A lil' evening pixel art practice, this time I'm drawing Zira from @kianamaiart art/show, "Pretty Pretty Please, I Don't Want to be a Magical Girl!"
I'm joining the Magical Girl Game Jam #12 on itch io with a team, and guess what I'm watching for inspiration!
My team has not decided on a specific pixel art style, but I want to practice simplified pixel art to ideally, get my team's art development moving along.
I don't draw humans in my pixel art enough, so I want to play with either smaller/more simplified pixels or more exaggerated proportions...
[Image Description: Two images on an Aseprite--a pixel art program, screen. The left image is a pixel fan art rendering of the character Zira from the indie show "Pretty Pretty Please, I Don't Want to be a Magical Girl!" by visual artist, Kiana Mai. The right image is the original artist's design of her character, Zira. Zira is drawn as a young human teen with dark brown skin, round eyeglasses, and dark hair in two puff looped-hair that's underneath a purple beanie, that has a green pin and moon pin on it. Zira has on a purple shirt with a white bunny head in the center, and a long-sleeved black undershirt. Zira is wearing a long green skirt with a small white-bead chain, and blue jeans, and wearing white and purple sneakers. END ID]
Be careful when you buy nail polish from a witch at the Night Market. She put a special ingredient in it...and it’s a full red moon tonight!
At least the color is cute, don’t you think?
What color would you buy from a witch at the Night Market?
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An image of a brown hand wearing red nail polish is underneath a red moon. The hand is growing white and grey fur out of it with the text next to it: “UGH… I knew I should NOT have bought that B L O O D MOON nail polish from that witch at the Night Market…”
This animation was inspired by a little zine I sketched out. I liked it so much, that I decided to turn it into a pixel art animation!
For my dear friend in G/\za 🍓. No matter what happens to her or myself, I am forever grateful to be under the same stars as her, all these miles and oceans apart. Besan's GFM link @bisanalbalawi18
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Star Scene
Image Description: An animated pixel art of a simple star drawn with a thick black outline. The star's face has two arches that curve down into black oval eyes with small light shines, looking to the right.
Around the star is a dark purple pixel font in lowercase words that reads: "we are under the same STARS".
The placement of the words are: above the star: "we are under", on the left: "the", and on the right: "same", and below in all caps: "STARS"
The background is a solid white color, detailed with light purple diamond-shaped stars and small flecks representing twinkling stars. The details are also animating in the background.
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Moon Scene
Image Description: An animated pixel art of a simple moon drawn with a thick black outline. The moon's face has one arch that curves down into a single black oval eye with a small light shine, looking to the left. The moon is drawn in a waning crescent shape, with dashed lines connecting the moon's points to make a circular shape.
Around the moon is a dark blue pixel font in lowercase words that reads: "we are under the same MOON"
The placement of the words are: above the moon: "we are under", inside the dashed lined circular section: "the same", and below in all caps: "MOON"
The background is a solid white color, detailed with light blue swirls and diamond-shaped stars and small dots. The details are also animating in the background.
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Cloud Scene
Image Description: An animated pixel art of a simple fluffy cloud drawn with a thick black outline. The cloud's face has two arches that curve down into black oval eyes with small light shines, looking to the right.
Around the moon is a dark green pixel font in lowercase words that reads: "we are under the same CLOUDS"
The placement of the words are: on the right with each word below the next: "we are under the same" and below in all caps: "CLOUDS"
The background is a solid white color, detailed with light green clouds and wide "M" arching lines drawn for four birds. The details are also animating in the background.
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Sun Scene
Image Description: An animated pixel art of a circular sun drawn with a thick black outline. The sunrays are drawn connected together in each arching U-shaped point. The sun's face has two arches that curve down into black oval eyes with small light shines, looking up.
Around the sun is a dark yellow pixel font in lowercase words that reads: "we are under the same SUN" The placement of the words are around the sun from the the bottom left, curving around the sun, back down to the bottom right.
The background is a solid white color, detailed with light yellow squiggly-wavy lines representing sun rays. The details are also animating in the background.
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How Wonderful - Note Scene
Image Description: A four-lined, pixel art sentence in black color that reads: "how wonderful we are to be under the same stars!" The layout for the sentence is: "how wonderful", "we are", "to be under", "the same stars!"
Animating below each word is a dark blue looping line, where each loop connects with the additional line underneath the next word.
The background is a solid white color.
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Outro Scene
Image Description: A pixel art of the words "by" in black, with the artist's name "bloomzeye" in a purple pixel art font style, with three small hearts inside the center of the "b" and "o"s. Each heart animates within three frames to change colors from purple: blue in the "b", pink in the first "o", and yellow in the second "o". The background is a solid white color.
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[Image Description: A pixel art donut with pink icing and white sprinkles is animating up and down on a light peach-colored background. The artist's watermark is "bloomzeye" with hearts inside the b and 2 o's. END ID]
Meet Leafette! They are the main character for my itch io Devtober game jam entry (currently) titled, Foliage Conversations. You can read more about Leafette on my blog, here!
Leafette is a resident of Foliage Falls, a cozy little town known for its beautiful lakes and rivers.
Although well-known by the locals, Leafette can be a bit shy around new people. And with a love for books, they are a familiar face at the local book store, the Cozy Reader.
[Image Description: On the left is a pen sketch of a character with a leaf for a head and a human body wearing a sweater and ripped jeans. On the right against a light brown background, is the pixel art drawing of the same character with a brown colored, leaf for a head. They are wearing red earrings with a dark green knit sweater that has light green patches on the shoulders, cuffs, hemline, and collar. They are wearing blue jeans with heart-shaped patches at the knees and red shoes. END ID]
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lol I don't even feel like logging into my game dev tumblr @bloomzeye to post this...ANYWAYS! I'm making my first indie game (it's almost done!), and here's Kiwi the Bee, my main character!
Again, not logging into my game dev tumblr (@bloomzeye) for reasons, but my first indie game, Bubble Bumble, is almost ready to play! Here's the itch io page for it: https://bloomzeye.itch.io/bubble-bumble
Ahhhhh! I have basically zero followers on this page, but I don't care! I've made a video game, something I never thought I could even do, and I'm happy about it!
Hopefully the video loads. If not, here's the link: https://youtu.be/W7zDP6tF2gg
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[ID: GIF of a pixel art styled bumble bee that is flying inside a bubble. The bee has a small green bag with a brown strip around its body. Surrounding the bee are pink flowers inside bubbles. The text above the bee in all caps is "First-Time Pixel Artist plus First Indie Game". Everything is on a yellow-hued, honeycomb patterned background. END ID]
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Soooo I'm back on YouTube. This time I'm sharing my journey into game development, how I learned pixel art and animation, and how I created my first indie game, Bubble Bumble!
I also made a blog post version here: https://www.bloomzeyestudio.com/post/first-time-pixel-artist-and-first-indie-game-devlog-1
And an audio version here via my podcast "Bloomzeye Studio Chats": https://open.spotify.com/episode/4hgGc3duCFmRzXVUMnZlbM?si=db5dLS7-TNiZFXk0U2lOBw&dl_branch=1
I know I sound all markety and I just started this account, but I'm excited to share this!
