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The IC-Project; 978.071 hand-drawn pixels
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Late in 2005, I came up with the idea of making a really large, hand-drawn, pixel art illustration. After drawing a lot of pixel art drububu puppets, I got the drift of it, what to do, and what not. Although it was nice to draw a new one every once a while, this was also the right moment to start something really new, something big, something really different: 'the IC-Project'.
I worked on the pixel art illustration over a period of one and a half years. The final illustration took me around 560 hours of pixel pushing.
The whole project involved all kinds of techniques; a lot of pixel pushing, solving a lot of visual and technical problems, programming, sketching, visual research, and writing a pixel art tutorial.
I am really proud to present the final pixel artwork, as well as all the steps towards it, which I consider - for the moment - to be my personal pixel art masterpiece.
2006
| month | hours |
| January | 36:15 hours |
| February | 117:45 hours |
| March | 6:00 hours |
| April | 8:25 hours |
| May | 25:00 hours |
| June | 62:00 hours |
| July | 44:75 hours |
| August | 4:00 hours |
| September | 38:00 hours |
| October | 32:50 hours |
| November | 1:50 hours |
| December | 18:00 hours |
| total | 394:25 hours |
2007
| month | hours |
| January | 43:00 hours |
| February | 2:50 hours |
| March | 18:75 hours |
| April | 8:50 hours |
| May | 32:75 hours |
| June | 3:75 hours |
| 162:25 hours | |
| total | 556:50 hours |
556:30 hours is 23 days, 4 hours and 30 minutes non-stop, or 69.5 8-hour working days.
Pixels
| color | number of pixels |
| ligth gray | 423.529 pixels |
| dark gray | 463.172 pixels |
| black | 91.370 pixels |
| total | 978.071 pixels |