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I’ll be running my own half marathon race, because the half marathon race later today has been neutered to a 15 km run (not race) because of the sudden heat. I’ll leave as soon as Maahir has eaten his veterinarian cat food in a few minutes from when I’m posting this message.

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Finished reading: The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 📚

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I drew this stylized head of B.A. Baracus of the 1980s hit series The A-Team, played by Mr T.

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It seems the basis of good 2D animation is solid drawing skills. Without it, the result will be poor, or, at best, occasionally hit, but mostly miss. I know where to spend my time in the coming months. I only hope I don’t lose my Divoom Master Pixel Artist status with still images.

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I made a rough animation in the Animatic app on iPad and traced the frames into a pixel animation with Pixaki. It took much longer than I expected, but I’m pleased with the (very rough) result running on my Pixoo64 LED panel.

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I’ll be running a marathon on 13 April 2025. It almost didn’t happen because of injuries, which only healed a week ago. To celebrate in advance I made this jumble of legs, arms, and a confused head. Its animation lives on the Divoom community, where I became a master pixel artist, also this week.

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Using Quick Poses I found a reference for a pose. After pixeling the nude I put some clothes on her to avoid flagging on the Divoom community. BTW, it wasn’t quick at all.

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A larger piece, and Fate/Apocrypha fan art. I know I can do better, if I weren’t so out of practice. I also might have traced a little to get it done, after spending more than 12 hours on it today,

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It’s been a while since I posted some pixel art on here, while I’ve been inundating the Divoom community with my creations, being mostly recommended by the staff. I don’t judge it high art, but I can see why they want to see more of it. Most don’t seem to post anything, or at best it’s low-effort.

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Great minds think alike in my timeline, by @roelio@micro.blog and @Phillipgerba@mastodon.art

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The @pixeldailies.bsky.social #PixelDailies theme was #ladder Link has to climb the ultimate infinite ladder.

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I suppose if you always play it safe (read: draw for more likes), you will never learn new things, and keep repeating old things until you’ve bored and stop creating. For me, this is a place of experimentation, finding your artistic limits, go beyond them, then dial back a bit.

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I started a new project in Procreate for pixel art. I already made a rough sketch and applied base colors (white, green and light-brown). It will become a 64 x 64 pixels piece for my Pixoo64. It’s been a while since I did a landscape, so it will be a challenge to finish it. Here’s a WIP.

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Here's the process video of the pixel portrait of Jean-Luc Picard.

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I hand-made a pixel portrait of captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek TNG, using Procreate.

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I tweaked yesterday’s still pixel art thoroughly, so I think it got more “readable.” Next I did some simple animation, since that’s preferred, apparently, in the Divoom community.

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Here’s the finished version of a baby enthusiastically holding a puppy.