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The Great Wave off Kanagawa Pixel Art: The crest, boats and distant Mount Fuji
Preserve the large curling wave as one continuous outline. Leave light space under the crest and keep the distant mountain much smaller than the foreground wave.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa: composition and detail studies
Six locally processed studies of one public-domain source: full compositions, detail crops, a reduced-color treatment and one whole-image floating GIF. These are not six different original paintings.
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The Great Wave off Kanagawa pixel art questions
Which details should survive the reduction?
Keep the hooked crest, white foam and small triangular Mount Fuji. The boats can become a few thin lines; their direction matters more than individual people or planks.
Are these original pixel artworks by Katsushika Hokusai?
No. They are locally made pixelated adaptations of a linked digital reproduction of the original painting. The source and transformation notes identify what was used.
What moves in the GIF?
The whole pixelated image shifts gently in a short loop. The figures and painted elements are not independently animated.
Create your own The Great Wave off Kanagawa study
Use deep blue for the main water mass and a few ivory clusters for foam. Simplify the boats to long narrow marks that follow the water.