Pixel Art

In today's session sed a range of different pixel art techniques to complete the set task.
This was my first time creating pixel art/pix-elated images. The character and object i chose were a cherry pickup from the pac man game & the icon space invader character. The characters were later finalized with a black crayon creating its outline to give the image more of an effect.

Starting with the space invader, i used a block by block technique-doing every part of the space invader block-by-block instead of using 3/4 squares for 1 block. I also created a rough sketch of the space invader to get a feel of what it is like to create these sort of images/characters and once i felt comfortable with my work made a larger image using 2:2 for each block of the space invader.

In contrast to the space invader, i later produced a image of the cherry pickup from pac man. For this i used a different technique to the one i used for the space invader-using a mix, as some blocks where made up of 3 squares whilst others 2 or 1 to resemble 1 block.

Update-14/09/16:
Finished off my original thumbnails(Space invader & cherry pickup)-
Later added more complicated designs such as Zer0 & Handsome Jack from the Borderlands series & a fire flower from Mario.
Starting with Zer0 from Borderlands. It was used with less detail given the fact he is just mainly black and grey with no facial features of any kind but once i finished colouring him in with a black crayon i went over his mask with a pencil at certain positions just to give him more detail than he actually needed.
Another from Borderlands- Handsome Jack was a little more detailed than Zer0 given the fact he is an actual human with facial features. Just like the rest, his outline was done by a black crayon however with handsome jack, he has grey hairs so i implemented that in my design and instead of all the outline being in black, some was done in a lighter shade of black/grey at certain areas-As for his eyebrows and mouth, the outline was done in pencil and was completed with a brown crayon to give more structure to his face.
The 2 characters just mentioned are big for me in this assignment because once i reskin pac man- i would try and implement Zer0 in the game- being pac man- & Handsome Jack as one of the ghosts/enemies in the game. Or even another character from the Borderlands games, that i did not draw is the enemy-Psycho or Lunatic- these certain characters are quite similar and can be used to be the ghosts/enemies for my reskin of pacman.
I then finished off with drawing pixel art versions of the fire flower & P-Switch from Mario. These were also basic to put down but used different techniques from the previous 4 pixel art drawings. For the P-Switch, that was different to all of them as it actually used a letter which none of my previous drawings included and was a HUGE part of completing that particular drawing as it is called a 'P-Switch'. However, overall it wont be an addition to any of my reskin projects as it cannot be used as something you pick up or eat to help get an advantage like in pac man. In contrast to that the fire flower from Mario can be used in a reskin for pac man in replacement to the cherry pick up. The fire flower also used a range of colours unlike the rest which only used about 1/2 colours-not including the outline.