Pixel Art How-Tos

Getting Started Series

How to Draw Shiba Inu or Kawaii Dog - Handmade (24x24) Pixel Art

Let's watch the the How to Draw Shiba Inu - Handmade Pixel Art video (6:20) from the Pixel Art series by Pixelo.

Yes, you can. Let's follow along and let's draw a handmade shiba inu on a computer 24x24 canvas by hand (that is, by mouse clicking to draw pixels).

Start with the all black (one color) outline...

Blockheads (Anno 2013) - Let's Build 8x8 Pixel Art Avatars from Scratch

Let's build 8x8 pixel art avatars from scratch inspired by the Blockheads [Video] Game (Anno 2013) that featured "randomized" avatars known as - surprise, surprise - blockheads.

Let's use Blockheads - The Guide to 70 Boy Skins (Anno 2013) to get started.

Let's put together a face (8x8) building block for every of the five skin tones (lighter, light, medium, dark, darker)...

Design Your Own Punk Attributes / Building Blocks and More Series

Cool Punks Experiment - Draw Your Own Sun Glasses (from Scratch)

Let's draw some sun glasses (from scratch / from zero) and let's turn zero-attribute "plain vanilla" punk archetypes into cool punks with shades. Let's use the online punk pixel drawing tool to draw all-black sun glasses in 12x3 size...

All Caps Experiment - Choose Your Own (Baseball) Cap Color

Let's (re)draw the (baseball) cap (from scratch / from zero) and let's put the cap with your own colors of choice onto any zero-attribute "plain vanilla" punk archetype.

Let's use the online punk pixel drawing tool to draw the (baseball) cap in 14x5 size...

Wall Street Bets Experiment - Power to the Punks - Draw Your Own Wall Street Bets Degenerate (from Scratch)

Let's draw a hair-do and sun glasses (from scratch / from zero) and let's turn zero-attribute "plain vanilla" punk archetypes into cool looking wall street bets degen traders with shades.

Let's use the online punk pixel drawing tool to draw a wall street bets hair-do...

Wizard - Attribute of the Day - Punk w/ Wizard Hat

Let's get inspired by Legion Punks on Solana and let's design a wizard hat from scratch...

Headphone - Attribute of the Day - Punk w/ Headphone

Let's get inspired by Bit Punk! on Cardano - see #062 - and let's design headphones from scratch...

Exclusive Premium Collections Series

New All Star Cool Blue Alien Experiment - 40 Extraterrestrial Humanoid Andorians - Native to the Blue Icy Class M Moon Andoria ++ Plus Bonus - How About Cyber Green? Burning Red?

Let's unite all aliens from all collections (9 in original, 21 in more, 10 in expansion) into a new all star blue alien series...

Inside the CryptoPunks Bubble - Greyscale / Grayscale Punks Collection Case Study - Conceptual Art (Parody)? (Get-Rich-Quick) Cash Grab? Greater Fools (Financial) Fraud?

Let's have a looksie at the Greyscale Punks collection...

Turn Punks Upside Down Experiment - Flipped Punks (Horizontally)

Let's turn punks upside down, that is, flip the image horizontally. Let's try punk #3393, #172 and #2964...

Special Effects Series

LED Light Pixel Art Experiment

Let's turn 24x24 pixelated CryptoPunks into LED Light art. How?

Let's use a black background.
Let's change black pixels to a (lighter) shade of black (e.g. raisin black - rgb(36, 33, 36)).
Let's turn pixels into LEDs by scaling up the pixel (e.g. 8x).
Let's add spacing between the LEDs (e.g. 2 pixels)

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Black & White (Pencil Drawing) Sketch Pixel Art Experiment

Let's turn 24x24 pixelated CryptoPunks into black & white sketch art. How?

Let's use a white background.
Let's check if the left neighbouring (x-1) pixel is of a different color - if yes, draw a black vertical line.
Let's check if the top neighbouring (y-1) pixel is of a different color - if yes, draw a black horizontal line.
Repeat for all pixels.

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Neon Light Glow Effect Experiment

Let's try a neon light glow effect inspired by How to Create Neon Text With CSS.

Let's try different neon light colors on the first one hundred punks...

Geminis Experiment - Super Rare Twin, Triple 'n' Quadruple Punks

Let's start with a trivia quiz:

Q: What's super rarer than an alien? A: Yes, a gemini (twin) alien!

Here's the experiment - let's draw more than one punk in the same image.

Let's start with geminis and let's geminify the punks #0, #2964, #3100, #3393 ...

Punk Art #1 Challenge Series

Note: All dotty spotty currency how-tos moved to its own modern dotty spotty currency art how-tos' repo @ the Currency Art org ».

Dotty Spotty "Currency" Punks

Let's give it a try using the punks alien #3100, zombie #3393, blondie #172 and beanie #2964.

Let's start with 10px circles - resulting in a 24*10px = 240×240px format...

Dotty Spotty "Currency" Punks - The High-Definition (Hi-Def) XXXL Edition

Welcome back. Let's try a high-definition (hi-def) XXXL edition...

Dotty Spotty "Currency" Punks Inspired by Damien Hirst's "The Currency"

Welcome back. Let's try "random" background spots inspired by Damien Hirst's $40+ million "The Currency" art collection...

Golden Bored Apes Art Challenge #1 Experiment - Dotty Spotty "Currency" Golden Bored Apes Inspired by Damien Hirst's "The Currency"

Welcome back. Let's change ~~Punk~~ to Golden Bored Ape :-).

Let's give it a try using golden ~~24px~~ 28px bored apes. Let's start with 10px circles - resulting in a 28*10px = 280×280px format...

Questions? Comments?

Post them on the CryptoPunksDev reddit. Thanks.