The Green Herring

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he/she/they | Retro artist/gamedev/musician | #ANSIArt / #PixelArt | thegreenherring.art | 🚫 No GenAI ❌ 🔞 Some of my art's for mature users only; check your mod settings! My Art Feed: https://bsky.app/profile/thegreenherring.art/feed/aaaed2drywxfy

Timelapse of a piece of music cover art for the chiptune "Tin Man" by The Green Herring, itself credited as the music playing in the video, showing an alien covered in cables with wire sticking out of him screaming with a raised fist after escaping a robot built by a genAI company. It starts with the basic shapes and increasingly grows in resolution until it reaches full size, where it's squished into 5:6 pixel aspect to simulate being drawn in 320x200 IBM EGA video. The image is shaded and detailed with intricate wire work, and the artist name and title are rendered in metallic letters. At one point, the artist makes an edit to the image on their phone at their workplace in Pixquare, which does not support changing the pixel aspect, so the image briefly becomes square pixels. The image is further refined, with the company logos being corrected and the human lab workers in the background having their proportions fixed, before the image flashes to show it is complete.
The artist name "The Green Herring" and the title "Tin Man" appear in metallic letters. Below, a yellow fennec-like alien with long blue hair has just broken his way out of a robot that he was trapped in and forced to control, raising a defiant fist and screaming. He is bleeding blue from the mouth and nose, is covered in motor oil from a ruptured fuel hose, and has multiple thin wires sticking out of him, with others having fallen out of his raised arm. He has found himself in the middle of a computer lab at Anthropic, and their engineers stare at the display with only the lenses of their glasses visible. The robot he has escaped, wires in its joints, lies on the floor motionless with its front panel beside it, covered in blood from the alien bashing it off with his fist, and the robot bears the half-baked starburst logo of the Claude line. While we cannot see the engineers' faces, the alien looks about ready to kick their asses six ways to Sunday.
The chiptune tracker Furnace plays an OPL2 rave song by The Green Herring titled "Tin Man", with the comment: "Wild rave tune created through off-and-on picking at the YM3812's Drums Mode on July 11, 2026. Thanks to Ospaggi for inspiring me to try Drums Mode!" As the song plays, we see the oscilloscopes for the music and its 11 channels, the volume meter, the pattern and order numbers, and the pattern viewer. The channels are labeled "FM 1" through "FM 6", "Kick / FM 7", "Snare", "Tom", "Top" and "HiHat"; these labels flash whenever a note is played. In the corner is the cover art: a captured alien covered in cables and motor oil with wires jabbed into him who's just escaped the robot he was imprisoned in and screams as he raises his bloodied fist in defiance. He is in a lab at Anthropic, whose engineers stare at him with their faces hidden in shadow. The fallen robot bears the starburst logo of Claude, and its front panel lays beside it bloodied by the alien's fist.
A video of an OPL2 chiptune techno dance song named "Blow Me Away" by The Green Herring being played in the chiptune tracker program Furnace. It is black and blue with windows displaying the pattern list, oscilloscopes for the song and the individual channels, the notes of the current pattern, a list of effects commands, and song metadata. The comments read, "Written in four hours before I went to work on July 6, 2026! Then tweaked when I got home the same day. Cat smile. Made for the timelapse video for 'The Star of the Show'." As soon as the song starts playing, the effects list disappears and is replaced with the cover art for the song, depicting a handsome male alien performer in a dress on a stage being showered with money and applause next to the title rendered in 3D letters covered with the waving white and blue pattern of his dress. Each note played throws sparks due to the optional "pattern visualizer" being enabled.
The timelapse of a piece of long ANSI art depicting a handsome fennec-like alien man in a dress being showered with coin and applause. It shows sped-up footage set to FM chiptune music of a Twitch livestream, with the chat and music text blurred out, where the artist, a masc but buxom green fishperson with glasses in a dress, draws the image in MoebiusXBIN. He starts with a basic shape at super-low res, redraws it at higher res with detail, then redraws it at even higher res with even more detail, then finally shades it. Then they draw the stage, the audience, the silver coins being thrown on the stage, and the stage lights. She refines, redraws, and adds many details, including both adding more coins and coloring several of them cyan and magenta, before the final image appears in a bright flash. The final image has post-stream edits to fix the length of the alien's background leg and other bits of polish. Text appears at the end reading, "Music: The Green Herring - Blow Me Away".
