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mrlollige — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:17:37 +0000

So, the address is finally claimed!

I now own MrLollige.com, and have built a website on it!

You can view my artworks with the buttons above:
Pixel art | Experiment | Traditional

Yes, I know I should change the stupid image + javascript buttons into nice CSS buttons, but my first try went really bad, and I am much too happy that the site actually just works.

You can soon expect articles too, so please subscribe to rss, or whatever you prefer!

Thanks for reading!
MrLollige

Blog update

mrlollige — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:52:23 +0000

I am working on a new website. I am going to get rid of this domain, it will be owned by me until january.

I have plans for continuing this blog, however those plans involve some work, meaning having a website and an original template. To speed things up my idea now is to make this web template very basic.

In the meanwhile I did write an article.

Check out the interview with Syosa on PJ!

Why I love pixel art

mrlollige — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:06:33 +0000

On the pixeljoint forum the question was asked: Why do you love pixel art?

Please read, and in the comments or the original thread, leave your own thoughts about why you love pixel art as well!

Why I got into it

I was born, quite a few years ago as a creative person. People around me realized, but I did not myself.
I was also born as a logic person. In more than just one way.

So, one day, I do not remember how anymore, I introduced myself to isometric pixel art. I believed it was simple, as it followed logical rules, and required no creativity or much skill. Of course I was wrong, but that does not matter. Thing is, I was able to create nice things by using the line tool right.

A year later, a more important thing happened. I found a community. And any community that would have adopted me could have formed me in any way they would have wanted, but it happens to be this pixel community. At the right time.
So that is the reason I kept going on and on.

Why I love it
But you asked me, why do I love pixel art?

I could have fallen in love with many different hobbies, and I might will someday, but I will keep liking this for ever on. And thats just for one thing: Control!
If I draw by pencil, I can never ever remove a line properly after I drew it. Same goes for traditional painting. If I would paint digitally, I would not get the time to do every little pixel of my image right, and I would always be able to spot infinite correctable things I dislike on my image. On a 32×32 pixel canvas, there are no infinite possibilities! Never!

Why I like it

Great community
Retro
Game fans
Programmers
Logic
Impressive
Gallery
MSpaint doable
Iconic
Skills being learnt valuable for everything
Palettes
Animations
Isometric stylized stuff

I have much more to say, but I simply don’t want to write more/want to waste your reading time more ;)

Moai

mrlollige — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:18:59 +0000

For the pixeljoint weekly challenge, I have created this Moai, an Easter island statue. It uses a limited palette, and was a small animation experiment for me ;)

Moai animation

Please tell me what you think of it!

Also I have started on a drawing heavily inspired by Vermeers well known artwork Girl with a pearl earring. It uses the same palette, but will never be finnished

The Moai with the pearl earring

Opinions are welcome, as always!