This is totally badass! The whole composition is really clean and awesome work in fading your colors!!
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Zanzlanz responds:
Woah thanks Chibazato! I'm glad it turned out readable - I was worried about cluttering it when I added more and more haha :D
As for the dithering, I used software dithering (because doing that by hand would take foreeever... though I think people just use tools for that anyway!). I really liked how it gave me the opportunity to make the colors much more vivid and set the focus more on the center. :)
Happy Pixel Day!
First impression is that I really like the complexity of your dithering throughout the picture, especially on the radial gradient around the outside.
I love that you wrote code to assist with the drawing, as you’ve got some great structures (and dithering!) that is ridiculously tricky otherwise. That looping border and it’s shading is really well formed. I hope you push further with coding+illustrations, as the output is really refreshing and good quality.
Oh, and the frog’s sweet!
Zanzlanz responds:
Hey thanks so much TOAS, for the kind review and for scouting me as an artist here on Newgrounds! That was an unexpected and exciting surprise for me. :D
I totally would love to continue generating stuff like this with code - especially into pixel art since I think it can be integrated more naturally than other mediums. I'll definitely keep trying to think of ideas with that!
Happy Pixel Day! (And again your octopus is ink-redible!)