TRAINER'S EYE #123 - "Pokemon Pixel Journey" ft. Pixeladdy

In this Pokemon interview, we are joined by Pixeladdy, a Pokemon Trainer and anime-inspired pixel artist based out of Toronto.

Pixeladdy share his first experience with Pokemon starting with the anime and Pokemon Trading Cards. He and his brother would collect the cards adn would watch the anime on television.

Pixeladdy would return to collecting cards after watching certain content creators and social media influencers open Pokemon card packs. Pixeladdy would start his journey collecting Pokemon cards and even start an early Instagram account showing off both rare Pokemon cards and pack openings.

Pixeladdy finally dives into his journey running his own business selling pixel art. He shares what led him to make his decision and how he got started into the world of recreating moments from the Pokemon anime with pixels!

Sources
Opening Song: "Forget You" by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay

Connect with Pixeladdy: Linktree

Transcript

Pixeladdy: 0:00

Hey guys, I'm Pixeladdy and this is my Pokemon story.

David Hernandez: 0:42

Welcome to, as the pokeball turns, we're going to interview people about their experience with Pokemon. My name is David Hernandez. Today, I'm joined by Pixel Addy, an anime inspired pixel artist here to share his Pokemon experience. Pixel Addy, welcome to the show.

Pixeladdy: 0:57

Hello, hello!

David Hernandez: 0:58

Before we started talking, I told you, like, I'm a huge fan of what you do, and I was excited that you decided to come on and share your experience. And we're going to dive into the whole experience with Pokemon, but I want to ask, like, what is it about pixel art that you wanted to like do with what you do?

Pixeladdy: 1:13

I mean, I've always been a pretty artistic guy. Like growing up as a kid, I, I used to draw a lot. it was mainly paper, pencil, you know, that type of just sketching, doodling, that type of stuff. And then as I got older, I started playing around with different digital art. And then, I don't know. I just came across Pixlr. I know, I'm a fan too. So, you know, going on Instagram, I would see Pixlr all the time. It seemed like something cool, so I tested it out. I really only started, beginning of 2022, I think. That's when I started really playing around. I found, Aseprite. for anyone that's listening, Aseprite is the software that I use. I think I paid, yeah, 15 bucks. It was a one time payment. You get the software. And then I just started playing around in the software. I instantly fell in love with, the art and, Started doing random artworks, random pokemon stuff. pixel art in general I dove into that because I had just seen it on instagram and stuff like that I just kind of wanted to dip my own toes into that and try it out because i'd always loved art and Yeah, lo and behold. I enjoyed it. So I kept going with it and I have kept going from there.

David Hernandez: 2:16

I was wondering, so you said, you know, you did like paper and you were doing basic digital art before you did pixel art. What was the biggest challenge or transition from doing digital art or paper art to doing pixels? Is there a challenge? Or

Pixeladdy: 2:28

Honestly, the biggest challenge is like learning the software because obviously at the beginning when I started using a sprite I didn't really know how it worked And I get a lot of people asking me to this day. Oh, like can you give me tips on a sprite? Can you and honestly, there's no real like Like there's no crash course I can give you in like an Instagram DM or a message to like help you learn a Sprite. It's all about just hopping in the software yourself. I mean, this goes for any software, not just a Sprite. I think this goes for any like pixel art software or any software period. You just got to hop in there yourself and, you know, start playing around, start testing different features, testing different buttons. And then, you know, it took me a lot of just. Messing up and then Googling what I did wrong and, you know, YouTube tutorials and all that. And I still learn new stuff about the software every day. So that was definitely the biggest learning curve when it came to transitioning over from pencil and paper. cause obviously when you're drawing with your hand, like, I don't know, I guess it flows more cause it's just there and you can erase anything real quick with an eraser. that's what I would say for the biggest learning curve is definitely learning the software itself

David Hernandez: 3:34

I think that's kind of the biggest hurdle for anybody who does anything creative, because I think we'd like to go into it wanting to know everything. And, you know, whether it's artistic, whether it's streaming, you know, podcasting, whatever you have, you, I think even myself, I always wanted to, like, I felt like I need to know everything before I'm really ready. And there's, you're never really ready. Sometimes you have to fly by the seat of your pants. And it's hard for people because you know, we have high expectations because we see people who do amazing stuff and we like, we want to be there, but we forget that they all started where we're trying to get to as well.

