Entropic Sights
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Very happy with the idea and execution of mixing noisy pointillism pixels with more ordered character and stark black cutout silhouette to split em apart
Color scheme of the palette ended up drifting more and more to almost monochromy hues as I kept looking to intensify highlights slightly
Fun details I'm happy with I feel the need to highlight because they took longer than is noticeable lol:
- The X shape on the doggi
Drawing cross/star shapes at weird angles is always so hard but satisfying once it gets good enough. I don't have a technique for it I just brute force it each time so far lol
- Number pad
I spent time thinking how to have each number on the keypad be designed rather than just noise. I'm surprised how well I think you can tell most of them apart despite low color and pixel count but no clue how I'd make "2" better and not satisfied with that one specifically since it looks like 3 so much, but only so much you can do with 2x3 pixels.
I love the idea to develop a full keyboard of non abstract but exceedingly hard to decipher letters so I can hide pixelart messages in random art/the tiniest of labels. But that's work and it's something I'd rather daydream about than actually do lol.
- Mane/hair
As usual always my favorite part to work on is big flowy hair, though not much to say about it specifically other than it's fun how some of the front strands are lit from the window while the back is lit by far off orangey wall
- Wall light dither
One thing I absolutely adore in aseprite is the dither matrix tool and used it as usual here for the door and wall.
Wanted though to use it for light sources in a way where each would cast a different dither around itself and add em up as needed. Didn't find a good way to do that so I drew em manually instead with airbrush and some dumb manual touchup. Will need to experiment to find a more clever way to cut corners using the matrix tool but very happy with this result either way.
Favorite trick on display on that wall is how well yellow-orange-brown-purple/grey makes for a gradient of lit to dark. Noxid taught me brown is just dark orange and always fun to use that knowledge :3
Technically finished it last month iirc but didn't wanna just post it without marking it masterpiece so waited lol
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Also never sure when I do something like that where it's varying levels of mixed pixel painting and individual pixel placing. The outside of the ship was loosely brushed, inside was more manual + subtle dither tool at the end on far wall.
I guess it's to help people learn what kind of workflow peeps use? If that's the case get on my socials I try to put timelapses there :3
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