TJ Trewin ❖ pixel artist

@tjtrewin.com

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┏◆ Pixel artist & award-winning worldbuilder ┠◇ Commissions: vgen.co/tjtrewin ┠◇ Shop assets: tjtrewin.itch.io ┗◆ Email: hello@tjtrewin.com ⚧️ Pronouns: [ he / him ] ░▒▓▝▛▟ ▓▒░

Pixel art fanart of Mina the Hollower for the pixel dailies prompt: floorboards. A custom animated sprite of Mina bounces up & down in place excitedly in a room with seamless floorboards texture - some a little more worn than others, and some towards the edges are in shadow (where the colours are swapped to darker, cooler tones). The GUI at the bottom shows Mina's main weapon equipped in the first slot, and 27 pencils in the second slot (as it's the 27th April today). The text on the right: #pixeldailies @tjtrewin
Proudly smiling beach cleanup volunteers in a nature reserve with huge recycling bags filled with trash collected from the coast. A hand painted sign with two nightjar birds on a branch, and text: Area Natural Yrigoyen Vicente López, Provincia de Buenos Aires Que sea reserva, ya!
A pixel art logo in the shape of half an open book, with the bookmark forming the shape of a pride flag (with an uppercase Q on the page). Text: QueerBooks.space The logo is presented above on a dark background, and below on a light background. The word Books is in brown, and the uppercase B looks like two stacked books - the rest of the text is in teal green.
Test image showing dimensions, ratio, shaded vertical areas for: half, third, quarter, sixth, and eighth of the image. Concentric circles aligned to the edge of the image.
Test image showing dimensions, ratio, shaded vertical areas for: half, third, quarter, sixth, and eighth of the image. Concentric circles aligned to the edge of the image.
Test image showing dimensions, ratio, shaded vertical areas for: half, third, quarter, sixth, and eighth of the image. Concentric circles aligned to the edge of the image.
Test image showing dimensions, ratio, shaded vertical areas for: half, third, quarter, sixth, and eighth of the image. Concentric circles aligned to the edge of the image.
Test image showing dimensions, ratio, shaded vertical areas for: half, third, quarter, sixth, and eighth of the image. Concentric circles aligned to the edge of the image.
Test image showing dimensions, ratio, shaded vertical areas for: half, third, quarter, sixth, and eighth of the image. Concentric circles aligned to the edge of the image.
Test image showing dimensions, ratio, shaded vertical areas for: half, third, quarter, sixth, and eighth of the image. Concentric circles aligned to the edge of the image.
Screenshot of my pinned post AFTER the latest update. You can only see two of the four uploaded images, and the second one is cut on one side - indicating an image carousel.
1bit black and white pixel art - large version in the background: the Omastar (Pokémon) looking upwards with limbs raised to beams of god rays coming from text above: "PRAISE HELIX". An original sized version is displayed on a Nokia 3410. Text: Nokia Art Jam 4. Theme: Fossils.
1Bit pixel art in black and white of a Tamagotchi and a happy custom pet creature that looks like a cat with long tufts on its ears that bounce up and down as it walks.
Pixel art creature concept of a frog that looks kind of wrong. Named "Knuckle Frog" - it has long, strong forearms and appears to be walking with its knuckles (like a gorilla) and its hind legs make it look like it's prowling. Perhaps most disturbingly of all, you realise that there is no eye on what you thought was the head - it's a dark splotch. The real head is where you'd expect its butt to be, and it has a hidden large red-orange eye looking out for prey. Watermark text: tjtrewin.com
Demonstration of pixel art hand cursors showing: point, hover, click, zoom, grab, and release.
1-bit pixel art in desaturated lime green and dark brown, inspired by The Legend of Zelda gameboy style. I created individual tiles based on a prompt list for the Septembit 2025 challenge by Saultoons and used them to create a game mockup. Details include: Link's character sprite, a great fairy fountain, a whispering stone, minecart and tracks, a tower with a big rupee, and various shop buildings.
Sample ambigram of Undaunted blackletter pixel font: "Kobolds orcish alliance quite joyfully vexes grumpy wizards." A wireframe outline of a d20 die is below, showing a 20.
Work in progress screenshot in FontLab 8 type design software showing the lowercase letters from a-z drawn in a gritty, pixel art typewriter style.
Pixel art typewriter font work in progress sample with two rows of lowercase letters on evenly spaced grids. The first shows letters a-h in a smaller size and cleaner style, the second row shows a larger version with more gritty texture. The small text to the left of each row reads: UC32 x21, and UC36 x24. These indicate the uppercase size in pixels (UC) and x-height size in pixels (x).
A box of Polo mints in green tubes with a blue central band.
Results panel of the dialed.gg colour matching memory game. Five colour swatches are shown with a diagonal top left (my pick) / bottom right (colour to match) comparison. Text: Top 1% of all players. 48.69/50. One point from perfect. That one point will haunt you forever.
