art the first thing I think of is classic video games or playing around in MS Paint as a kid. And there's plenty of Minecraft servers out there dedicated to creative mode plots where people can make enormous pixel art displays.

But there's also physical stuff like cross-stitching, knitting, perler bead art, and mosaics that work on the same basic premise: small chunks of colors that, grouped together, represent something.


Please, feel free to post things of your making! Walk sprites from video games, old school dungeon designs on grid paper, knitting/crochet patterns, perler bead art, mosaics, whatever! Any art/craft stuff made of pieces of different colors pushed together to make an overall picture.

I'm gonna re-dump some of my stuff from the Drawing thread and the Craft Nerd Herd to get things rolling...

 

Spoiler: Perler bead art; Undertale spoilers

Sans, Papyrus, the protagonist, and [redacted]. I went with their walk sprites because those are small enough to do without going insane.

As it is, just laying the beads out took about 4 hours, partly due to the time spent digging through the bin for the colors I needed. Ironing to come later.

Spoiler: Perler bead art; Rouze card symbols from Kamen Rider Blade (Blade and Leangle)

A while back I worked out simplified designs of the symbols of the Kamen Rider Blade characters so my roommate could knit them. It turns out they're a good size for doing with perler beads.

These were the first two big ones that I took an iron to; too big to simply hold the iron in place. As I still had the iron on a lower temperature than needed, I took about 30 minutes to get them this melted, and gave up trying to go all the way. I may fix them later.

Spoiler: Perler bead art; symbols from my story world

Now ironed!

I've got them all bead side up because I didn't think to reverse them when I arranged the beads, so the nice, melted, pixely side is backwards for all of them. Live and learn.

Spoiler: archive of some others

The small suit symbols for the Kamen Rider Blade characters, two rainbow swirls for testing the iron with, the older version of Undertale's protagonist, and the rainbow cat emote. All have been melted with the iron to a degree (I had the iron on too low a temperature for these, too, and they only barely fused).

I am still disappointed by the fact that a few random beads from the big set are utterly melt resistant; that poor cat has a dimple in its forehead.




Flowey has not yet been ironed, because he is intimidatingly large and I'm still getting the hang of the iron.



World design on grid paper!

 

I have an hour to spare, so I'm cross posting my perlers and crossstitch from the Craft thread too.

Spoiler: perler

mlp

monaco



superheroes






Nothing is worse than this... and this happened twice

Spoiler: Actual Pixel Art, and sprite edits

a sympathy sandwich

Nickjay's avatar

and my fantrolls (dont mind the doubles and triples of people, I was testing things)

and finally

Spoiler: Cross-stitch (only one)

 

@Imoyram I would pay actual money for one of those superheroes

 

@Bel Capricorn
hee, thank you!!

They actually were as gifts to my old friends, but I mean hey, they arent that hard to make..
Hopefully (HOPEFULLY) me and Kay will be getting some form of crafty store up and running between the two of us and our other sister, so that might be an option in the distant future.
There is also the possibility of us getting paired in secret santa (wouldnt be to secret now, but oh well)

 

I've dabbled in pixels!!!

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I need some work, mostly just lots of practice (shading??? what is) but I like what I've made so far! It's very different from pencil drawing.

 

I'll have to rummage for pictures, but a friend made a patchwork crochet blanket for aa queen bed--Granny Square Pixel Black Mage :D

 

I've been making some pixel sprites for my SBRUB d&d game.



(partially modified from the canon homestuck consort sprites, naturally)

Spoiler: not yet seen in-game (probably not suuuuper spoilery, though)

 

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Those are spooky, and the second one is especially body horror :(

 

@Picori waaaaaait a second, those pixels seem familiar...
(heya, good to see you around)

 

OH MAN!!!

one second.

Spoiler: I DO LOTS OF THESE

They get older the further down you go.

 

WINK

 

I want to try an original pixel art creation, as nearly all mine have been edits.
I found this, and am thinking about starting with a small palette? (as suggested at some point in the link, though it is a longish read)
suggestions?

 

I did my first original pixel art!!

Shit those are really small on here
uh...

Spoiler: Screenshot

 

awwwwww widdle pumpkins 83

 

Spoiler: Perler bead art, Undertale spoilers, complete!

Melty-side up for once, to show off that I'm getting pretty close to them being nice and pixely!








I'm starting to feel pretty dang comfortable with the iron!

 

terezi pic isnt showing up for me.
{:/

 

Niiiiiice.
:D