Im surprised there hasn't been any mention of The Spriter's Resource forums. They have a very crowded Wip section there.

Beware, there be sprite edits.
http://www.vg-resource.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=14

I also used to go to a small community that sprang up from TSR called Pixeltendo; they had a bit of talent, but if my memory serves right, it was mostly a den of obscene, disrespectful anus-holes.

Pardon my language. 

Here's some edits. You know what my specialty is.




I based the likeness off of the Erde artwork I had helped you with, in the Dropbox of long ago. What do you think?

Oh my.. 


It's beautiful.

Yup, I was getting to it. But I have to agree with Crow.

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The question is: is it necessary? To me, it doesn't seem to be the point to eliminate each and every single/isolated pixel that exists on the canvas, but rather avoid them where possible.

Necessary? Personally I don't think so. I won't abandon the single pixel for future stuff I make because I still think it has its uses. But I'll be cutting down on using it quite a bit.

But as an exercise I thought the point was to push yourself to find new solutions to the regular one-pixel fallback whenever possible, even when you think a single pixel might be more ideal. And imo it's very possible here.

It is possible, but it kinda looks like a blurring effect was applied. Single pixel AA effectively defines the structure loads better however, with those angles. It's simply sharper.

Well, where do I begin?

Playing with clusters is a fun game in where nothing ever seems to go wrong, at least for me. It is similar to painting, only exchanging brush strokes for clusters, and some of the results can be beautiful even without single pixel AA here and there.

Hopefully the image will speak for itself, im burned out over here and too sleepy to type lengthy. But I'll come back to this piece and comment more soon. I might do the hands next time.