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PC-98 Pixel Art Speed Paint with Commentary

I've released a speed paint video and transcript.

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Links:

• PeerTube video
• Blog Post style Transcript

Thoughts on Production

To be honest, I hesitated before making a speed paint. I knew it would be a lot of work to make a transcript for it (especially an accessible one, with text alternatives for over 200 images), but I managed to do it.

Another thing I did differently than normal was to improvise the script, I just played back the sped up footage and talked over it (then edited out all the long pauses). I hope it's easy enough to understand, improvised talking is a weakness of mine which is why I rely so much on scripting and blog posts (rather than vlogs).

I know I didn't want to leave it silent or just with music, because that would mean there would be no transcript and no opportunity to turn it to a blog post. There was someone who told me on one of my social channels that they found my other PC-98 style video through a web search and through the blog - the blog was useful because they could translate it to their own language. That's something you can't really do easily with audio (and I refuse to use genAI to do it).

On Making Art Mistakes Public

I was also worried about some of the older inefficiencies of my process becoming public knowledge - what if people thought I'm that inefficient all the time? But times have changed and I changed my mind, hence releasing the footage. Generative AI is a big problem and I can't help but get the feeling artists are sometimes afraid to make mistakes - or be afraid to publish them - or worse, don't even start drawing because they feel overwhelmed by genAI.

I know a speed paint won't change much, if anything, but I just think it's okay to make mistakes, especially when you're learning. As I continue to experiment and try new ways of doing things, some of the experiments will become public knowledge and maybe that's okay. Maybe it's a good thing for people to see I'm just a human and I make mistakes, like everyone else.

Fixing Colour Palettes

One of the bigger so-called mistakes in this video is that the colour palette was completely changed. This is probably one of the artworks where I changed the colour palette the most but ever since I went through this process, I find myself more confident at developing colour palettes for artwork to the point where I am regularly making my own. All my most recent artworks have custom made colour palettes. I've got another video to talk more about the colour palette process because I feel like I skimmed over it here but it's actually very important. Particularly since one of the regular compliments I get on my artwork is the colours are nice.

Before now, I had never shown a process video before for a finished artwork. Maybe there's something I think isn't worth much that somebody finds helpful? After all, there aren't too many people who make artwork like mine.

Let me know what you think!

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