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I thought it might be fun to create a pixel art version of the character from the previous upload. It's my first attempt at pixel art ever, so I think it went pretty well.

The interesting part was figuring out how to make everything legible while also not making the edges crude. Reading online helped a lot with figuring out what works and what doesn't - I likely wouldn't have figured out some defining principles on my own.

I'm pretty pleased with the colour scheme I came up with - 11 colours including black and white, and only because I went for three shades of pink for the ear/eyeshadow. 10 or even 9 colours would've been fine, I could've even foregone pinks entirely. But pink makes things prettier. It's just science.

I learnt a whole lot doing this one - including stuff I'll be able to apply to non-pixel stuff. Learning the maximum possible economy of expression is a useful side effect of drawing like this. I have an unfortunate tendency to get too attached to every single line I draw, and this was good practice at unlearning that.

Description
I thought it might be fun to create a pixel art version of the character from the previous upload. It's my first attempt at pixel art ever, so I think it went pretty well.

The interesting part was figuring out how to make everything legible while also not making the edges crude. Reading online helped a lot with figuring out what works and what doesn't - I likely wouldn't have figured out some defining principles on my own.

I'm pretty pleased with the colour scheme I came up with - 11 colours including black and white, and only because I went for three shades of pink for the ear/eyeshadow. 10 or even 9 colours would've been fine, I could've even foregone pinks entirely. But pink makes things prettier. It's just science.

I learnt a whole lot doing this one - including stuff I'll be able to apply to non-pixel stuff. Learning the maximum possible economy of expression is a useful side effect of drawing like this. I have an unfortunate tendency to get too attached to every single line I draw, and this was good practice at unlearning that.