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October starts tomorrow and as I had a lot of fun last year taking part in #hARToween I figured I should try another month long daily pixel art creation challenge again.

The prompt list of #cosytober2025 looks like it could be fun, and so I think I'll go with that!

Not yet sure about my personal rules, but currently thinking about 64x64 (vs 128x128 last year) & maybe EDG77 or possibly even something smaller as a palette...

Prompt list here: https://mastodon.rosiesosocial.com/@RosieSoCosy/115284269702896778

RosieSoCosy :cosified: (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image #Cosytober 2025 prompts are here! Cosytober is a cosy alternative to #Inktober. All human made art is welcome. Traditional and digital. Whether you like sketching, drawing or painting, everyone can join in! Maybe you prefer cross stitching, sewing, modelling clay or paper crafts. As long as it’s creative and created by you! Everyone is free to participate. Please tag me (I’m RosieSoCosy on all the socials) and use hashtag #cosytober2025 so I can find your work! 1/2

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Gina Häußge Sep 30

Like last year of course I won't commit to actually do it every day as real life will probably prevent that from working, but again the goal will be to finish all, and if possible within October.

Last year's thread is btw here: https://chaos.social/@foosel/113233763230193057

Gina Häußge (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image 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 #aseprite

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Gina Häußge Oct 1

Ok, here we go, my entry for day 1 of #cosytober2025, "Comfy". And I consider a hot mug of my favourite tea and a book a very comfy thing indeed, so I chose that.

64x64px (though rendered out at 400%), EDG77 palette, but only 16 of those colors used.

Not 100% happy, but hey, it's been a year since I last did any #pixelart and it took some time back then as well to get into the flow of things ^^

Like last year I've used my 12" Wacom drawing tablet because I can't draw with a mouse.

Gina Häußge Oct 1

And here's day 1's timelapse.

Daniel Bohrer Oct 1

@foosel interesting! what did you use the orange lines in the steam for? some kind of outline or rough sketch?

Gina Häußge Oct 1

@daniel_bohrer rough outline & sketch, more visible on the checkboard background in Aseprite than what steam should look like ^^

Daniel Bohrer Oct 1

@foosel ahh yes I figured that on the edges of the book, the color is too similar :D

Gina Häußge Oct 2

Day 2 of #cosytober2025: "Fungi"

And we can't do fungi without some moss of course.

10 colors from EDG77 this time.

cc @RosieSoCosy

#aseprite #pixelart

Gina Häußge Oct 2

And here's day 2's timelapse.

Gina Häußge Oct 2

I decided I need some kind of signature on these and so now added a frame with my nick to my workflow (using colors that are also in the picture itself).

I think that's not too much into your face, gives things a nice anchor and also shows that I'm standing with my work 😊

F4GRX SÃ©bastien Oct 2

@foosel you're doing great stuff!

Gina Häußge Oct 3

Day 3 of #cosytober2025: "Acorn"

11 colors from EDG77. Not 100% happy with the leaves tbh, but "perfect" is the enemy of "done" 😅

cc @RosieSoCosy

#pixelart #aseprite #cosytober2025day3

Gina Häußge Oct 3

And here's the timelapse of day 3.

Edvin Malinovskis Oct 3

@foosel without looking at the context I thought this was an /r/anarchychess submission at first 😅

F4GRX SÃ©bastien Oct 3

@foosel That is an infinite amount of patience, well done.

Gina Häußge Oct 4

Day 4 of #cosytober2025: "Friend"

Naturally the first thing that came to mind for me was @janinahimmen, but I didn't trust myself to be able to draw her (or any human tbh), so instead I went with the other kind of friend everyone should have - my support plushy @timothy

This one used 12 colors from EDG77 and was based on a picture I took of him back in 2023 :) https://plushies.social/@timothy/110287330025326643

cc @RosieSoCosy

#pixelart #aseprite #plushy #cosytober2025day4

Gina Häußge Oct 4

And this is today's timelapse

Gina Häußge Oct 5

Day 5 of #cosytober2025: "Yellow"

Thought a while about this one and then remembered my first LEGO space minifigures ^^

7 colors from EDG77 this time. Spaaaaaaace!

cc @RosieSoCosy

#pixelart #aseprite #lego

Gina Häußge Oct 5

And here's today's timelapse.

