Pixel Art - More to it than meets the eye

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Pixel Art - More to it than meets the eye
02.06.06 (12:03 pm)   [edit]
Im not sure how many of you out there are familiar with pixel art, but if you've ever played a game in your life you will no doubt have seen it. For those who aren't exactly sure what pixel art is, it is art created on the computer through the use of raster graphics software that allows images to be edited on the pixel level. Graphics in most old computer games or even
in Game Boy games are considered pixel art. No doubt if you've ever used software such as Adobe Photoshop you'll have some understanding.

Its not exactly something thats easy to get into and is quite difficult for a beginner to pick up and learn, but with time and practice you can pull off some really cool looking graphics for use in practically anything you want. Pixel art has widely become adopted by community based 'meeting' sites such as online hotel (or something like that) were characters and backgrounds are all pixelated.

If you were interested in getting into this difficult craft, then look no further than Derek Yu's excellent tutorial site on pixel art. Still don't really know whats its all about, just google 'pixel art' and see what you find.
 

posted by: True (reply)
post date: 02.05.06 (4:06 pm)

Nice blog, will be back to check you out more.


posted by: justinb (reply)
post date: 02.05.06 (4:11 pm)

:) thanks true.


posted by: PastorDave (reply)
post date: 02.05.06 (5:40 pm)

When you say "difficult craft" you lose me! Sorry. I'm in the process of trying to learn Spanish, a difficult craft for me.


posted by: CherryBlossmGrl (reply)
post date: 02.05.06 (11:06 pm)

I did a very minute piece of pixel art a long time ago. It entailed me making little pixel outfits of Team Rocket and some Gaia Online avatars ... here ya go, lol ... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/redmercury685/teamrocket.gif I only did the outfits, not the whole avatar .. hehe.


posted by: justinb (reply)
post date: 02.06.06 (12:16 am)

those look really awsome cherry. You did a really great job on them. I might start working on something and If its any good, ill post it on here in a future post. once again great job. They look really cool.


posted by: CherryBlossmGrl (reply)
post date: 02.06.06 (11:22 am)

Well thanks! You should try it, it's actually really fun to see how "realistic" you can make something using just pixels. Check out deviantart.com for some, they have some really talented artists on there. :)

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