Best Nine - Page 2

@Digitress

Digitress joined in February of this year, but only came on to the scene around October or so. Her art's characterized by bold, powerful color choices, hand-drawn seeming linework, and incredibly (as in individual hair tuffs in a beard) exhaustive detailing. By the way, she does this stuff on the mobile app. On a phone. Her decade's-worth of experience in digital art shows in her ability to put her ideas down with that amount of clarity and detail so often (and on mobile!)

Digi's a great artist and a wonderful addition to the community. Although I can't write as much as some other winners here, owing to her smaller gallery and shorter time here, I'd like to tell everyone to keep a look out for those bright colors and really well-done 1-bit pieces.

Okay, she uses the gradient tool in those ones, so it's not entirely 1-bit. It's more like 24-bit? Suspend your disbelief for a moment, will you?


@hby

Another newcomer this year, hby has been consistently releasing wonderfully done, insanely complex, and utterly immobilizing GIFs since this April. I haven't got the slightest idea how they're doing it, nor how the animations are so fluid. They seem to really like skulls, having five whole drawings of them. Sorry if this is the most link-heavy paragraph you've ever read, but their art is just really stunning. Do yourself a favor.

They've also got themselves a really nice pixelling style, going back to what pixel art looks like it should: emphasis on the pixels, controlled clusters and orphan pixels, and careful color counts. That signature emerald hby green could win awards. Oh, wait.


@flinigan

Flinigan migrated from the microblogging site tumblr to create another account here on Pixilart, and has only been showered with praise and cries of "those are really cute birds!" It's hard to argue with that really: Flinigan's speciality is, well, cute birds. Of course, they do draw other stuff (like that one Calvin and Hobbes drawing recently,) but their gallery's main course is birds, first and foremost.

Their art, very clean and neatly-made as it is, always makes me feel happier. The colors are cozy and the textures look straight out of one of those books with the fur and stuff in it. It's like hot chocolate on a winter night before bed.

In the meantime, go visit their tumblr. There's more there.