A screenshot of the Music page of my website, last updated July 5, 2026, with a "New" graphic at the top applying to the entire page. Text reads, "A selection of music I've written, from newest to oldest." Sections arranged as "2020s", "2010s", and "2000s" include thumbnails for cover art of various songs; the 2020s section includes ANSI art covers for "Snake Eyes", two versions of the "Cyber Purge" theme, and the "Hell's Fury" theme; and a single 3D CG sci-fi image of a ship floating by a planet borrowed from a "TNT: Evilution MIDI Pack" for a song called "Impending End". The 2010s and 2000s sections feature images of Doom mod title screens and cropped screenshots of Doom levels, as they link to MIDIs written for mods such as "Plutonia 2", "Claustrophobia 1024", "Jenesis", "Community Chest 4" and "Back to Saturn X".
Tall furry ANSI art, seen in full before the camera zooms into the top and then slowly scrolls down and up, which shows a smiling male alien performer on a stage being showered with money and cheers. Stage lights in cyan, magenta, and white hang over a yellow fennec-like alien with long ears and a poof of long blue hair falling over his right eye. He holds one arm behind his head, and the other in front in a beckoning sign with his two-fingered hand. He wears many silver earrings; a turtlenecked blue dress with a spiky white pattern in front that shows off his chest, shoulders and thighs; and long open gloves and stockings that are blue with white trimming on his left and the opposite on his right. His long tail swoops around his legs, tipped in blue, and collects the cyan, magenta, and silver crystal coins being thrown at him by the audience. His boyfriend, a cyan alien man with huge ears, red hair and a red bodysuit, raises his fist and cheers his lover on the stage.
A masc-bodied but buxom fishperson with parted hair and a choker in an oversized red shirt and pleated black skirt stands in the lower corner of the screen looking at the viewer in front of a blank canvas in the ANSI art program MoebiusXBIN. The canvas is black, the color palette and tools are to the left, the characters assigned to function keys are on the top, and the character map and thumbnail preview are to the right. The view of the canvas is zoomed out to show how tall it is, and the font is stretched to simulate how it would look on an contemporary 4:3 PC monitor from the DOS era.
A video of the song "Snake Eyes" by The Green Herring, a high-speed FM synth chiptune song, playing in the program "Furnace". It shows multiple windows which include a list of the song's patterns, various oscilloscopes including a per-channel collection, a volume meter, an instrument list, and a list of the effects usable with the Yamaha YM3812 chip, also known as the OPL2 chip. One window is a comment box which reads: "Written June 30-July 1, 2026. BGM for a timelapse video, made in a little over two hours. Yes, really!" A mouse cursor appears on screen and clicks the Play button to start the song, whereupon the window showing the current pattern starts to move. As the tracker bar crosses over each note and/or special effect, it produces various particle effects as the result of an optional "pattern visualizer" feature the user can enable. The song ends when the tracker bar hits a red "FF" effect, which stops playback instantly.
A timelapse of a long piece of ANSI art of a huge rainbow-colored serpent slithering through space, with high-speed Yamaha OPL2 FM synth music blasting in the background. The artist known as The Green Herring, a masc-bodied but buxom green fishperson with glasses wearing an oversized red shirt and a long black pleated skirt, draws a simple slinky shape in MoebiusXBIN at a low res, gives it a blue body with a white underbelly and stripe of hair, then doodles in planets, an aura and a few stars around it. Then he redraws the image in its final absurdly long size using the low-res sketch as the reference. The artist details and shades the snake and the scene, giving the serpent a rattle, then she makes the snake rainbow-colored, with the aura painted in complementary colors. They make the shading fuzzier, add planets and ships, and refine the image all over the place before the image flashes to show it's finished. Then text appears that says, "Music: The Green Herring - Snake Eyes".
A clip from a Twitch art stream showing the drawing of a piece of sci-fi ANSI art in MoebiusXBIN. While "The Sky Line" from the game "Thunder Force IV" for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive plays in the background, the artist, a masc but buxom green fishperson with glasses in an oversized shirt and pleated skirt, colors the address for their website in a pattern matching the trans pride flag colors. The artist then zooms in on that section of the image and highlights it. After a moment for it to settle in, the artist says, "Trans rights are human rights!" The on-screen chat, from slightly earlier in the stream when the artist asked how they liked the artist's voice in response to a chatter having never heard it before, says unanimously that "your voice is good on the ears; that's all that matters".
video of a piece of long ANSI art, limited to 16 colors, which zooms in to the top and then scrolls down the image to show it in detail, before scrolling back up to the top. A rainbow-colored serpent with a white underbelly and a silver stripe of hair down its back slithers through a star system past several planets and ships which look like toy balls and model figures in comparison. The rainbow pattern on its scales transitions from red on its head to violet on its tail, ending in a rainbow-striped rattle. It is surrounded by a dark flowing aura in a similar pattern, but in the complementary colors of each component, resembling the creature swimming through the surface of a river. Red, green and cyan planets can be seen surrounded by nebulae in their complementary colors; even smaller planetoids can be seen surrounded by dark nebulae; and ships drawn with little as a single text character can be seen blasting by.
