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Hello! I don't know if "advertising" your side blogs is considered good etiquette or whatever, but if you didn't know, I used to post nature photos on here and they've been missing for awhile. BUT DON'T PANIC! I haven't stopped, they've just been moved over to a blog exclusively for them: bbbugsnstuff.tumblr.com (as the name implies, there are bug pics, but not as many as might think. I probably should've called it "stuffnbugs" but that sounds a little too risqué). This is a small collection of things posted over there.

Now, I won't pretend to be some kind of expert photographer - I literally just use my phone and sometimes touch them up in editing software - but I still think you should follow me on there too, please

Follow me

FOLLOW ME NOW

FOLLOW ME OR I WILL DESTROY YOU AND MYSELF WITH THE FURY OF A THOUSAND SUNS

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Yet another new Pixel Scape, this one utilizing the palette from the tree and pond art from this post

This is the last new one for awhile (maybe), but I'd kinda like to make something new using the palettes of every Pixel Scape from the original post. Four down, eleven to go (... oh, boy)

Also, I've made some sticker sets with the original Pixel Scapes if anyone wants them.

Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3

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Bleeding heart gem

Another art remake. The original piece is not as old as the other remade pieces, so I'm not going to include it this time; just go back a few posts to see it. I'm just too lazy to include it, I'm sorry

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Some low res (slightly smaller than 16 x 16 pixels) fruit that you can get as a sticker set (or magnets if you like things that stick to other things, but want something that's not so fragile. Or because you just think magnets are cool (I think magnets are cool (stickers are cool, too, don't get me wrong))

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Another remake of an older piece of artwork; the original is included below for comparison as always

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Ancient Ruins

This uses the palette of the graveyard image from my gallery post of older pixel landscapes

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This originally started out as a remake of an older art piece called 80's Sun (included below) before I decided to take it in a slightly different direction; it still uses the same palette, though

Also, if you recognize the text on the right side then you certainly have a keen eye for detail

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This is another pixel scape using the palette from the coral reef image included in this post; I hope you like it

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This is a remake of an older piece of artwork titled Pot Head (included below) that I made several years ago. It's not technically weed related, but considering the title I figure it's most suitable to post on 4/20

Psst; if you want to support my work, both versions are available in my shop. Likes and follows are also much appreciated

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Repost of some old art modified to be more visually appealing

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A new art piece using a more limited variation of the palette used in the desert themed pixel landscapes of my last two posts. The main art is still the same size (30 x 25 pixels), but I added a little frame around it so it'd resemble a cute lil' painting

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These are the two pixel landscapes that I didn't include in my previous post because they "didn't fit the theme that well" plus the original inaccurate desert landscape

I consider these to not fit the theme of "natural landscape" because every other piece is set on Earth and lack psychedelic visuals.

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"But bugbeast" you say "If you're worried about them being natural and accurate, why does one feature a mermaid sitting on a rock at the beach?" Because it's a person wearing a mermaid costume. "What about the blimp above a city? That's not really natural, is it?" Well- "And the cabins? The tombstones? All man-made objects, right?" Stop asking so many hard questions! Gawd.

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This is a collection of super old art (I have quite the backlog, and a habit of deleting blogs and starting the whole “sharing thing” over. I imagine I’m not the only one with that experience; low self-esteem is a hell of a drug heh – uh, sorry for the tangent I guess) that I made when I just started getting into pixel art, so these guys are ancient by internet standards.

I wanted something with a theme and congruence so I could make a lot of them quickly for practice. I settled on landscapes, with a size of 30 x 25 pixels so they’d look a bit like paintings.

They’re not that great, to be honest; good enough to share, but they’re very flat and the details are not differentiated enough. Also, they’re so old that I made the desert one before I knew cacti were native to the Americas and had an Egyptian style pyramid in the background. Oops. The one included here was edited much later (as in, only a few weeks or so before this post). Maybe I’ll post the old one later along with two others that didn’t really fit the theme that well (also only having fifteen makes the post look more aesthetically pleasing imo)

Guess that’s all I have to say about these

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Bleed For You

merry balentimes or whatevs

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[Image IDs: Three pixel art images that feature a pattern of stylized magenta hearts, with blood dripping from them, against a pink background; the middle image also features a pink, blue-outlined love heart with an arrow stuck through it diagonally /End IDs]

This might seem a little early for Valentine's Day, but considering it was made, let's see here --

-- almost SEVEN YEARS AGO, I'm actually suuuper late

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Extremely low resolution pixel art of a coastal city during a cloudy night (this is resized x5, original pixel dimensions; 35 h. | 27 w.

I've been in a creative slump recently so I did a lil' something to hopefully un-slump myself. They always say "Limitations breed creativity!" so I picked out an unusual, three-color palette I thought looked kind of nice and tried my best at a city by the ocean, slightly lit by the moon on a cloudy night -- and at the smallest size I thought I could work in

I don't know if it's good, but it certainly was fun!

It's like cardio, but for the m i n d.

My main goal for this year is to do more; learn more, make more, post more, commit myself to bigger projects more.

I intend to make more using this palette and at this size regardless, but if anyone has any ideas they'd want to share I'd love to hear them!

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MUTE is a very simple 18-card game I made so long ago it kinda feels like a different life at this point. It's basically charades, but with colors instead of categories and you're not allowed to talk at all aside from explaining the rules; any player communication beyond that is done via gestures.

It has four rules variations - similar to my other game - so I won't go into detail about the specifics of each one, but the general run-down is:

Players pick a theme; you're free to come up with your own, but several "Theme" cards are included if you don't have the imagination juice to think of one

During a turn, a player chooses a color (how a player "chooses" differs between rule variants) and acts out something related to that color that corresponds to the theme (example: Theme is sports, color is green, player acts out a golf swing)

Other players have to guess what color their actions represent (again, this differs between variants. I mean, highly differs. In one rule variant you don't even guess at all, in fact. Though that one's more of an improv exercise in game form)

I considered leaving this game lost to the void (i.e. unpublished) since it's very minimalistic; there's basically no art save for some little pictures used to illustrate the communication gestures. I had other plans for the game, but those never came to fruition.

But, eeeehhh…I figured since it's done I may as well make it available. It's on the Game Crafter for 6.99 USD (not including shipping). Or if you want a game with nicer art you can pick up Jewel Thief! Eh? Eh? okay . . .

I guess that's all for now