As all of us head right into the #NewYear2023 together, ladies and gentlemen, I will reflect us back on my first FIVE (5) years on Twitter in regards of my own limited-color #pixelart palettes that I created during that time, from #AAP64 (2017) to #DGA16 (2022). 😊💖
🧵 (01/12)
October 10, 2017. The day that when I signed onto Twitter myself for the very first time, I immediately launched my very first-ever palette weighing in at just 64 colors.
It was called #AAP64, and it was a HUGE runaway success on my first three (3) days on Twitter!!! 🤯
(02/12)
Immediately riding the tsunami of sheer success on Twitter indeed, I forwarded ahead with my first 16-color palette that I had made that same 2017 year called #AAP16, which was simply designed for beginners who want to get their feet wet in the world of pixel artistry...
(03/12)
Then, on March 2018, I conjured up a rather interesting 16-color palette of mine entitled #SimpleJPC16... which was so heavily inspired by many iconic early-1980s Japanese computer palettes — including the #PC88, #PC6001, and most especially the #MSX computer, too!!!
(04/12)
Next, I created the #Splendor128 palette on Monday, May 7, 2018 which had TWICE as many colors as my AAP-64 one, all while the total amount of depth and color variety in this overall palette is sure a helluva lot better and far richer than the Atari 2600 itself!!! 🥰🎨
(05/12)
And, in honor of my 41st birthday that took place on May 28, 2018, I gave a rather special present right here to the *entire* pixel-art community on Twitter: #Micro12, a much newer palette that fully encapsulates an amazing widespread spectrum in just 12 colors total.
(06/12)
Then I tried my hand at making #RadiantXV, my official palette for the @pixeljoint 15-color Palette Competition... which ended up being the most subdued, muted color palette akin to the #c64! 🥴 It did surprisingly well in that it took home the “Honorable Mention” prize.
(07/12)
Then on December 31, 2018, I fully introduced a brand-new pixel-art palette duo right in time for the 2019 New Year, entitled #Petite8 and #Petite8Afterdark... which was what TRULY happened when the original 1989 #GameBoy marries a #Wonderswan. 💒💍
I was THAT ready. 😊
(08/12)
The following year, 2019, I went back to @pixeljoint to enter its 17-color Palette Compo where I came up big with a MUCH better entry called #MajestyXVII, which hugely improved the liveliness and vibrancy of all the colors... it even won the ENTIRE competition, too!!! 🏆
(09/12)
Onward, as I went into 2021 with all of you amazing pixel artists on Twitter, I combined my skills into building this 96-color palette with even more color density, variety, and well-balanced saturation than ever before.
And finally in 2022, I had tried my hand in remastering the classic 16-color CGA/EGA palette to where I quite dialed back the overly blatant high contrast to just the right balance, making them all much sleeker and more modernized for the 21st century.
All 11 of my original palettes were thoroughly made and hand-crafted by yours truly, Adigun Azikiwe Polack, from 2017 to 2022. 🥰🎨
See you all in early 2023 with the NEWEST palettes I come up with next, and a most happiest new year!!! 🎊🥂
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(By the way, the best way you can access all of my original palettes is on @LospecOfficial right here, just so you can truly enjoy them for your next big indie-game/pixelart creations!!!)
It has come to my attention to all of you that @skeddles has clearly decided to block me on purpose FOR NO REASON, after called out his use of A.I. as a way of touching up his pixel piece right here... like the scathing coward he truly is:
Here was my original message, and I tried to be nice as I was only making a brutally honest declaration that I AM *NOT* GONNA USE A.I. AT ALL in any of my works, even in my pixelart going forward, too.
Even after all I have been through for the past 5+ years in supporting him and his site @LospecOfficial in inspiring you people with my own palettes since 2017-18, going ALL THE WAY BACK to my dearest, #AAP64 palette, too:
If I wanted to create any artwork period, I WOULD NOT EVEN REMOTELY USE A.I. to as a crutch for improving or making any so-called ‘touch-ups’ to any work to make it ‘bEttER’... 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫. Pixel art or otherwise.
I am *not* saying it to be rude at all. Rather, I am saying it with the honesty of all of my heart, even if what I say can be brutal to swallow at times.
That is indeed why when I create my artworks, I make it all 𝟏𝟎𝟎% 𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐀𝐃𝐄 from start to fucking finish. Period.
The same goes for when I create my own pixel-art as well, because if you want to know the truth, ALL A.I. ‘aRt’ DISGUSTS ME. Period, final... since it is all ‘built’ precisely off the backs of stealing art and its resources from the original creators in the first place.