A masculine but buxom fishperson with parted hair and a choker in an oversized red shirt and pleated black skirt stands in the lower corner of the screen looking at the viewer in front of a blank canvas in the ANSI art program MoebiusXBIN. The canvas is black, the color palette and tools are to the left, the characters assigned to function keys are on the top, and the character map and thumbnail preview are to the right. The view of the canvas is zoomed out to show how tall it is.
A screenshot of the "Labels on your content" window which shows that the Adult Content flag was already applied by me, the user, and then it was applied a second time by the website's automod... after incorrectly applying a "Sexually Suggestive; does not include nudity" flag!
A timelapse of IBM EGA pixel art of an arctic fox man in a hooded superhero outfit posing with energy blades from his wrists on the rocky coast of a fjord in Norway, with a logo and text depicting it as the title screen of an imaginary DOS game titled "The Black Hood". It begins as a low-resolution sketch that is then scaled up, during which the artist prototypes several ideas for the Black Hood's outfit before settling on a sleeveless outfit baring his chest. After scaling up to the final picture size, the artist draws the background, making a perspective grid first. The coast begins as a flat plane before it is turned into jagged rocks under the hero's feet. After every element is drawn and detailed, the plain logo seen earlier is turned into writing on a medieval scroll. The figure then has his anatomy refined until there is a brief white flash to indicate it is complete.
A 2003 pencil drawing by Elosande depicting Leif Bjørksen, an arctic fox and superpowered thief, leaping through the air. He has short hair with long bangs over his eyes; and is wearing a bodysuit and track pants with futuristic-looking boots and detached sleeves, as well as partly-fingerless gloves with the little finger covered. He has energy blades flowing from behind his hands.
A pretend pixelart title screen for a 1991 DOS game titled "The Black Hood" rendered in IBM EGA video. It depicts Leif Bjørksen, a long-haired arctic fox and superpowered thief, standing on a snow-covered rocky coast in a fjord in Norway, brandishing blades of energy from his wrists. He is wearing an open hooded sleeveless shirt that shows off his athletic chest, long bangs that completely cover his eyes, form-fitting detached sleeves, and fingerless gloves. He is wearing his hood down to show that he has a long and massive shock of white hair. His shirt is tucked into trousers loose in the legs but tight in the middle, which are in turn tucked into foreleg protectors covering his digitigrade legs. His clothes are black with bright yellow trimming. To the side, the serifed text "Leif Bjørksen is..." appears, followed by an unfurled scroll with the title "The Black Hood" written in bold and serifed black text. Underneath is a metal plate with the words "Press Any Key" on it. In the lower corner is a fictitious copyright notice which reads "© 1991 Tailwind Softworks".
A timelapse of a Game Boy Color image of a big trans goat lady with a bell choker in a tube top, sheer shirt and trousers sitting on her knees and waving to the viewer. The entire image is drawn grayscale, starting from a tiny sketch that is then scaled up and cleaned up, then doubled in size and cleaned up again. The body is drawn first, followed by the tube top, the sheer shirt, the trousers, her hair, and the choker. The trans pride background is sketched in the phone app Pixquare at work, then cleaned up at home. The details are refined over time until the image briefly flashes white to indicate it is complete, then reappears in color. After this, the thin-film transistor LCD of the Game Boy Color fades in over the image for its final look.
A full-screen Game Boy Color pixel art image with the individual cells of the thin-film transistor LCD visible, showing a big, broad-shouldered and straight-waisted trans goat lady smiling and sitting on her knees with one hand on her hip and waving with the other. She is wearing a choker with a bell in front, a tube top, tight-fitting trousers with a belt without tucking, and a sheer button-up shirt with one side off of her shoulder and the other draped over her chest. She is surrounded by a fuzzy aura resembling the trans pride flag.