Pixeladdy: 4:07

honestly, I still think like I know I get a lot of messages saying like oh you're so good at pixel or whatever I genuinely don't think i'm that good. I think i'm still a beginner There are so many other artists on instagram that I see that are amazing and I honestly You I don't even think I'm anywhere close to how good those people are, so I'm always learning still, like even to this day, every couple weeks or so, I'll discover a new feature that Aseprite has that I never even knew. So, I think it's all about just hopping in the software and just, getting to know it as much as possible. But, like you said, I think the best way is to just, do it, you know, like Shia LaBeouf said, just, just do it.

David Hernandez: 4:42

Like Nike.

Pixeladdy: 4:44

Exactly,

David Hernandez: 4:45

We'll come back to your art side in a little bit, but I want to ask, let's start at the end of the Pokemon side. What's your first experience with the franchise?

Pixeladdy: 4:52

Okay, so, for Pokemon, So funny enough, I was actually, as a kid, I was first into Yu Gi Oh. so I have an older brother, I was into Yu Gi Oh!, he was into Pokemon. And he would collect Pokemon cards. I mean, I had a little, you know, a little collection of Pokemon cards too, but my main collection was Yu Gi Oh! And then, over time I started looking into Pokemon more. And just Pokemon in general was bigger, I would say. Yu Gi Oh! was pretty big in its own respect, but, you know, at school and stuff everyone had game boys and they were playing pokemon pokemon yellow stuff like that. So I started just collecting cards. That was my first introduction obviously, I also watched like the shows I remember watching the movie, you know, The first the original movie It's the one with the clones. I did an artwork about it, but yeah, I don't actually know the I had it on a cassette tape, VHS tape. but I don't know where that's gone. so yeah, but, it was pretty much just watching random episodes of, Indigo League on TV, and then just the cards. But I would say the cards were definitely my first introduction. to the franchise.

David Hernandez: 5:54

You know, it takes me back. Cause I used to be very big into you as well. Like I would collect the cards and I was so big. I felt such like a big, proud guy having all three blue eyes. I'm like, yes, now I'm set. Okay. And I love kind of the similarities. Sometimes people will bring with the blue eyes and Charizard. They'll put the chars on the blue eyes artwork in it and then they'll put blue eyes as chars. It's kind of cool to see the similarity

Pixeladdy: 6:17

seen a few of those. They're, they're pretty cool.

David Hernandez: 6:19

when it came to that. So did you ever play the games at all? Or was it just primarily the enemy in the cards?

Pixeladdy: 6:24

Yeah. So, By the time I was like big enough to actually play the games So I knew people that were playing like at school people would play Pokemon yellow Stuff like that growing up. so basically my parents never really let me have video games Super Eastern European parents, you know, they were pretty strict. We were also immigrants because we we came to Canada And I guess they didn't have much money And so I didn't have the luxury of having like a game boy or something like that. So, but also they were kind of against video games in general cause they thought it was a waste of time, yada, yada, yada. So I never really had one for myself, but I would always play on, you know, my friends game boys and stuff like that. And I always loved it. I was addicted. but having my, my own game, I never, I never really played it on my own. but the first games I, I remember playing were Pokemon Red. and people used to play Yellow as well, but that was the first game I pretty much played Pokemon Red.

David Hernandez: 7:16

So, you know, your parents, you know, they were against you playing video games, but they didn't mind you diving into the card click games, it sounds like, because you got to play Yu Gi Oh and you got to collect some Pokemon.

Pixeladdy: 7:24

Oh, yeah, no, they were cool with the card game because they just saw it as like a thing like it like it almost like a toy But I don't know they were against video games in general at when I was younger. So that was kind of it

David Hernandez: 7:35

when it came to like, playing Pokemon, you know, you were collecting cards, of course you're also in the Yu Gi Oh, what made you want to stick with the franchise over time? Or did you kind of wean off at that point?

Pixeladdy: 7:43

Yeah, so, pretty much this is kind of the timeline. So, as a kid, really enjoyed Pokemon, collected the cards, had a bunch of cards, would go to garage sales, buy more cards. I had a decent collection. I still have a lot of the cards, actually. Never really had like a game board or anything like that or even like the DS, but I had a lot of friends You know growing up at school and stuff like that. I would play a lot of the games The last game that I really remember playing like a lot as a kid was pokemon platinum so one of my good friends he had platinum and that's the game that I really got into because I At the time I think I was grade eight Seven six. I don't

David Hernandez: 8:20

so middle school. Yeah.

