I’m doing a whole bunch of art challenges this #October, instead of sticking to just one
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Day 1 of #hARToween is #Pumpkin
#MastoArt #Art #KidLitArt #Ink #Doodle #ArtChallenge #artstodon #TraditionalArt #SpookySeason #ScarySeason #ArtPrompts #Halloween #Spooktober
while spiderbat flys some circles
with wide spread wings around mona’s head.
#uglytober #crawltober #hARToween
#spinne #spider
The big day is almost here! On October 8th, my first
@NatGeoBooks
, and our first book on the
@NASAWebb
space telescope, releases: Infinite Cosmos!
You can pre-order from many booksellers, or get it directly from National Geographic here:
books.disney.com/book/infinite…
In order to improve my fresh #pixelart skills I'm going to try my hand at #hartoween
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Can't promise I'll be able to do everything on the day its due, and that I'll have the energy to keep up with it throughout the month, but it's worth a try at least.
Personal rules: 128x128px (but exported at 200%), trying to stick to the ENDESGA64 palette as much as I can.
So, here's day 1: Pumpkin
What is the future of identity on the social web? Could it span federation protocols and be baked into the internet itself? What could it look like to everyday users and how would it be used?
There’s no better person to ask than @jay.bsky.team CEO of Bluesky. Jay's extensive experience and deep knowledge about the promise, products and protocols underlying the fediverse is legendary.
If you’re building for the #fediverse this conversation will get you thinking and inspired. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts or watch it on our PeerTube instance:
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Well that was an interesting lesson with #Tailscale MagicDNS and Docker-Compose.. not all abstractions are fun folks..
Pima County Public Library officials have decided to "table" the draft of the plan that would close three branches by the end of the year, Library Director Amber Mathewson said in a memo to the Board of Supervisors last Thursday.
#Tucson #Arizona
Kamala Harris here.
Tim Walz is debating JD Vance tonight.
Will you chip in before he takes the stage?
Thank you!
Youth Arrested Demanding VP Debate Question on Climate Emergency
The Sunrise Movement wants CBS moderator Norah O'Donnell to ask Republican JD Vance "if his prayers outweigh the millions he takes from Big Oil to deny the climate crisis."
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#NYC #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate #ClimateStrike
Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel by Alison Weir, 2014
Soon after WWII, US statesman Dean Acheson warned that creating Israel on land already inhabited by Palestinians would "imperil" both American and all Western interests in the region. Despite warnings such as this one, President Truman supported establishing a Jewish state on land primarily inhabited by Muslims and Christians.
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#books
#nonfiction
#Israel
#US
#history
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Trump backs out of a '60 Minutes' prime-time interview, CBS says
60 Minutes announced on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump has backed out of an interview he had agreed to do as part of its prime-time election special next week.
#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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in reply to Gina Häußge • • •Needed some non-coding time to think about how to approach something, so used that time to take care of today's #hARToween while brainstorming on how to approach the work thing.
Thus here's day 2: Spooky House
#pixelart #aseprite
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in reply to Gina Häußge • • •I actually already drew tomorrow's #hARToween image tonight because I don't know how much time I'll have for it tomorrow, with #mrmcd2024 starting.
So here's a somewhat early day 3: Ghost
This was not the original plan, but one thing led to another and I just ran with it. Turned out way cuter than I thought I could pull off 🤭
#pixelart #aseprite
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in reply to Gina Häußge • • •Today's #hARToween image is admittedly a rush job as I'm currently at #mrmcd2024 and thus can't focus as well on drawing as on the first three days.
But I took the graphic tablet with me and tried my best to paint Granny Weatherwax in under 30min.
Day 4: Witch.
#pixelart #aseprite
Gina Häußge
in reply to Gina Häußge • • •Now that I'm feeling better, let's try to get back on top of #hARToween.
I'll try to also catch up on what I missed, but if I don't have the time for more than one drawing per day, I'll focus on the current one.
Today I (so far) did two.
First one is today's, Day 11: From the Depths.
The seconds on is the first one I missed, Day 5: Haunted Doll.
