PixelConnect 100
A different sort of bus drawing now, with one of the InterConnect 100s done in a kind of pixel art style. This came about as I was trying to do something else at first, but that project morphed into making a pixelated Enviro 400 MMC for, I dunno, reasons.
I've never fully understood how pixel art works or how it should be made, as surely scaling down a photograph to a pitifully small resolution is the most accurate way to make a pixel image... but low res photos look absolutely crap while pixel art done by somebody that actually knows what they're doing looks good. So what's the deal?
Making this odd little image was, I suppose, me trying to figure out the above. I just tried giving every colour a hard edge with no 'feather' from one colour into the next, so everything that isn't on an exact horizontal or vertical line has a jagged edge, and used a brighter version of each colour in the few places where there were highlights.
Although I drew it with each square of colour being a single pixel, this is a bigger version so that it isn't just a postage stamp sized picture on your screen. Because Paint.net adds its own softening/feather to edges when you scale an image up or down, I had to put it into MS Paint to scale it up at the end, and then add back the window transparency because MS Paint turns any transparency in images white. Considering the whole process took forever, and the results are kind of meh, I don't think I'll be doing another one. It was enjoyable, though.
PixelConnect 100
A different sort of bus drawing now, with one of the InterConnect 100s done in a kind of pixel art style. This came about as I was trying to do something else at first, but that project morphed into making a pixelated Enviro 400 MMC for, I dunno, reasons.
I've never fully understood how pixel art works or how it should be made, as surely scaling down a photograph to a pitifully small resolution is the most accurate way to make a pixel image... but low res photos look absolutely crap while pixel art done by somebody that actually knows what they're doing looks good. So what's the deal?
Making this odd little image was, I suppose, me trying to figure out the above. I just tried giving every colour a hard edge with no 'feather' from one colour into the next, so everything that isn't on an exact horizontal or vertical line has a jagged edge, and used a brighter version of each colour in the few places where there were highlights.
Although I drew it with each square of colour being a single pixel, this is a bigger version so that it isn't just a postage stamp sized picture on your screen. Because Paint.net adds its own softening/feather to edges when you scale an image up or down, I had to put it into MS Paint to scale it up at the end, and then add back the window transparency because MS Paint turns any transparency in images white. Considering the whole process took forever, and the results are kind of meh, I don't think I'll be doing another one. It was enjoyable, though.