Twilight Sparkle is Amused Pixel Art

[Ashbad 969]

Thanks to the dozens of pills shoved down my trachea nice encouraging, relentless belt whipping some pats on the back, and sacrificing of non-best ponies to Beezlebub the mutual agreement between me and Feld0 about who is best pony, he convinced me to make another Twilight Sparkle pixel art piece, that's better than the last one. I think I did just that.

 

 

Took me a few hours to make. The original pose in my concept sketch of this (that I did during standardized testing on a sticky note) was a plot shot, but I played with the pose a lot and it ended up like this. Used 32 colors on this one, and since I know a few people here probably are more into larger restrictions than that, I kept a 16 color version from about an hour ago before I started doing manual Anti-aliasing and selouting.

 

EDIT: and I feel I need to mention that PixMeister gave me some very useful tips about the palette for this piece

Edited May 29, 2012 by Ashbad

[MVC NVMXD JVRXD 2,406]

This is awful!! You said this would be of the best pony! This looks nothing like Pinkie Pie!

 

Joking aside, nice work!

[Pinkazoid 3,493]

I don't see any Pinkie Pie

 

but good work :3

[~Chaos~ 3,971]

I really love it, the shading and everything! nice work

[Ashbad 969]

I'm pretty sure Twilight is still best pony.

 

I really love it, the shading and everything! nice work

 

Thanks!

[letterone 1,204]

Wat? I though Rainbow Dash was best pony. Good job, though.

Edited May 28, 2012 by Star Wolf (letterONE)

[Swit Swat 536]

I've been watching your progress through your status updates and I have enjoyed watching a pizel sketch evolve into this amazing Pixel Twilight. Kudos to you. It turned out magical!

[Ashbad 969]

I've been watching your progress through your status updates and I have enjoyed watching a pizel sketch evolve into this amazing Pixel Twilight. Kudos to you. It turned out magical!

 

Thanks! It's been a fun time making this, I've learned a lot through the revision of this pixel, and I think it trumps all of my previous attempts at twilight.

[Aureity 3,055]

Your pixel art is beautiful, kudos to you!

[Ashbad 969]

Your pixel art is beautiful, kudos to you!

 

Thanks a ton, kind sir!

[Literally Snails 2,307]

Silly filly, that's not how you draw Applejack!

[Assechan 84]

i really envy pixel artists! she looks really cool!

[jaggy10 26]

wow, that looks great!

[Ashbad 969]

i really envy pixel artists! she looks really cool!

 

wow, that looks great!

 

Thanks!

[Twilight Sparkle ✨ 8,529]

Absolutely awesome work, Ashbad. Twilight looks so adorable. Personally, I like the 16-colour version with no anti-aliasing better, but that's missing the cutie mark.

[Crystal Sparkle 344]

If Twilight's amused, I'm amused! Fabulous work, darling!

[Ashbad 969]

If Twilight's amused, I'm amused! Fabulous work, darling!

 

Thanks!

 

Absolutely awesome work, Ashbad. Twilight looks so adorable. Personally, I like the 16-colour version with no anti-aliasing better, but that's missing the cutie mark.

 

Glad you like it! And, I can go back and add the cutie mark into the 16 color one if you want!

 

In fact, here, 30 second edit

 

Edited May 29, 2012 by Ashbad

[False Perception 482]

AGH! I can't LOAD IT! I feel like I am missing out to an extent that I cannot believe!

[Ashbad 969]

AGH! I can't LOAD IT! I feel like I am missing out to an extent that I cannot believe!

 

Perhaps a mirror the dA upload, on another image hosting server (obscure one that the graphing calculator hacking community uses, I'm a big part of that so I get full access) would help? Here it is:

 

[False Perception 482]

Perhaps a mirror the dA upload, on another image hosting server (obscure one that the graphing calculator hacking community uses, I'm a big part of that so I get full access) would help? Here it is:

 

 

I can load this Twilight, but I can't load the OP.

[Ashbad 969]

 

 

I can load this Twilight, but I can't load the OP.

 

Well, the dA link for it is: http://theashbad.deviantart.com/art/Pixel-Twilight-Sparkle-Twilight-is-Amused-304885717 for when you can load it... but it's the same as the hotlinked one in the post I just made, so no real need to load it from dA

[Pix3M 607]

Before I talk about how over-saturated I find your colors, what do you think of the colors I used here?

 

http://fav.me/d51lehu

[Ashbad 969]

Before I talk about how over-saturated I find your colors, what do you think of the colors I used here?

 

http://fav.me/d51lehu

 

I think E4 applies best to this pixel, so I'll refer to that I think it looks better than what I currently have; I think I need to go back and play around with the palette more, and see what I can do about the oversaturation. I like how in that coloration you use a shade of pink as the bright color of the purple, it's actually pretty ingenious. (I know that it's partly because of how Twilight has her highlights, however)