I'm not even near an 'awesome spriter', I just believe I have a good deal of common sense, general knowledge, and patience.. as well as the ability to self-critique pretty fairly, I think, helps me push above most 'beginners', who seem to ignore many rules of pixel art, or art in general, amongst other things.
I originally wanted to get into pushing pixels only a few months ago, as a means to develop graphics for future game projects I may work on, and one that was being planned at the time. It is still my intention/goal to produce nice tilesets and sprites, despite the project having died. I am planning a new project now. However, my studying and research have led me to want to create more than that, and produce some of the things on the caliber of that as you can see in the hall of fame at PixelJoint, not tilesets or sprites, or even game-related art, just general art. I have yet to really make much, I have maybe made 1 or 2 pieces larger than 50x50, the rest are tries at sprites or tiles, or just experiments. I have, however, done a lot of research and studying, and still constantly do. I'd like to mention that I may have found a hidden talent as I have practically never dabbled in art at all, before I came to this forum to try some pixel art, although it is commonly said that pixels are not the medium to get into to learn art. And they're right.
First pixels:
http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=7538.0First 'big' piece:
http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=8167.0(I never did finish, despite saying I wanted to.
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I'd like to some day have some people that look up to me, in terms of pixel art, maybe. That would be nice. But ultimately, I just want to better myself.
Well, I feel pretty conceited talking about myself, but there you go, that's me up until this point.
