Introduction

Today we are going to do something different from what we would normally do on this blog. We will participate in an illustrators' initiative.

Indeed, I am not an illustrator and I have not studied the basic concepts either.

But I have already made some pixel art style drawings.

Let's see what came out of this.

Context

Camila is one of the 2 Camilas that exist in the @shoutingmirror series of stories.

Is a girl who dyes her hair, likes to be sedentary, and eats junk food. Despite this, he has a good body by genetics.

So far she's had a good time being an e-girl. She's usually with any guy she finds cute and flirts with them to get them to buy her stuff.

But the world was thrown into chaos by a pandemic and she's not exactly a warrior.

Camila has to flee and survive her surroundings.

The spread of this disease turns people into almost immortal cannibals (Zombies).

Sketch

The first thing I had to do was to read Camila's story: Voracious Instinct. I read it about, 2 times.

It has a second part but I decided to make my pixel art based only on the first part.

I could tell I had in mind to be somewhat minimalist. But I still had to capture the character, so I put some effort into it as well.

Colors

To get the colors I just took the illustration of Shouting mirror and with the eyedropper tool, I got the skin and the hair.

I added shadows to start giving life to the pixel art.

Note: From the way they describe the events in the story and Camila's style, I feel that they are not in Latin America.

Although the creators live in Latam. I feel that the facts are based in a place that is far from being close to the Latam culture.

Details

Camila starts to have a hard time minutes after learning that her world was in chaos.

Being trapped in unpleasant situations, she has no choice but to keep her head down and wait for her chance to escape.

A lot of blood is shed in the process.

As she is not a character who is strong or knows how to fight. We are told with crudeness what would happen to a girl like Camila in certain situations.

They strip her of her clothes and treat her badly. It's the horror style of these guys.

Drawing background

The first situation in which she is involved is when an antisocial man kidnaps her.

The guy was armed and forced her to undress, if I understood correctly, I think it was in the street.

I imagine it was at night, that's why I chose a dark background for this pixel art.

Here I lost control.

I had to fit that shadow underneath it later.

And as you can see I tried to give various tones to the background.

In the video you can see how I start to draw the shadow under it and then I think: "This is not working, I'll leave it for later". Then I continue with the background, retouching it, etc..