“Man at night comes out to defeat Villa-Towel villains with his wet towel!”
- David.

April Comeback - Back in Action!

I took almost an entire month off the Steem platform to focus on college stuff. Just to come back one Monday and noticing that the Pixel-Art Weekly Contest was just starting! And this time with a really interesting theme, Shadows.

Now that I'm back on board I can resume weekly posting, I need to finish the showcase post about the new cover art I uploaded to my account last month, and also to finish the new banner art I promised on Easter holidays.

Artwork - The Building was a Total Mess!

Last week I watched a series of videos about the process of a game developer competing on a 3 day game-jam contest, in which he explained how just taking a walk outside helped him in dropping the pressure down and thinking about solutions to the multiple problems that normally arise in that particular area.

Then it comes this building, oh man, I couldn't just get it right. Even after trying multiple wall designs, recolors and going through multiple events of pure frustration I would just leave it blank, go out, watch a wall or two then come back and try again. It worked! Not because of a wall I saw, but of being disappointed in not finding what I wanted and going through google searches, then finding excellent reference material to draw from.

How could I forgot to look for reference?! Reference is important! Serves especially as inspiration and also to help you out when you're stuck on drawing something, from what else you can guide yourself than from reference from real life materials?

I usually leave dithering until I'm absolutely done with image concepts, colors and details. But mid-way in doing the image, I started to dither the moon, then I couldn't just stop, then I dithered everything, then I was committed! There was no going back without deleting all that precious pixel-placing time, but It ended looking good, good enough for me to be happy with the results.

(Sprites from the cape/towel)

Thanks for Watching!

Special Thanks to:

• My friends and family for their feedback.
• That random youtuber that explained his little advice to overcome work process problems.
• DawnBringer for his excelent 32 Color Palette.

You can find my other works on my tumblr account, here