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What I learnt

If you draw lighlty as seen in the photo, the final drawing does not have the same effect as a digitally drawn pixel art. I learnt to draw each cube with pigment of colour to create the final product in which is seen on this website.

Behind The Scenes

Just a little peak of the process of drawing the art by hand.

WHAT IS STARDEW VALLEY?

Stardew Valley is a farming simulator where you play a character (which you can customise) who just moved to a farm from the big city. Although there are small goals in the game, the flow and pace of your daily activities are completely up to you! You can create bonds with the people in your town, or you can choose to quietly fish, mine, or grow crops on your farm. There is no end goal, that is completely up to you, which makes this game so unique and calming. There are four seasons in the game just like real life, and each season comes with different crops, forages, and even fish! Therefore, the type of cooking available every season changes. There are certain things available year-round, giving some lenience to the Winter seasons when most plants are unable to grow due to cold weather.
Feel free to try playing the game for yourself! 

The Process

Stardew Valley is a farming game and is one which lacks many information in-game. Most things you must figure out for yourself or search on Google for information. One of the biggest struggles I had when first playing the game was to figure how to cook. I had the ingredients but had no idea how to combine them to make dishes which I could consume. That is why I decided to compile all of these dishes onto this website, specifying which seasons you can cook these dishes in. This is crucial because ingredients that you can gather in the game is heavily affected by the season, much like real life. 
For the process I decided to open the game and cook each dish, then take a screenshot of it. From then I counted the squares of each pixel, then opened my gridded notebook and drew according to the pixels I had calculated from the image. Each pixel was drawn one by one using my hand and coloured pencils. It was a tedious task but hopefully led to results which prove it to have been worth the extra efforts.

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What I leartn

If you draw lighlty as seen in the photo, the final drawing does not have the same effect as a digitally drawn pixel art. I learnt to draw each cube with pigment of colour to create the final product in which is seen on this website.

Hand-drawn pixel art of various cooking

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