Creating a pixel head

John Martz | June 29th, 2006

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)

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  • thanks for the link! thats a useful tip
  • I really dig pixelart portraits. My branding is a 32x32 pixelart self portrait. My favicon is a version of that same portrait at 16x16.

    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.

    :)=
  • Charlie, that's awesome. 32x32 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
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