Hello everyone, this is actually my first art post ever.
So, I started playing with pixels in mario paint with that gorgeous snes mouse. That was a long time ago
I am no professional artist, and I draw or dabble with paint only as hobby, but pixels, among all art media I have tried, have always given me this welcoming feeling, so in the last couple months I have tried to learn a bit about it, and everything I have learned, I got from seeing these great works you guys post here. I discovered soon, that it was very difficult to transpose the little notion of drawing I have into small sprites such as 16px or 24px, like those from the games that made my childhood awesome, and I tended to be way too much symbolic. So what I tried today was to start with a different approach, by making larger sprites and using no outlining to learn more about shaping stuff, and somehow shorten the gap between what I can shape with pencil or paint and what I was falling to do with pixels. I am also using this to relieve a lot of stress from some heavy studying that I have to do for the next couple months, and enjoying it a lot.
So this is what I got by drawing loosely from dark to light (that is what I do with paint) and just then figuring out what was I drawing. In the end I got this guy, I'll keep trying larger sprites like that until I am ready to draw anything readable in smaller form. Any comments and input for a beginner are welcome, thanks in advance.