occasional art

art sideblog. main is marx-soul. i mostly do gameboy-style pixel art these days. time and effort vary wildly. not daily.

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Beholder Cavern, November 2024

This is by far the best piece I've ever done so far! Really pushed myself with that one, and I'm incredibly proud of the results. I hope I keep improving at backgrounds! This is also the piece that made me discover the beauty of Aseprite scripts and extensions (FX extension my beloved)

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Beholder Cavern, November 2024

This is by far the best piece I've ever done so far! Really pushed myself with that one, and I'm incredibly proud of the results. I hope I keep improving at backgrounds! This is also the piece that made me discover the beauty of Aseprite scripts and extensions (FX extension my beloved)

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D&D poster #2, 93x102 (if only counting the actual picture, not the frame), October 2024

Here's a poster I made for my university's D&D club. Had a lot of fun playing with different palettes and pixel sizes in this one. Really happy with the collage kinda effect it had!

I've cropped out any non-art parts, because no way in hell am I telling y'all where to find me. If you somehow end up recognizing this on campus, then come and say hi I guess lol

More details on my process below!

I did it by drawing the background first, with one palette, then opening another aseprite projects for the characters using different palettes and using a much smaller canvas, before resizing them up and copy-pasting them on top of the background! This had the bonus effect of giving me isolated version of the individual warrior, wizard and goblin to reuse in future projects :)

Fun fact: the giant sky eye was supposed to originally be a sun, but I never got it looking how I wanted to, so I made it an eye. I like to think it represents the DM observing the player's characters.

It was a bit weird to work with more than 4 colors though, too used working with the Game Boy's color limitations, but I think I made it work (thank god for Lospec's collection of palettes, it's a real godsend)

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Bird, 16x16, July 2024

Low effort bird, just felt like doing a little something before bed. Not really sure what kind of bird this is, maybe a duck?

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Bunny, 16x16, July 2024

Got a few Artfight attacks in the works, but they have to finish drying before I can paint them, and then the paint's gotta dry too, so here's a quick project in the interim. There's been quite a few bunnies on my dash today, I felt inspired haha! Really should have tried animation earlier, this is so much fun!

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Town guard, 16x16, June 2024. Making a half decent walk cycle, even if it's only 2 frames, is harder than it looks! I still have to makes the sideways and back sprites, but once I do I'll be sure to post the full sprite sheet!

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As promised, the full sprite sheet! I'm surprised I got it finished so quickly haha! Click for a clear picture. This was a great challenge, and I'm really looking forward to making more of these!

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Town guard, 16x16, June 2024. Making a half decent walk cycle, even if it's only 2 frames, is harder than it looks! I still have to makes the sideways and back sprites, but once I do I'll be sure to post the full sprite sheet!

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Night Sky, 120x80, June 2024. Really happy with this one! Might be a tiny bit too busy, but the stars look really nice I think. Bonus alt palette below.

Palette is Kirokaze Gameboy by Kirokaze.

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Spring Tulip Portrait, 80x96, July 2024. Been a while since I did any pixel art! I wanna make more of these kinda pictures, maybe eventually making a little homebrew Gameboy jigsaw game out of them. GB Studio's supposedly very accessible.

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Resident Evil Gaiden for... Gameboy?! - 2023

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Slimy eyeball, pixel art, gameboy color palette, July 2023

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Artfight defense! These characters are Picoris, created by Sophys! (SophieB2D on Twitter. They do not seem to have a Tumblr, or if they do, they have not linked it.)

They're actually fantasy bird creatures, but I decided to draw them as some of my favorite North American birds!

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Werewolf!

Pen and pencil on paper.

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Another quick study on lighting. Made with charcoal and sketching crayon. Very fun little thing.

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Black-capped chickadee, acrylic on wood, January 2023

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I bought charcoal! :D

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Injured werewolf.

Made on my phone.