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Gina Häußge Oct 1, 2024

In order to improve my fresh #pixelart skills I'm going to try my hand at #hartoween

👉 https://social.horrorhub.club/@stina_marie/113220760493893634

Can't promise I'll be able to do everything on the day its due, and that I'll have the energy to keep up with it throughout the month, but it's worth a try at least.

Personal rules: 128x128px (but exported at 200%), trying to stick to the ENDESGA64 palette as much as I can.

So, here's day 1: Pumpkin

Mother Suspiria :autism: (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image I made a list of Art Challenge prompts for anyone interested because I didn't like the any of the ones I saw for #October. Feel free to share them and do one, some, or all of them. I tried to make prompts that you can go spooky, creepy, or cute with, and that you can do at any skill level, so I hope people like them & join in. The hashtag is #hARToween #ArtChallenge #Art #Mastoart #artstodon #TraditionalArt #inktober #SpookySeason #ScarySeason #artist #ArtPrompts #Halloween #Spooktober

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Gina Häußge Oct 2, 2024

Needed some non-coding time to think about how to approach something, so used that time to take care of today's #hARToween while brainstorming on how to approach the work thing.

Thus here's day 2: Spooky House

#pixelart #aseprite

Gina Häußge Oct 2, 2024

I actually already drew tomorrow's #hARToween image tonight because I don't know how much time I'll have for it tomorrow, with #mrmcd2024 starting.

So here's a somewhat early day 3: Ghost

This was not the original plan, but one thing led to another and I just ran with it. Turned out way cuter than I thought I could pull off 🤭

#pixelart #aseprite

Gina Häußge Oct 2, 2024

I can't draw at all with a mouse btw... No chance at all. But I recently got myself a 11.6" drawing tablet and that's unlocked so much for me 😅

Today's #hARToween image is admittedly a rush job as I'm currently at #mrmcd2024 and thus can't focus as well on drawing as on the first three days.

But I took the graphic tablet with me and tried my best to paint Granny Weatherwax in under 30min.

Day 4: Witch.

#pixelart #aseprite

Gina Häußge Oct 6, 2024

Will continue (and hopefully also do those that I missed) when I no longer have a toothache 😅

Gina Häußge Oct 11, 2024

Now that I'm feeling better, let's try to get back on top of #hARToween.

I'll try to also catch up on what I missed, but if I don't have the time for more than one drawing per day, I'll focus on the current one.

Today I (so far) did two.

First one is today's, Day 11: From the Depths.

The seconds on is the first one I missed, Day 5: Haunted Doll.

#pixelart #aseprite

Gina Häußge Oct 12, 2024

I'm quite happy with today's #hARToween drawing... Day 12: Full Moon (first). Awooooo! I think working with minimal lining here and just letting everything be backlit worked great!

I'm not that happy with the second one I did for the (missed) Day 6: Closet Monster (second). I like my idea, but I couldn't figure out how to add some details and shading without things looking weird. Ah well. I'm learning :)

#pixelart #aseprite

Gina Häußge Oct 13, 2024

Some more #hARToween drawings...

First of all, today's, Day 13: Mask.

I'm not very happy with that one, didn't help that this was my third try either I guess. At least experimented a bit with lightning, and glowing eyes.

And the second one, Day 7: Bloody Mary.

With that one I'm quite ok, especially happy with the light effects and the lime. And yes, from the get go I planned to draw the cocktail vs. something creepy, sorry 😅

#pixelart #aseprite

Gina Häußge Oct 14, 2024

#hARToween Day 14: Bats

I tried my hand a bit more on dithering (manually, with custom brushes, apart from the gradient in the back), and I might have overdone it a bit maybe, but tbh I kinda like it...

#pixelart #aseprite

Gina Häußge Oct 14, 2024

Now also with a creation timelapse (after I finally managed to get a proper workflow going for that)

DJGummikuh Oct 14, 2024

@foosel haha that's awsome, especially the flying bat where you can really see your thoughts "no"... "also no..." "aah, fuck it" *erases everything* 🤣

Gina Häußge Oct 14, 2024

@DJGummikuh For the record, that "ah fuck it" was actually caused by me not liking the resulting composition rather than the sketched bat ^^ I think it was the right decision too.

tobozo Oct 14, 2024

@foosel I have a bat feeling about this

TabascoEye Oct 14, 2024

@foosel are you using https://sprngr.itch.io/aseprite-record now?

