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The purpose of this study was to control practise palette control, technique and speed, and I will likely continue to make photorealistic pixel art for a while. This took approximately 20 hours or so, a bit less perhaps. I definitely recommend trying photorealism to anybody considering it.



Disclaimer: I do not own the original photograph, nor do I author the pose or concept, only my derived work. The purpose of this study was to control practise palette control, technique and speed, and I will likely continue to make photorealistic pixel art for a while. This took approximately 20 hours or so, a bit less perhaps. I definitely recommend trying photorealism to anybody considering it.Disclaimer: I do not own the original photograph, nor do I author the pose or concept, only my derived work.

This is a greyscale pixel art imitation of a photograph, using 9 shades of gray excluding the background white. I traced the silhuetto by overlaying using transparency, and some of the highlights were also done by this method, but for the most part I only loosely followed my reference (