Pixeladdy: 8:21

Yeah, middle school, I played a lot of Platinum, Diamond, Pearl, that type of, Gen 4 essentially. And then After Plat Black and White came out and I never played that, never touched that. I always thought it was kind of, you know. I was a big Gen 4 guy after, I played Platinum. And I just thought Gen 5 was weird. So I was like, okay, I'm just going to take a break. And I never really got back into Pokemon until like 2020, after that. I still had all my cards and stuff, but I kind of stepped away from the whole, franchise as a whole. Like, I obviously, I still liked Pokemon, but, yeah. I never really Played any other games after gen 4 until 2020 then that's when I started getting back into the hobby and stuff. So

David Hernandez: 9:00

What was it about Gen 4 that you enjoyed compared to what you saw in Gen 5?

Pixeladdy: 9:04

Honestly, I don't know I was just a kid I just thought like I had learned Gen 4 inside and out, and when Gen 5 came out, I just felt like, ah, I don't even want. You know, I was just loyal to my Gen 4. Even though now, nowadays, I still to this day have, not played, Pokemon Black and White, but I hear from so many people that they are some of the best games in the franchise, so I've been meaning to go back and play them. I love the Gen 2 games, honestly, like, HeartGold, SoulSilver, those are some of the best games, and one of my favorite legendaries is Lugia, so that's why I always loved SoulSilver.

David Hernandez: 9:35

is Luie your favorite Pokemon or do you have a different favorite Pokemon

Pixeladdy: 9:38

No, so I I don't really have one favorite, to be completely honest. I get a lot of questions on my Instagram, like, who's your favorite Pokemon? I have a list of ones that I enjoy, but I wouldn't say I have one set favorite. yeah, I like Lugia. I like a lot of the starters. I like Snorlax, Gengar, Umbreon, you know, some of the, Super basic, you know, mainstream ones. Charizard was always my starter for gen one. I don't know why I don't really like the starters from gen two. Those are like some of my least favorite starters. I might get heat for that, but yeah, I don't know. I think they're kind of overrated. Yeah,

David Hernandez: 10:15

Fire shots fired,

Pixeladdy: 10:16

think, honestly. I think Gen 2 starters are overrated and I think Gen 3 starters are underrated.

David Hernandez: 10:25

So when it came to you coming back in 2020 for Pokemon, what made you want to come back to the franchise? Why at that point,

Pixeladdy: 10:32

Okay, so, that has to do a lot more with, I was watching this one, like, influencer that I, I, liked outside of Pokemon, and he started buying Pokemon cards for fun. Like, and ripping them on his stream. And through that, I discovered PokeRev. And, so I was just casually watching Pokerev, this was early 2020, And then, Pokerev was blowing up at this time. And then that's kinda when also the Logan Paul stuff happened. Around that time I was like not really touching Pokemon stuff. I was just like, you know, an old Pokemon fan. And it was just cool to revisit it through this guy's streams. One time in Walmart I was just walking through with my brother. And I had been watching these streams, you know, these pack openings. So I was like, okay, yo I saw some pokemon packs and I was like, it was xy evolutions and I told my brother I was like, yo Let's grab some packs just for old time's sake and I remember xy evolutions I remember I had seen it on the streams and it was like a Og set reprint, you know of like the original set base set So I was like, let's see if we can pull the Charizard. We go home, we rip into those, and I think like third pack we pull the Charizard. And honestly, the rest is history. Like after that I was hooked again. And I was, I just got that rush of, nostalgia that I used to get from just opening packs as a kid. So I started getting back into the card game. the real OGs that have been following me are like, for a while, they know that I actually started my page as Pokey Addy. I had an account called poke addy and I would post card content like tcg content I would just like buy cards, buy packs. I did like a couple pack battles with some followers and stuff So that was like my reintroduction And then Midway through that account, I actually discovered pixel art. I started doing pixel art and then some people wanted to commission me to do trainers for them. And then I fell into this rabbit hole of realizing that pixel art was both one fun and two, there was demand for this and like people wanted me to make art for them. So I kind of turned into a little side hobby for me. so yeah, that was kinda from 2020 how I transitioned into what it is now.

