This is some nice pixel art, huh? Maybe it could look a little nicer, but for someone who never does pixel art, I'd say it's not too bad. My brother hasn't played Silksong in forever... I should ask him to play it during the summer.
You want to know something else about this art that I think is pretty cool?
It's a Minecraft map.
I freakin' built this in Minecraft.
Minecraft.
Anyways, this took me around 24 hours, possibly more, so I'm going to rant for a bit because this was harder and took longer than I thought it would. You don't have to listen to me, but I think I need this.
Not only did I have to use my laptop's trackpad the entire time, but the /fill command mostly worked for just the bell beast's head because when I designed the art, I used the dithering brush way too much, so there was a lot of switching blocks.
Minecraft maps are 128*128 pixels. At their smallest size, each block equals a pixel. That is 16,384 blocks. Since I made a base that I then used the staircase method on top of, that's almost twice as many blocks. Yes, the staircase method was necessary to get the right colors. I don't think it's unrealistic to say this might have been 30,000 blocks.
I realize that I'm really complaining about nothing in particular, and some people do lots of map art that is way better than this. I just wasn't prepared for how long it would take me. I started this on March 28th and finished on April 4th, and I estimate that it took about 24 hours.
I don't like playing video games that much, and I think the only reason I stuck to this was a sort of sunk cost fallacy thing. I'd already spent so much time on it that it really bothered me not to finish it, even if I should have worked on homework and stuff, or even other art instead. It doesn't help that making the reference art was so quick. I think I gave myself unrealistic expectations.
Anyways, here are some more pictures of my reference art, the different versions of the maps, the bats that started spawning (I did do this in Creative Peaceful mode so mobs wouldn't bother me too much) and other miscellaneous things.
Blocks I used:
For Bell Beast's body- light blue and blue terracotta, clay, and quartz
For Bell Beast and Hornet's heads- quartz blocks and mushroom stems
For Bell Beast's legs- cyan terracotta, light gray wool, dark gray wool and stone
For Hornet's cloak- red terracotta, crimson hyphae, and netherrack
For the ground- black, brown, gray and light gray terracotta
For outlines- black wool
oh, also scaffolding was useful even though it's not part of the art itself
And apparently I messed up the entirety of the light blue terracotta sections so that's why the shadows on the bell beast's body are too dark. Whoops.
A new day a new #dtiy this time its from @bekechu they have super cute art. And since her oc Beryll was so glowy it was perfect for me to try out my neon pens ^-^ #bekechu12k #beryll #witch #catgirl #drawthisinyourstylechallenge #drawthisinyourstyle #anime #art #manga #drawing #fluo #neon #fanart #kawaii #mangaart #animedrawing #artist #animelove #artistoninstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CBU033HlzdY/?igshid=1kkklrsd94hk7
Commission by one of my dear friends that's had to wait quite a while for it.
Due to the nature of the piece, I decided it fits for me to try and make it my first attempt at a sort of League Splash-Art type. Somewhat successfully I think!
The character is the dwarf Beryll, successfully getting away from pursuers after a heist, leaving an explosive signature behind her!