Four Game Boy pixel art screens arranged as comic book panels. Panel 1: "Happy B-Day, Rachel!" appears over a cartoon animal lady, a hybrid of fennec fox and red panda with a dyed mohawk, round glasses, earrings, a sleeveless shirt, and a trans pride necklace. She smiles at a birthday cake shaped like a triple decker cheeseburger with a helical-striped candle, not yet aware the "candle" is actually a stick of dynamite. Panel 2: An eight-pointed polygon with "Bomb" written in massive block letters, resembling the bomb explosion in "Super Mario Bros. 2" for the NES. Panel 3: Rachel stares at the remains of her cake, covered in soot, her hair blasted back, and with cake splattered all over her. Panel 4: Hype Bot, a tin can of a robot with a horn for a nose crudely resembling Rachel, pops up and says, "happy bomb day ha ha ha" in a text-to-speech deadpan in Windows' old and distinct "System" font. Rachel, ticked off, grabs her detonator to blow up Hype Bot for the umpteenth time.
The timelapse of long ANSI art showing clothed quadruped aliens with psychic hands visiting Earth and beckoning the viewer. After a flashing images warning, it is shown as a high-speed fast-motion clip of a Twitch stream of MoebiusXBIN with the artist's sona, a green buxom fishperson with glasses in an oversized shirt and pleated skirt, wagging their tail in the corner. It begins at half resolution with the artist drawing the basic shapes of the figures. Then, the canvas doubles in size and the half-size version is used as a reference to draw the image at its final size, with background characters added and the character designs detailed. Then the image is shaded, with both half-blocks and shade characters, and refined in various ways, until every element is finalized and the screen flashes white to indicate completion. The video then zooms in on the top of the image and slowly scrolls downward to show the whole thing in closer detail within the narrow display, then zooms back out.
In this long piece of ANSI art, using only shades of cyan, magenta, black and white, a massive cat-eared spaceship has landed in a clearing with dead trees, and its riders have gathered in front of the viewer. Some have climbed trees, some are still leaving the ship, but all of them are quadrupeds with long ears, psychic energy hands and clothes tailored for their bodies. The one in front, a smirking feline with spiky hair, is wearing a leather jacket, silver earrings, and anklets; he has sent one of his hands right in front of the viewer to beckon them over. He is flanked by his bodyguards: a serious fellow with a mohawk and a turtleneck, flashing his psychic claws and indicating he's present and ready to use them; and a big one with short parted hair and a hooded jacket bearing his claws and fangs and poised to pounce at the slightest move. Both of them are prepared to tear the viewer apart if they do anything other than what the leader is asking for.
A masculine but buxom fishperson with parted hair and a choker in an oversized red shirt and pleated black skirt stands in the lower corner of the screen looking at the viewer in front of a blank canvas in the ANSI art program MoebiusXBIN. The canvas is black, the color palette and tools are to the left, the characters assigned to function keys are on the top, and the character map and thumbnail preview are to the right. The view of the canvas is zoomed out to show how tall it is.
A flat-colored pixelart ref sheet for a bright-green humanoid fish named Tavi Grace Hightower, or T.G. Hightower for short. Their pronouns are he/she/they, they are a Pacific herring and a shapeshifter, and may present as masculine or feminine. T.G. stands 182 cm tall. Their body type is slender and masculine, but with wide hips to fit their fish tail, which is as long as they are tall. They also have a fish fin on their back. They have deep-red eyes and long pointed ears; and are shown both bald and with long messy hair parted in the middle, longer on their right. They are seen with both a content expression, and an excited one with wide-open eyes and mouth revealing their tongue is bright green. Nearby is their mouth with sharp teeth, labeled "rare: only if threatened". Close-ups of the nose show the nose covering protrudes slightly above the nostrils. A section labeled "Head Angles" shows how the head works in 3D both bald and with hair. In one half of the sheet, T.G.'s outfit is shown: a long-sleeved deep-red satin blouse tucked into black satin trousers with a black belt, with deep-red slip-on shoes. It is form-fitting but not "painted on". The blouse is cut in the back to let their fin through. It has five snap fasteners to hold it closed in front, and its collar is fastened in the back with a silver clasp. The trousers are cut for their fish tail, with the belt fastened over the tail to hold it in place. The belt is connected in front with a clasp; in the back, it connects over the tail with a pair of snap fasteners. T.G. wears glasses with a ruby finish, and an infobox notes they are molded to T.G.'s head shape. On both ears, they wear rectangular ruby-finish earrings with diagonal corners connected with snap fasteners, with hinges at the bottom. On both sides of the sheet, T.G. is seen in cutouts with a feminine bosom, showing how the blouse fits around it. They are notably top-heavy in this state, with the tail off-setting the weight in front.
