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LoopyPickleHead
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I've been doing Mario Paint art recently. Imagine a world where I learned to do something useful.

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This piece felt unsatisfying to me until months after I finished it. I was still mixing colors with my grey tones, and I was losing saturation for it. I knew I had to grow, but I didn't know in which direction.

#MarioPaint #snes #retrogaming #pointillism #speedpaint #art #witch #fantasy #potion
February 13, 2026 at 4:07 PM
loopypicklehead.bsky.social
Disco Mothman. He dances like everyone is watching, and he's gonna show them how it's done.

#MarioPaint #SNES #retrogaming #pointillism #speedpaint #art #mothman #cryptids #disco #discoball #dancing
February 12, 2026 at 3:58 PM
loopypicklehead.bsky.social
This was me trying fire for the first time. Lots of attempts prior to this, but I came out with something somewhat successful here.

#MarioPaint #snes #retrogaming #horror #skeleton #speedpaint #pointillism #bones #art
February 11, 2026 at 4:04 PM
loopypicklehead.bsky.social
More "scenes-in-scenes" to refine my use of scale. 248 x 168 doesn't seem like a lot, but it's an overwhelming pixel space bc the roller mouse is meh. More transparency, more patterns, more water.

#MarioPaint #snes #retrogaming #LachNess #LochNessMonster #pointillism #speedpaint #art #cryptids
February 10, 2026 at 4:06 PM
loopypicklehead.bsky.social
Back in 2024 I was painting Cryptids and Fantasy during October. I knew I wanted to do the Jersey Devil, but didn't know how. Someone suggested, "Paint him in New Jersey! WAIT! Paint him as TONY SOPRANO!"

#MarioPaint #snes #retrogaming #Sopranos #JerseyDevil #cryptid #speedpaint #pointillism #art
February 9, 2026 at 4:01 PM
loopypicklehead.bsky.social
I mentioned earlier that I was trying to get better rendering water and fabric. I painted La Llorona and this was was the best attempt I'd made. Lighting was starting to feel natural.

#MarioPaint #snes #retrogaming #pixelart #pointillism #art #speedpaint #LaLlorna #cryptid #horror
February 6, 2026 at 3:17 PM
loopypicklehead.bsky.social
I was recreating the brick process for this piece. Then I had a funny idea. Behold: The Wizzard

#MarioPaint #snes #speedpaint #pointillism #pixelart #art #wizards #cartoon #funny #bathroomselfie
February 5, 2026 at 5:01 PM
loopypicklehead.bsky.social
By this time I knew how to do landscapes. I was testing out water and form with this, and got reminded that I didn't know how to do either. Still had to keep practicing, but the failed attempts were starting to look ok.

#MarioPaint #snes #retrogaming #speedpaint #pointillism #unicorn #cryptids
February 4, 2026 at 8:14 PM
loopypicklehead.bsky.social
I was really into getting more control at this time. focusing on contours, materials, and pixel scale. The shadows on the easel/shirt, the fur, and the smaller painting all helped with this.

#MarioPaint #snes #retrogaming #bigfoot #BobRoss #art #speedpaint #pointillism #cryptid
February 3, 2026 at 4:02 PM
loopypicklehead.bsky.social
A very fun one: sphinx cat in a salon chair. When I work on a piece like this I forget that it's only 248 x 168 pixels.

The next batch of paintings are themed "cryptids and fantasy" from Oct 2024.

#MarioPaint #snes #pointillism #speedpaint #sphinxcat #cat #haircut #art #cryptids #timelapse
February 2, 2026 at 2:21 PM
loopypicklehead.bsky.social
This was the first time I tried realistic portrayal in Mario Paint. The process I use on the glass of wine is what I use to this day for transparency.

#MarioPaint #SNES #retrogaming #art #speedpaint #stilllife #pointillism #dinner #90s #nostalgia
January 30, 2026 at 6:04 PM
loopypicklehead.bsky.social
"You won't know some paths are closed until you get to them, but you'll have gotten better at finding paths."

