Man DSMK2 I still don't know what it is but your pixelling just really rubs me the right way. And it's definitely gotten better lately, as well.

dA page
Sorry about the hugeness

Hey that's cool mate. Sometimes size does matter!

Geti, I'm not sure what it is exactly about your style, but it confuses the hell out of me when I'm trying to figure out how you go about sketching these things. Eventually I just have to stop, let half my brain go into a coma while the other admires the rather cute proportions.

Thanks for the link to your dA page, I tagged a watch onto it so I can go wander through your gallery when I'm dA V.7 literate (not sure how long that might take).

thats cool dsmk2, took me ages to realise i could shoot down the green ship

Hahah, well it varies from piece to piece, I suppose it gets a lot harder to track when I start using the eraser tool on top of my sketching and then working back into that... I might do a proper process piece at some point, glad you like it, and cheers for the watch

@yoman: hahah, thank you

This was the first thing I did. I was disappointed that more didn't arrive.

Either way I still need to gut what I have now and redo everything from scratch. Though I'm still clawing myself for not being able to sprite effects or backgrounds.

My latest attempt at a planet.

i actually think this one looks more like one of those tea eggs
im also kinda in love with the gimp lens flare hehe i overuse it all the time

Here's some random pixel art.


Yes, it was inspired by Cave Story. No, I did not copy anything.

Never, ever use lensflare.

The white aerospace plane pulls over by the player then suddenly casts off it's old shell! It's now an advanced humanoid giant mecha that wants to kill the player!

She then promptly starts flying around like crazy attempting to laser the player to death. Along with some missile spam and various other attacks... Blah. Yay for yandere(?) female AIs ha ha ha...

Is Flixel hard to get into? Or is it fairly simple to pick up and make a simple side-scroller?

Dammit DS why do you have to be so awesome, it makes me feel inadequate >_>;

Entirely unrelated note, I still suck at curves, same as last time I checked, even with help.

That's the same feeling I get when I look through this thread... Attempts to replicate that painting style that I really like has oft failed...

Anyways, what are you working on with those tiles?

There's quite a bit of exemplary source around for it, I'm in the process of learning it myself.