Hi. My name is Dean, I'll be 30 soon (yikes!) and I've been developing retro freeware games over a decade now, primarily as a hobby.

This is some of the "pixel art" I produced over the years.







I was mainly running in place regarding the quality of my pixel art because I never took an analytic approach to it and and mainly winged with it.

I finally made up my mind to seriously work on my pixel art skills from now on, because game design is my passion and I want to be able to develop my ideas without depending on other people, which also I can't nor want to pay as I create freeware stuff.

Hoping that I will be able to improve considerably in 3-4 years and maybe release some decent games in the meantime.

Thanks for having me!

Edited by LachieD - 25 June 2012 at 10:51am

Hello fellow pixel artists. I am a amature pixel artist that lurks on the internet finding random "jobs" on the way. (aka: making art for unfinished games).

here is some examples of my work.






Edited by Blarget2 - 07 July 2012 at 7:10pm

Let myself introduce... myself.  My name is Ashbad; I'm 16, an ameteur pixel artist, and a (big time) brony.  I started doing pixel art seriously (as in, not 8x8 monochrome tile sheets... :P) about 2 months ago, and I've been loving it.  I've been at the pixelation forums for those past 2 months, and finally came over here as well!  Here's some of the things I've made:

Well, hi. I'm James. I'm 16, and I'm a programmer. Sorta. I hope you guys are as harsh critics as I've heard, cause if I'm gonna learn pixel art, I need to learn how to do it right. So then I can be a talented asshole, just like (most) of you guys. Er, no offense. Well, I bought this Wacom Bamboo and I've gonna plague this forum until I master this sh*t. Yeah! So when I post things in the WIP section, I want you guys to go full Simon Cowell. Don't apologize either. Even as I silently sob on my keyboard and kick my desktop tower (kidding?). Thanks!

Hey bros and broettes, Nick here. I'm a 20 year old half-decent pixel-arter from Canada. I'm most comfortable using a mouse and Gimp, despite having a Bamboo Capture and PS. Lurked here for a bit, hope to speak up more often.

Hey there, doubt anybody will read this but I always post in the introduction topics first.

I'm not very good at pixel art, but this seems like a good place to get started.  Already started browsing through these galleries and everything looks so great. Hope to join you someday.

Oh and, here's the project I'm involved with, that let me stumble upon your forum here: http://creativegametheory.com/


Edited by Cornwallace - 08 August 2012 at 9:57am

Hello! Please call me Captain (well it doesn't really matter.) I'm still fairly new to pixels, but it's really fun so I'm already hooked.

Anyway, I'm really looking forward to improving and making pixel-loving friends.

Hello ! My name is Shahnawaz. Soon going to be 30.I am a web/iOS programmer and I am taking up pixel art as a hobby, and semi-professionally in a sense that I am going to make my own pixel art in an iPhone game I am making. And then one fateful day I stumbled upon this wonderful community. Looking forward to giving and receiving feedbacks and exchanging tips here!

Hey there oldies and fellow noobs. How's it going? I'm Mason, aka Puck on the internet because irl identities are boring and overrated. I'm a 19 year old dude who likes to pixel a bit in my spare time. I've been doing it since I was at least 13 and think I have gotten a bit better at it since. I'm a gamer and attempting to be an indie game artist.

I've been into pixel art since I was a small child, growing up on NES games and the like. I also (ATTEMPT BEING THE KEY WORD HERE) make retro/chiptune music in my spare time as well. I'm a geek for coffee, creativity, cute shiny rainbowy things, cartoony animal furry things and music. I'd say I am a fan of (insert genre here) but I like to be varied so I won't. This is indeed my first post here and I hope to stay a while and get to know you all as well.

Hiya! I'm Triscy, an 18-year-old High School senior who came here mostly for the goal of trying to find a sprite artist or two for a game project. But while I'm here I might as well enjoy the community and the awesome art.

:D

Um, hi!
I'm Madame Berry. I'm currently studying game design, and am the character artist on a retro beat-em-up game being developed by a group of friends.
I want to do everything I can to improve.

It's nice to meet you all!

Hi, everybody! I am a beginning artist from Russia. I like to draw pictures and to program, now I study C#. Learned while a little :)

Hello, I'm Hernan. I make games and stuff. I usually use pixelart for that.

When it comes to doing pixelart, I think I'm "decent" at it. I'm particularly bad at picking my palettes. I've been lurking this place for a long time, I joined so maybe I can get some tips/practice more/do challenges and sh*t.
See you around.

welcome alex hernan and george ;)

Hello, neat individuals! Obviously I'm new here. My name is Sam (username is Sajextryus but Sajex is more than fine) and I'm 17 years old.

