René van Belzen
@renevanbelzen.bsky.social
cat dad, slow runner and tinkering artist; Dutch, single he/him
My favorite animal is the cat. They are cuddly and overall awesome. This image was made for my Pixoo64.
September 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
My favorite animal is the cat. They are cuddly and overall awesome. This image was made for my Pixoo64.
Heads are going to roll. No idea why.
July 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Heads are going to roll. No idea why.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was written by C.S. Lewis in 1950, which is 75 years ago. Good enough reason for me to be rereading the entire book series The Chronicles of Narnia. I already read The Magician’s Nephew before going to sleep in the past weeks.
June 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was written by C.S. Lewis in 1950, which is 75 years ago. Good enough reason for me to be rereading the entire book series The Chronicles of Narnia. I already read The Magician’s Nephew before going to sleep in the past weeks.
Serving smoothies endlessly on my Pixoo-64 64 x 64 pixel art frame. Drawn in Procreate on an iPad.
June 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Serving smoothies endlessly on my Pixoo-64 64 x 64 pixel art frame. Drawn in Procreate on an iPad.
I drew this stylized head of B.A. Baracus of the 1980s hit series The A-Team, played by Mr T.
May 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I drew this stylized head of B.A. Baracus of the 1980s hit series The A-Team, played by Mr T.
It seems the basis of good 2D animation is solid drawing skills. Without it, the result will be poor, or, at best, occasionally hit, but mostly miss. I know where to spend my time in the coming months. I only hope I don’t lose my Divoom Master Pixel Artist status with still images.
April 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
It seems the basis of good 2D animation is solid drawing skills. Without it, the result will be poor, or, at best, occasionally hit, but mostly miss. I know where to spend my time in the coming months. I only hope I don’t lose my Divoom Master Pixel Artist status with still images.
I made a rough animation in the Animatic app on iPad and traced the frames into a pixel animation with Pixaki. It took much longer than I expected, but I'm pleased with the (very rough) result running on my Pixoo64 LED panel.
April 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I made a rough animation in the Animatic app on iPad and traced the frames into a pixel animation with Pixaki. It took much longer than I expected, but I'm pleased with the (very rough) result running on my Pixoo64 LED panel.
I’ll be running a marathon on 13 April 2025. It almost didn’t happen because of injuries, which only healed a week ago. To celebrate in advance I made this jumble of legs, arms, and a confused head. Its animation lives on the Divoom community, where I became a master animator, also this week.
April 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I’ll be running a marathon on 13 April 2025. It almost didn’t happen because of injuries, which only healed a week ago. To celebrate in advance I made this jumble of legs, arms, and a confused head. Its animation lives on the Divoom community, where I became a master animator, also this week.
Using Quick Poses I found a reference for a pose. After pixeling the nude I put some clothes on her to avoid flagging on the Divoom community. BTW, it wasn’t quick at all.
April 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Using Quick Poses I found a reference for a pose. After pixeling the nude I put some clothes on her to avoid flagging on the Divoom community. BTW, it wasn’t quick at all.
A larger piece, and Fate/Apocrypha fan art. I know I can do better, if I weren’t so out of practice. I also might have traced a little to get it done, after spending more than 12 hours on it today,
April 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A larger piece, and Fate/Apocrypha fan art. I know I can do better, if I weren’t so out of practice. I also might have traced a little to get it done, after spending more than 12 hours on it today,
It’s been a while since I posted some pixel art on here, while I’ve been inundating the Divoom community with my creations, being mostly recommended by the staff. I don’t judge it high art, but I can see why they want to see more of it. Most don’t seem to post anything, or at best it’s low-effort.
April 8, 2025 at 6:59 AM
It’s been a while since I posted some pixel art on here, while I’ve been inundating the Divoom community with my creations, being mostly recommended by the staff. I don’t judge it high art, but I can see why they want to see more of it. Most don’t seem to post anything, or at best it’s low-effort.
Great minds think alike in my timeline, by @roelio@micro.blog and @Phillipgerba@mastodon.art
April 1, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Great minds think alike in my timeline, by @roelio@micro.blog and @Phillipgerba@mastodon.art
The @pixeldailies.bsky.social #pixel_dailies theme was #ladder Link has to climb the ultimate infinite ladder.
March 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The @pixeldailies.bsky.social #pixel_dailies theme was #ladder Link has to climb the ultimate infinite ladder.
I suppose if you always play it safe (read: draw for more likes), you will never learn new things, and keep repeating old things until you’ve bored and stop creating. For me, this is a place of experimentation, finding your artistic limits, go beyond them, then dial back a bit.
