Hi all,
This is my first entry to the Splinterlands Art Contests, but probably not the last. I've been a player for a little over two months and have been loving it!
Small back story about what pushed me to enter this contest. I was at work today, the day after Thanksgiving in the States, and it was incredibly slow. With hours ahead and very little to do i started to play around with the Excel Sheet in front of me and decided to try making some pixel art. I used to do it once in a while with classic 8bit characters like Mario and Link, but this time I tried something a bit more involved. Since I've been playing splinterlands so much I decided to try and create a pixel version of a splinterlands card. I chose Sea Monster because he is one of my favorite tanks in the game and a staple in my water deck
Materials:
- A Computer
- Microsoft Excel
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Process:
my first step to make all the cells the same size to create pixel squares. then I was to try to figure out how many pixels would be needed for a working space Width and length.
I used an image of a Pokémon card that was already in pixel form from the game boy trading card game and recreated the outline of a Nidoran to give me a good size to work with.
Now that I had a space to work I started on the individual components of the card. I created the mana, mele, speed and health counters first and would make adjustments and sub them in until the looked right.
It was really just a lot of trial and error from there forward. I was trying to make a close replica so it really came down to coloring the cells and zooming out to make sure it looked right then zooming back in to continue the work.
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here is the final product along with the original. I hope you enjoyed seeing it as much as I did making it.
