Hello! I am Nacho Ayala, a 29 year-old "artist" from Benidorm, Spain. Excuse my English, it's far from perfect.

I have been in the AGS forums for years... I firstly joined for the critics lounge subforums, but, while I still love AGS, critics lounge is not longer "good" enough for me.

I have been thinking in joining PixelJoint for years, but I was not really convinced of the environment over there... But then I found Pixelation.

Meeting Ptoing and Helm in person also helped buuuuuut... I am not sure if I should mix my name with those two, they are still lightyears away from me  Anyway, I am quite sure that joining here will give my art a boost for attempting an approximation 

So... Here it is: My art so far. I don't dare to post it in the pixel art forums since most of it is not really pixelart, and they are finished/abandoned projects that doesn't really need more crits.

The beginning... Basically painting over scanned pencil art and resizing to 50% for getting AA. I had no idea of what "pixel art" was.

First attempt at "pixelart". I was aiming for "pixel art looking", but I had no idea of what limited palletes were. I think I even used the bluring tool... 

Other attempts to do pixel art... I was realising that limited palletes were a help, and not a restriction... I was using too many colours still...

Another step into, IMHO, the right direction... I was copying Big Brother' s (Ian Schlaepfer) style... Some days after I learned that "16" is a very acceptable amount of colours for a sprite.




A set of sprites for a game I wanted to make... I am very happy of the result BUT... In the two last images there are some problems still... I am copying palletes from old games or pixel art images I liked (This last pallete was taken from a piece from Buloght... It can be seen here: http://www.pixeljoint.com/files/icons/full/skavenbattleline1.gif Choosing colours is still a problem.

A "Flashback cutscene" style attempt... I tried to chose the colours alone and here you have the result... A big eye-ache.

Unfinished mockup for a game I planned to do. I copied the palletes from "The Dig", basically... 


Some attempt of getting the FoA style... It was going fairly well, but then I discovered Misja Van Laatum's http://www.miez.nl/ techniques (which basically are "Use zillion colours if you need them") and went a bit mad about the colour restriction... Not a bad BG, but a step in the opposite direction of the Pixel art Holy Grail.


Baxter... Bloop pattern analyst by day, serial killer by night. I copied the pallete for the flesh pallete from Monkey Island again, I think, but I was not happy about it and altered it... I was getting annoyed of pink characters. I started to realised that I liked too much marking the muscles (or boobies, in female characters) with dark outlines...

Experimenting styles... Now "Full throttle". Again, I used the pallete used in the game and () traced over Maureen.


So, thanks for the warm welcome (given "in person") to the forums. I feel very happy for being here  I will try to learn as much as possible and help when I can.

-Ignacio.