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YES! I'm not kidding when I say I went all out on this one and pushed my pixel art skills and patience to the utmost limit! Needless to say, I had an incredibly difficult time drawing this, both due to the picture's sheer size and the semi realistic detail that I wanted to accomplish. Snowballsweet's realistic pixel art was such an inspiration to me, I had to enter her art contest and make something great.

The aim of the contest entry is to draw Snowballsweet's Faix in an environment I choose. I took the liberty of including my favourite anime character Hotaru Tomoe and Snowballsweet's cat Watermelon. As you can see, I basically recycled the girl's face from a previous pic I made of her, it's really surprising how a slight change in hairstyle made her look more grown up and mature.

This is the land of rebirth, where Hotaru is looking after everyone who passes through here and about to be reborn in the living world. The mythical Faix arrives to see her old friend Watermelon off, who will soon start to live a new and happy life.

Watermelon is Snowballsweet's cat who unfortunately passed away a while ago. I know the feeling when you have lost something truly precious, as I have lost my cat Cuddles last year. I want to commemorate Watermelon in this picture.

I had alot of help from friends on things like proportions, cloth design etc. So thank you Bonzai and Diric, you guys are awesome! :)

EDIT (01/03/2012): Diric you made this a DD, what a way to make my day! XD
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Land of Rebirth by ~Cuddlesthefatcat The suggester wrote: "Overall it is a great piece of art. It has many details that make it look very realistic and does not lose the feeling of pixel art. The background...provides a nice and smooth atmosphere for the characters...even though it's very detailed it still looks nice and simple" ( Suggested by ~dihricblisstoff and Featured by ^Lyricanna )
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~On5thAvenue Mar 1, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
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*GekkouKitsune Mar 1, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Amazing.

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Mood: Joy =KitsuKitsune Mar 1, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Congrats on the DD! Wonderful picture and skill and Faix and Watermelon looks so cute!

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Beautiful work! Congratulations on the DD!

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Terrific work!

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*Mr-Ripley Mar 1, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
Nice job. I love the cat =D

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*SacredJourneyDesigns Feb 29, 2012  Professional General Artist
very pretty!

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super cute.

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~maywait98 Feb 29, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
That's not pixel art. That can't possibly be pixel art.

Amazing. You are truly talented.

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Haha, glad you liked it.
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