The Pixel Tutorial

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The Pixel Tutorial

Creating pixel art is a skill I picked up because I needed graphics for my games. After a lot of practice, I became rather handy with it, and started to see it more as "real" art rather than just a tool. These days, pixel art is quite popular for gaming and illustration. You can even find it in print magazines, like Wired and Electronic Gaming Monthly!

This pixel tutorial was created many years ago to teach people the basic concepts behind pixel art, but I've streamlined it a lot since its first incarnation. There are other pixel tutorials around, but I find them to be overly complicated and too wordy. Pixel art is not a science. You will never have to calculate a vector when doing pixel art.

In this 10-step tutorial, I'll teach you how to create a "sprite", which is a stand-alone two-dimensional character or object. The term comes from video games, of course.

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Nice man... You should put up your pixel work on dA. You're sure to get a Daily Dev :) (Unless you just copy+pasted that image from the site you provided :P)
 
@dd the image and the tutorial belong the guy who wrote the tutorial, wish i knew more about pixels ;)

I was just previewing the finished image, all credits go to the author derek yu and his wonderfully concise and neat tutorial :)
 
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