Pixel Art 2025

Pixel art pieces done mainly in response to daily themes proposed by the "Pixel Dailies" community (that encourages to practice pixel art daily). Each theme is usually presented as a key word or a couple of words.

Pixel art picture of a character playing a claw machine and trying to get one of the prizes, but the prizes in the claw machine are 'unfinished projects' (as stated by a lettering sign on the glass of the machine) and when you 'win' the prize it arrives to a place called 'finish line'. The character looks fairly disheartened.

⚫ "Claw" — Bubblegum pixel illustration showing the kinds of emotions that take over me when I have so many unfinished projects and I just try to finish one of them, I rarely get to finish it as fast as I want and it's so frustrating (like one of these galling machines). 144 × 160 pixels (the resolution of the original Game Boy console), 3 colors. (May 2025).

Cover screen for an imaginary air traffic control game for the Game Boy console showing the view from an air control cabin in the background with lanes and flying planes. In the foreground, two male and female presenting air controllers are sitting on desk chairs, facing twin screens and keyboards. On the sides of the picture you can see two display stands with flight progress strips.

⚫ "Controller" — cover screen for an imaginary air traffic control game for the Game Boy that would use flight progress strips as a mechanic. 144 × 160 pixels, 4 colors. (May 2025).

A low pixel picture of a cartoon bunny with an amputated leg and a crutch in front of a shop window that reads 'Lucky Charm Pawn Shop' written in fancy letters alongside some pictures of amulets (a four leaf clover, an iron horseshoe, a star). The rabbit looks appalled.

⚫ "Lucky charm" — A dark riff on this theme. 144 × 160 pixels, 5 colors. (May 2025).

A diagram with a black background, over which two low pixel landscape pictures are represented. The first one, labeled 'Locus Amoenus', depicts an idyllic seaside scene with a little house and a tree overlooking a beach and a calm sea, the sky is blue and sunny and there's a boat in the horizon. The second landscape, however, is labeled 'Locus Horribilis' and shows us a warlike version of the previous landscape, where the house has been substituted by a ruin, the tree is dead, there are Czech hedgehogs on the beach, the sky is blood red and the sea is full of enormous waves. The diagram is titled 'Literary Theory'.

⚫ "Locus" — illustration of the literary concept of "Locus Amoenus", an archetypical utopian place. The poet Ovid says that if there's a Locus Amoenus, there must be also a "Locus Terribilis", where gruesome and dreadful things happen. So I decided to represent my vision of both concepts. 160 × 144 pixels. (May 2025).

Low pixel illustration of a boar head popping through the bushes staring at your soul in the middle of the night.

⚫ "Boar" — The undergrowth rustled. A wild boar was watching, its dark little eyes as round as marbles. 11 colors, 16 × 16 pixels. (May 2025).

Heavily pixelated black and white pixel art piece featuring a human figure silhouette with a kind of light glowing from within in the middle of which a broken sword can be seen. Above and underneath the figure, the text 'You're beautiful, even when you're broken' can be seen.

⚫ "Broken Sword" — Weirdly (un)motivational poster based on the concept of a broken sword. One bit color mode, 48 × 84 pixels (Nokia 3310's screen resolution, but make it vertical) (May 2025).

A pixel art illustration of a wooden person with an opening in the chest showing colorful organs inside. A human hand is above the wooden man and poking at one of the organs (a kidney).

⚫ "Puzzle box" — It was during my university years that, in anatomy class, I had the opportunity to see the opening of a corpse. Right then I realized that the human body is nothing but a puzzle box, not only physiologically but physically. 48 × 84 pixels (Nokia 3310's screen resolution, but make it vertical) (May 2025).

A pixelated ASCII art depiction of a squid superposed to a heavily glitched picture of a human-like figure with a squid head and ample buttocks, two tone pixel illustration in black and warm grey.

⚫ "Cephalopod" — trying to push the boundaries of what pixel art means by combining pixelated ASCII art (thanks to the excellent jgs font by Adel Faure), pixelated ink illustration and "hand drawn" glitch effects. 200 × 400 pixels, 2 colors. (June 2025).

1 bit black and white pixel art picture of a skeleton like cowboy with a cowboy hat, a ghostly cow skull is standing next to him. He's smiling through his dead teeth.

⚫ "Cowboy" — Experimental 1 bit ghost cowboy. 200 × 340 pixels, 2 colors. (June 2025).

A series of 16 × 16 pixel drawings representing a colden coin with a smiley face, an ice cube grimacing, a planet with a satellite, a carrot staring at you, a horseshoe, a serious red character in a hood with red lightning on the background, a big ovoid boulder standing next to a tiny house, a smiling heart, a bird that looks like a dove, an acorn with eyes, the meander of a river, meteorites falling down to earth, an alarm clock with a face, an umbrella with raindrops, a purple eggplant and an exhausted cactus in the desert at midday.

⚫ Small drawings corresponding to the following Pixel Dailies themes: coin, cold, small and big, carrot, lucky, conjuror, boulder, charm, dovetail, acorn, course, path, alarm, umbrella, purple and desert, 16 × 16 pixels each. (various months of 2025).

A series of four minimalistic images showing a pink block projecting a shadow, a series of translucent looking materials stocked on top of each other, a cloud reflecting on the ocean with a sun in the corner and a series of pink checkered blocks on a light pink surface. There's a grey edge on the right and bottom of the general picture.

⚫ "Simple" — A diagram showing: light and shadows, translucency, completion illusion (we read the frame around the "transparent" objects even if there's a white gap), reflection, repetition, color contrast illusion (the pink tone in the dark side of the cubes is exactly the same as in the light part, but it looks darker, see "checker shadow illusion") and volume (the grey frame on the edge looks like a ledge). 16 × 16 pixels. (June 2025).

Pixel art detailed illustration of a punk-looking character jumping over a turnstyle at the Paris metro, a lettering saying 'Paris Olympics' can be seen on the left.

⚫ "Turnstile" — Concept picture for a sarcastic video game about the Paris Olympics. Unfortunately (?) this kind of turnstyle is disappearing from the Paris metro system, replaced by flimsy glass doors. Don't do fraud, kids. 144 × 160 pixels. (December 2025).

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