David Hernandez: 12:37

that's awesome. That how it transitioned from you just opening some card packs to now becoming a pixel artist. It's kind of a interesting transition.

Pixeladdy: 12:44

Honestly, I still collect cards to this day. You'll see it even on my, like, Instagram. Like, here and there I'll post, like stuff on my story about like card openings and stuff like that. I have some story highlights of cards I've opened. I'm still a big collector. I have my, cards. I've kind of cooled down on the Scarlet and Violet, but Sword and Shield, I was collecting a ton, to be honest. So I had a lot of, I still have a lot of sealed product that I'm collecting as well as just binders full of cards from the Sword and Shield era.

David Hernandez: 13:11

Do you have a particular set of cards you'd like to collect, or do you like to go after certain Pokemon to collect?

Pixeladdy: 13:16

For a while I was doing waifus. No, okay. Actually that's cap. I was not doing waifus. I was doing like full art trainers. I'm not gonna say waifus because I, I enjoy even the male trainers So it's not just the waifus. But yeah, I just like the full art trainers I don't know there's something about sets that I like so like I liked the shining Pokemon Like shining lugia and all those that came out for shining legends. I liked the the amazing rares Although, you know, I bought them and they were pretty expensive and now they're like pennies but yeah, I just like the sets of cards like Do you know like the Prism Star cards from like Sun and Moon? I have the full set of those. I don't know. I just like sets as well as like full art trainers, but I just honestly I I just collect what I like. Something looks cool. I collect it.

David Hernandez: 14:00

for me, it's not the Full Art trainers, but do you remember the Gym Hero trainers? Back when, like, it was like the Blaine and Kogas

Pixeladdy: 14:07

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

David Hernandez: 14:09

So I collected the holo of those cards, just because I always liked them. I know they're not Full Art, but it's just more for nostalgia reasons.

Pixeladdy: 14:15

yeah, that's sick. That's sick.

David Hernandez: 14:17

And then right now, what I'm trying to work on, I'm trying to collect all the Blackstar promos. And I'm trying to get one of every Articuno card. Although that's a little more difficult.

Pixeladdy: 14:25

Is Articuno your favorite?

David Hernandez: 14:27

Yes, that is my favorite Pokemon.

Pixeladdy: 14:29

That's sick, that's sick. That's a good pick. I do like Articuno.

David Hernandez: 14:33

Yeah. I'm looking through your old stuff, actually. It shows all the cards you had.

Pixeladdy: 14:36

Yeah, exactly. any OG person that's been following me since like I started my like Pixelati account will know that I started on Pokeyati and I kind of just transferred over so I midway through that I realized because early on in my Pokeyati account, I did follow for follow, just because like I was new to Instagram I was like yo who wants to do follow for follow yada yada yada, and it really killed my engagement because I had like a bunch of followers that didn't care about what I was posting. They just followed because I followed them. So then I was like, you know what? Let me start a brand new fresh account. you know, I'm not going to tell us any single person to follow me. I'm just going to post what I post and see who follows me for, them genuinely just enjoying my work. And so that's what I did. And that's how Pixelati came about. So I started that, I think in like 2022, but in 2020, yeah, that's when Pokeade started. That's so I've, I've really been doing this for four years. like the card collecting and then I started the artwork like later. So, that's like the OG, you know, lore of, my stuff.

David Hernandez: 15:34

if I remember correctly on Instagram, some of your first posts were you actually recreated some of the Pokemon cards in the pixel art, right?

Pixeladdy: 15:41

yeah, even if you scroll back into, My like current instagram pixelati you can see I was posting like my commissions That's like when I started doing art and then like I posted the the base at charizard card pixelated That was also kind of one of my earliest artworks So you could tell like there's a lot of the tcg like influence in it And then, I was also doing, kind of like a Pokédex type thing, where I would just pick my favorite artwork of each Pokémon. And I did it in the order. I'm looking at it now, I think I stopped at Venonat.

David Hernandez: 16:13

So, that's what I tried to do with my card collecting,, I try to say I'm just pick my favorite card to complete a Potex. And it's so hard because there's so many good arts for some of these Pokemon. It's like trying to pick my own child. I don't even have one.