WIP development screenshot of some 16x16 overworld pixel art tiles. The old colour palette (left) didn't have many warm grey colours, so I had to use brown tones instead which made the rocky walls look like baked beans. The updated palette (right) looks like stone now! I also adjusted the greens, and the water is a little more cyan now.
16x16 pixel art hand cursors: pointing index finger, hover (index finger raised), click (press/poke), hand holding magnifying glass (zoom), back of open hand, back of closed hand (grab). More skin tones available, too!
Overworld Adventure - Temperate Plains. Background image showing the top-down 16x16 pixel art tileset in use with a fantasy woodland scene including a river, wooden bridges, trees, rocks, flowers, mushrooms, and rocky cliff ruins.
STOLEN artwork uploaded to the artstation profile artbyscarlett, as linked in their reply.
An example of my fantasy pixel font called Knightwood, showing thematic fantasy words from A-Z. Below are examples of words, numbers, and symbols commonly used in video games (such as for high scores, xp, timers, and progress). A decorative border frames the showcase, and dungeon chains hang in the background - these are box drawing elements included in the font that you can type using text!
Screen recording in Obsidian using the bases feature to add filters to a view. When selecting the final step of filtering "where the file extension is...", no suggestion appears to click on.
Pixel art in a video game menu screen layout with a red banner and two buttons below (the first has a two frame animation of arrows either side moving in and out to indicate a selection). Text: Introducing a bespoke service by TJ Trewin: Pixel Art Fonts. Games, UI elements, Branding. Start New Font, View Gallery. Background text on the top edge is purposely low contrast and partially off page, purely for aesthetics. It contains the words "CUSTOM FONT" in a medieval blackletter style.
Image text: "Scrolls & Ribbons Tileset" A thumbnail preview showing pixel art paper scrolls, with a sneak peek of tiles in the background containing torn edges, folds, corners, and scroll elements. The foreground element partially shows an example of combined assets used for a pixel art map on parchment.
Heading text: "View multiple generators to use, edit, and create" Background image: A database-style view of numerous generators with their lists, results, and settings.
Image heading text: "Create randomised lists and galleries of notes". Background screenshot showing a dashboard note in Obsidian, with a filtered list of recently modified notes to continue editing, followed by a featured notes gallery with a randomised selection of image cards.
Gif showing a list of links to notes tagged WIP, clicking the checkbox randomises the results, and you can choose how many results to display.
Gif showing a name generator that starts using one list of descriptors to choose from (with results like: Ruby, Copper, Iron). Switching to the settings and enabling a second list will combine them (the example shows results like: Emerald Herons, Sapphire Starlings). You can toggle a setting to make the results links so that you can create new notes from your results. Existing notes show as a brighter coloured link and can also be clicked.
Image text: "Create your own custom name generators & randomised lists. Ready to use Obsidian template - tjtrewin.itch.io - NO A I" Outline shapes of polyhedral dice adorn the image background.
Screenshot of itch.io product settings. Under the Metadata tab in the promo images section you can upload a variety of images for different purposes. The social media image says it gets shown on Twitter, Facebook, etc. when your project is linked. The favicon is shown as the browser icon (like in a tab). The wide cover says: "Used for special home page featuring. Must be 21:9 aspect ratio".
Amazed commentator meme with four panels, each with an expression getting more mind-blowingly impressed. Text from top panel to bottom: 1: list view, 2: table summaries that count/total, 3: new HTML function and random function, 4: Bases API and official open source maps plugin
Pixel art paper scroll tileset assets in use with Knightwood fantasy pixel font. A torn piece of paper that's been folded, slashed, slightly burned reads: "Bjorn, Meet me in the Raven's Wing at sundown and I'll fill you in on all the details about Capstone's vault." The name is obscured by a scorch mark, with only the clear letters ending "ly~" remaining.
A sneak peek at the new styles for Knightwood fantasy pixel font in development: Knightwood Regular (check mark - complete!), Knightwood Italic, Light, Light Italic, and Monospaced (all work in progress). Available at tjtrewin.itch.io
Golden concert wristband for Linkin Park - PIT 1
Golden concert wristband for Linkin Park - PIT 1
16 different colour variations of a pixel art mouse pointer/cursor with index finger extended. The first three are greyscale: dark grey, grey, and white. The rest are skin tones ranging from pale to dark in various hues. Text: .png .cur .svg 16 tones
Animated demonstration of pixel art mouse cursors. A hand with index finger extended (point) moves down and hovers over a button where the index finger raises (hover) before extending and pressing downward (click). A bouncy ball is released onto the screen and the cursor goes to hover over it with a downward facing open hand, then clicks and holds it (grab), shakes it a little and then releases it (release), sending the ball bouncing across the screen. The button is clicked again to remove the ball, and a small detail glints in the corner of the screen. The cursor hovers over it, changing into a hand holding a magnifying glass (zoom). Clicking it, text shows: tjtrewin.itch.io
Knightwood fantasy pixel font, 250+ languages, bonus glyphs, 16px tall overall with 8px high uppercase
Knightwood fantasy pixel font: 250+ languages, bonus glyphs, 16px tall
A timelapse showing my process of maknig 1-Bit pixel art in black and white - starting with drawing circles to construct a hexagon and adding segments to it to form a tesselation. My first sketch was a hummingbird that didn't quite fit, so the drawing evolved into a rabbit head, then a tortoise, and eventually the harmony of the two fitting together as puzzle pieces to form the final artwork.
