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#PixelArt Guide To Boost Your Pixel Art Skills Quickly

Pixel Art is probably the favourite of people who have played games in 20th century, but has now once again risen to gain massive popularity in this market were the ease of creating pixel art has made it popular amongst indie devs and even in the gaming community. We see it in modern games like Broforce, Hyper Light Drifter and even Spelunky(all of them are in my favourite list). For me, I am young but the first game I ever played was Mario 8-bit on a TV console. I loved it, good game and all. And so I kinda love pixel art, I tend to like pixel art for various reasons the biggest being the fact of limitations. I love to trick and be tricked, which is what we do in pixel art. Before I start on with the tips and tricks let just increase your understanding of pixel art a little. Pixel art is any art based on pixels so all art should be pixel art! Well no. it is actually a form of art in which we use lesser number of pixels than generic art, like 25x times less, and we try and crea...

#PixelArt Programs For #PixelDev FREE!!!

Free Pixel Art Programs Pixel art is a form of art which was popular in old days and has now once again risen to claim it's throne in the most popular art styles, with time even pixel art has evolved and is now more versatile with practically unlimited colour palettes and much more. So has our needs to do pixel art, now-a-days there are loads of awesome pixel art tools which are specifically designed for this purpose. So let's have a view over some of the most popular and powerful ones that I use or have used for pixel art creation.  Here's a list of 4 such awesome application that you can freely use. Asesprite An awesome and powerful pixel art program. It has an awesome community and a hard working team of developers. It's a free and open-source product, but it's binaries/builds are paid but relatively cheap, but if you want to use it for free just do a build of your own. It's simple enough if you have Visual Studio else you may have to dig deep. ...