March 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I suppose if you always play it safe (read: draw for more likes), you will never learn new things, and keep repeating old things until you’ve bored and stop creating. For me, this is a place of experimentation, finding your artistic limits, go beyond them, then dial back a bit.
I started a new project in Procreate for pixel art. I already made a rough sketch and applied base colors (white, green and light-brown). It will become a 64 x 64 pixels piece for my Pixoo64. It’s been a while since I did a landscape, so it will be a challenge to finish it. Here’s a WIP.
March 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I started a new project in Procreate for pixel art. I already made a rough sketch and applied base colors (white, green and light-brown). It will become a 64 x 64 pixels piece for my Pixoo64. It’s been a while since I did a landscape, so it will be a challenge to finish it. Here’s a WIP.
I hand-made a pixel portrait of captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek TNG, using Procreate.
March 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I hand-made a pixel portrait of captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek TNG, using Procreate.
I tweaked yesterday's still pixel art thoroughly, so I think it got more "readable." Next I did some simple animation, since that's preferred, apparently, in the Divoom community.
March 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I tweaked yesterday's still pixel art thoroughly, so I think it got more "readable." Next I did some simple animation, since that's preferred, apparently, in the Divoom community.
Here’s the finished version of a baby enthusiastically holding a puppy.
March 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Here’s the finished version of a baby enthusiastically holding a puppy.
A little WIP. Yesterday I made this tiny 64 x 64 pixels baby head, based on reference.
Today I gave the baby a torso. The dots are to easily scale between 64x64 and 1280x1280 pixels in Procreate. The latter resolution I use to sketch a new layer before turning it into pixel art, pixel-by-pixel.
Today I gave the baby a torso. The dots are to easily scale between 64x64 and 1280x1280 pixels in Procreate. The latter resolution I use to sketch a new layer before turning it into pixel art, pixel-by-pixel.
March 27, 2025 at 7:38 AM
A little WIP. Yesterday I made this tiny 64 x 64 pixels baby head, based on reference.
Today I gave the baby a torso. The dots are to easily scale between 64x64 and 1280x1280 pixels in Procreate. The latter resolution I use to sketch a new layer before turning it into pixel art, pixel-by-pixel.
Today I gave the baby a torso. The dots are to easily scale between 64x64 and 1280x1280 pixels in Procreate. The latter resolution I use to sketch a new layer before turning it into pixel art, pixel-by-pixel.
I repurposed a previous pixel drawing I did on 31 July 2023 for today's pixel drawing for the Divoom community. The little guy is supposed to represent a nasty germ. We'll see how it's received. I like it.
March 25, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I repurposed a previous pixel drawing I did on 31 July 2023 for today's pixel drawing for the Divoom community. The little guy is supposed to represent a nasty germ. We'll see how it's received. I like it.
March 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I used a reference from Adobe Stock images for my contribution to the March of Robots art challenge. Though I didn't design the robot, I did the color palette and animation.
March 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I used a reference from Adobe Stock images for my contribution to the March of Robots art challenge. Though I didn't design the robot, I did the color palette and animation.
If you assume you're right, you're probably aren't. This is the self-deprecating idea that sprouted from using the import filter of the Divoom pixel editor wrongly. I thought it needed more pixels to avoid blurring them, like web browsers. Not so, just import 92 frames or less of 64 x 64 pixels.
March 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
If you assume you're right, you're probably aren't. This is the self-deprecating idea that sprouted from using the import filter of the Divoom pixel editor wrongly. I thought it needed more pixels to avoid blurring them, like web browsers. Not so, just import 92 frames or less of 64 x 64 pixels.
According to the robot 🤖 this is a snow leopard, which seems fair considering the coloring, but I meant to draw a tiger 🐅 Ah well, it was from memory, and hence didn’t look much like the real deal anyway.
March 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
According to the robot 🤖 this is a snow leopard, which seems fair considering the coloring, but I meant to draw a tiger 🐅 Ah well, it was from memory, and hence didn’t look much like the real deal anyway.
In this time of glorification of autocrats it seems somewhat uncool to post a selfie, since it tends to narcissism, one of the traits of an autocrat. Nevertheless, it was a fun exercise in panning around a main subject, even if it's me, represented in pixel art for the Pixoo64.
March 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
In this time of glorification of autocrats it seems somewhat uncool to post a selfie, since it tends to narcissism, one of the traits of an autocrat. Nevertheless, it was a fun exercise in panning around a main subject, even if it's me, represented in pixel art for the Pixoo64.