More Fun With Pixel Art

Pixel art was an art form that I never really new much about. Until earlier this week when I made a post about pixel art in which I showed you my first effort at drawing in the new style. Well as the week has gone on I have progressively added more and more to my drawing, which you can see above. Since I am having so much fun with this project I thought it would only be appropriate to show you some of the great uses of pixel art in the past and present.

The first of which I bring you is from Eboy. Eboy is the most popular maybe even most well versed group of people that design in pixel art and their blog and designs are simply amazing and I suggest checking it out. After looking through their awesome designs which their are tons of and browsing their site I found this awesome little ditty, which is not little and comes in poster form click to see the full version. It is a complete internet city if you look close enough you are likely to find every hot site on the net in this image. A concept that is outstanding and developed better than I could even imagine.

If you like social networking and I know that you do I would check out citypixel.com. City Pixel is an all new social networking site that has turn pixel art into an amazing form of social networking. You can live in Pixel York find yourself a job, watch videos, advertise all in pixel format. One of the cool features of citypixel is that you can advertise on the building of Pixel York. citypixel is really taking pixel art and social networking to the next level. I will most likely be signing up for this as I think it could be really fun. If you sign up make sure you let me know and we can hang out in pixel york.

Pixel Art is partly based from the art form used in creating video games back in the day. However that doesn’t slow designers such as insert name here form creating new games using pixel arts. If you click this picture it will take you to insert name heres site where you will find many examples of pixel art including 5 different games all design in the pixel art style. Be careful when browsing the site at work though you may find an image or two on the site that are not safe for work. Even pixel penis shouldn’t be seen in the work place.

Well that is it for now, I have run out of great uses of pixel art for the time being.  I am going to keep looking around so look for this post to be updated periodically.  If you know of any great pieces of pixel art please link me to them.

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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.

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