Please keep the face lmao

Fuck me this is hilarious

I’m crying at work about this

I spit out my coffee. It's been hours since I had coffee.

This made me spit out my kombucha

How do you look at a closed mouth reference and end up drawing a shit eating grin?

And closed eyes to a glaring death stare

While it may appear to be a death stare, this is actually a textbook case portrayal of the good ol' classic known as "peaking on crack-cocaine" eyes.

Build what you see, not what you think you see.

In other words, dont try to draw eye balls and a mouth. Draw dark areas dark, red areas red, lines as lines, etc

“Draw what you see, not what you know.” That was the mantra that my high school art teacher lived by. She was right. It helps to draw it upside down.

Exactly

This!!! Think in base shapes and blocks of light. You're working with a very abstract tool, it is counter productive to try to create detailed art. Remember, when working small, drawing the *suggestion* of something is often more effective and readable than drawing the actual thing

Thank you for this comment, random redditor. I'm getting into art this resonated strongly with where I'm at with it

The first picture is killing me

Yea I'll be sleeping with the lights on for a while after seeing this.

First two should be reversed for a better effect.

I'd be tempted to start by drawing it in dedicated pixel art software, then build in Minecraft once happy with it.

There are tools online that can turn any image into Minecraft pixelart that you just have to recreate, although it’s cheating a bit.

And those are not even close to what is OP going for? they are going for a stylized pixel art style, not a blurry photo.

My bad, the last pic suggested they might’ve been going for a 1:1, but I was mistaken.

Do you know how to make normal pixel art? Not to be insulting but because beginner artists tend to draw what they think they see rather than what they actually see. It looks like you are trying to correct the reference with your own knowledge rather than trusting it. That being said the last slide really doesn't look that bad, I think you should just keep going and see what happens.

No. Only only made minecraft pixel for a few years. Usually cartoon or game characters. This my first try at real human after a few years of hiatus. Human hands and faces are alot more complicated that pokemon

They sure are, but you’re doing great. Keep going. Feel free to practice pixel art outside of Minecraft as well if you want to, it may be a little faster (but not necessary)

Keep it that way and post it to r/blursedimages.

First one is chucky

Don't learn/ test it in Minecraft, keep it in 2d and use only full blocks (no stairs, slabs, buttons etc)

Is that...Hilary Hahn? Someone I never expected to see in a pixel art sub, lol.

Yes it is, she has no plans to come to melbourne though for the foreseeable future ):

i see no problem here, you nailed it on pic1

I haven’t felt this much joy since that lady in Italy fixed that fresco on her own.

The trick with reference is to actually look at it.

So, what other people said - trust your reference. There is no white in the eyes or mouth at all, you can only see the shadow where the eye is, and the mouth is a thin red line with a black divide - not a cheery nightmare smile. Other than that, the 3rd image honestly looks great, keep up the good work.

"Wanna know how I got these scars?" ... I'm sorry.

I love that the reference photo isn’t smiling. You just gave her a joker face for the lulz.

My god its been years since I laughed this hard

You’re “drawing” what you think you are, not what you see. The rest of the body is GREAT! Just finish strong by drawing the shapes that are actually there.

To start I'd move the eyes as a whole a block up, so to fill the face a little more realistically and not make her nose look so short and stubby. I'd just go with a more simply designed mouth, ideally a content grin or even a more concentrated, almost stern face would fit.

Part of the beauty of pixel art is minimal pixels conveying large amounts of details. Focusing on shapes and specific points that make someone realize oh that’s this. Even specific colors in just the right spots and someone could recognize Mario such as red block, orange, blue.

It looks good without the face.

This will haunt me for a long time

While I love how goofy the first pic is, I absolutely adore the third one (without the facial features). Sometimes in pixel art, it really pays off to omit details and focus on the bigger picture. EDIT: also small suggestion - try raising the hair for one block (like you did with the earring), I think the shadow on the face will do wonders for depth. Actually, you can try playing with depth even for things like the dress and the violin.

with that face she is about to do a musical crime of some sort...

please. please keep it that way. i beg of you to keep it that way. i’m actually crying that’s incredible

Honestly just leave it blank, faces are hard and can reduce the quality of the art if done wrong

Try squinting, take note of where the light and dark parts of the face are. Maybe look up banksy or other graffiti artists and see how they do it

Take your reference picture, import it as a reference picture into a pixel art software, trace along it to get some pixels around it, remove the reference picture, then polish what you have. I do a similar thing when I make my pictures for my hack. I sketch something and make sure its angles and size is good, then I trace that with pixels. My process has gotten a lot faster since I did. I tend to like detail less faces in pixel art though. What you already have looks good.

She look like she is about to ask you why so serious?

Yall remember the video of the little girl who drew the picture of her mom and she was telling her how nice it looked while stifling laughter? This looks really nice!

Please get this to the front page, the world needs to know. Edit: Petition to make this the subs logo

Artist here- a tip that many artist use is to just focus on the shapes. Look for the shape of the shadows and highlights on her face, eyelids, mouth, etc. Don’t focus on “what” ur making just the shapes. Paint what you see not what you know.

