s/PixelArt
This is your home for all things pixel art on Gemini. Whether you're a pixel art pro or just getting started, you'll find a welcoming place to share your art, learn, and connect with fellow pixel enthusiasts.
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A Grade-A Gray Day — I promise this has nothing to do with Monkey Foxes I have one of those strangely vivid yet inconsequential memories, specifically of me in kindergarten lying on the floor of the classroom at the end of the day waiting for the teacher to take us to the bus. I was staring up at this fluorescent light fixture on the ceiling, the ones with four tubes. The two outer tubes were dim and flickering and there was a gap between the two inner tubes. It gave me the impression of...
💬 1 like · Jan 22 · 3 months ago
Omen of Duality by Ryan Davey — [https link] He's onto something here.
💬 View post · Jan 21 · 3 months ago
The last of my pixel art and then I promise I'll shut up. — I have lots of other stuff that isn't pixel art. I do a lot in Blender in particular. I don't do perspective and lack the hand-eye coordination to be a proficient artist. Everything here was done with a mouse and took ages. That's it. Sorry for info-dumping all over everyone's feed. Conlanging and conworlding can be a profoundly lonely hobby. You don't have to be a musician to enjoy a song or a chef to appreciate a good meal, but...
💬 5 comments · 4 likes · Jan 08 · 4 months ago
Yinrih Womb-nest — Yinrih reproduce like salmon, only once in their lives, without physical contact, and via laying eggs, or rather a single very large egg. Unlike salmon, males also lay an egg (and yinrih don't die after laying, either.) When an equal number of male and female eggs are placed in a clutch together, a womb-nest forms. A womb-nest is a highly derived egg-sac with its own simple heart and circulatory system. A central bus artery feeds oxygenated blood to the kits, and returning...
💬 View post · Jan 07 · 4 months ago
Star Hearth — Prior to the Theophany, yinrih practiced a form of simple animism, where a shaman would keep the tribe's fire lit. Many of their pre-Theophany practices were carried over into the Bright Way, especially liturgical and funerary customs, as well as a set of four seasonal feasts. Shamans, now called hearthkeepers, continued serving as bringers of light and warmth to those around them, but they tended increasingly advanced fires. These fires were now placed in a fane dedicated to the...
💬 3 comments · 1 like · Jan 06 · 4 months ago
HUD specs — Note: Lagrange doesn't seem to play animated gifs so you'll have to download and view it in another app. HUD specs are like Google Glass if it was good. Because yinrih are quadrupeds, they can't dedicate a paw to holding a mobile device while walking, so they use wearable tech extensively. Yinrih normally walk on their palms like baboons but can knuckle-walk for short periods while holding something such as a paw keyer, which is used as an input device along with HUD specs as...
💬 1 like · Jan 06 · 4 months ago
The Theophany — Y'all are gonna get sick of my nonsense sooner or later. This conworld has been the object of my latest ADHD hyperfixation for the past two years, and I have a lot of attempts at art (and writing). It is, essentially, my stress-induced maladaptive daydreams put to writing. Anyhoo, on to the lore. I mentioned the Bright Way in my previous post. It is the oldest existing, and historically most widespread, religion among yinrih*. It does not have a single founder, and can trace...
💬 1 comment · 3 likes · Jan 05 · 4 months ago
Metabolic Suspension Capsule — Missionaries of the Bright Way ply the yawning gulf between stars in search of other sophonts. FTL communication has existed for dozens of millennia, but FTL travel remains illusive, though they can achieve speeds that are a significant fraction of c. While they're very long-lived compared to humans, with an average lifespan of 724 years, they still need a way to live long enough to survive interstellar STL missions. Monkey foxes are incapable of losing...
💬 4 comments · 1 like · Jan 04 · 4 months ago
A vulpithecine mech pilot — This mech cockpit demonstrates several common features of monkey fox ergonomics. All four paws and the tail are prehensile. In order to make use of all five extremities, one must lie on the back or belly. Vehicle cockpits feature a concave couch similar to a bowl chair, with a cleft to accommodate the tail. For input, paw-held chording keyers, where multiple buttons are pressed simultaneously, are preferred over billions of buttons. With four paws and six digits per...
