Drawing a globe in pixel art

bgstack15 — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 13:03:36 GMT

I have been working on a side project which someday I'll publish. I wanted to draw a hyperlink icon. I decided the best thing to do is draw a globe, and a little chain link in front of it, all within a 24x24 canvas. I have drawn some circles by hand, but larger diameters get tricky. I eventually just searched it, and found a great little webapp: https://pcg.cytodev.io/. I plugged in my radius of 12, and it generated just slightly too big a curve to fit correctly in the 24x24 space. So a radius of 11 worked great! Using gimp, it is easy to copy this, flip it as needed, and make a complete circle. And then to make it look like a globe, I added some lines to resemble latitude and longitude, this time against a background instead of the transparency. And the final asset has a little chain in front of the globe:

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Drawing a globe in pixel art