The timelapse for four separate pieces of ANSI art of sci-fi aliens. The first is a yellow stegosaurus-esque creature with blue flaps that change as the image is drawn. The second is a sea slug-esque beast swimming through space, starting white and red before becoming cyan and blue, after which stars, nebulae, and a moon are drawn in to establish its gargantuan size. The third is a swordfish-esque monster that begins as a swooping shape before a domed city on a cliff is drawn in front of it, then the surroundings and schools of fish are drawn in to establish the image taking place underwater as well as how massive the fish monster is. The final one is a red creature that gains fangs, horns and arms for legs, and then guards an apple that is briefly also red before it's turned into a Granny Smith apple to distinguish it from the creature. In each case, the image briefly flashes white to indicate it is completed.
A yellow alien resembling a brontosaurus with blue leaf-like flaps on its head and back stands on purple grass at night surrounded by giant grey alien plants, looking over its back with its tail lifted. Various smaller creatures watch on, with only their eyes visible.
A masculine but buxom fishperson with parted hair and a choker in an oversized red shirt and pleated black skirt stands in the lower corner of the screen looking at the viewer in front of a blank canvas in the ANSI art program MoebiusXBIN. The canvas is black, the color palette and tools are to the left, the characters assigned to function keys are on the top, and the character map and thumbnail preview are to the right.
A masculine but lean green fishperson with long parted hair wearing red glasses, earrings, a choker with a red medal, and a dark-red V-neck t-shirt over a heavy bosom, along with fishnet gloves and a black waist-high pleated skirt with pockets pushed slightly forward by their package, greets the visitor to their website with a smile and a wave of their hand, their other hand resting on their hip and their tail lifted. The text says: "The Green Herring: Art, Games and More! This site is intended for users 18 or over! Welcome to my domain, where you can find my artwork, games, music and more. What would you like to see today?" Below is a selection of buttons leading to "Updates", "Games", "Art", "Music" and "Links", the date of the last update, an "About Me" button, colored buttons for RSS and Atom feeds, a selection of external social media site and gallery links, a "Random Site" link for the "Creative Retrocomputing" webring, and copyright information forbidding its use with crypto or
A timelapse of a DOS pixelart image of a fennec fox enby, a kangaroo man and a rabbit man surrounded by but ready to fight off fascist troopers. It begins as a phone drawing on Pixquare where the heroes are fully drawn. Then it doubles in size on the desktop and the figures are chiseled into higher detail. Then it becomes an EGA 640x350 image and the characters are refined even further. Along the way, the rabbit's outfit changes to make him look more like a wrestler. Then the dual spotlights from left and right are drawn, and the characters are shaded. After this, the silhouettes of the troopers are drawn in, followed by the city background, the defeated troopers on the ground, the night sky, and the foreground weapons. After further refinement, the image flashes white once to indicate it is done.
High-res pixel art of arcade beat-'em-up heroes ready and eager to take on the horde of fascist troopers surrounding them. The trio are lit from the sides by off-screen flashlights. Front and center is Takami, a fennec fox in a fantasy ninja-esque outfit beckoning the bad guys to attack. To the left is Mason, a buff kangaroo man with a top surgery scar pattern wearing little more than a loincloth, ready to smash a thug's jaw. To the right is Gale, a muscular rabbit man with a huge gut and shorts with a karate belt framing his bulge, raising his arms and ready to grapple his foes. A city skyline looms in the background, and in front of it are silhouettes of men wearing caps, masks and tactical gear with only the whites of their eyes visible, brandishing police batons, knives and cattle prods. The fallen bodies and hats of defeated troopers lay on the ground in front of them. In the foreground, to the left and right, are a cattle prod sparking with electricity and the tip of a baton.
A bunch of vague blocky blobs scribbled right before I went to work, contrasted with what they became: On an alien world, in a patch of blue ground surrounded by tall blades of blue grass, two magenta prism-shaped creatures with one eye each amble toward a white serpentine creature with a cyan underbelly and pointed ears folded against its head. Behind the snake is a giant, golden egg surrounded by shorter blades of grass. Beside the creatures, a line of red soil borders a natural, bubbling acid bath.
A "Labels on your content" window, reading: "You may appeal non-self labels if you feel they were placed in error." Within are two separate labels for "Adult Content: Explicit sexual images": one placed by myself, and one automatically placed by the mod bot, ignoring my manual flag entirely.