1-Bit pixel art in black and white - a scene inspired by tiling animal patterns of M.C. Escher. Smug tortoise tiles intersect seamlessly with panic faced Hares between - with some blank patches for visual balance. A border adorns the image, coming from a battery icon in the top right. The tortoise tile in the bottom right has its front legs poking out over the border.
64x64 pixel art of a sword inspired by the prompt "clock" for Swordtember 2025 - a thin, red blade with the design of a clock's red second hand. Instead of a crossguard, the needle-like blade tapers out to a kite shape with a hole in the middle. Hand drawn notes: "second strike!", "mysterious ticking noise"
Ochito Ochito is only 8 pixels tall (including accents) and its name is a combination of the Spanish word for eight, ocho, plus the diminutive suffix -ito! Ochito is quite literally "little eight" :D It's perfect for teeny tiny text! I made this font so I didn't have to keep drawing all my words manually lol
1-bit pixel art inspired by Zelda for the Septembit 2025 challenge
An animated pixel art mock up of a 1-bit Zelda game. Link walks around a small town and its buildings, disturbing deku scrubs as he walks past them. A minecart runs along a track delivering materials from a nearby factory to a house being constructed. A cuckoo chicken pecks in a fenced off garden. A bridge of wooden planks spans a flowing river, leading to a fortified tower with a large rupee up in its crenelations. A gossip stone sits silently. A tree stump blocks the path to a secluded great fairy fountain with tall pillars in a pool of tranquil water - fairies drift lazily around it as the flames of two sconces beckon the hero. Text: "The Legend of Septembit 2025 - pixel art by TJ Trewin, challenge by Saultoons".
1-bit Zelda-inspired pixel art in dark brown and desaturated lime green colours.
A work in progress 1bit pixel art using just two colours: dark brown and desaturated lime green (on top of a faintly outlined template from the Septembit challenge). The pixel art style is inspired by top-down Zelda games such as Oracle of Seasons and Minish Cap. An ornate paper scroll horizontally adorns the top of the page with dithered shading and blackletter text that reads: "The Legend of Septembit 2025 - Art by tjtrewin | prompts by Saultoons". The completed prompts so far feature a character (Link, shown facing up, down, and right), a tree stump, an intersection of textures for both a path and a road, a sign, a minecart containing materials facing up/down and left/right, some minecart tracks, a patch of grass, a tile of water, two versions of park benches that I couldn't decide on (one facing forward, the other a side view), a wooden picket fence, aaand that's it! Hand written text in bottom right corner: "week 1 progress so far!" with a doodle of a triforce symbol beneath
a 64x64 pixel art sword for the Swordtember 2025 prompt: fossil. A dark, rectangular chopping blade with sharpened edges and mysterious silvery runes inlayed. The hilt appears to be made of brown, ancient vertebrae forming the hilt, and a dark bone (maybe a femur?) tinged with red for the grip and pommel. Text: ancient creature remains / probably unpleasant magical effect.
64x64 pixel art for Swordtember prompt 05 - bell: A sword that uses a large hand guard in the shape of a ship's bell. A red handle has a ring at the end with a flowing length of rope ending in a ball knot. Text: "DEATH TOLL - bit heavy".
64x64 pixel art for Swordtember 2025 prompt: scale. A longsword with a wavy, flamberge blade and a red grip. A large, brown rattle snake curls its way around the hilt and onto the base of the blade - flicking its tongue and rattling its tail.
A 64x64 pixel art sword for the Swordtember 2025 prompt: automaton. An angular, very sharp looking blade with a dark grey finish and bright, exposed sharpened edges. The blade is broad and flat, with one cutting edge that has a slight downward hook (definitely for chopping & cleaving). It has no discernable crossguard, but has a bright orange sci-fi looking metal handle that extends upwards onto the upper edge of the blade at the base of the sword. There's also an overengineered shiny steel geometric attachment that seems to serve no other function other than looking cool. The handle has three stripes of white tape wrapped around it. Text: "when did you last save?"
a 64x64 pixel art sword for the prompt "moss" - a sword shaped stick with short branches that form a crossguard. Patches of fuzzy grey moss cover the guard, but have turned grey since being removed from the woods (and is totally nothing to do with the fact that I'm using a limited colour palette for the entire prompt list this year and it doesn't have any green in it lmao)
Swordtember 2025 pixel art in 64x64 pixels. Day 01 - shell: a shiny sword with a metal scallop shaped pommel, a red grip, and a large swirling brown shall as a protective guard to cover the hand.