Designing With Isometric Pixel Art
As a graphic designer I am always pushing myself to design in new styles. So for my newest project, a web design for a top quality web host, I wanted to do just that. I decided that in order to make the site for my (themecannon.com’s) client to stand out I was going to make a banner in isometric pixel art.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with what isometric pixel art is well then look at the image above this post to see the little bit of my first effort at designing in it. But to better understand and learn how to draw in this style you really need to check out The Complete Guide To Isometric Pixel Art.
According to the complete guide to isometric pixel art (the site that is teaching me how to draw). Isometric Pixel art is…
“Isometric Pixel Art (IPA) is a modern form of digital art that only recently has been accepted as a new art form. I’m sure most of us have seen this typical type of artwork in old games such as ‘X-Com’ or the relatively old ‘Ultima Online’. The 2-Dimentional (2D) representation of a 3-Dimentional (3D) object is fascinating to many people. This is possibly because of the simplicity and amount of small details that can fit into a single IPA piece. It doesn’t need that much brain power to figure out, yet it is pleasing to the eye. IPA can be compared to cartoons in many ways, as people like to look (watch) and accept the 2D art form as it is very simplistic and easy to follow. The main purpose of any art work is that it draws your attention. In many ways IPA is set out to achieve this, that is, to represent something that looks like it could come from the real world, yet you know it’s just a computer generated image (CGI).
Each separate IPA image is always going too made up of single computer generated blocks, known as pixels. Each pixel is the same size as any other pixel, but it can be any colour you can think of and it can fit together with other pixels, any way you can think of. You can think of a pixel-based image as you can a mosaic in real life that is made up of tiles to form an overall picture. To see an example of a single pixel take a look at this letter ‘i’, the single pixel is the small dot you see above the long vertical line. In fact the whole letter is made up of single pixels that have been joined together to appear as one long stoke or line. The pixel will be explained further along in this reading when we look into tools used to create IPA.”
So sharpen up those graphic design skills of yours and check out their tutorials. Pixel art is a fun and exciting way to create new design works in an exciting style. Give it a try and link me to your pixel art projects.
If you are awesome subscribe to my rss feed. If you like emails subscribe via email. Remember only you can prevent forest fires help me achieve my goal of 100 subscribers by June.
Jason on April 1st, 2008
Great post as always Adam I love the pixel work I’d never have the patience for that. I’d subscribe but I already have
Jason’s last blog post..Al Gore is putting his money where his mouth is.