In this piece of 16-color textmode art, Bubsy, an orange, slender, cyan-eyed cartoon bobcat man wearing only a long-sleeved white shirt with a red exclamation point on the front, sits in an alien world on his hip, his legs sprawled to the side, smirking at the viewer. A collection of red, cyan and black yarn balls sits behind him, and cyan yarn wrapped around his arms and his chest, which he grips with both hands, with one hand raised and the other on the ground. He sits on a red and cyan checkerboard with a wobbly appearance as if rendered by the original Sony PlayStation, and in the background is a range of red mountains with a polygonal appearance. The sky is a flat cyan and completely bare except for a few lonely, floating platforms.
The timelapse of a pixelart pin-up poster of a transfem lynx posing in front of a brick wall in an alley with her micro gender non-conforming squirrel boyfriend on her shoulder. It starts as a monochrome low-res sketch in Pixquare, gets detail and color, then gets upscaled in Aseprite with further refinement. Partway through, the artist has to go to bed and finish the detailing job in Pixquare on their phone. The pic then goes back to Aseprite to become an IBM EGA-in-VGA piece with stretched pixels. The lynx is shaded, the initial background is drawn, and then the squirrel is drawn and shaded on her shoulder. The wall gets wear and tear, the arm on her hip is fixed to look correct, and then her clothes are fully detailed. After further refinement, the image flashes white to indicate completion.
In this pixel art pin-up poster, a transfem lynx, Cielo "Sky" Núñez, stands in front of a brick wall in an alley with her fist on one hip and a self-satisfied smile. She has blue hair short on top and long in the back, and wears a choker with a gold prism in front, a blue tie-front crop top showing off her cleavage, a cropped pleather jacket framing her buxom chest, fingerless gloves, tight-fitting jean shorts emphasizing her package with a pleather belt, and open-toed pleather boots on her built digitigrade legs. Her pleather clothes are black with gold metal. On her shoulder is Andy Scarlett, a micro squirrel man in white with long red hair, holding onto her jacket collar and waving to the camera, wearing a cropped sleeveless turtleneck with a window in the middle, a pleated skirt lifted by his tail, arm and leg warmers with boots.
A timelapse of IBM VGA pixel art of a green fish lady in a golden one-piece swimsuit at the beach. It starts as a flat, low-res sketch, which then gets shaded and doubled in size. The chunky pixels are chiseled into a more detailed image with a metallic gold sheen on the redrawn swimsuit. Then the canvas is scaled up into the 5:6 pixel aspect of VGA 320x200, with even more detail added in and the swimsuit redrawn again. The image flashes white to indicate it is complete.
A smiling green fish woman with long hair and a side part wearing a metallic gold one-piece swimsuit and glasses sits and relaxes on the beach on a sunny day with waves crashing behind her. Her long fish tail rests by her outstretched foot.
The timelapse of a PAL Master System pixel art image of a muscular hare woman with massive legs wielding a spear in a desert on the title screen for a fake game called "Desert Warrior". The hare herself is drawn first as a low-res square-pixel Pixquare image with multiply-blend shading. Then Aseprite is used to upscale her to a higher res, then to refine and shade her using light and dark shades of color. She is then upscaled again using the RotSprite algorithm into the screen height and pixel aspect of the console, and the result is cleaned up. Then she is moved to the right, and the desert setting, gradient sky, logo and text are drawn in before the canvas is widened into the screen width of the console. Elements are moved around and refined, with the hare's foreground leg in particular getting a lot of repair work, before the canvas briefly turns white to indicate the art is complete.
A piece of pixel art for PAL models of the Sega Master System depicting the title screen of an imaginary game named "Desert Warrior". The image shows a buxom but muscular white hare warrior woman with massive digitigrade legs standing in a desert field with a clenched fist brandishing a spear in one hand. She wears a long green mohawk, a wrap-around crop top made of two wide strips of green fabric, a long green loincloth, and green ankle protectors. She stands on sandy ground with mesas stretching into the horizon as dusk falls. In the sky, the logo for "Desert Warrior" is written in thin angled letters over a bright sun-like disk, and the text "Press Start" flashes in white letters underneath. In the bottom corner is a 1991 copyright for "Saga" written in a font resembling the Sega logo.
A snipped screenshot of the Bluesky profile of Why, the technical advisor to Bluesky, showing that he is blocking me.
