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Shame // CLEAVE ME ALONE / I'M COOKING AWAY

June 9th 2024 Pixel Art Hand Pixelled
HauntedMouse @mouserinks
100% 90 X 101 pixels colors 3 comments
HauntedMouse @mouserinks Slowest pixeler in the west My attempt to calm down, back up, and do a less ambitious piece. Far simpler than all my previous (unposted) creatures of labor and feels like it came out stronger. Squeezed in some fun but annoyingly obscure symbolism - mostly an exercise in shapes and readability. I'm VERY curious if her pose/left hand position comes across or not... Please do tell what you see! And technical feedback is welcome & appreciated as always c: ~ Took around 10 hours total due to fiddling and convoluted experimenting - in the end I reverted to this cleaner, earlier version *quack*, so really 7ish hours. Based loosely on my memory of that one vintage Hershey's cookbook cover.

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Tags: #beginner, #sideprofile, #eerie, #horror, #cardinal, #bird, #symbolic, #1960s

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Resolution: 90 X 101 pixels (9k pixels) Colors: 3

Comments (3)

HauntedMouse is looking for critiques on this piece! Please be constructive.

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HauntedMouse
I went more pretentious with the meaning, as I tend to do, lol!
To some the red cardinal is seen as a loved one "returning from beyond" to visit the living - yet this one is refusing to meet the eye of the woman, all the while being perched upon a tool of brute force that is associated with bloody work or slaughter (both things that a "proper" 1960s lady isn't the most likely to be engaging in, which I thought might lend the image a type of dissonance).
Then I battled the low resolution and limited palette to convey her fingers being crossed behind her back, though it's probably not visible. I feel like she's come under judgement and is swearing to drop a bad habit but not being sincere about it :P That's how it developed, anyway. Making a narrative seems to entertain my brain while I'm making these things, haha. Thanks for checking it out!

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