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How the turn tables,
I guess it was only a matter of time until this happened
I'm just gonna go through my own gallery and criticize my art like I would with anyone else. I guess except this time
I'll probably have a more in-depth analysis because you know
I'm the guy who made them and I know pretty much everything about them. Also. A lot of these are pretty old
So keep in mind this isn't really going to represent my current skill level and away we go
so this is my first logo and
Yeah, it sucks. I wanted to make it like a sun that had sand pouring out of it
But yeah
It just it just looks more like an orange egg
Moving on these next few are from a chapter in this channel where I really wasn't taking anything seriously
I don't take this channel too seriously now, but the fact then it really was just
One giant joke, you know, this is Nick the jar-jar hunter. I did a lot of Zootopia
Edits, I don't really care about the film anymore or the ship for whatever reason
I just don't even care anymore. But for some reason like 3d animated characters
I just found to be easier to
Take the background out of and they looked it looked less strange than if you had to take the background out of a full-on
cartoon character or a full-on human and keep in mind this is like all
mspaint I gotta appreciate just the
the amount of
Crap, I put into this. I I worked so hard on these for no reason. This is just a crummy one
I just copied and pasted the face and said what is life. Who's so random? This is oh, yeah. This is where
11,000 views. Are you serious?
500 favorites that's ridiculous this one. This is really a masterpiece. I don't know what to tell you guys
Um, I don't know what the inspiration for it was. Oh, right. Right, right. It was the the Judy character bunny rabbit
There's a lot of carrot references
so I guess that's what I was going for and I found this weird picture and I was like
You know this kind of looks like that
Tripod from War of the Worlds and stuff this this I don't I don't even know what that is
I'm pretty proud of this one
This is when Jacob Sartorius was trending on the Internet God
That was so long ago those 2016, right? Yeah
Very early channel, you told me to grow a pair and alas I've grown one from the earth
And I've analyzed it from base to stem and alas. I still do not understand that
I shouldn't
You know
These were the dark times. Okay. These were dark times Michael squish Eddie spaghetti
Michael squish Eddie
Was a user on here who just spammed art all the time
And it was usually of low quality and I don't know is a terrible rhyme
I guess this one I made this on a whim it was just complete randomness
I kind of hate how how Lowell random I was trying to be because I think I think the images just kind of speak for
themselves, you know, this is the
Ironic drawings. I did a long time ago. Your image is large enough to sell as a print. I I don't think
Anyone would want to buy this?
DeviantART, just just to be honest here. We have mangle. This is a self-portrait. This is before I took anything seriously
This is there. Ah
Why okay, well if you notice there's a lot of sweat coming from our armpits I
Think that's my favorite detail and I'm reaching for the Bulge and either he's guiding
Guiding my hand towards it or or he's stopping me from raping him
This is this is when we were all
Very bored people god this was done with a mouse man
This was one of my first attempts at serious art on this account it was made in
July 14th 2016
800 favorites that's absurd. I made a pixel art before this, but I posted on a different account
This is the first one on this account. The first thing I should have done is put
Stronger values for the dark. I mean, it just looks like back here. It should just be completely black
It just looks bizarre. I should have put in more detail this a lot of this lighting doesn't make any sense
I mean you could these light rays
Theoretically it could happen but I I think it would have worked better if it was much more subtle than this
They're even kind of bent. It's just it's just terrible
I mean I kind of like the shapes that I put here but man
It's it's far too simplistic for what I would have liked. I'm sorry. This is this is quite the disappointment
This is one of my favorites
Freddy Freddy Foos bear in a pretty stung key situation
This is when I started doing mech stuff. I didn't mix stuff before but I
Needed to figure out how to size these things properly because you can't see this you can't it's so tiny
Come on. God I did not know anything about perspective or whatever. I mean, I don't even think I even tried
I just copied and pasted these three legs here like that's supposed to make up for it
The coloring is so bizarre it just I mean you got this purple
Kind of I think that's purplish brownish down here and it just looks like a different color
It's supposed to be a shadow, but it doesn't look like one complete lack of contrast this one
This one was an inspiration a divine inspiration
I think God was speaking to me when I made this
27,000 views one thousand favorites that's ridiculous. This probably took me like 30 minutes. Come on
this is one of mini tanks and
It just looks scratchy. You know, it doesn't look like metal
It looks like a bunch of scratched out brown paint and and just the the black
Outlines to separate stuff. It's just it's so bad
I mean it's as simple as you can get really
It just it's just scratchy the shading here is just steps in value
You know, I wasn't trying to I wasn't trying to shit the hue or or do anything. It was just pathetic
This one has significant improvements. I was just trying to copy the style of Metal Slug. I've never played the game
I don't know that much about it. I just thought to myself
What's the best pixel art I can find and I found that on Google Images and I was like, oh, that's pretty good
I mean, they're just crappier versions of much better pixel art that exists
I kind of like the design of this one a lot more
It's much more bulky as you can see there's a little bit of purple for the darker colors
so it's a little bit better in the color area, but it's still just
Scratchy again
This was one of my first attempts at a forest. I did it in grayscale
I did not have very much experience the trunk when it gets there
It just looks so so stiff and bland and and the gradient is not smooth at all
When it comes to the branches, it's just even worse
They're just so stumpy and pathetic looking when they should be sprawling out into the leaves
I mean again, I'm just ripping off a Metal Slug pixel art
I copied these techniques but I didn't really understand why they worked you know, for example
There's this line in the shadow of the barrel and I didn't know that was like reflected light in the shadow
I just saw that on other things and it's like oh that's that's good
But I didn't understand why that's the case and so as a result a lot of other things
Suffered unless I directly copied from it. I remember I used to be proud of this. I mean it kind of holds up
It's it has a serious problem with pillo shading, you know, there's like no source of light
It's like what what's going on here? It's just copying other techniques, you know
Everyone said the union from Metal Slug and yeah, that that's pretty much was doing just copying the techniques used on that one. Oh,
This is probably the worst pixel one so far. It's just so bad
I mean the rocks I copied another technique that I found somewhere and I put it on these rocks, right?
