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I'm doing a little project over the month of March where I draw an animal with a 4 colour palette each day of the month.
March 28th is a little yak.
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Hello,
For those interested I have a dedicated art blog, I make pixel art, usually of retro computers, check it out!
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Hello Everyone!
Wow that month went by fast. Here are our 30 animals. This project has been wonderful. I was worried at the start that I would draw one or two and then just drop or not keep up with doing it daily. But instead it was the thing I looked forward to doing everyday.
I will be moving to a different project starting in April, no details yet its going to be a surprise. And I will still be drawing the little animals as well just not everyday. If there's an animal you would like me to draw, please feel free to send suggestions to my ask box, no guarantee I will but maybe.
Finally I would like to thank all the lovely people over at The Bee Hive discord for their lovely words and encouragement. You guys are the best.
-Vin
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Palm Pilot Professional
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I'm doing a little project over the month of March where I draw an animal with a 4 colour palette each day of the month.
March 26th is a little pallas's cat.
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Sunday afternoon polar bear.
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I'm doing a little project over the month of March where I draw an animal with a 4 colour palette each day of the month.
March 22nd is a little addax.
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I'm doing a little project over the month of March where I draw an animal with a 4 colour palette each day of the month.
March 20th is a little rainforest cicada.
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A little Pudu, theres something calming about pink palettes.
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I'm doing a little project over the month of March where I draw an animal with a 4 colour palette each day of the month.
March 10th is a little pied crow.
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I'm doing a little project over the month of March where I draw an animal with a 4 colour palette each day of the month.
March 29th is a little ruffed grouse.
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I'm doing a little project over the month of March where I draw an animal with a 4 colour palette each day of the month.
March 24th is a little black tailed jackrabbit.
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I'm doing a little project over the month of March where I draw an animal with a 4 colour palette each day of the month.
March 14th is a little bumble bee.
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Tutorial Dog
Hello Everyone.
So I've gotten a few questions about how I make the little animals so I thought I'd do a little process post.
Well the first step really is deciding an animal and a palette. For the animal I try to switch it up and not choose the same species back to back, and then I look for a reference. Usually I want a clear full body image to refer to. Next I pick the palette, which for the most part is random. Other than avoiding the same general colours as the previous animal, I use https://lospec.com/palette-list which has a nice selection of user submitted palettes that you can limit by number of colours. My only rule when selecting a palette was that it could not contain pure black, only off black if it was present.
For the animal I've selected an Italian greyhound, which we'll refer to as Tutorial Dog.
For the palette I've chosen: Yana's Modernized Pokemon SGB.
I've numbered the palette to explain better. Next part of the process is making decisions about colours. For me, limited palettes make this step easier since I have fewer decisions to make. Generally 4 colour palettes contain a black, white, and two mid tones. The black and white colours are already decided as colour 1 and colour 4 in the palette, so the big decision is deciding which of the two mid tones is the dominant colour, this colour will cover the most area and be added last. Usually I'll decide this based on if the animal is predominately white toned or black toned. For Tutorial Dog I've decided black toned so the colours will be added in 1,4,3,2 order.
First things first, I do an outline of the general shape of the animal and I'll also use another colour to put the general position of the eyes. The eyes are the most important feature and you'll see me adjust them a few times throughout.
Next we add the shadow. These are the darkest areas and they provide the most detail. It's very easy to muddle the image here so I try to avoid laying down large dark areas. Note that I also place all pixels individually, and use a semi-random placement as patterns or dithering can make areas look too flat. This is also why the little animals are little, the canvas size is 128X128 pixels. This means on average a little animal takes around 4-6 hours to draw, depending on the detail; so drawing 1 a day is very achievable even on work days.
The light is added next using the same semi-random placement, it's best to add the light tone sparingly, using it only to highlight bright areas, as our non-dominant colour with fill out those areas later.
Now the non-dominant colour, this is the point where I usually have a small panic, as the image will always look awkward at this point. This is also the time where if I've made the wrong decision on which colour should be dominant I'll be able to tell. Lucky for me, that only occurred one time while I was drawing the little animals. You can also see here that I've made adjustments to the eyes but they still look a bit wrong.
Now for my favourite part, adding the dominant colour. This is the point where the whole image comes together. I'll usually use the fill tool here. You can also see I've made some adjustments to the nose with the shadow colour, as the detail was unclear.
Now we make final touches, this is the point where really I spend a bunch of time zooming in and out to see if the image looks right; fixing the eyes to make them more clear, reducing some of the shadow colour on the back legs to make it less harsh, and adding more shadow to the ears to give more detail.
I'll give the animal a 1 pixel wide outline in pure black to help them pop out from the background. The backgrounds use the same palette, but the colours are tinted with a small amount of white so they won't interfere with the animal itself. Then the colours are faded together with dithering. Finally I add my signature and we are done.
Here's a little bonus animation of the process.
If anyone has questions or would like to suggest an animal for future drawings, please send me an ask.
Also any future tutorial or process posts will be found under the tutorial dog tag.
Thank you.
-Vin
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I'm doing a little project over the month of March where I draw an animal with a 4 colour palette each day of the month.
March 11th is a little snow leopard.
Bonus timelapse under the cut.
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I'm doing a little project over the month of March where I draw an animal with a 4 colour palette each day of the month.
March 9th is a little crab.
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