Pixel Art by @moertel

It's a Long, Long Haul (2020)

A homage to long drives, night skies and sparkling city lights.

Hi there,

I'm always fine with things you do offline on your own devices. Just make sure you don't upload it anywhere and don't share it with anyone. (This includes "look, I made this" type of screenshots posted to the internet.)

Thanks so much! :D

For aesthetics I use nothing but Nova Launcher and the customisation apps that come with my Samsung (which let me style the colours of the notification drawer and put widgets on the lock screen). And my own widgets, of course, haha.

For function, I'm a huge fan of Nova Launcher's search bar which lets me search apps, phone settings or make a Google search all from the same place. It's "unlock - tap search bar - type in what I want to do" that's a core muscle memory now.

Buzzkill is another terrific app which allows bundling or silencing notifications based on timing, text content, and app. So if, say, person X messages me on Discord then it always triggers a notification but everything else is silently bundled so I only get one notification every few hours (and not with every new message).

Retro Mode - Weather Widget

An animated weather widget for Android in pixel art style 👾💜 Now available for Android 12 and up:

https://moertel.app/weather

Pick from different layouts, icon themes and text presets. You can even customise the text yourself with variable placeholders - all with the lovely Retro Mode font.

Or maybe something more minimalistic?

New features and themes are added frequently, and I'm looking forward to feedback and suggestions for the app. :) (Stay tuned for forecasts and animated mini-scenes coming soon!)

Lenticular Pixel Art Print Sale

You know I usually don't do sales but 1) I just quit my job to do art full-time and 2) I need some space. If you've ever considered getting one of my lenticular prints, now's the time!

Hey, thanks so much! I'm glad to hear you're enjoying the icons and wallpapers. If only I had as much time as I had intentions to add more content to the icon packs... 😅👾

I'm currently beta-testing a weather widget as a standalone app which I built during the past 4 months. The plan is to add animated mini-scenes to it that change with the time of day, the seasons and - you guessed it - the weather.

Retro Mode - Neon | Pixel Art Icon Pack

2222 vibrant icons

6 noir wallpapers

6 highly customisable widgets

Monthly updates

https://moertel.app/neon