Gina Häußge Oct 6

Day 6 of #cosytober2025: "Star"

Lot's of TODOs this work week, so I'm kinda glad the Monday had a prompt I could do rather quickly 😅 I briefly thought about a drawing of our sun based on a NASA shot, but decided against that due to time. Maybe I'll do that as a bonus at a later day, if so I'll add it as a reply.

*edit* almost forgot: 5 colors of EDG77

cc @RosieSoCosy

#pixelart #aseprite

Gina Häußge Oct 6

And here's today's timelapse.

Gina Häußge Oct 7

Day 7 of #cosytober2025: "Apple"

Something's not right on the lighting, but I have to take care of work stuff now 😅 Still happy with the result, considering I'm still very much a beginner.

A whopping 15 colors of EDG77 this time, an apple has a surprising amount of colors, and I didn't even add some water drops as I originally wanted to 😉

cc @RosieSoCosy

#pixelart #aseprite

Gina Häußge Oct 7

And here is today's timelapse:

Gina Häußge Oct 8

Day 8 of #cosytober2025: "Sprinkles"

When I read the prompt the first time, a donut is what came immediately to my mind, so that's what I went with.

13 colors from EDG77 - I am admittedly surprised that this used less colors than the apple yesterday ^^

cc @RosieSoCosy

#pixelart #aseprite

Gina Häußge Oct 8

And this is today's timelapse:

F4GRX SÃ©bastien Oct 8

@foosel you're doing great with lights and depth.

Gina Häußge Oct 9

Day 9 of #cosytober2025: "Umbrella"

Haven't watched Mary Poppins since childhood, but that still came to my mind when reading today's prompt. So here we go. Best I could do today 🤧

12 colors from EDG77.

cc @RosieSoCosy

#pixelart #aseprite

Gina Häußge Oct 9

And here's the timelapse

Gina Häußge Oct 10

Day 10 of #cosytober2025: "Pink"

Here's Waddles from #GravityFalls, which I recently rewatched 😊 Went all in with the matching cartoon style.

9 colors from EDG77. Not happy with the background, but my attempts to do the actual one from that scene ended up very meh 😅

Gotta say, these drawings are a nice distraction right now, this 🤬 COVID infection is giving me some brainfog and sleep deprivation.

cc @RosieSoCosy

#pixelart #aseprite #GravityFalls #Waddles

Gina Häußge Oct 10

And here's the timelapse (now also actually as reply). Sorry, forgot the title card this time.

Gina Häußge Oct 11

Day 11 of #cosytober2025: "Scarf"

Homage to Alto's Adventure, a fun and chill mobile game that I still enjoy playing from time to time. Always loved how long the character's scarf can get there! 🧣

Sorry, no timelapse or colour stats today, sick AF 🤒🦠

Used the Android pixelart drawing app Pixel Studio instead of my usual Aseprite. Apparently there's some genAI with the same name, so no tagging here... 😒

*edit* did some minor fixes

cc @RosieSoCosy

#pixelart #AltosAdventure

Gina Häußge Oct 12

Day 12 of #cosytober2025 : "Jumper"

Yes, I'm aware that the prompt meant a sweater/pullover, but this is what *I* understand to be a jumper - I'm also an electronics nerd, sorry 😄 [1]

Also gave me a reason to finally try my hand at something isometric. Came out a tad too big though.