#MarioPaint #snes #retrogaming #pointillism #speedpaint #art #sheep #space #rocket
January 29, 2026 at 3:26 PM
loopypicklehead.bsky.social
I studied theatrical lighting and scenery in college, but it wasn't until people started paying me that I actually developed those skills. My time around light helped me massively as I learned to paint.

#MarioPaint #snes #speedpaint #pointillism #art #raccoon #garbage #lightingstudy
January 28, 2026 at 4:55 PM
loopypicklehead.bsky.social
The first attempt at the cow was mangled, so I had to give it another go. I blocked out each of the planes with diff colors as a form study first. The diving board worked out. I was listening to ska while painting this.

#mariopaint #pointillism #art #speedpaint #retrogaming #snes #cow #diving #ska
January 27, 2026 at 4:56 PM
loopypicklehead.bsky.social
For this one I combined two 16x16 stamps to make "feathers" over a 16x32 space. First in gray, then in color. Not that you can see them well in the final painting (just like the wood floor....) Sometimes the exercise is the point.

#mariopaint #snes #retro #pointillism #speedpaint #art
January 26, 2026 at 5:18 PM
loopypicklehead.bsky.social
By this piece I had a basic handle on the 1/8 shading technique, but wanted to work more w/ proper stamps. Repeating bricks at this scale required placement -- you can't just "paint-bucket" through it. The bricks informed my process with that.

#snes #mariopaint #pointillism #speedpaint #art
January 26, 2026 at 4:10 AM
loopypicklehead.bsky.social
People enjoy the way my work in Mario Paint has a textile art quality to it. That's a happy coincidence based on the way I use the stamp tool. Really, it just helps me make gradients and mix colors.

#mariopaint #snes #retrogaming #pointillism #art
January 22, 2026 at 6:49 PM
loopypicklehead.bsky.social
Make art, commemorate life. Art creates reference points for rememberinglife events. I know that on this day in 2024 I missed a train. It took 2 hours for the next one. Not totally significant, but it's a memory.

#mariopaint #snes #retrogaming #pointillism #speedpaint
January 21, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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zupiz.bsky.social
House finches (𝘏𝘢𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘴) 🪶
#birds #birdart #illustration #sciart
Illustration of two house finches, one female and one male, looking at each other amongst dried thistle. The female is perched to the left, and the male is hovering slightly above the dried flower higher on the right. The thistle is sketched in a light pencil, and the birds are rendered in full color, their defining patterns visible. The background is a geometric pattern featuring a large rectangle and four squares, one at each corner, shown in a light orangish gradient from dark to light as it moves up.
January 20, 2026 at 7:06 PM
loopypicklehead.bsky.social
Starting out I only had a foundation in doing architectural drawing, so animals looked cartoony. It wasn't intentional to draw the tiger that way -- it's all I knew how to do. Start with what you know, and gently push your bounds.

#mariopaint #snes #retrogaming #pointillism #speedpaint
January 20, 2026 at 4:20 PM
loopypicklehead.bsky.social
You can see at the beginning I was practicing my shading before doing this piece. I like that I have the timelapses because I can see the way my process has changed, not just the finished results.

There's bits of my 3d renderings in there too

#mariopaint #snes #retrogaming #pointillism #speedpaint
January 19, 2026 at 6:50 PM
loopypicklehead.bsky.social
This was another early piece from September of 2024. I use OBS to stream, and that allowed me to bring in a picture as reference and trace it. Still one of my favorites.

#mariopaint #digitalart #speedpaint #timelapse #pointillism #retrogaming
January 16, 2026 at 6:39 PM
loopypicklehead.bsky.social
I keep forgetting bluesky exists. I know that part of doing art it displaying it, so I'm setting a goal of posting M-F, in order of creation. You might see reposts.

#mariopaint #digitalart #pbr #speedpaint #timelapse #pointillism #retrogaming
January 15, 2026 at 7:26 PM
loopypicklehead.bsky.social
Copilot is actually a great name for the AI, because it IS somebody's copilot, but definitely not the user's.
January 15, 2026 at 7:13 PM
loopypicklehead.bsky.social
At one point I ran some tests to do some animation. Not the way the devs intended, but the way that works with my process. This is a lighting study from that time.

#mariopaint #snes #nintendo #retrogaming
January 12, 2026 at 10:52 PM