/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3483698
Don't beat yourself up over it, we all have the same experience to some extent. Here's a little story for you about me. I used to really be into minecraft a few years after it came out. At some point building giant buidlings wasn't enough for me, so i moved onto pixel art aka recreating images pixel by pixel using minecraft blocks. Pixel art pokemon and shit was easy enough, but it wasn't enough for me. I found a program online that converted pictures to minecraft blocks and I put in a fancy pony image. I spent the next month working on building it in the game bit by bit. Even with a flatland and creative mode on, it took over 150 hours to finish. The final result was so large that I had to screenshot it in multiple sections and piece it together in photoshop. I had never been more proud of anything I had ever made before. It wasn't until a few weeks later I realized the picture converting program had an "output" setting. Turns out that you can plug a photo into it, output a file, then use a map editor to place it into the game. I could have gotten the exact same result in under an hour despite having spent over 150. But even though I seemingly wasted all that time, I was still proud of myself, I'd never committed that much time to a single project before. Of course, I never made pixel art in minecraft again, but I guess it was just another step down the road of art for me.

Pic Related was the final product.

tl;dr: I wasted 150 hours on minecraft pixel art when I could have gotten same result in 1 hour.