Creating a pixel head
Craig Robinson had posted a tutorial on his site about how he creates the pixel art portraits for Flip Flop Flyin’. In the tutorial he creates this portrait of Franz Beckenbauer starting from a solid block of colour.
(via Coudal)
thanks for the link! thats a useful tip
I really dig pixelart portraits. My branding is a 32×32 pixelart self portrait. My favicon is a version of that same portrait at 16×16.
Check ‘em out if you dig the above link. I’m really happy with the way they turned out.
Great link…
I especially like the facial expressions. It’s amazing what you can do wi a few square dots.
It’s great to see people working at that resolution. In ‘89, I was the animator for John Madden Football II. I had to create multiple teams and players doing everything you can imagine with the largest area to work with being 32 x 32 and a palette limited to 16 colors. At the time I thought I would go mad, because it was so abstract, but I look back at it now fondly.
I love pixel art, it reminds me of all the drawings I used to do in Mouse Paint on my Apple IIe.
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Charlie, that’s awesome. 32×32 is challenging to work with but a whole lot of fun.
I’m a big pixel art and hence Craig Robinson fan. Nice to see some insight into his methods. I’m a bigger fan of his trademark minimalist pixel style, but it’s cool to see a bit more detail from him.
If anyone is interested in a different take on pixel art tutorials you can find a bunch here (including st0ven’s and Derek Yu’s) …
http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixels/links.asp?id=2192
More on doing it the oldschool way, no heads though:
http://gfxzone.org/articles/gfx2_pixel_tutorial-article.html
http://gfxzone.org/articles/goblin_pixelling_tutorial-article.html