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hi!!!! i love your style so much! its actually similar to the style i want to go for with my pixel art but i haven't seen many people using it so i'm glad to know people do like it!

do you have any tips/info about your workflow you would be willing to share? no pressure!

hi!! happy to inspire 🫡 i have a palette here if it helps you in your journey <3

my workflow tip is to reduce, reuse, recycle ♻️

reduce: smaller resolution means less work! it also makes your pixel art feel more 'pixel art'-y.

reuse & recycle: no need to constantly make new stuff when you can tweak stuff you have already made to fit the scene to your liking (things like plants, trees, decor, etc)

of course, i still make a ton of new stuff, but if i can reuse it helps make pixel art less time intensive, which is a huge problem with pixel art as a whole!

also, get aseprite and learn the keyboard shortcuts :)

sorry for my absence but i go through phases where posting on social media is painful bc i just want to curl up in a hole and not be perceived

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whats ur favorite thing to draw/create?

UI!!! i just love making video game UI :3c it's very technical, u have to know a lot about the game functions and even the engine limitations sometimes, and you have to figure out how to visually design how players directly interact with the game. its challenging and fun!!

I love your art so much!! It's inspiring me to get back into pixel art (I gave up quickly). A huge problem I had was I didn't know what size was best to set my canvas for specific projects. I always ended up overestimating and making it too big and then it looked less like pixel art and more like grainy digital art. Do you have a rough guide you stick to for landscapes/bedrooms/cities VS. things like animals and characters?

aw thank you i'm happy to hear that! i hope u stick with it ♥

with landscapes/bedrooms/cities i use 275x155. this provides a fair amount of detail while still keeping it pixely, plus it resizes to wallpaper size. for vertical i just reverse it at 155x275.

i've also recently started to use 215x215 (same amount of pixels as above) so that i can resize my art to easily fit both wallpapers, and mobile videos... since tiktok and instagram reels are everything nowadays 😒

for characters and animals, generally i will base the size of the canvas around how i stylize eyes.

so i'll draw the eyes first, then just draw everything else around that.

i also have a smaller resolution style with 2px dot eyes that i use for adding characters to landscapes, since my landscape resolution is too small for my regular style unless the character is close to the screen.

hope this helps!