Pixeladdy: 16:25

exactly. Yeah, that's the thing. I don't know why but I just tended to Pick the most expensive artwork not like based on cost But I would pick the artwork that I liked the most and I would check eBay and it just so happened to be the most expensive so I'd be like, oh Guess I can't collect that But I guess everyone likes them. So that makes sense because they're a nice art.

David Hernandez: 17:32

so you said eventually that you came into doing pixel art because of the cards and you started doing commissions. When you transition to becoming a pixel artist and you started receiving demand for commissions Was it difficult for you to like start selling your artwork and to just manage that business side of things? you

Pixeladdy: 17:50

Oh, not really. I mean, when I started, it wasn't like, the commission requests were rolling in. it was just, yeah, I had like, probably two, three hundred followers, and it really only started, so I would post my art on my story just for fun, like the things that I would do, and then, Shout out to boss trainer Joe. he was a an OG guy that I was friends with just from card collecting. And he actually saw my art on my store and he was like, yo, this is sick. Can you make me a profile picture? And I think he paid me like 15 bucks. He's like, I'll give you 15 bucks. Just make me a profile picture. And I did. And then. It just felt like that was like the spark in me. I realized like, wow, I just got paid for just making this guy an artwork after that I just kind of got the idea to post it on my story. Like if anyone else wanted to have a profile picture done by me, like a custom trainer, I would do it. early on I also did Fiverr, so I signed up on Fiverr, and I would, I was doing random, commissions on there. it wasn't that busy, so, yeah, in terms of your question of managing it, early on it wasn't really much to manage, I was only getting a few requests per month, so it wasn't, it wasn't too bad.

David Hernandez: 18:57

And then eventually you decide to do this full time I remember you posted about how you're freaking out a little bit because you know, it all comes down to who comes to who comes to you for request. How terrifying was it to you to switch over from what you were doing beforehand as work to using this pixel art as basically your full time job?

Pixeladdy: 19:16

so there's a large chunk of story that's like in between me starting and then actually me going full time. it got to a point where I was getting good in like a good amount of requests per month and I just came to the realization. That I hate my job. I was working a nine to five. I was doing sales. I was a sales manager. I liked managing cause you know, I had my team of people that I managed and you know, they all loved me. I loved them. They were, they were cool people, but I just didn't like the, the structure of, you know, having a boss. And then they were always, you know, They're always douches, so like, I'm not the type of person that like, can work with a boss well. I just like to have a bit of creative freedom, and clearly, in my line of work now, I have all the creative freedom. So, it got to a point where, yeah, I hated my job, and I said, you know what, I'm getting good enough, cause I still don't make great money. Like, I don't know what you guys consider great money, but for me, I don't think I make great money. I make okay money, and I get by. And I'm very grateful that I can do what I do and get and and you know pay my bills and whatnot. But yeah, it was mainly to do with me hating my job and I said look I have enough right now where I can still get by while doing instagram full time. So that's why I kind of quit my job and did what I did it definitely hasn't been easy. but I cannot complain whatsoever because I know, I know how it is to work a nine to five and work a regular job and, work long hours. And I get to make art for a living and still, you know, pay my bills. So I am very eternally grateful for this opportunity that I've been given. And so I'm trying to make the most of it.

David Hernandez: 20:47

lot of people. aspire to be like you, to be their own belt, their own boss, to sell their own art, you know, here you are, you're doing it. Like I said, you're not making like life changing money, you know, but you're making a stable living to where you can meet your needs. What advice would you give to somebody who's probably trying to get to where you're at?

Pixeladdy: 21:04

So. My advice would be this, because I would argue, honestly, I could have kept doing the art while also working my 9 5. So, I would say, as weird as this is for me to say, because I quit my job, I would say try to keep, like if you have a 9 5, try to keep your job for as long as possible. Because when you rely on art as your income, it kind of kills, some of the creativity in it. Because Now you're kind of relying on it to be your, bill payer, stuff like that. So you're kind of more stressed out about the fact that, Oh, I got to do X amount of commissions. you know, I got to get this amount of money for this month to meet my bills. Whereas if you have your stable income from whatever job you're doing, then this can be more as, you know, a passion and you'll feel more creative and you'll feel more free to do what you want. Whereas, when you're using it as like your full time job and that's your main money or revenue stream I feel like it does kind of limit your creativity and it can be stressful at times So my biggest advice would be Try to, keep any sort of nine to five or job that you're doing full time job that you're doing as much as possible or as long as possible before you feel like you want to transition and be your own boss is what I mean. I don't know if that's a good answer, but

