Pixel art tower
Thursday, July 15, 2004
Over on the enScape forums a thread was started with the concept that anyone who wants to participate can draw a section of a tower using pixelart, which will all be combined into a large tower when completed.
I decided to work on the base for the tower, but it was taking ages, so the effort sort of trailed off towards the end - I had planned to make the top floor more interesting and add extra people and cars.
Pixel art is quite a distinctive illustration style, often giving quite a retro appearance like old computer game graphics.
Its rather laborious drawing pixel by pixel, fortunately with modern design tools the process can be sped up, but it still boils down to drawing pixel by pixel for the most part. Its relatively easy to draw the basic shapes, but its a lot trickier to work out draw in the shading to make the objects look more realistically 3D. You can probably tell which bits I did at the beginning and which I got to later on as I get better by how good the shading is.
I don't think it's too shabby for a first try - maybe I'll play with it some more when I feel like doing so, I could probably create some nice icons/buttons for the site.
Posted at 23:43
