It's been more than one year since the last time I did any ZX Spectrum pixel art and now BOOM, all of a sudden I did three in no time, typical me. (Which is especially impressive considering ZX Spectrum graphics are the ones I worked with the least compared to other systems, you can check my FA folder to see by yourself https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/ten-kun/folder/1480012/ZX-Spectrum )Recently my NES obsession definitely took all my attention away from all other systems I used to work with before, guess mainly because of my NES game projects which stirred me in that direction, I think it's been almost one year of nothing but NES pixel art but I just got a sudden random realization a couple days ago which got me slightly caried away.I simply remembered my OC Kit Nightly and realized that his colors are perfect for ZX Spectrum palette and since I barely ever drew anything with Kit I thought it's a good chance to go back to ZX Spectrum again. Kit is the only OC of mine whom I find very fitting for hyper muscle ideas and I wanted to draw him with giant tits for a long time so that's what I did. Then I remembered about Jack Tallhead who's been treated a bit better but still not as much as Zed, Mark or Astro and I started wondering how can I handle his design in Spectrum limitations.
The hardest part was his eyes actually. The most notorious issue about Spectrum graphics is not even its limited palette but the fact you can have only two colors in one tile so it's either green-black, yellow-black, green-purple or yellow-purple. This way, if I wanted to have his eyes as detailed as they should be I had no way but give one tile to the insides of his eyes and build the "eye frames" around it on other tiles. This conditioned the size of the rest of the artwork, pretty much the only reason why I didn't add his cock here, if the scale weren't that big I'd definitely do so. And after these two works fully put me in a ZX Spectrum mood I finally decided to go back to my old Zed Vector idea which I started one year ago and dropped in a 20% finished state. All it had is a very unpolished head, moobs and just a flat circle for a belly. Had no idea I'll ever finish it and give it such a refined look but that's what I did.
Also made new personal font design for this one. My previous fonts were all 7 pixels tall like most classic 8-bit fonts from old games but this time I decided to make it 6 to have more spacing between the lines. I didn't make full typeface set, only the letters I needed here, but I might add more if I ever need this font for some other art. After dealing with this last one I felt like I'm done with ZX Spectrum for now. I'm also cooking a very interesting commission right now so expect some other updates in nearest days.