One of my favorite forms of art is physical pixel art, where you make sprites using things that arne't pixels, and it comes together really neatly. FOr instance with these soda boxes.
I like to walk around arts and crafts stores, I like a lot of the things there, and I like to buy things there too. But some months ago I saw something that really got me an idea.
This is a plastic canvas, basically a plastic grid with holes. You take thread like yarn or embroidery and you put them through the holes, essentially making physical pixel art. The diagonal lines that you put thread through essentially make one "pixel". I drew an example.
I picked a smaller hole size because embroidery thread is smaller, and even better, it has LOTS of color choices.
The other cool thing about all this is that it's AMAZINGLY cheap. The strands of embroidery cost literally 40 cents, and the canvas itself is less than a dollar too.
For practice I worked on the M from Super Mario Bros 3. 8x8 pixels, so a max of 64 loops in the canvas. Bigger sprites would take even more. I'm working on the stanard standing SMB Mario sprite now. with 16x16 pixels, that's a max of 256 loops!
I even got four different shades of green cause I want to make something Game Boy styled.
Anyway what do you think?
[img]http://netdna.walyou.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/super-mario-bros-soda-can-art-image.jpg[/img]
One of my favorite forms of art is physical pixel art, where you make sprites using things that arne't pixels, and it comes together really neatly. FOr instance with these soda boxes.
I like to walk around arts and crafts stores, I like a lot of the things there, and I like to buy things there too. But some months ago I saw something that really got me an idea.
[img]https://cdn-consumercrafts.netdna-ssl.com/content/images/product/large/33900-1.jpg[/img][img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/Toastypk/plasticcanvas_zpsqwdtlxld.png[/img]
This is a plastic canvas, basically a plastic grid with holes. You take thread like yarn or embroidery and you put them through the holes, essentially making physical pixel art. The diagonal lines that you put thread through essentially make one "pixel". I drew an example.
I picked a smaller hole size because embroidery thread is smaller, and even better, it has LOTS of color choices.
The other cool thing about all this is that it's AMAZINGLY cheap. The strands of embroidery cost literally 40 cents, and the canvas itself is less than a dollar too.
[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/Toastypk/m-stitch_zpstcoz0r89.png~original[/img]
For practice I worked on the M from Super Mario Bros 3. 8x8 pixels, so a max of 64 loops in the canvas. Bigger sprites would take even more. I'm working on the stanard standing SMB Mario sprite now. with 16x16 pixels, that's a max of 256 loops!
I even got four different shades of green cause I want to make something Game Boy styled.
Anyway what do you think?