It’s hard for me to admit this, but I’ve been experimenting for some months now — with pixels. They’re not my pixels. Largely, these pixels were put in place, square by square, by a Japanese person decades ago. I’m just taking them out of their original video game context and modifying them to varying degrees.
It’s not art, though there are some true artists out there doing amazing work with pixels. Like
Paul Robertson. You can’t question his artist credentials. So then what the hell am I doing, aside from passing time between one task and another? Can I just say that I’m digitally doodling? Is it e-collage?
And what do we call these throwback compositions: images inspired by and often made within the constraints of antiquated technology? Do we just call it all
pixel art, as this process was called back in the 80s? Or is the retro aspect to what people are doing now — making art that’s inspired by old video games and that exists on its own, separate from actual video games — inherently different?
More digi-doodles after the jump.
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| (via sprites i found here) |
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