Art made the old-fashioned way. 😅

Independent Games Festival happened last night and I looked at all the pixel art finalists for the blog: retronator.com/post/8109083... There are even a couple of winners in there too!

Inspired by my trip to the north of Sweden, beyond the polar circle. After a week of enjoying auroras in the sky with no sun in sight, on the day of our return, sunshine peeked out of the mountains and it felt like a warm hug of a friend you haven't seen in a long time.

After a long time a new ZX Spectrum work. 6 colors, no bright mode. Drawn in Pixquare and dithered in GIMP.

A new track of mine has been added to Pixel Art Academy! ⭐ In his new devlog, @retronator.bsky.social shows how he makes sure the music stays dynamic and adapts to the player's experience. Check it out to hear the new track:

A quick one, clouds practice #4.

Clouds practice #3, this time from my own reference with colors mostly picked plein air at a different sunset with similar conditions (Atari 2600 palette, as always).

Sunsets are happening faster than I can paint them, so here are a couple of IRLs instead.

First artwork of 2025. I tried to retain the expressiveness of my pixel paintings but also clean it up and make the clusters at the edges reminiscent of impressionistic painting where there are abstract blobs of color that slowly get representational towards the center.