Radioactive Decay

extremely sick and bedrotting but enjoy these curled up cat paws

Thank you so much for the reply! It was incredibly helpful! And also, I feel the pain of having to cater to Reels/TikTok :[

yeah i really didn't sign up to be a circus performer, but here we are.

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!

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it is so frustrating how little people can think into the future, especially when it comes to ai 'art'

what happens when the creative process is so assisted by ai, that young artists don't feel the need to pick up a pencil anymore?

art everywhere deteriorates as a whole, because no one needs to learn basic fundamentals. artists won't even see the mistakes ai makes at some point, and won't be able to correct them. this will be felt in every media, because art is in everything. even if you're not a artist and can't explain what is 'off' with the art in games, movies, etc, you WILL still feel it.

what happens when less, and less, and less people are allowed to make a living through human art, because whole teams of artists are replaced with one artist + an ai tool, and less people see the need to buy lesser skill art from artists just starting their journey, when it can just be generated?

eventually, the only ones making actual human art to the degree that they're able live off of it are the rich, because artist jobs will be so scarce, and artists just starting out won't get nearly as much income unless they use ai to boost their finished pieces(not their skills btw), so human art as a full time job will be HEAVILY skewed to the most privileged people in society.

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i'm sure you must get this a lot to the point of spam buttt just in case - you are exceptionally talented and from what i can see such a lovely person too! ily, i wish you eternal peace <3

aw this is SO sweet tysm ; _ ; you are such a kind soul! 💗

i actually never get messages so they're always such a nice surprise!

anyways i hope you have a lovely day/month/year/life ♥♥♥