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  For this assignment, I recreated the scene of a baby, the protagonist of the film Rob-B-Hood. When I though about what kind of scene I wanted to recreate with the restriction of only 16 times 16 pixels, I decided to not create something complicated in forms of colors and patterns, but the one that is relatively simple. Since I anticipated that the recreation will look dramatically different from the original work if the original picture contains too many details, I wondered if the effect is going to be the same if the original work itself is not complicated. Therefore …

For the pixel artwork sketch, I decided to attempt a self-portrait. It was extremely difficult to convey a detailed portrait of myself with only 256 pixels to work with, so I decided that I needed to somehow convey it was me. My red hair is obviously a distinguishable trait that was easy to convey in …

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Over Thanksgiving break, I met the puppy that my parents welcomed into the family a few weeks ago. I fondly refer to him as my…

As someone who is fond of art, I realized that my conventional know-how for sketching did not apply to this […]

For this sketch assignment, I chose to replicate a picture of a car, and I completed this assignment on a free pixel art website. My first attempt was a failure because the first picture I chose was a car at an angle, and I found it extremely difficult to depict more than 2 dimensions with 256 pixels. So, I found this picture instead which had the car straight. Because this picture was very detailed, I had to let go some of…

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Completing the 256 points assignment  required a free pixel art maker that permitted drawing with pixels. I found a pixel art maker, though, that did not have a 16 x 16  pixel setting, so  I could not tell whether I was using more than the allotted pixels. I solved this problem by drawing a hollow 18 x …

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For this assignment, “256 Points”, I recreated a picture of Marylin Monroe. This assignment was quote challenging as nowadays everything is highly pixeleted and precise. We are not exposed anymore to old video games that were created with cube like figure. While creating this image, I had to rethink shapesRead More >

I used pixelartmaker.com to create my 16×16 pixel masterpiece of Tom Brady, the New England Patriots legendary quarterback. While making the image I noticed that it was very difficult to make a detailed image. I was trying to recreate the nose and mouth but could not do anything expect make 2 pinkish blocks in the …

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My 16×16 image is meant to be a recreation of “The Girl With the Pearl Earring” by Johannes Vermeer. I tried to recreate the more striking aspects of the painting such as the young woman’s mesmerizing gaze and the color of the eponymous pearl earring as best as I could. Some details of the painting,

 
In this 16×16 pixel image, I created a warrior with an eyepatch on his left eye. He has the full beard and he is wearing a cloak, showing his strong Pectoralis major muscle. He is standing under a willow shouldering a sword with his arm cro…