Pixel art OCs: Danielle

For the next character, I went with a more unusual aesthetic instead of going for “conventionally attractive” designs. I also wanted to try drawing a plus-sized character for once, and experiment with more complicated backgrounds and poses that aren’t just front-facing once again. The end result is Danielle. I like to imagine that she doesn’t care at all about the opinions of any fashion magazines and dresses according to her own preferences, which her friends happen to love.

On a more technical aspect, this is also the first design where I decided to use the extended 32-color palette from Picotron, which provides more skin tones, shades of blue, gray and even good purples, which the original PICO-8 palette lacked.

Once again, real-life inspiration gave me the idea for the skirt. I still have no idea what that kind of design is actually called, I tried looking up “petal skirt” and got confusing results.