How Do You Make An Image Into Something That Looks Pixelated? Like For Backgrounds And Things

How do you make an image into something that looks pixelated? Like for backgrounds and things

I draw it with pixels at a low resolution

Drawing For Nothing is out!

Forgot to announce this here but the first ten chapters for Drawing For Nothing have been released! For those who missed the last post, this is a free, digital art book for animated films that were either canceled or bombed due to complicated issues.

https://www.drawingfornothing.com/

More chapters are to come. A few highlights in the next installation will be My Peoples and Larrikins.

Also, if anyone wants to help research, feel free to send a DM! We're also working on a new cover that will feature custom artwork of various characters from these movies. If you think you got what it takes to draw in the style of another artist, we would appreciate the help!

Dragon age magic head-canons nobody asked for:

Most of the magic taught in the Circles is woefully inefficient if not blatantly inaccurate. Students are trained to use big, wasteful movements, loud chanting, and casting techniques that glow and use as much mana as possible. Artificial limitations are everywhere like ‘spirit bolts have a 20-yard range limit,’ ‘Ice is inefficient against armoured opponents,’ and ‘lightning can’t be cast indoors’ which is all bullshit, but since magic is tied to belief, in the hands of a Mage who believes spirit bolts fizzle out after 20 yards, they will do exactly that.

Even discounting the magic, the Circles are very strange places. Insular communities populated by people under constant observation who never see the sun. None of them has any family, the only children are strangers brought in from other circles and treated like tiny adults. The population is always small and will shrink at random and they all pretend not to know why. Every Circle develops its own, utterly incomprehensible-to-strangers culture just to cope. Telling magical ritual apart from bizarre personal activities is harder than you’d think and new transfer Templars tend to be jumpy until they learn what’s deemed normal here and what’s not.

The Chantries attached to the circles are also weird as the void. They’re disconnected from the rest of Thedas and attended solely by Templars and mages, and tend to develop splinter theologies just to deal with the internal pressures bubbling in the congregation. Half of then would get excommunicated if any Chantry higher-ups ever bothered to check on them. Getting sent to serve a Circle Chantry is a death sentence for an ambitious Chantry Sister’s career. 

The magic of hedge mages tends to be significantly stranger than circle trained mages, simply due to the freedom to experiment and develop their own techniques and limitations. As magic is impossibly vast and framed by point of view, the self-taught are often capable of feats that the learned old masters will swear are impossible. There are multiple ways to cast almost everything, but only one method is ever chantry approved.

Given the nature of the fade and the sheer amount of pain and fear pervading the Circles, they are, without exception, haunted as fuck. The Kirkwall Gallows is by far the worst. The old harrowing room is now used a storage room where only tranquil go because the disembodied whispers are so loud. The tranquil don’t seem to mind. There’s another room where anyone who enters will immediately walk back out again with no idea why they wanted to enter in the first place. Getting sent to go in and retrieve a long lost bottle of whiskey is a hazing ritual among the younger Templars. If you press your ear to the walls in the cellar you will always hear muffled screaming in the next room. There is no next room.

Vivienne is absurdly powerful for a Circle mage. Her knight commander has been trying to trip her up for years, convinced she was too strong, she couldn’t possibly be using the correct techniques, only to repeatedly be confronted with the fact that she’s following every rule to the letter. She’s just Like That. She was wily enough that none of his accusations stuck before she could gain the protection of more important people, and she walked out of the Circle to go live in a noble’s manor with scowling Templars trying to burn holes in the back of her head. It was the proudest day of her life.

Solas’ techniques are so utterly removed from everything the modern mages do that they can’t recognise what he’s casting until they see the result. Even the simplest things are incomprehensible to them, and, unusually for a hedge mage, incredibly wasteful of mana. His skill progression in Inquisition is learning how to do things he could already do without using the entirety of his now meagre reserves and knocking himself out. The first time he met Cassandra he miscast a low-level shield and passed out from the blowback. It convinced her that he was well-learned in theory but of little actual ability which is why she trusted him so readily. 

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EXCITING NEWS: As of today, all the Yukikaze novels (including Aggressors) have been uploaded and can be downloaded from this site (WARNING: site contains inappropriate advertisements) in Japanese. 

Though this may not serve fans who cannot read the language, it is nonetheless a step forward that these novels can now be easily accessed if you live overseas. 

Yukikaze

Good Luck, Yukikaze

Unbroken Arrow

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