Gina Häußge
in reply to Gina Häußge • • •I'm quite happy with today's #hARToween drawing... Day 12: Full Moon (first). Awooooo! I think working with minimal lining here and just letting everything be backlit worked great!
I'm not that happy with the second one I did for the (missed) Day 6: Closet Monster (second). I like my idea, but I couldn't figure out how to add some details and shading without things looking weird. Ah well. I'm learning :)
#pixelart #aseprite
Gina Häußge
in reply to Gina Häußge • • •Some more #hARToween drawings...
First of all, today's, Day 13: Mask.
I'm not very happy with that one, didn't help that this was my third try either I guess. At least experimented a bit with lightning, and glowing eyes.
And the second one, Day 7: Bloody Mary.
With that one I'm quite ok, especially happy with the light effects and the lime. And yes, from the get go I planned to draw the cocktail vs. something creepy, sorry 😅
#pixelart #aseprite
Gina Häußge
in reply to Gina Häußge • • •#hARToween Day 14: Bats
I tried my hand a bit more on dithering (manually, with custom brushes, apart from the gradient in the back), and I might have overdone it a bit maybe, but tbh I kinda like it...
#pixelart #aseprite
Gina Häußge
in reply to Gina Häußge • • •#hARToween Day 15: Death Wreath
I gotta admit, not my favourite prompt so far, struggled really to be creative with it as it shows IMHO.
But at least I could practice a bit to draw plant stuff. And thankfully I managed to not have it look like a christmas wreath, or at least I hope 😅
#pixelart #aseprite
Gina Häußge
in reply to Gina Häußge • • •#hARToween Day 16: Black Cat
I think that's the first time I've ever drawn a cat that actually looks like one and not just like a weird dog 😅 Though admittedly, this one looks like it has a black panther somewhere in its family tree 🤔
#pixelart #aseprite
Gina Häußge
in reply to Gina Häußge • • •#hARToween Day 17: Spiderweb
I feel a cold coming up, so I'm kinda happy that today it was an easy prompt. More geometry than anything else 😅 Decided against a spider in the web, because aaaaah! 😬
#pixelart #aseprite
Gina Häußge
in reply to Gina Häußge • • •#hARToween Day 22: Vintage Vibes
Thanks to some health issues I still have to do days 18-21 and also 8-10, but those will follow when they follow.
Meanwhile, today's prompt made me think of a 102 year old movie I have yet to see, but which I think definitely has vintage vibes. So here's my attempt at turning one of the most well known scenes of Nosferatu into a pixel art drawing - a scene that really scared me as a child I should add. It was kinda therapeutic to draw 😅
#pixelart #aseprite
Gina Häußge
in reply to Gina Häußge • • •#hARToween Day 18: Skull/Bones (backlog)
I thought about a skull, but in the end decided a Jolly Roger would be more interesting. Especially since I thought about a candle on top of a skull for October 19's prompt "Creepy Candle". We'll see.
#pixelart #aseprite
Gina Häußge
in reply to Gina Häußge • • •#hARToween Day 23: Trick Or Treat
We are returning to the place of Day 3 here, but this time there's not a child dressed up as a ghost trying to get some candy but... someone else 🤭 Who says that only human children enjoy going trick-or-treating? 😉
#pixelart #aseprite
Gina Häußge
in reply to Gina Häußge • • •#hARToween Day 24: Nightmare
Yikes, I think that was so far the longest work 😅 First thought was a pixelart version of "The Nightmare" by Henry Fuseli, but that didn't work with the aspect ratio. So I decided to try a more modern version. Not happy with the background, feels not detailed enough, but I think I at least managed to rescue it a bit with adding the bookshelf and lamp.
#pixelart #aseprite
Mother Suspiria :autism:
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in reply to Gina Häußge • • •#hARToween Day 25: Headless
I was SO tempted to just draw a terminal with an SSH shell opened (headless server) but then I figured I'd rather try my hand at an homage to the movie poster of Sleepy Hollow, because that's frankly the actual thing that comes to my mind when I hear the word "headless" in a non-admin context.
