Pixel Art

I've become confident enough with my pixel skills to join some pixel clubs!
- Afternoon Tea Club
- Charm Bracelet Pixel Club
- Fizzy Vendor Clique
- The Bunny Garden
- Lava Lounge
- Kindness Rocks
And I am trying to give new life to a couple of clubs that were too adorable to just be left to languish in cyberspace
Read about my pixel art journey and see some of the art I've created.
I've been playing around with pixel art for a couple of years. Now I am no kind of artist *at all*. I've learned how to make those 88x31 buttons and I've found a few pixel art tutorials and made some, I think, cute things. Honestly, I feel like I'm at about this level of artistic ability:

I had been doing the daily challenges on Pixil Art. I keep meaning to get back to it consistently but my brain is flighty and I keep forgetting about it. I don't think I'm very good but I figure that if I keep practicing (or maybe even remember to practice!) then I'll get better. The challenges are also good for me because I find that I am surprisingly left-brained and literal sometimes and I'm hoping that this will be an exercise in thinking outside of the box. For example, one of the challenge prompts was "skeleton" and all I thought about was a human skeleton. But after looking at the other entries, people drew all kinds of skeletons! Not all of them were human and there were lots of different styles. So I'm hoping I can train my brain to look beyond the obvious and think of a spin on things.
One of my first forays into making my own pixel art was after I found this tutorial. (Just a note- this site has since gone down and for some reason the Wayback Machine capture has a dark background which makes the text almost impossible to read. You can still read the tutorial by highlighting the text with your cursor.) This was my creation:

Oh wow, that was so fun to make! I wanted to do more but a lot of the tutorials I've found for pixel art have been under the assumption that you're making artwork for a game. Or I find very in-depth tutorials that overwhelm me with detail on shading and light sources and all kinds of other stuff. I just want to make kawaii little objects that blink and bounce. I kept looking and found another tutorial that showed how to make a donut and cup of coffee.


Well, that was fun! Except the donut looks more alarmed than adorable but I can work on that.
Here are the rest of my pixel creations. I think I'm happiest about the muffin - he's just so darn cute!
I have finally gotten confident enough in my pixel skills to make things for several different pixel clubs/cliques and even to resurrect a couple of cliques. Links to all of those are at the top of this page.
I'm also making some pixel art just for the heck of it, not because it was a daily challenge on Pixil Art or a lesson. Witness my KitchenAid mixer!

My Toybox
Rescued Pixels
Back in the day, there were tons of little cliques. People just went crazy taking any kind of object (donuts, glasses, marshmallows, anything!) and making a clique out of it. The clique creator made a set of objects and people would adopt them onto their pages. The clique owner would (usually) have a list on their site of everyone who joined. It was a little bit different from what I see these days where people are given a template and create their own thing. I find these teeny things adorable and didn't want them to languish in the depths of the Wayback Machine archives. Some items I found on the clique's homepage while others I had to search for using member lists or just randomly finding on other old websites. Obviously these are not mine so feel free to take them. The clique home page is linked so you can give the creator proper credit.
Kitty Pops
Ice Pops











Kitty Loaf
I'm surprised at how few kitty loaves I've been able to find. The owner made a ton of loaves for people to adopt but very few were saved, either on her site or on her members' sites. If you find any kitty loaves out in the wild that I don't have here, let me know!









thePOCKYstick









Tasty Toast






Coffee Adoptions
I am missing a few coffees in this collection: espresso, cappucino and mocha. If you see them in your web wanderings, let me know!





Lizards




Free the Lobsters!














Adopt a Starfruit



Rice and Ramen


Veggie!





The Chili Pepper
Bell Peppers


JalapeƱos



Habaneros



Basket of Peppers