David Hernandez: 22:16

No, that's very good. Yeah. Some people just try to take the leap of fate and just quit things right away. And, you know, they crash and burn. But I you had a good way to say that

Pixeladdy: 22:26

Yeah. That's another thing though. it's not for everyone. you know, it's always good to try things. So you can always try it full time. And then if it doesn't work, you can always go back to your job. Cause I'm sure if you have experience and you have things on your resume, you can always go back to that nine to five that you were working. Like, let's say theoretically me right now, I can always go back and get that same job that I was working. Even possibly the same company. Like I could probably reach out and, Because I have connections there, I could reach out and probably get that same exact job I had. So, this is more like the opportunity that was, it was kinda time, it depends on the type of person you are, because when you're your own boss, obviously you have to stay on top of yourself. That's the hard part. Because, you know, you wake up and you don't have set hours to work. You don't have a boss telling you, you need to do this, this, this, this, this, you don't have a list of responsibilities. You are just existing and you are your own boss and you have to, make sure that you pay your bills out months. So, figure out what type of person you are. And analyze yourself and be like, am I cut out to be, you know, my own boss? do I have the traits to be able to manage myself and, you know, keep myself accountable? If you feel like you don't, then I would recommend to just do it as like a side hobby. That's what I think.

David Hernandez: 23:36

One of the first things I remember seeing from your art was actually you recreated it. The scene with Mewtwo and Mew, and the whole scene, and you've also recreated other parts of the anime, how do you, like, decide which parts of the anime or what scenes to kind of recreate to show people?

Pixeladdy: 23:56

I honestly haven't done one of those in a while. I've been meaning to do one. I wanted to recreate the scene where, the girl plays the flute and then the pillars turn green. And then Moltres, Zapdos and Articuno are flying above. And then Lugia comes out of the water, you know, the scene it's at the the movie. So I wanted to recreate that one next. But I really just went for scenes that were iconic to me. I kind of just would choose iconic scenes from the anime because anything I feel nostalgic towards, I feel like other people would too, because we probably all have the same experiences as kids. So you know, the clone fight, scene is just iconic. Like everyone loves that. Even the, soundtrack to that, you know, is just iconic. So I just thought It would pull on everyone's heartstrings and I guess it did because it did pretty well. So, yeah, that was one of my favorite scenes of all time. So that's why I chose to do that.

David Hernandez: 24:43

Do you have a particular scene that you enjoyed or one that you enjoyed making?

Pixeladdy: 24:47

every single scene I make is kind of different. I do enjoy, a lot of them. I really enjoyed the Squirtle Squad. That was like one of the earliest ones I did as well. I also liked the, Episode 1, which, like the Spiros. Ash getting attacked by the Spiros, that was also fun. Yeah, I like them all, even like the Bulbasaur Garden one, where, Venusaur's on the stump. I like the colors of the flowers and stuff like that, so. Yeah, I'd say I enjoyed making them all pretty much like the same. They're all, they're all, they were all fun and unique to make, so.

David Hernandez: 25:18

we can't forget the Charmander covering its, uh, its tail with the leaf though. That's always one of the saddest scenes uh, see Pokemon for me.

Pixeladdy: 25:27

yeah, yeah, that was actually funny enough. That was, I would say my first viral post. So that actually was what kickstarted my following. Cause up until then I had like. Not that many followers and I wasn't getting that much engagement But then I posted that one and that one really like kind of blew up And after that it kind of snowballed my whole like following so that one's always iconic and like kind of close to me because it was like My starting point my first viral post it was it felt good

David Hernandez: 25:53

Well, very cool Pixel Addy. Thank you for coming on as the Pokeball turns. Before you go, people want to check out the artwork we've been talking about here. If they want to connect with you, if they want to request a commission, Where can they go? By all means, please plug away

Pixeladdy: 26:07

Well, I mean I want to thank you first for having me and in terms of plugging myself my username on all platforms is Pixel Addy. a lot of people think it's Pixel Lady. It's, it's not, my name is Addy. and I do pixel art. So it's a pixel and then A D D Y. So Pixel Addy on, you know, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, reach out on any of those platforms, threads. I'm always open to hearing people out for their artworks and stuff like that. So.