Pixelart Contest #1 Entry

Hello everyone! I was exploring Hive communities last night and I was excited to see there is a Pixelart community and was even more excited to see that there was a contest going on! I immediately subscribed and decided to participate so here's my entry 😊

So Here's the process I went through.

First, I went over to @krystyglas pixelart tutorial because it had great tips on how to approach pixelart so I learned good tricks from there 😀

Then I started with the first fish. I took this reference picture:

For this one, I started painting the edges of the fish. I decided to use 9 colors, 3 base colors and 6 different hues of those. 3 lighter and 3 darker.

Then I filled the fish.

After that, I painted the blue stripes.

Then I added red stripes.

And finally added some highlights.

That's it for the first fish. Now for the second one I did a similar process. I started with the outline and went from there. For this one I used 12 colors. Not sure if I ended up using them all but I think I did. 😅

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Made the blue stripes.

Then the orange body.

And finally added some details.

And for the third fish I found much easier to fill the shape first. I used 10 colors for this one.
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Decided to work on the tail first.

Then applied the same ideas to the rest of the body.

That's it! 😋