Pixel-by-Pixel Drawings

The humble computer Paint program. The joys of zooming in reeeeeeal close and drawing your masterpiece one small square dot at a time.

Good times. Gooooooood times.

This sort of drawing is what has, I think, consumed the greatest quantity of my time through the years. From MS Paintbrush on Windows 3.1 (shudder) to the much superior NeoPaint on Dos 6, then Windows, I have spent many a day zoomed in to those crazy blocks of image data.

Prime example: The following group portrait of many prominent characters from the Paladyne Chronicles was drawn entirely one pixel at a time.

Paladynians

I don't do much work of the dot-at-a-time variety terribly much any more, except when I have to. Who has the time for such? Well, okay, RStevens, but other then that? No one I know, at least.

Anyway, I hope the pictures contained here are of some interest!

Tool: Neopaint

This might properly belong under the 'Games' section, as it was constructed for that very purpose. In High School, me and the chums in Chemistry class decided to put together an Adventure RPG in the veign of King's Quest.

This image was going to be one of the backgrounds. I think I only ended up doing two (the other being too horrible to even contemplate showing here), but then, unsurpsingly, work on it just sort of pettered out and died.

C'est la vie, and all that.

Tool: Neopaint

One of my earliest computer graphics experiments, we here have a group 'photo' of various characters imagined up by my friends and I. Because I was a silly, silly man, it is drawn almost entirely pixel-by-pixel.

Pictured here are, from left to right, are Tandor, Captain (& D), Bio, Celine, Tolock, Carleen, Oberonus, Sarah, Bernadette, and Sahrahna.