The two posts previous to this one--drawings titled Starfish Disaster and Melting Appliance--are my first (official) stabs at Pixelist art. I used to enjoy the pixel contests on the sadly-defunct word.com, and was intrigued to find "pixel art" listed as a genre at deviantART, an anyone-can-post visual art site. You draw these things mostly in the "fat bits" or zoom mode of a simple paint program and the finished product is meant to be a low-res understatement. Some works still manage to be over the top: this piece by gunstar-red, Edge Retro Cover, is a tour-de-force crammed with myriad pop-culture references, neatly arranged in a kid's isometric playroom. Other drawings are more concise, sometimes gems of miniaturization:
wenstrom is the Alfred Stieglitz of the genre, at least on deviantart.com. He's curated "Pixelists of the Week" galleries for the past few months and offers critiques and encouragement to other practitioners. (Tough critic, too.)
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The two posts previous to this one--drawings titled Starfish Disaster and Melting Appliance--are my first (official) stabs at Pixelist art. I used to enjoy the pixel contests on the sadly-defunct word.com, and was intrigued to find "pixel art" listed as a genre at deviantART, an anyone-can-post visual art site. You draw these things mostly in the "fat bits" or zoom mode of a simple paint program and the finished product is meant to be a low-res understatement. Some works still manage to be over the top: this piece by gunstar-red, Edge Retro Cover, is a tour-de-force crammed with myriad pop-culture references, neatly arranged in a kid's isometric playroom. Other drawings are more concise, sometimes gems of miniaturization:
Atari 5200 - Atari 7800
Rubber Pong
Bouncy Blocks
Atari 2600 Isometric
Chess
Nothing on TV
My Sleepy Room
Little Farm - Part 2
Cute Little Cube (Rubik's)
Little Farm
Sample of Thork Pixel City
An Alien Trapped in the Water
C64
banxter:
Another Day at Work
Techno Bus v2
The Tube to Nowhere
Cube Tower Slideup
- tom moody 4-11-2003 10:01 am