ABOUT Pixel Art

Painting the world one pixel at a time.

The world of pixels.

From 8-bit to huge and detailed portraits, we're here to admire pixels together. We're pixel artists, admirers, and critics. But together we're coloring the world, one pixel at a time.

Related content

Steam guides
• Best Pixel Art Backgrounds
• Pixel Art Badges
• Pixel Art Badges v.2

Pixel Grimoire
• Pixel Grimoire - Articles on pixel art and game development (Collection)[medium.com]
• Start: How to start making pixel art #1 by Pedro Medeiros[medium.com]

Media
• Pixel Art Tutorial Dump[imgur.com] by Saint11
• My secret way of improving fast (Pixelart Tutorial for beginners) by MortMort
• Animating Pixel Art in Photoshop by Ryan Boyle

Other
• Reddit - /r/PixelArt
• Adobe - Explore how to make pixel art.[www.adobe.com]

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RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

We've hit 500 members!

19 July, 2023 - dom | 2 Comments

I'm excited to announce we've hit 500 members! I want to give you all a warm welcome to the group, I'm so happy to see how many pixel art enthusiasts here are. It warms my heart knowing we all are one pixel of the bigger picture, and united - together - we make the world a brighter place.

Seeing Waneella[waneella.tumblr.com]'s amazing pixel art on display during the Steam summer sale made me so happy, and as I had a few minutes of spare time, I decided to update our group description a little bit with more guides! Unfortunately, I also had to remove some guides which were outdated or removed from the internet; but these new guides should cover all the removed guides.

I also want to address that I've been made aware that the guides, "Best pixel art backgrounds" and "Best pixel art badges", are quite outdated and I apologize for that. I have not abandoned these guides, but due to my life situation I am not able to update these guides at the very moment. Rest assured, I promise I will update them some day when my life gets easier.

New resources!

Pixel Grimoire
• Pixel Grimoire - Articles on pixel art and game development (Landing page)[medium.com]
• How to start making pixel art #1 by Pedro Medeiros[medium.com]
• How to start making pixel art #2 by Pedro Medeiros[medium.com]
• How to start making pixel art #3 by Pedro Medeiros[medium.com]
• How to start making pixel art #4 by Pedro Medeiros[medium.com]
• How to start making pixel art #5 by Pedro Medeiros[medium.com]
• How to start making pixel art #6 by Pedro Medeiros[medium.com]
• How to start making pixel art #7 by Pedro Medeiros[medium.com]

Adobe
• Explore how to make pixel art.[www.adobe.com]

And as always, stay safe and have a lovely summer! Remember to stay hydrated and relax!

Best of wishes,
Dom

Resources

6 January, 2018 - dom | 0 Comments

First of all, I'd like to thank everyone for a great year that was 2017, and wish you all a wonderful, creative year that will be 2018!

The year has finally started to settle in and for most people this means going back to work. I've collected a few resources available for pixel artists that I've also included on the front page of the group; these resources are there for you to draw inspiration from and to make pixel art easier to learn. You'll also find the resources in the bottom of this post!

The Pixel Art Steam guides have been updated aswell! Since the winter sale, I've had the opportunity to add many new Pixel Art badges and backgrounds into them. I hope these guides can help you in your creative endeavors.

- Stay creative,
Janni

Text and media
• The official Pixel Art is a great place to check out new artworks, and draw inspiration to new works.

• This Pixeljoint forum post[pixeljoint.com] is a great one for the basics.

• The Pixel Art Tutorial Dump[imgur.com] by Saint11 - I highly recommend following him on Twitter or Patreon[www.patreon.com] where he every other week posts new Pixel Art Guides!

Updated guides
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=844946240
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1193363578

Non-updated, original guide
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1161006975

Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbCw-_iRdc8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeWgsAm2UYo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMLyubeYCwM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxcF4o3AvUk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcD5AljC8x4