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Pixel art OCs: Claire, part <3

Pixel art image of a white-skinned woman with red hair and green eyes. she’s
smiling and doing a heart shape with her hands. She’s wearing a white t-shirt,
blue somewhat baggy jeans and white socks.

One day, I also felt like drawing Claire in a more casual outfit doing a heart shape with her hands. Probably due to a simpler pose and outfit, it only took a single day.

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Pixel art OCs: Ashley, part 2

A white-skinned woman with blonde hair slightly sitting on a short brick wall, she’s wearing a white tank top, blue jeans with a belt and red
sneakers

Eventually I decided to rescale the 128x128 full-body characters to the same size as Claire and Konrad. In practice, this led to severe redrawing of their features. The girl in the tank top got the name Ashley.

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Pixel art OCs: Hannah, part 2

An orange-ish white-skinned woman with red glasses and black somewhat wavy
hair standing in front of a cliff facing the sea. she’s wearing a red jacket
with a white line in an inverted T shape and similar white lines on her wrists,
a white t-shirt below it, black pants, slightly visible white socks and black
shoes

Eventually I decided to rescale the 128x128 full-body characters to the same size as Claire and Konrad. In practice, this led to severe redrawing of their features. The girl with the jacket was named Hannah.

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Pixel art OCs: Ashley (yet unnamed at that point)

Pixel art image of a white woman with blonde hair, a tank-top, blue jeans and
red sneakers slightly leaning onto a brick barrier

This is the first full-body image. I was (and am) still struggling with maintaining proper proportions and posing, which is part of why most of these images once again use front-facing perspective. Unlike most of these images, which use the PICO-8 palette, this one was an experiment with the Anb16 palette.

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Pixel art OCs: faces

Face of a white-skinned woman with gray hair

Was browsing through the community page of a game on Steam, happened to see someone’s profile pic of an elf-like character from some MMORPG with purplish gray hair, and it gave me a tiny bit of inspiration to draw something similar. I did make little pixel art portraits before, but these were usually in a front-facing perspective.


Face of a young black guy with cornrow hair making a V shape with his left
hand, as if lying on the ground and posing for a photo


Thoughts on differences between Western and Japanese home computer markets

Okay, so last month (December of 2025), I saw a few screenshots of PC-98 games and went wondering: “in comparison, why do Western home computer games of the same era (the kind that you’d see on an Amiga or Atari ST) tend to be so ‘meh’-looking?”, in comparison to both console games of the same era and PC games that would come out shortly after games like DOOM would prove the PC was actually a viable mainstream gaming platform?".


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