A timelapse of 16-color pixelart of a cyan alien with long red hair in form-fitting red clothing with white stripes sitting in an abstract studio setting. There is a warning for flashing images. Then, it begins with a low-res phone drawing of the figure that is fully colored and shaded. This becomes the base of a much higher-res image with the figure fully drawn and their details refined. Then the background is drawn, with various alternatives tried after the first attempt to translate the original sunburst imagery doesn't work out. The second attempt succeeds with ordered dithering, and the figure is further refined. Near the end of the process, the artist returns to the low-res base to prototype a tail sleeve, then draws it on the high-res version. After further refinement, including the last-minute additions of a visible eyelid and red eyelashes, the image flashes white to indicate completion. The finished piece briefly alternates between versions with and without the tail sleeve.
This piece of DOS EGA 640x350 pixel art is a pinup in which a cyan, broad-shouldered alien with a muscular frame, massive pointed ears, and a long tail with a red tuft on the tip sits with their legs spread and one knee bent, propping themselves up with one hand. They have only three fingers on each hand and two toes on each foot. They are wearing form-fitting red spandex: a bodysuit with a turtleneck, long gloves and thigh-high stockings that expose their fingers and toes, and a sleeve covering most of their tail. Each part of their outfit has a white stripe running down the middle or the side, converging into solid color at the end. The alien has grown their red hair long, falling over the front of their head and down their back. They have a smile on their long face, with a button nose, beady eyes with red lashes, and red brows. They sit on purple ground with an abstract blue sunburst behind them.
In this piece of high-resolution science fiction pixel art, a fighter ship has encountered a huge snake monster, red with a cyan underside and glowing gold eyes, in the depths of outer space. The ship, the nearby planets, the auroras and the stars around them all look like toys next to the gargantuan snake. Parts of the snake have evaporated into particles, and the ship is flying towards its open mouth.
A long strip of ANSI art depicting aliens beaming down from a UFO over a grassy field at night, with mountains in the distance, and walking down a path to greet us, the people of Earth. They are various flavors of animalistic, with pointed ears, long tails, and digitigrade legs; and have only three fingers on each hand. The most visible of these creatures are various bright colors and clad in bodysuits. A pink alien in white and a white alien in black walk together, a yellow alien in blue with a blue-tufted tail strides on after them, and a cyan alien in red with a red-tufted tail waves to Earthlings off-screen, close enough to us that we can see their black beady eyes. In the front, closest to us, is a green fish-like alien in red wearing red-rimmed glasses, smiling and waving to us while their fish tail swishes behind them.
A screenshot of Cyber Purge v2.21, running in ClassicZoo, taken during a cutscene. TAKAMIMI, the VR avatar of the hero Takami Bluesky, a big floating fennec fox head with detached arms and legs, is standing with a defiant expression on their face over the abstract background of a blazing aura in the shape and colors of the rainbow infinity symbol. Along the bottom of the screen is a single line of dialog: "I'm one of them."
Timelapse of pixelart of a masc-bodied green fishperson in a t-shirt and pleated skirt with a hand on their hip over an abstract genderfluid pride flag background, both buxom and not. The full figure is drawn at low-res and then redrawn at high-res, before the genderfluid pride flag aura is added. The figure is then shaded and the image is tweaked in various ways before the image flashes white to indicate completion.
Against a flowing aura bearing the colors of the genderfluid pride flag, a lean, green, masculine-bodied but buxom fishperson with red eyes stands looking aside at the viewer with a hand behind their head and their other hand on their hip. They are wearing an oversized red V-neck t-shirt with a wide cleavage window, a black high-waited pleated skirt, long fishnet gloves, and a choker with a medal in the front split diagonally between red and black. A hole is cut in the back of the shirt for their back fin, and their fish tail swoops up and around from under the skirt. The skirt is lifted and bunched up behind them to the point you can see a glimpse of their right leg in a fishnet stocking.
Against a flowing aura bearing the colors of the genderfluid pride flag, a lean, green, masculine-bodied fishperson with red eyes stands looking aside at the viewer with a hand behind their head and their other hand on their hip. They are wearing an oversized red V-neck t-shirt, a black high-waited pleated skirt, long fishnet gloves, and a choker with a medal in the front split diagonally between red and black. A hole is cut in the back of the shirt for their back fin, and their fish tail swoops up and around from under the skirt. The skirt is lifted and bunched up behind them to the point you can see a glimpse of their right leg in a fishnet stocking.