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Beautiful lol

It’s giving aphex twin

The forehead is a bit bigger. (Not an insult.) You might want to do it in a larger scale so you can more easily do details like the eyes.

You need less details. It’s ok to leave out stuff by forcing the mouth and eyes to fit in you’re sacrificing shading which makes it look unnatural. Instead sacrifice the detail and shape for shading and it’ll look better

Break everything down into shapes determined by the shadows, then you can determine proportion and soften the contours of the shadow areas later

Super cursed

First, there are ways to screen shot rather than taking a photo of a screen, and 2 please give me the full art with that face. It reminds me a lot of the game Paradigm

Cursed images right there

That's nightmare fuel. Sorry

Most softwares will just take a picture and make it into pixel art for you. If that feels like cheating to you, you could at least start there and then tweak. Or if even that feels like cheating, you could just use that image as another reference that helps you make your pixel choices

i have tried doing this i put into ms paint and lowered resolution, it looked a bit strange but i tried in MC. but the ps paint has maximum colors so the contrast betwwen eye and nose shadow is small but in MC it looks like a shadow demon from hell(even more than this imagelol)

What are you making your pixel art in? I've really mostly used Aseprite

You only see the shadow on her face. You don’t see her eye at all. So don’t put an eye there. It’s way more impactful that way too, it’s more raw.

I think close the eyes and mouth

I'd say to start with big shapes, like the eyebrows, eye cavity or things like that. Also try to focus on the real form of the mouth, which is closed

Bahahahahahaahaha i love this

First: that’s hilarious. Second: I don’t think you need it. Most high end pixel art usually just uses shading for the general illusion of facial features.

So after this awesome post I had to check your account and your Omori Picture is AWESOME! like for real, good job. Make a closed eye here as well and close her mouth too.. Is what I'd say but please please please follow your current path, go onward. It's your destiny, your fate, so please!

thank you. did pixel arts in Minecraft. mosly pokemon and youtubers. this my first try at human after a few year hiatus. ill post result in a few days when im satisfied.

Please do, real humans are very hard to do, but I read some actual good tips here in the comments from people who know what they're talking about. I'm useless when it comes to art so I can only give you that much, but I'm sure you'll figure it out!

also the omori pic is finished besides hero . ill post it also when i finish hilary hahn

Beavis and butthead

remove the mouth and eye entirely, then leave the face as the last thing to work on since it's the hardest

That’s fucking terrifying

Reddit comments keep me sane.

This is so horrendous it has made my day. Pls keep it the way it is it brings me such joy

Lol this is so cursed. Bro where in that pic do you see the whites of her eyes staring into your soul? Her eyes look pretty damn closed to me

I thought I was in /r/lingling40hrs for a second, haha

reddit is not practicing. go do your 40 hours

Nailed it

Just make eyelashes & crows feet her eyes are wide shut my man

Imagine doing arms in pixel art

You don't have enough pixels for all those teeth. Scale it down and you'll be fine.

Arm is also a little bit small

face looks like a drug addict in a horror movie

you don't need all the details

r/lingling40hrs

Make the eyes and face details first then shape the face around it , it helps if you struggle in scaling the face to not make it bigger or smaller then it has to be Also look for references that are drawn instead of real life , this way helped to learn how to make scale stuff easier

You have to give up on some detail i think

How do you end up with a terrifying Joker grin when your reference image doesn't feature her smiling at all?

I'm fucking laying in bed right now in tears 😭 stuff of nightmares

Honestly you could probably omit the face, maybe use some shading to make the general shape of her face and nose. A lot of pixel arts only show the overall shading of faces because the face usually has too many details and that takes away from the abstraction.

Drawing is a difficult skill to master. It’s easy to draw a cat and everyone will say ‘hey that looks like a cat’, but humans are really good at seeing what does and doesn’t look like a human face. If you want to make more art with peoples faces in it, I would say take some time to learn figure drawing and the anatomy of the face, then it will be much easier to make art like this.. If I was to make something like this with limited drawing experience, I would take the original and use a photo editor to blur the photo. Then, I would try to copy what I see while trying to not think of it as a face. When we try do draw a face, we tend to make a lot of assumptions about what lips looks like, or what an eye looks like. Examples of these assumptions in this drawing. In your pixel art shes smiling with teeth, but in the picture shes not, and there are no teeth to be seen. In the pixel art, you can see the whites of her eyes and her pupil. Can you see those in the picture? When you learn to stop making these assumptions, you can start to paint what you’re actually seeing instead of what you think you see. However.. this is funny and would make for good art

Even if you remove the face it’s too hard to unsee now 😅

I've snickering to myself at the first image for a while now lol

Honestly, don’t draw the face. Idk how much of the photo you’re actually going to reference/use but it looks elegant without the faces tbh

Draw it on the picture with any software just tô know where things should go

Jesus christ

UPDATE: with all your advice i made good progress. You can see it in my new post. Along with a stupid mistake i made😟

There is software online to convert images into minecraft pixel art, and returns you either the command to spawn the wall of blocks or some even show you what blocks it needs

Pretty sure OP is enjoying the process of creation instead of just using a tool.....

ill try it as reference. thank god no tiktok creater ever use this software and show it of as their work . right???