I don't quite know what this style is called, but I love the artist for it.

Queen_Sectonia said:
I don't quite know what this style is called, but I love the artist for it.

It's pixel art. Kind of like what you have in MS Paint.

HarryDevil said:
It's pixel art. Kind of like what you have in MS Paint.

actually, pixel art is where people place pixels one-by-one; each pixel and its placement is intentional for creating a whole, final piece of artwork. spriting is one example of this.

I drew this quite traditionally, as if I were drawing on a piece of paper, which makes this more of a "binary brush" or "aliased" style, as there is no anti-aliasing on the lines.

ɯ(_–_–_)ɯ said:
actually, pixel art is where people place pixels one-by-one; each pixel and its placement is intentional for creating a whole, final piece of artwork. spriting is one example of this.

I drew this quite traditionally, as if I were drawing on a piece of paper, which makes this more of a "binary brush" or "aliased" style, as there is no anti-aliasing on the lines.

Oh, that explains a lot. I've been doing it wrong this whole time.

ɯ(_–_–_)ɯ said:
I drew this quite traditionally, as if I were drawing on a piece of paper, which makes this more of a "binary brush" or "aliased" style, as there is no anti-aliasing on the lines.

Are you doing the stippled shading manually or are you actually doing rough shading, then applying dither on conversion to monochrome?

Nah, I used Shi-Painter to make this. Shi-Painter has default "texture" brush options that allow you to paint with dithering patterns. It's really cool.

dig that cetacean plump puzzay

ɯ(_–_–_)ɯ said:
actually, pixel art is where people place pixels one-by-one; each pixel and its placement is intentional for creating a whole, final piece of artwork. spriting is one example of this.

I drew this quite traditionally, as if I were drawing on a piece of paper, which makes this more of a "binary brush" or "aliased" style, as there is no anti-aliasing on the lines.

Notice to others: look at the gigantic filesize of 12KB over there. This style of computer art is actually quite nostalgic to me because a lot of old video games and such had all pictures dithered to hell to save on memory. Especially on the old black and white Macs. Nowadays of course it isn't necessary, but it's really cool to see art that's under filesize restrictions. Really brings out the clever methods of efficiency that one can take with data. Just a personal favourite.

ArdesCadaver said:
Notice to others: look at the gigantic filesize of 12KB over there. This style of computer art is actually quite nostalgic to me because a lot of old video games and such had all pictures dithered to hell to save on memory. Especially on the old black and white Macs. Nowadays of course it isn't necessary, but it's really cool to see art that's under filesize restrictions. Really brings out the clever methods of efficiency that one can take with data. Just a personal favourite.

So much can be done with so little. That's why I like old-school oekaki apps.

wpddpw said:
Nah, I used Shi-Painter to make this. Shi-Painter has default "texture" brush options that allow you to paint with dithering patterns. It's really cool.

So basically, it looks like Flipnote from the DSi.