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I have a belief that anyone trying to create anything will inadvertently create self portraits of themselves over and over again without even realising.<\/p>\n

I have started working on some pixel art for a new project and was very proud of some alterations I made on my ‘Ding sprite’ from Ego to make him a low level dungeon-crawling adventurer.<\/p>\n

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I thought that looked pretty good, until my girlfriend noticed the following things:<\/p>\n

1) That’s probably closer to my actual hair colour anyway.<\/p>\n

2) I appear to be wearing that particular tee-shirt today.<\/p>\n

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Right down to the V-neck.<\/p>\n

Score one for extra confidence in a theory, lose one for falling back into artistic self-insertion habits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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