Pixel Art by Waneella
Valeriya “Waneella” Sanchillo is a 22 years old designer and concept artist. Follow her on Tumblr. Is worth a visit also her non-pixel art blog.
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Did you know that you can make fake 3D pixel art in Blender by just like turning anti-aliasing off?? And pixelizing post-effects? Sounds super simple but it took me forever to figure it out.
I got a request for a nighttime/space background with a purple sky and yellow stars, so I mucked around for a bit and here’s what I came up with
it’s not strictly pixel art because I used lots of gradients but w/e
if you wanna use this you can and I’d personally suggest setting it to repeat-x, attaching it to the bottom of the window and making the background colour the same colour as the very top of the image. credit is appreciated but not required, just don’t claim them as your own.
You bored, or feeling artsy but don’t have any inspiration…? *updated!*
Do you need to distract yourself? Or are you simply bored? Here are some great websites to make the time pass.
- create pixel art
- Awesome photo editor and art program, all free…!
- Totally free transparent textures
- make a cute chibi
- draw some cool generative art
- be a graffiti creator
- create a picassohead (you don’t need to be a picasso to do so)
- paint online
- another awsome site to create pixel art on
- and another one
- create your own mandala
- or color one
- create an avatar
- or you can try creating your own superhero
- here you can interact with organisms in different environments to see how to music changes
- here’s a website that translates the time into hexidecimal colours,
- Here is a website where you can travel along a 3D line into the infinite unkown
- here is a website where you can listen to rain with or without music
- Need a model in a certain pose for drawing? here
- Want to build your own planet
- here is a website where you can create your own galaxies
- make your own pattern (very useful if you need a new background)
- create next hit comic
- make a city which looks like something from 90′s games
- draw a mandala like design
- jig saw puzzles
- more jig saw puzzles to solve
- create a stunning HTML5 animation - no coding!
- make a movie
- create and dress up dolls
- play a piano
- you can also play a guitar
- create sounds
- another sound creator
- create a logo
- design your dream home
- sketch rooms
- explore fashion trends and create your own sets
- build a website
- try this app for building a website
- Or maybe start learning how to code!
- design your own t-shirt or a beanie or sweatpants and order them
- design your own phone case
- pretend to be a graphic designer with this cool online tool
- Make your own Glitch art
- Here’s another glitch art maker
- And another!
- Holy hell, here’s a third!
- make an image look like it was created by a commodore 64
- freaking cool text generator!
- Easy to use word processor
- Make up really cool patterns or run your photos through it :)
- Write an essay on anything with no hassle
- Wanna see how something you write would look like if it was on JacksFilms YGS((Your Grammar Sucks videos on YouTube))?
- Make pictures out of text
- ASCII word generator
- Need an idea for some fanart-here :D
Still haven’t found something that would float your boat? Try these:
- watch a documentary
- learn to code
- do something yourself
- workout with the help of this great youtube channels
- learn things
- play pokemon or zelda or other awesome old school games
- waste your time on miniclip
- play games at additing games
- or try games at agame
- calm your thoughts
- the quiet place
- it will be okay
- vent or listen to someone
- pour out your soul
- explore the sky
- look at art from around the world
- virtually visit museum of iraq
- explore world with arounder
- create a music playlist
- list through rare books
- scroll useful science website
- create sand art
- brain games
- try out tastekid and discover new favorite band or movie or book
- interactive 3D anatomy
- random street view
- post a secret
- create a family tree
- find our what’s the difference between x and y
- help scientists and become volunteer researcher
- create your own font
- read a classic short story
- In the mood to read, but not sure exactly what book to go for?
- scribble on maps
- listen to letters
- play with acrobots
- listen to podcasts
- make a bucket list
- Ever want to see the most truly useless websites in creation?
- Prank a friend with this blue screen of death!
- Zone out watching the colors drip down
Maybe none of these peeked your interest-maybe you’ve been wanting to create an o.c, but never really knew how to start-or you just enjoy making O.C’s….
This masterlist is to help you in making your own OCs….it can also apply to developing RP characters i suppose! (´ヮ`)!
How to Write Better OCs:
- basic tips on how to make your oc even better
- tragic backstory? learn how to write one/make yours great
- writing specific characters
- a wordier, great guide on how to develop your character
- kick out those vague descriptions and make them AWESOME
Character Development:
- how to actually make an OC
- Q&A (to develop characters)
- more Q&As
- giving your character a backstory
- how to write an attractive character
Need an Appearance idea?
- Humanoid generator? check
- Here’s another one
- and maybe if you didn’t like those this’ll work
- Need Monsterpeople?
- Well, then here ya’ go
- Maybe you need Cats?
Diversity
- adding more racial diversity
- avoiding tokenism, AKA, how to add diversity to your cast not just because you “need” it
- writing sexuality and gender expression (doesnt include non binary, if you have a good ref to that, please add on!)
- masterpost on writing more diversity into your story
- cultures of the world
- guides to drawing different ethnicities (not just a great art reference, but also really helpful in appearance descriptions!)
Mary Sue/Gary Stu
- Test to see if your character is a Sue
- Explains subdivisions of Sues/Stus
- Powerful Characters Don’t Have to Be Sues
Villains
- villain generator
- need an evil sounding name for your evil character? bam
- villain archetypes
- what’s your villain’s motive for being a villain?
Relationships
- character perceptions (What your character thinks of themselves and what others think of them)
- how to write strong relationships between two characters
- 8 ways to write better characters and develop their relationships with others
- OCxLove Interest Handbook
- develop your couple with good ol’ Q&A!
- how to write realistic relationships
- how to write relatives for your characters (this is more OC related to a canon character, but will help in writing family members in general)
ARCHETYPES
- 12 common archetypes
- 8 archetypes for male/female characters
- female archetypes (goes pretty indepth from two main categories)
- a list of archetypes
NAMES
APPEARANCE
- tips for better design
- basic appearance generator
- pinterest board for character design (includes NSFW and images of skeletons/exposed muscle (?) so tread carefully!)
- clothing ref masterpost
- Clothing generator
- Another clothing generator
- More clothing generator
- Aaaand even more
- Steam punk clothing
- Char Style preference
- Dress Generator
DETAILS
- give your character better powers
- a list of professions
- proactive vs reactive characters
- positive and negative traits
- interest generator
- skills generator
- motivation generator
- 123 ideas for character flaws
- list of phobias
- Oh shit someone died
- Backgrounds and stuff? yep
- Quirks
- Personality. you need that shit
- Need something fandom related?
- City generator hell yeah
- location? got ya
- World-building?
- make your own god damn laws
- Landscape.
Need Item names?
- Fantasy/sci-fi/etc. medicine names
- Stuff to make things more interesting.Weapons, clothes, treasures… whatever your characters need.
- Item & Artifact Generators
Other stuffs!
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