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Pixelart on DA is once again a mess.

Fri Jun 12, 2009, 7:00 PM

Sprite rips, edits, traces from animes and missplaced deviations once again fill up the pixelart category. I had not visited it in months and I wish I hadnt.

On another note, what do you people think of my tablet art versus my traditional marker drawings?

edit: i just looked at some of my old pictures. And october 13 2003 i wrote this:

"not to accurate and not so new.
but i thought i need to post stuff to get rid of those not so pixelated images that keep getting posted here."

Shonegold must have really cleaned the place up in the months she was a mod.

Also I switched my featured deviation.

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=stalk-chan Jun 11, 2009, 11:18:20 AM

I've done two pixelartz, and I think most stuff here on dA is a mess..

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"Wily usually abused this aspect and mostly programmed or reprogrammed his robots to feel extreme hatred for Mega Man."

~ZombieToaster Jun 11, 2009, 11:30:29 AM

Yeah but you dont see 3d models posted in the photo section

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"If you have painted before, you know we dont make misstakes... We have happy accidents... Shhh, It's our secret. Don't tell anybody." -Bob Ross

=stalk-chan Jun 11, 2009, 11:38:54 AM

Not really.

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"Wily usually abused this aspect and mostly programmed or reprogrammed his robots to feel extreme hatred for Mega Man."

~ZombieToaster Jun 11, 2009, 11:41:37 AM

I guess people are just too stupid to understand what pixelart is while everyone knows what a photo is.

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"If you have painted before, you know we dont make misstakes... We have happy accidents... Shhh, It's our secret. Don't tell anybody." -Bob Ross

=stalk-chan Jun 11, 2009, 11:45:20 AM

Pixelart is sexy. But most people here are young and dont really know what all the things are. Using it kinda like a blogg or myspace..

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"Wily usually abused this aspect and mostly programmed or reprogrammed his robots to feel extreme hatred for Mega Man."

~Marth-the-magikoopa Jun 11, 2009, 1:55:08 PM

I'd just like to ask ya, what file do you need to save pixelart as to upload it? Every time I do it's misplaced because it won't accept the file and the file is a bmp.

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~murtada-king Jun 11, 2009, 2:04:55 PM

Yeah, pixel-art is a very abused term and most people don't exactly know what it is... It's kinda hard to check if every piece that has been uploaded is put in the right section... Too bad!

And I would prefer drawing with traditional markers. Firstly because I have a certain dislike against tablets without good arguments... Just don't like them!
Secondly, I think drawings are much richer and more vivid and more "what you wanted it to look like when it finished".
My third reason is that you have much more freedom and space to draw anything you want... Like, try sketching on paper and on the computer... you'll notice on paper you start a lot faster with doodling because it's more natural or something...!

Ha... Well, hope it did make any sense!

~murtada-king Jun 11, 2009, 2:14:34 PM

.BMP is a perfect pixel-art file type extension. The problem is that all browsers render BMP files, it's not simply not supported... That's why you better upload your pixel-art in the following file types:
.PNG
.GIF

Both of the types support transparency, though .PNG can be 32bit, meaning you can have opacity and alpha-gradients.

On the other hand, you can have animated pixel-art with the .GIF file type.

Other than that; .GIF is only limited to 256 colors (8 bit) meaning you can't have more than 256 self-defined colors.

Also some editing software doesn't allow self-defined colors for .GIF file types and reduces the colors to the predefined 256 colors that are in the standard .GIF color palette.

Hope that helped a bit!