That was something like 8 colours from EDG77. Once more drawn with Pixel Studio for Android on my tablet due to reasons 🤧, so no timelapse.

cc @RosieSoCosy

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumper_(computing)

Gina Häußge Oct 13

Day 13 of #cosytober2025: "Bear"

Hmm... not very happy with the background, didn't manage to give things enough contrast. Tried a bunch of colouring approaches but couldn't find the solution. But at least this looks like the scenery I wanted to draw, and as I'm still quite sick it's the best I can do for now.

Once more drawn on my android tablet, so no timelapse.

cc @RosieSoCosy

Gina Häußge Oct 14

Day 14 of #cosytober2025: "Pattern"

Still on the couch 🤧 but now with a Surface tablet running Linux and thus back on #Aseprite!

That pattern was more work than expected and was also the first time I had to add colours for the frame because otherwise it wasn't looking good at all, but I think that was worth it!

Four colours from EDG77 without the frame, 6 with it.

cc @RosieSoCosy

Gina Häußge Oct 14

And look, it's a timelapse!

Robee? Na! 🌈Oct 14

@foosel I did not expect this to be every pixel hand drawn! 👏

Gina Häußge Oct 14

@RobeeShepherd well, half of them, I used the mirror mode

GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)Oct 13

@foosel Actually I think this background looks really good, too.

Gina Häußge Oct 13

@GreenSkyOverMe Thanks - maybe it's a case of "looking at it too long and too closely" 😅

Chris Huck Oct 13

@foosel @RosieSoCosy This should be in Oregon Trail 😊

Andreas Gohr Oct 12

@foosel @RosieSoCosy that was my first thought as well, but felt a bit too tiny to draw. perfect for a size restricted pixel art though!

Daniel Bohrer Oct 12

@foosel that was also the first jumper that came to my mind :D (only 90s non-English-speaking computer nerds will understand, probably 😁)

@daniel_bohrer @foosel working as embedded software developer, I still come across these kind of jumpers every so often. Maybe not as much as my electronics colleagues, but still.

MrGrumpyMonkey Oct 12

@foosel @RosieSoCosy Brilliant.

@foosel Love this! And get well soon 👍

Gina Häußge Oct 11

@RosieSoCosy Thank you! Second run of COVID, might yet be a few days 😅

James Smith 💾Oct 10

@foosel *smoosh*

Chris Huck Oct 9

@foosel @RosieSoCosy Brilliant!

F4GRX SÃ©bastien Oct 6

@foosel @RosieSoCosy a Hubble pic apparently.

JWcph, Radicalized By Decency Oct 5

@foosel @RosieSoCosy SPACESHIP! 💛

@foosel Love this! Me and my classic minifigs approve! Lost the helmet throughout the years, but the rest is still original. 😄

Ooooooh, thank you so much for this awesome portrait, @foosel! 💚💚💚

@foosel Aww...

Moskitokönig Kevin Oct 4

@foosel Spot on ❤️

@janinahimmen @timothy @RosieSoCosy

@foosel This looks really cute! And a way better choice than my boring face 😄

Gina Häußge Oct 4

@janinahimmen I wouldn't call it boring 😊 But human faces are something I'm still very sure I can't draw in a way they are recognizable 😅 Have been meaning to try my hand at my own avatar for a while now though, maybe I'll dare to do it after the training this challenge gives me.

Absolutely love this! I also have a support plushie (well alright, a few). @foosel @janinahimmen @timothy

Gina Häußge Oct 4

@RosieSoCosy Oh that's great! @timothy also is definitely not the only one here, there's a whole herd 😄

Daniel Bohrer Oct 3

@foosel tbh, oak leaves do have a lot of detail :D but these ones are totally recognizable! and I like the brown dithering on the acorns!

@foosel I love seeing pixel art here too, and so well done too 😍

Gina Häußge Oct 2

@RosieSoCosy Thank you, I'm still learning and challenges like this one help a lot with that 😊 So thank you for the prompt list, I'll do my best to work through it throughout October 😊