I’ve been a bit lacking in motivation for the last few weeks.  To perk myself up, I’ve been working on a few side projects in my spare time.

The first is that I wanted to learn to make pixel art.  I suppose I already knew how, since I did this sort of thing when I was a kid and resolutions were much lower, but it’s probably been 15 or 20 years since I last picked up the pixel-brush.

Here’s my first pass at some goofy little animals:

   

A couple that I wasn’t as happy with (they didn’t fit the boxy style I was going for):

 

My first attempts (not pictured) were miserable.  So I did a little research.  Turns out Derek Yu of TIGSource and Aquaria fame has done a nice little tutorial on making pixel art.

I used Graphics Gale to make these, as suggested by this other Pixel Art tutorial.

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