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# #44 Dress yourself!
- URL: https://www.citrusexists.com/44-dress-yourself/
- Published: 2025-05-11T20:55:58.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-11T20:55:58.000Z
- Author: CitrusExists
- Tags: PixelArt

I wonder if this pun will actually work, but anyway. 

Hallo! (This is not a typo, I intended to say exactly this).

Today is the first post of learning how to pixel cloths. My list of things I have to practice is big enough to cause deforestation if anyone would try to print it.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6d/f0/6df020d6-b03c-4a5b-8644-7e28dcb05753/content/images/2025/05/vlcsnap-2025-05-11-22h26m09s643.png)

The process is quite simple and requires awful precision at the same time. For example, I fucked up the proportions on this one completely, and later it was really hard to fix (that's why the head is so tiny btw).

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6d/f0/6df020d6-b03c-4a5b-8644-7e28dcb05753/content/images/2025/05/vlcsnap-2025-05-11-22h26m54s470.png)

Generally, you just have to use shaded right. I have no idea how, I was looking at the model. All the pixels I saw researching were looking pretty similar, so I guess you just have to do it a few times to learn it, and then it's natural.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6d/f0/6df020d6-b03c-4a5b-8644-7e28dcb05753/content/images/2025/05/vlcsnap-2025-05-11-22h28m03s605.png)

The vertical lines are incredibly important. You have to find the right angle for them, if not, they will destroy the illusion.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6d/f0/6df020d6-b03c-4a5b-8644-7e28dcb05753/content/images/2025/05/vlcsnap-2025-05-11-22h28m42s574.png)

It was mainly the dress practice, so I didn't pay much attention to the rest, but I'm still so salty about the skin color. I always find this amazingly shaded pixels, and they all use some sort of pink/red shade. But I can never recreate it.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6d/f0/6df020d6-b03c-4a5b-8644-7e28dcb05753/content/images/2025/05/vlcsnap-2025-05-11-22h29m23s105.png)

This is the final piece. 

I will have to do a lot more of them, with different styles and cloths types... and proportions. 

I'm looking at people for my whole life, and somehow I don't know how big is the human head.

Thank you for reading this short post. I promise next one will be much bugger, it's around time to do another background, and they take sooooo much time. You will be begging for another post like this.