quick question...has anybody ever used their pixel art for things other than game development and the likes?

I use it to kill people on the streets.

Hi Sapphira,

When I joined PixelJoint I was looking for a place where
I could learn how to make sprites and objects for my game.
However I have found that working with pixels my oil and acrylics
paintings became better. I even painted a 'pixel' painting. But this
is nothing new.

There were painters that use 'pixels' to make paintings before (chuck close
for instance)
When you regard a pixel = point then there is even a painting style
dedicated to it: pointillism. A famous one is this

A pixel can also be seen as a little colored stone which has been used
ages and ages ago called mosaic

My avatar is a pixelled version of a painting I did.
Once I was pixelling a portrait of my niece to show her what
I did when I am drawing on my computer.
She wanted to have it as a picture in her room so we printed
my pixelled image 10x the size (to see the pixels enlarged) and
that paper was hanging in her room.

Pixel art is all around us.

Best regards from

M.E.

I used it to find my birth father.. ... turns out he was downstairs in the lounge.

Pixel art comes in handy in various situations. Like those huge LED signs that only have four colours and a resolution of 50×50.

@Aleiav: I'd suggest, if you are not company-compelled to work with PS, and you don't need to print in CMYK, any other graphic software is GOOD, as well as The GIMP.

Hmm, i wouldn't say Photoshop was that important to graphic design. But meh.

i do know some things about photoshop. just wanna know if it was possible to use pixel art for logos and banners other than retro 2D games (although that's not a bad thing).

Yes. The DS pretty much replaced the GBA. I mean, when was the last time you saw a new GBA game coming out?

my bad i forgot about DS thanx for clearing that up for me

I'd say graphic designers tend to use Illustrator