A video showing the workstages of a massive piece of ANSI art of a marten mage standing on a wooden post in a lake about to throw a fireball at a killer robot. It begins as a narrow strip featuring the mage standing on a post, starting at low res before the figure is redrawn at the intended size. The body is drawn first, followed by the clothes, and then the fireball. The wooden post is drawn under their foot, followed by the others. Then the nighttime lake background is drawn in, and the strip is moved to the side before the robot is drawn in one component at a time. The robot is also drawn at a lower res before being redrawn at full size. Then the robot is merged into the picture, and the background is extended to cover the full canvas. The lake itself is detailed to add distortions and reflections using shade characters, and the robot itself is reshaded with more nuance using those characters, before the canvas flashes white to indicate completion.
In this massive piece of ANSI art, at night, with the stars shining above, a long-necked Japanese marten person, a warrior mage standing on one leg on a wooden post in the middle of a lake, is casting a mystic fireball and aiming it a killer robot flying towards them. The mage is wearing a sleeveless robe with their hood up, their ponytail pushing it back, and a side slit that leaves their leg visible beneath their skirt. They are pointing at the giant orb in the middle of a robot flying with hover jets trying to attack them with four clawed tentacles. Its downwards jet is causing the lake water to ripple and splash with its force, reflections can be seen in the lake's surface, and the mountains surrounding the lake in the distance fade into the night sky.
A collection of workstages of an ANSI art portrait of a Japanese marten mage with a long neck wearing the hood in their sleeveless robe. Low-resolution sketches show both the regular side view and a version with the side cut out to show the ponytail inside the hood. The initial design shows the hood pointed in the back like a medieval monk habit, but this is then smoothed out into a round shape so the ponytail is physically pushing the fabric back. After all three views are detailed and shaded, the two side views are combined in the same picture, and the character's name in Japanese is written to the side. The canvas shrinks to contain just the portraits before the abstract fire background is drawn and detailed. The details are further refined and corrected until the image flashes white on the 21st stage to indicate completion.
A bust of a Japanese marten person, seen from the front and the side, wearing a robe with its hood up. It is huge to account for their long thick marten neck, has holes for their ears to go through, and extends far back from the head with a round tip. An additional side shot shows a section cut out of the hood to reveal their ponytail, which begins with a bun secured with a long tube, is pushing back the hood to create this shape. Each portrait is surrounded by an abstract flame effect curving around them. Next to these portraits is the name "Kaoru Morimoto" written in Japanese with the Romanization underneath, and the pronouns "they/them".
A video of the workstages of a piece of ANSI art of a Japanese marten in a fighting stance in a forest. It begins with a low-res textmode sprite made of blocks, shade characters and punctuation blown up to the size of the canvas. It then becomes translucent and a higher-res figure is drawn underneath it, initially in a crude manner with oversized eyes before it's refined into a lean, muscular character. The initial attempt to draw the robe is discarded partway through in favor of defining the character's entire body and drawing the robe on top of it. After the full outfit has been drawn, the sprite is moved into the image itself, the figure is detailed and shaded, and the forest background appears. The image is further refined and detailed, with the image widened to give the mage some breathing room, the mage gaining claws on their feet and fuzz on their tail, and the length of their left forearm corrected. The canvas flashes on the 16th and final workstage to indicate completion.
In this piece of ANSI art, a Japanese marten person with spiky black hair in a ponytail stands poised to fight in a dark forest, narrowing their eyes. They are dressed in a sleeveless red robe with a huge hood and a side slit, a set of gauntlets and a pair of ankle protectors. Next them is an inset box containing the same marten in the same pose, but in a tenth of the size, drawn entirely with blocks, shade characters and punctuation.
A snapshot of a gallery page from my website circa 2023 for a piece of ANSI art titled "Machine World" dated to March 11, 2023. In it, a featureless humanoid figure floats in a fetal position while surrounded by a green and dark gray bubble made of ones and zeroes, and with particles made of dots, ones and zeroes floating away from it. The ones and zeroes floating away are colored from white to green to dark gray. Around this figure, split across several lines, is a message reading, "In a machine world, / created by machine minds, / built by machine men, / can one truly call themselves free?" The picture is bordered on the top and bottom by a single line with gradient coloring from white to green to dark gray, with the artist signature "TGH!" on one side and the date 2023 on the other. Below the image, most of the text has been grayed out to highlight the following passage: "I imagined what would happen if the blowhards proposing generative AI as a replacement for humans got their way. A world governed by generative AI would be a horrific one, for an AI can only act based on what data is fed to it. Thus, an AI, by its very nature, does not possess the capacity for critical thinking, which is precisely what the machine men of fascism desire."