Three colors only this time. And I have to say, I surprised myself with that one, I did NOT expect that I'd be happy with this one, but I am very much!
#pixelart #aseprite
Gina Häußge
in reply to Gina Häußge • • •#hARToween Day 26: Horror Movie
I decided to go with one my favourite horror movies here, which I sadly so far never saw in the cinema.
The palette is really working against me in these darker settings, would love to have some darker colors as well 😅
*edit* in a video call at the same time, forgot the alt text 🙈
#pixelart #aseprite
Gina Häußge
in reply to Gina Häußge • • •#hARToween Day 8: Stormy Night (backlog)
I decided to go with a thunderstorm at night seen through a window... First time I tried my hand at lightning, actually kinda happy with how that turned out.
No timelapse for these catch-up ones now as that's saving on time while working through the backlog 😅
Gina Häußge
in reply to Gina Häußge • • •#hARToween Day 9: Sinister Shadow (backlog)
I thought long and hard about this, but frankly this was the best I could come up with that I felt like I could pull it off 🙈
Once more, no timelapse, trying to get through the backlog here.
#pixelart #aseprite
Gina Häußge
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in reply to Gina Häußge • • •#hARToween Day 10: Devil/Demon (backlog)
Not happy with the ground, but couldn't figure out how to add details without making it look extremely weird.
Perfection is the enemy of done, so here we go.
#pixelart #aseprite
Mother Suspiria :autism:
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in reply to Gina Häußge • • •#hARToween Day 27: Seance
I think I overdid it yesterday, drawing almost 4 of these, and this is why this one looks quite boring 😅
And I also managed to forget starting the timelapse 🙈
#pixelart #aseprite
Gina Häußge
in reply to Gina Häußge • • •#hARToween Day 28: Cryptid Creature
And of course, I chose Nessie 😊 That was probably the first cryptid creature I ever heard the stories about, so obviously it has a special place in my heart.
#pixelart #aseprite
Gina Häußge
in reply to Gina Häußge • • •#hARToween Day 29: Scary Story
Kinda exhausted from the day and just waiting for dinner to show up, so the original idea of having some kids sit around a fire with one holding a flashlight to their face got reduced to just the flashlight to the face 😅
#pixelart #aseprite
Mother Suspiria :autism:
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in reply to Gina Häußge • • •#hARToween Day 30: Graveyard
Wanted to do this not already completely exhausted from work, so an early post...
I figured, an old graveyard on a hill with a look out to sea would be something nice that's not the usual "spooky graveyard at night, possibly with zombies and vampires" that immediately came to my mind when I first saw the prompt.
#pixelart #aseprite
Gina Häußge
in reply to Gina Häußge • • •#hARToween Day 31: Free Draw!
Today allows me to choose my own prompt, so I went with "Spooky Castle" because that sounded like a fun thing to draw.
And here it is. You may decide yourself on whether there's a vampire living there or a crazy scientist. In any case, I tried my hand at some fog and I think that worked well ^^
I still have to do Day 20 (Dark Garden) and Day 21 (Spooky Swamp) from the backlog, so this is not the last post of these 😉
Happy Halloween! 🎃
Gina Häußge
in reply to Gina Häußge • • •#hARToween Day 20: Dark Garden (backlog)
I really wanted to finish the full challenge in October still, so here's the result of my lunch break....
#pixelart #aseprite
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in reply to Gina Häußge • • •#hARToween Day 21: Spooky Swamp (backlog)
... and here's the result of my after hours drawing session ;)
And with that, I've done it! 31 #pixelart drawings in October! Phew!
#aseprite
Gina Häußge
in reply to Gina Häußge • • •I still had one #hARToween related thing I wanted to do - creating a wallpaper/grid of all the #pixelart drawings I did for that challenge in October. That's now also done!
Looking at all of them together I'm really proud of myself that I managed to do all of those. Definitely learned a lot that will help me with #gamedev related drawings in the future - and it also was a lot of fun 😊
When I started this journey, I thought I couldn't draw. This gave me courage to try 😊
Mother Suspiria :autism:
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