Pixel Dailies again

Last week I watched an old video from Struthless, he said the best advice he was ever given was to draw the same thing everyday. I took that but instead of drawing the same thing, though I may do that one day, I decided to participate in pixel dailies. It’s been fun, I missed a few days but that’s ok I’m not being strict about it. I like how there is a little community around it. People post their work and other post their interpretation of the theme. The pixel concept is to limit the scope of your art. Some people have a larger pixel density allowing them to draw complex art pieces others like me constrain the frame to a much lower pixel density. I specifically keep my frame at 32x32. I’m not much of a drawing expert or even enthusiast so I never feel over whelmed. Even when my pieces are pretty bad I’m ok with sharing.



By maintaining a lower pixel density there is less space reserved for detailing, thinking spatially, and planning too many colors. It’s strictly 32x32 with only 4 colors. Now I can think creatively on the outskirts of the prompt and think less of its overall structure. Theses are the five that I did this week:


On Bluesky it’s fairly active I get likes from others participating and I have no idea who they are but they have some good pieces.

Historically speaking I’ve been more of a video guy than a drawing guy so I thought why not upload the drawing process to YouTube maybe I can extend the pixel dailies activity to YouTube? It seems like a bit of it is already there. 

I uploaded 3 shorts of the activity sped up for people who want to see the end result much quicker, after all once again I’m no trained artist I’m doing this for fun.

They did great, much better than I expected but there is a big caveat, YouTube probably pushed these to people to see if people like it. I would need to post these regularly to see if there is actually stickiness to them. Makes me a bit more aware of the algorithm. Bluesky is bringing people in who are aware of the activity so it brings a small sense of community, YouTube on the other hand is bringing onlookers with no context and I fear may misinterpret the activity and shame participates. But as I mentioned earlier it’s still too early.

I also posted a few as traditional posts on YouTube, and got 7 impressions. No likes which for the most part I expected.

I don’t know who runs this activity but after participating on and off I have started recognizing a few participants. There’s many of them but seeing the same profile pics posting their interpretations of a prompt really adds to the sense of a community.

In the grand scheme of things I hope that I don’t fall off the band wagon and continue this fun activity. It’s simple, fun, and an opportunity to reflect any art in a non-consequential manner. 

Follow Pixel_Dailies on Bluesky for the daily prompts.