Glad you like ^^ I haven't heard of https://steempixels.com/ before :O Got to take a closer look. Do you know any posts explaining it?
As for Ghibli one, it was almost 2 years ago, but I'm guessing it took me around 8 hours then. I wouldn't be surprised if even more than that. :)
When you don't have enough experience, you just put extra time into your work to make it look more professional :D
I was going through my old art and I found this:
This was from 2015, and I still had no idea how pixel art worked ^^
You can head to https://steemit.com/@steempixels for more info or the actual pixel art page https://steempixels.com/, log in and do some pixel art
I think they use steemconnect to log in and the pixel uses comment function of steemit so you can insert a pixel once in 20seconds only. If you head to my profile, almost 90% of the posts are from doing the pixel art.
I guess you already visited the link I provided and some of the pixel art are very nice. And true that experience counts and we do have to put extra time and effort. Thanks!
It's certainly interesting, but the presentation is still too weak for me to put the effort. It's more fun and less tiring to use art program, there isn't any reward really for using steempixels. I'm not a fan of spamming my account's comments & replied, same as with dlive.
Thank you for sharing, maybe it will improve in the future ^^
Your point does make sense! Better to use art program!