Record for Aseprite by sprngr

Scripts to snapshot work & create time lapses in Aseprite.

itch.io

Gina Häußge Oct 14, 2024

@TabascoEye Was using that from day 3 on, but was still figuring out CLI based post processing to add the checkboard background and optimizing the gif. Today I finally figured that out and created a small bash script. Will share tomorrow or so.

Gina Häußge Oct 15, 2024

#hARToween Day 15: Death Wreath

I gotta admit, not my favourite prompt so far, struggled really to be creative with it as it shows IMHO.

But at least I could practice a bit to draw plant stuff. And thankfully I managed to not have it look like a christmas wreath, or at least I hope 😅

#pixelart #aseprite

Gina Häußge Oct 15, 2024

And here's the timelapse. As you can see, my original plan was to at least play a bit with the view, but I wasn't happy with my attempts to shape the circle there, so it became a full front view after all.

Gina Häußge Oct 16, 2024

#hARToween Day 16: Black Cat

I think that's the first time I've ever drawn a cat that actually looks like one and not just like a weird dog 😅 Though admittedly, this one looks like it has a black panther somewhere in its family tree 🤔

Gina Häußge Oct 16, 2024

And here's the timelapse.

Gina Häußge Oct 17, 2024

#hARToween Day 17: Spiderweb

I feel a cold coming up, so I'm kinda happy that today it was an easy prompt. More geometry than anything else 😅 Decided against a spider in the web, because aaaaah! 😬

#pixelart #aseprite

Gina Häußge Oct 17, 2024

And of course, yet another timelapse.

Gina Häußge Oct 22, 2024

#hARToween Day 22: Vintage Vibes

Thanks to some health issues I still have to do days 18-21 and also 8-10, but those will follow when they follow.

Meanwhile, today's prompt made me think of a 102 year old movie I have yet to see, but which I think definitely has vintage vibes. So here's my attempt at turning one of the most well known scenes of Nosferatu into a pixel art drawing - a scene that really scared me as a child I should add. It was kinda therapeutic to draw 😅

#pixelart #aseprite

Gina Häußge Oct 22, 2024

And here's the timelapse of that drawing.

Gina Häußge Oct 22, 2024

#hARToween Day 18: Skull/Bones (backlog)

I thought about a skull, but in the end decided a Jolly Roger would be more interesting. Especially since I thought about a candle on top of a skull for October 19's prompt "Creepy Candle". We'll see.

#pixelart #aseprite

Gina Häußge Oct 22, 2024

And of course there's also a timelapse of that.

Nils 'Kojote' Hitze Oct 22, 2024

@foosel pretty cool

Gina Häußge Oct 23, 2024

#hARToween Day 23: Trick Or Treat

We are returning to the place of Day 3 here, but this time there's not a child dressed up as a ghost trying to get some candy but... someone else 🤭 Who says that only human children enjoy going trick-or-treating? 😉

#pixelart #aseprite

Gina Häußge Oct 23, 2024

And here's the timelapse of that. I also spent some time to improve on the wooden parts of the porch as you can see. If you are wondering why the clearly changed background is not contained in the timelapse, I changed that after stopping the recording.

Gina Häußge Oct 24, 2024

#hARToween Day 24: Nightmare

Yikes, I think that was so far the longest work 😅 First thought was a pixelart version of "The Nightmare" by Henry Fuseli, but that didn't work with the aspect ratio. So I decided to try a more modern version. Not happy with the background, feels not detailed enough, but I think I at least managed to rescue it a bit with adding the bookshelf and lamp.

#pixelart #aseprite

Gina Häußge Oct 24, 2024

And the timelapse shows my fight with this one 😂

Gina Häußge Oct 25, 2024

#hARToween Day 25: Headless

I was SO tempted to just draw a terminal with an SSH shell opened (headless server) but then I figured I'd rather try my hand at an homage to the movie poster of Sleepy Hollow, because that's frankly the actual thing that comes to my mind when I hear the word "headless" in a non-admin context.

Three colors only this time. And I have to say, I surprised myself with that one, I did NOT expect that I'd be happy with this one, but I am very much!

#pixelart #aseprite

Gina Häußge Oct 25, 2024

And of course, the timelapse follows right away.