But then it comes to the tree. It's just so bad. I mean, there's no contrast here
It just looks there's no sense of depth. It looks like stained glass windows four leaves, you know
The outline around the tree I don't why didn't I just expand the the floor because I didn't know how to do grass
Properly this one again
I I didn't really understand I could see shading and I can see lighting and I could copy it and I can maybe
Manipulate it a little but I didn't understand why these fundamentals worked again
There's problems with the light source. One of the barrels has this lighting and the other two of this lighting
It's all just confusing. This was the first
Environment full environment kind of thing again. Why did I blow it up?
You know
I could blow stuff up on mspaint and make it a lot larger probably because if I blew it up larger it look
Crappy, or you know look crummy or from far away
It looks okay, you know
But if you blow it up it can look really bad the gradient over here is so bad
You just get it's clearly just four different colors that are horrifically separated
Hundred thousand subscribers. Oh that was a while ago
2017 this is a
This is one of many trees. I don't know what I was thinking
Under here. It looks more like a
Curtain than roots. I should have been working from
observation from real life
Nature I could look at other art, but I really just should have studied more fundamentals
I would have been so far ahead than where I am. Now see this. This is just bad
The one thing that everyone recognized as a mistake was the water. It's one blank color. What was I thinking?
You know and it like it's so blue. It looks like an ocean came in here
You know, where's the reflections come on this one?
I kind of like a bit more because I actually put freaking detail in the water
Yeah, as you can see I've been reusing the same color schemes cuz I thought they looked good the shading here
It could have gone darker. It really could have gone darker. I don't understand why I didn't go darker
Why don't I blow these things up make them larger? Come on in the middle here. Everyone was kind of confused about that
I was trying to do like this path I suppose but I'd I guess I was too lazy to put in a different color
So I just like make it kind of flat. I don't know
I mean the texture on these trees is just so lazy
It looks like someone whipped them you'll notice that nothing is very smooth. I think anti
Analyzing is the word Ella Ella's anti a lysing whatever anti aliasing whatever the term is
I didn't use that I was I was being stupid so and these these roots here again
My roots didn't seem to connect to anything
They just kind of fell out of the trees and drooped over everything like tentacles with this one
The perspective is just so bland. You know, it just completely flat on both angles. The lighting is so weird
You got this tree, there's light coming from
Here, but there's also light coming from here. It doesn't make sense
Where is this coming from? I don't know. It's like someone took flash photography in the middle of the forest
It doesn't make sense again. Just reusing color schemes, cuz I'm too lazy to come up with something new
this is probably the best of my
Environment works which I guess isn't saying that much I brought up the saturation more so that things would be more colorful
I put in a lot more contrast and I focus more on some lighting
It's still not great and there's still plenty of flaws here. Like I should have moved this some of this lighting up here
I really should have found out a light source and studied how objects are affected by light
Um, the only thing I can really say are really bad as the clouds here. They just look so flat
Why why it's so flat. It's like the clouds and the opening of Toy Story
This one is probably the most recent
My opinion one of the better ones cuz there's a whole lot more contrast. There's an actual light source
There's different colors. I made observations from reference photos. It says October
2018 but this was actually about six months or four or five months behind that date because I just forgot about it and then I
I was like, oh, yeah, I made this the moss here. I don't know what I was doing
I should have made it more grass like in my opinion
It just looks like play-doh, you know kind of green play-doh. I think I did a pretty good job at getting the atmosphere here
I really wanted to capture some kind of fuzzy dreamlike state, but maybe it's too blurry in a lot of places
Recently, I've been moving on to graphite just traditional mediums so I can practice fundamentals
That's really what I've been doing for the past like year or so
maybe I'll post some of that if I ever get good enough to do that or I figure out how to take
Good pictures of the work, you know, if I do this again, hopefully next time I'll have more to show anyway
my name is solar sands and
Goodbye