The Way That The Entirety Of Game Dev Production Worldwide Comes To A Halt When A Good Game Comes Out

cyberpunk city, featuring cats

by pixel artist @ilta222

heya! i'm ilta (she/her), and i'm a pixel artist! i make art that fluctuates between cute, strange, and creepy. i tend to focus on aesthetics and soft colors. for work, i make pixel art commissions, and pixel art video games. i also steam on twitch @ilta222!

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commissions closed, thank you everyone for the boosts!

if you didn't make it in this month, they will be open again on jan 1st.

as usual, badges and emotes are always open though!

some of my art together ✶ tip jar • links

Hi! So I just found your page and how are you so cool??? This is amazing stuff omg?! Like w o a h💖💖💖

thank you that is so kind of you! 💐 super cute username btw!

he has been freed from the wrath of the pillow.... this time

ten thousand boops and i will end his suffering (take the pillow off his head)

matcha snake cake 🍵 store • links

sonic • windmill isle ✶ tip jar • links

ravens gathering ✶ tip jar • links

radioactive decay

I love your art so much!! It's inspiring me to get back into pixel art (I gave up quickly). A huge problem I had was I didn't know what size was best to set my canvas for specific projects. I always ended up overestimating and making it too big and then it looked less like pixel art and more like grainy digital art. Do you have a rough guide you stick to for landscapes/bedrooms/cities VS. things like animals and characters?

aw thank you i'm happy to hear that! i hope u stick with it ♥

with landscapes/bedrooms/cities i use 275x155. this provides a fair amount of detail while still keeping it pixely, plus it resizes to wallpaper size. for vertical i just reverse it at 155x275.

i've also recently started to use 215x215 (same amount of pixels as above) so that i can resize my art to easily fit both wallpapers, and mobile videos... since tiktok and instagram reels are everything nowadays 😒

for characters and animals, generally i will base the size of the canvas around how i stylize eyes.

so i'll draw the eyes first, then just draw everything else around that.

i also have a smaller resolution style with 2px dot eyes that i use for adding characters to landscapes, since my landscape resolution is too small for my regular style unless the character is close to the screen.

hope this helps!