Gina Häußge Oct 26, 2024

#hARToween Day 26: Horror Movie

I decided to go with one my favourite horror movies here, which I sadly so far never saw in the cinema.

The palette is really working against me in these darker settings, would love to have some darker colors as well 😅

*edit* in a video call at the same time, forgot the alt text 🙈

#pixelart #aseprite

Gina Häußge Oct 26, 2024

And the timelapse is here

Gina Häußge Oct 26, 2024

#hARToween Day 8: Stormy Night (backlog)

I decided to go with a thunderstorm at night seen through a window... First time I tried my hand at lightning, actually kinda happy with how that turned out.

No timelapse for these catch-up ones now as that's saving on time while working through the backlog 😅

Gina Häußge Oct 26, 2024

#hARToween Day 9: Sinister Shadow (backlog)

I thought long and hard about this, but frankly this was the best I could come up with that I felt like I could pull it off 🙈

Once more, no timelapse, trying to get through the backlog here.

#pixelart #aseprite

Gina Häußge Oct 26, 2024

Got halfway through Day 10: Devil/Demon but then couldn't make up my mind of what to do with the rest of the scene, so that will have to wait until the morning. But at least 3.5 done in one sitting, nice work on the backlog ^^ Good night!

Gina Häußge Oct 27, 2024

#hARToween Day 10: Devil/Demon (backlog)

Not happy with the ground, but couldn't figure out how to add details without making it look extremely weird.

Perfection is the enemy of done, so here we go.

#pixelart #aseprite

Gina Häußge Oct 27, 2024

#hARToween Day 27: Seance

I think I overdid it yesterday, drawing almost 4 of these, and this is why this one looks quite boring 😅

And I also managed to forget starting the timelapse 🙈

#pixelart #aseprite

Gina Häußge Oct 28, 2024

#hARToween Day 28: Cryptid Creature

And of course, I chose Nessie 😊 That was probably the first cryptid creature I ever heard the stories about, so obviously it has a special place in my heart.

#pixelart #aseprite

Gina Häußge Oct 28, 2024

And this time I did not forget to record the timelapse 😅

Gina Häußge Oct 29, 2024

#hARToween Day 29: Scary Story

Kinda exhausted from the day and just waiting for dinner to show up, so the original idea of having some kids sit around a fire with one holding a flashlight to their face got reduced to just the flashlight to the face 😅

#pixelart #aseprite

miloriblau Oct 29, 2024

@foosel Really great image of Urquhart Castle. I have been there last week. I just didn't see Nessie. Maybe next time 😀

Mother Suspiria

@foosel Looks rad! I wish there was an old school video game with this image in it, lol.

Gina Häußge Oct 27, 2024

@stina_marie I'm also into game development and doing your challenge is my approach to getting better at pixelart for that, so who knows, it might yet happen 😂

Mother Suspiria

@foosel It's great!

@foosel I’m waiting for you to drop the game that you’re creating that ties all of these pixel art pieces together!

Gina Häußge Oct 23, 2024

@chrishuck That's not going to happen I fear 😂 But I'm learning, feel like there's progress visible, and I'm definitely growing more confident and am having fun expressing myself 😊

Ryan Finnie Oct 16, 2024

@foosel They truly are house panthers

João S. O. Bueno Oct 14, 2024

I will leave you an invite for you to try "terminedia-paint" - my incipient terminal- based ascii art editor. (It can use character blocks and their fractions for pixels).

Then - be free to throw an avalanche of feature requests, please - it could get me going there again.

Gina Häußge Oct 14, 2024

@gwidion Thanks! Starred, and I'll take a look at some point, but currently I'm mostly focused on actual pixel art and learning to create it with the help of Aseprite and my graphic tablet/display - for #gamedev reasons :)

João S. O. Bueno Oct 14, 2024

@foosel
Thanks.

Also, feel free to write me if you need any pixel trick in GIMP and can't quite get it.

Sanne Oct 12, 2024

@foosel
Next part of my like to play #PenAndPaperAdventure. 💛

(The earlier ones of your #hARToween drawings somehow don't belong to that game design I connect to.)

Sanne Oct 11, 2024

@foosel
These #hARToween drawings look so much like part of a #PenAndPaperAdventure I'd really like to play!