It’s a Necron from Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000 table top game and my first attempt at pixel art. It’s 20 by 50 pixels. Revel in its awesomeness!
If anyone cares to know how I made it, continue reading. If you just want to see it better download the image and zoom in a bunch.
I used Paint.net, a free program that is trying to be photoshop. It’s far too powerful for pixel pushing but it works and I know it. I originally made the image 16 by 48 pixels. I zoomed in 800% and began placing pixels. I finished, the head, shoulders, torso, hips, legs, and feet before I realized I’d need a little more room if I was going to fit the arms in there. So I re-adjusted the size of the canvas and then re-centered the image in it. I then added the arms after re-working the shoulders. I also made the feet bigger. Then I threw in the ground and sky. There is an attempt at making the sky darker as it gets closer to the ground I could have spent more time with it… but I didn’t. There was of course no room for a gun in such a small space. I think for the actual Necron I restricted my palette to 5 colors. The background is another 7, mostly for the lightening of the sky. Anyway, now you know more than you ever wanted to… 😀
If you want to see what a real Necron looks like you should click here.