Welcome back! Here's my newest piece and some old artworks I found rotting on my HDD...still waiting for final touches (euphemistically speaking). May you have any comments, please share your thoughts!

Cross Triangle Cross: http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/76933.htm.


Unfinished X. Trying Something New II.


Big Iron (Unfinished),


Miss Endorphin (Unfinished).

Not really off-topic but I don't want to start a new thread in the Pixel Art board...just wanted to show you my new pixel-art piece, CC if you like: http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/76933.htm Cheers!

Olothontor, thanks! Gil, that's right -- this was done in ProMotion.

Saimo, thanks mate. I always just skim through that page and try not to wonder what a hassle it would be to search for all the compilers. I'm still a kind of layman in those spheres; still -- maybe it's the high time I should reconsider using some interlaced modes (this could even go as a sequence -- a minute's work for an average coder, I guess).

Well, I don't really know if that's a good idea to put this thing into this section, or to show it off it at all, but I'll give it a chance.

Recently, I've been playing with the Alchemy project, and basically decided to employ some of its principles in a pixeling software. You can't really make shapes by shouting at the computer, or turning off the canvas in ProMotion (possible in Alchemy!), but what I could do is to sketch, and to sketch madly until some decent thing comes out. I remember at one point I've been making a similar thing, it's still on the forums, and then most of you said it's just too random to be considered a proper work of pixel art. What I did today's evening is this:



There's a story behind it, but I'll leave it for your own consideration. I could polish this thing until I drop dead, but I'm afraid that it would lose some of its features during the process. That it is practically not finished leaves vast space for your imagination, but isn't the brain diverted from the story by its harsh execution? There goes the hook. What would you do with such a picture, then? Waste it, try to make something out of it, or simply call it done and stop bothering? Or maybe just let it rot, and never show to anyone?

Waiting for your opinion and possible suggestions,
-- Johnny

thank you, everyone!

What was the miniature ver. in the top-right for? To check composition/readability?

something like that, I had a real-time miniature in the software all along, but also wanted to check how it would look with the fat outline as watched from a distance -- and just forgot to erase that, i guess.

Well executed, although I think it looses something with the global AA. I like some sharp lines in big pieces like this, like in the second to last image.

thank you! yeah, I could leave some 45 degree lines untouched, but in the end I wanted to smooth out all the curves -- pretty much rushing the whole aa. in fact, when I'm thinking of such mild aa (which makes the picture almost vector-like), I always recall that big slain giant (there was also some chick on top of him) piece of yours!

@.TakaM,

@Mathias, no, it reads 'skw', short for 'skurwy'; cromlech as in this sense, pertains to the material, the blocks themselves.