💬 1 like · Jan 03 · 4 months ago
Vulpithecus fidelis, AKA the monkey fox, an arboreal quadruped with a prehensile tail, and the only other creature besides humans known to have achieved sapience. They've only been around as long as modern humans, but they evolved a written language directly from a scent-marking behavior rather than inventing writing much later to record spoken language. This innate literacy allowed them to reach level II on the Kardashev scale millennia before humans discovered agriculture.
💬 7 comments · 2 likes · Jan 01 · 4 months ago
Here's a gas giant... OK, it's an ice giant, but I'm a 90s kid and the gas/ice giant distinction hadn't trickled down to elementary education yet, so just like in my heart of hearts Pluto is still a planet, any big gassy round thing in space that isn't a star is a gas giant. Anyway, there are two belts of breathable air in the subtropics. The planet is rich in economically exploitable gases. Floating extraction platforms were deployed to extract these gases. Oxygen is a byproduct of the...
💬 3 likes · 2025-12-31 · 4 months ago
the world's tallest virtual building.
💬 1 comment · 2 likes · 2025-08-16 · 9 months ago
yuuta toyoi — amazing pixelarts from japanese artist, and an article.
💬 View post · 2025-08-16 · 9 months ago
First and Only — For a project I’m planning I want to practice making pixel art. I haven’t done much drawing for years. I got inspired to make tiny book covers by other people so now I’m starting to make them for books I’ve read. Starting with the Warhammer 40k novel First and Only by Dan Abnett.
First and Only Pixel Art Book Cover
💬 2 likes · 2025-08-16 · 9 months ago
Anyone up for redesigning my user pic? — Could anyone design a new avatar / social media profile pic for me based on an old illustration I wish to use? Currently I am using a picture that, I am ashamed to admit, is an LLM generated image from the time we all though they were cool. I would very much like some REAL pixel art but with some changes to the image. Anyone up for it?
💬 5 comments · 2025-07-20 · 10 months ago
A little radio pixel art I made that we're using as a profile picture on a few websites
💬 2 likes · 2025-07-19 · 10 months ago
Not sure it's relevant but looks cool, imho: [https link] 20.03.25 Spring is here 🌸
💬 1 comment · 3 likes · 2025-03-20 · 1 year ago · #1bit #printemps #spring #webgbcam
Generate pixel art with Unicode block characters! [gemini link]
💬 9 comments · 4 likes · 2025-01-09 · 1 year ago
How space efficient is pixelart compared to other ways to portray images of the same detail? Wondering if it would then be an optimal way to portray images without having to use ascii art in lagrange. Because you don't really know how it will look like with a unique font. PixelArt is simpler. And it gives Retro vibes that really fit in Lagrange and geminispace.
💬 5 comments · 1 like · 2024-10-09 · 2 years ago
What a great suggestion comrade @stack ! Work is the frontier of technology! I don't read cyrillic so I appologise if the text has any meaning to anyone. Canvas is 64x96.
💬 1 comment · 6 likes · 2023-12-16 · 2 years ago
I got inspired by a Deus Ex poster. I think the essence is still there even on a canvas of 64x64.
💬 1 comment · 7 likes · 2023-12-15 · 2 years ago
Hardly a Sunset — I admit that this art is terrible. I made it mainly for myself and hope to look back on this with embarassment in the future!
💬 5 comments · 9 likes · 2023-12-14 · 2 years ago
My noob contributions — Hi there! I just started this Pixel Art subspace, so I'll go first... I'm somewhat of a noob... The first image is probably my first ever attempt, and it's a caricature of Martin Scorsese. The second one is an image I drew following a tutorial on YT... Both were made with Pixelorama... Hope you like them... Your turn... Go ahead, and show us your pixels then!
💬 2 comments · 2 likes · 2023-10-21 · 3 years ago