This image was done as a submission for the cover art of "Spring Tracks XI" over on battle of the bits. I also turned in an edited version for a project in one of my art classes in college XP. There's no rule over there that entries have to be exclusively made for battle of the bits compos but I admit it is a little sleazy. It didn't win tho, so hey, no harm no foul??
I made this pixel art using this photo by Peter Trimming as reference: https://flickr.com/photos/55426027@N03/8639029397. I think it turned out rly good and I use this image for pretty much everything because I like it so much. Thank U peter for taking such an amazing image and also for licensing it under CC-BY so that I can use it!!!!!
Here are some variants I like
This is an entry for a future group composition that never ended up happening on battle of the bits. Pxtone is a free music software made by Daisuke Amaya, the creator of cave story, for his next major game after cave story, Kero Blaster. A couple years later, A fan of pxtone who goes by Sidedishes released his own remake of the pxtone editor called Pxtone Collab. In my opinon, it's a refinement of the original Pxtone editor in almost every way. It's so smooth and polished and it even has a live collab feature which is really rare in music software. it's so amazing that it exists and I love using it so much. If you've been wanting to get into music and are ok using a music editor that's kind of limited and mostly suited for chiptune I highly reccomend giving pxtone collab a try over here: https://yuxshao.github.io/ptcollab/
A quick sketch of a coyote I did based on this image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coyote_Salt_Creek_Marsh.jpg I believe I found this image using https://wikiview.net/ which is kind of a crazy and amazing tool to me. It basically takes any image on wikipedia and displays similar images next to it on a big globe. You can scroll the whole thing like a map of every image on wikipedia which is kind of crazy to me. It's so cool. And all the images there are licensed under creative commons so they're all free to use with restrictions!!!!