Fool has joined dA!



A long time ago on forums, I started seeing wonderful smilies, full of humour, gentleness and a delightful simplicity of style. I used to collect them and add them to a special ‘smilie’ folder. Smilies started to become a passion for me and I used to seek out different artists and their work. One day I finally found my favourite smilie artist’s site…it was Fool. Here is his amazing collection of smilies. I bet there will be a few you will recognize as he, with his immense generosity, gave of them freely to whoever wanted to use them. [link]

It was a tutorial by Fool which taught me how to create emotes and how to animate them. This is what first brought me to dA in order to share my work with everyone.

In another section of his site I found a few pieces of amazing PixelArt and fell in love with it. I would visit his site regularly hoping for new additions to his list of wonderful PixelArt. It was through the links Fool had on his site, I discovered the world of PixelArt.

As soon as I became Gallery Director here, I was hoping one day Fool would join dA and show us and the world his lovely PixelArt. That day has come; Fool has joined us and is sharing some of his wonderful work in his Gallery.

Fool was born in Moscow Russia and since 1990 has lived in Cleveland, Ohio. He is by profession a violin maker/luthier. It was through a car accident, which laid him up for some time that he began to create PixelArt and it has now become a major part of his life.

Here is a small selection of his work, please visit his Gallery to see more. [link]

These pieces need to be downloaded for the full view or for the animation.






Fanart

PixelArt will no longer be the place for anything Fanart. For a long time PixelArt has been a place where there were ripped and spliced sprites. In order to stop this, all Fanart from now on will be moved to the Fanart Gallery under Fanart>DigitalArt>Drawing>(end category). This will not be retrospective so you don't need to move your existing work out of PixelArt Galleries.

Before people suggest a PixelArt section under Fanart, or a Fanart section under PixelArt, no at this time there will be no new categories added.

Currently the Fanart Gallery does not support GIF images, this means that any Fanart related animations or GIF images will need to be stored in the deviants Scraps section until this is sorted out. I apologize for the disruption this is going to cause a few folk.

Here is a [link] to a news article about Fanart and what it is, from ^animator one of the Gallery Directors for Fanart.


Doll Gallery

The Doll Gallery is just a real joy, there is some wonderful work happening there and the bases continue to expand with some very lovely new pieces to temp Dollers with new work.

How about when the Dollers are on the Doll forums we encourage those Dollers not already members, to join dA and show off their work. I am sure there are a lot of Dollers who don't realize how good dA has become for displaying their Doll work.

Christmas Competitions for the Doll Gallery & PixelArt

Don't forget about the Christmas competitions for the Doll Gallery [link] and PixelArt Gallery [link]


PixelArt Collaboration of four colours.

*pixel-pax is running a PixelArt collaboration......go on have a go...! [link]



PixelArt and Doll DD Features for November