So its been a week since I last posted a content here on Steemit due to the lack of ideas and because of my busy schedule recently but "TADAAAAA~". So I'm back here with my very first art themed post and my entry/submission for 
Anyway, I have decided to join the contest because since my buddy 
The contest for this week is about COWS, yes, cows!!! Based on
As I've been making some parallax backgrounds for a client a day before, I immediately thought of this idea, a lonely cow walking endlessly... Making the art and animating it wasn't that hard when compared to what I have previously thought about making pixel arts. I always thought that pixel arts are very challenging to make but I was wrong. To be honest, I especially enjoyed making the background and animating. Tracing some guide photos are very relaxing.
The Process
Before starting out the process of tracing and placing every pixels in Photoshop, I firstly googled some guide photos that I will be using for my subject(which is the cow) and the background. Here are the two photos that I used as guides for this art.
I started the process by setting up the right dimensions, we should always remember that a smaller image size means less details while a larger one gives more. On my case, I wanted to make a moderate detailed background so I set mine at around 300x800 pixels initially and because I wanted my background to be parallax so it needed to be wider to get the effect that I wanted.
I firstly traced the outline of the cow with the pencil tool and filling it with the paint bucket tool and modify it along the way. I then animated it by repositioning the legs.
I then traced the background, whats important here is to do this step layer by layer, for example, making the ground on a layer, then the trees on another, then the mountains and another layer for the clouds. Here is a gif of the process for an easier understanding.
I then placed these 2 on top of one another and cropping the image size to 300x500, letting my background to be wider than the final image dimensions so that I can animate it and make it look that its moving as well. I did this by nodging the layers to the left for each frame, having the closest assets moving more rapidly than those farthest to emulate it as we see it in real life. Easy right? :)
If you enjoyed reading/viewing this don't forget to upvote👍, follow 👀 