Pixel Dragon Obsession Blog

lately i've been challenging myself with rendering full scenes because i've never really been one to finish art like this. im pretty pleased with the contrast in the scene! when i finished my first pass of rendering and changed it to grayscale, the canvas looked like this:

fairly clear, but definitely some room to exaggerate values. squinting i can't really make out the form. so I went in with good old #FFFFFF and #000000 to bring the subject to the foreground:

and after going through with some additional tweaks (dodge and burn layers plus shimmying the contrast and lightness around), the final piece in grayscale looks like this:

certainly not perfect but an improvement to the composition yipeepee

Shaking off the dust of my pixel art skills. Pixel art is my heart and soul, but I have to avoid it because it is a blackhole for a recovering perfectionist trying to move PAST obsessing over details. But I love making pixel art so much!!!!!!! Since this dragon's owner had been requesting a pixel piece back in the day, I had an excuse!