You can do it, i believe in you! I NEVER thought i'd ever get to this level (and i still have much to learn!), especially not when i was dicking around in 2007 (which is where i actually started with pixel art, but i was
so bad back then). I had pretty much "resigned" myself to pixel art, which i still have a soft spot for, but it wasn't really what i
wanted to do. It takes too long for too small an artwork, and i've since discovered that my favourite part of drawing is actually the sketching, which doesn't look very good at a pixel art scale. That besides, in recent times, my drawing style just doesn't work terribly well with pixel art.
If i were to pick one piece of advice out of the many that have helped me, it is to have fun with what you're drawing. Not necessarily "haha i'm laughing" fun if that's not your thing, but, y'know, enjoyment, whatever that entails. Then you can look at it afterwards and think about what went well and what went badly, but regardless of artistic merits, you enjoyed making it, and isn't that the important part of a hobby?
Excellent. Some of that early stuff is Cortex Command mods, if I remember correctly. Brings back fond memories of that game.
Thanks, good memory! Cortex Command is what got me into pixel art (... and coding) in the first place, so i owe a lot to that game.
The mods still exist, by the way. :v
Roboworm was 2016!?
* Haspen feels too old for this.
Also I see your love for snakes and monocles is ancient, keep it up bruh v;
It is indeed, i was just too rubbish to properly draw sneks and lizards in olden times. At least monocles were simple enough. :v
And also yes, roboworm is that old, though it's worth noting that i reshaded it the following year because i felt like the original looked terrible. Much can happen in a year, it seems!
Also as usual i'm sorry for not having posted much, but exam project has been taking a shit ton of my metaphorical juice, so i've barely even been drawing for myself in the past week or two. I at least expect to be able to get back to it on the 17th, since that's the deadline for the project. Till then:
yes i know the head crest is off center
I actually have some writings and thoughts about the lizardface, but i'll leave that for when i refine the drawing a bit more and smack some colours on. :v