I started working on pixel art just a few months ago (around June) and have been trying to get back into art and such since this February (before that, I hadn't drawn or done much of anything for years other than photography and making some Photoshop designs every now and then), mainly since I felt I should branch out in new ways to try expressing myself since I was sure there was more I could do than what I was. A little while after I started trying to teach myself to draw by practicing every day in a sketchbook, I decided to try taking on pixel art after seeing some pixel art styled videogames and found myself appreciating the artwork of such games for it's polished, minimal yet descriptive designs. I haven't really looked up any tips for making pixel art (or just art in general), so so far it's just been adventure of experimenting until I get something that looks right and feels right.

I've been planning and starting work on trying to make a game (currently just something small to test out some design concepts I have in mind and see how people like them). I've never really studied coding very much (not enough to remember how to make something working from scratch), but I have saved a C# programming book about making games and other kinds of software for people with little experience from about 2 years ago and I've started trying to teach myself. That should be interesting.

I've joined this forum as I've seen quite a lot of very well designed pieces of pixel artwork coming from the users of this website, some of which I must say is inspiring! I still feel like I need to practice more and that my pixel artwork could be much better, so joining this forum can probably help me get some tips on developing such artwork and ways in which I could make things look better or more proper.

Sorry if the intro was a bit long, but I like being thorough I guess!

Here's a couple of things I made that I feel look good enough to present:




Edited by Sajextryus - 06 November 2012 at 10:28pm

Welcome aboard Tiffany!

Hey people !

Just starting out as a pixel -doodler, read some of the great posts on the forum to get me started.

I got myself GrafX2 because I love GNU and the old school look of that software is awesome!

I'm learning JavaScript. Right now I am working on two things. A multiplayer Server, and a text editor.

Hello, I'm new to the world of pixel art and learning through the resources here. Looking forward to do some pieces and share it with you all.

Hello I just signed up today.

I do a bit of digital illustration / graphics production / cartooning in various different styles. I also do some 2D animation. I've done a little bit of pixel art but I want to get into it more because I want to get into graphics production for mobile games in a big way.

I have ambitions of making my own game, in collaboration with other people (ill need to team up with some programers no doubt). I'd love to make something like ifighter or Super Laser (both mobile games by a team called EpicForce).

I have started doing a couple of jobs online, making graphics for mobile games, mostly working in Flash and Illustrator, but I feel like this kind of vector artwork lacks the beauty of old-school arcade style game art.

I need to learn about the different kinds of artwork for mobile games and how to make it: vector versus pixel sprites - how to best combine the two to allow easy resizing for different platforms, while retaining a nice 2D sprite appearance. Also I want to learn about background creation as well as character / obstacle creation.

So that's basically why I am here.

Ill post a pic of the only real pixel art I have created so far.

Animated gif:


Various assets


Edited by psi-punk - 12 January 2013 at 3:37pm

Hi everybody. My name is Michail (or just Misha, or in english Mick), from Russia, 28 years old. Hope you will exuse my english. I am a big fan of 8-16 bit video games consoles (nes, gb, snes, genesis), so the pixel art is very interesting for me.
Friend Iceberg posted some his works (very good works) on one forum, I saw them, I have an interest, and I am here. I have done some not well works already, but I will trying to make it better.
Pixel art for me now - just my third or second hobby, but I try to give serious for it. My first hobby is music, I play guitar and bass and trying to write some tunes.

Hello. I'm 25 and have been dabbling in pixel art a little bit. My work hasn't ever been top quality, but I hope to improve any way I can.

Hello everyone, I'm wrangler249, but you can call me Mitch ;)

I studied Computer Games Design & Production at university, and have been trying to break into the industry ever since I graduated (no easy task, let me tell you...).

I've posted up some of my work here on Pixel Joint:

NullSleep
Quine title screen mock-up

And if you're interested, you can see my portfolio here

Hi, nice to meet everyone! My name is Rose and I'm a 2D artist in the game industry. I work in a variety of styles and media, but I only dabbled a bit in pixel art. Decided to finally join (been lurking for a while) so I can learn and get inspired.

Here's my portfolio in case anyone was curious.

Look forward to being a part of this community!

Good day fellow artists!

As I am using your forum for searching for an artist I thought I might wanna just introduce myself, even if I am not a pixel artist at all :)

I am a long time sprite & pixelart lover from europe, been into playing video games for 15+ years and now onto developing my first own game! I did my Bachelor in informatics and sadly I am not talented at all in doing art stuff myself. I even need a PC for drawing a constant line from a to b because my hands are not steady enough for doing it with a pencil :D

So..I did a little research of places to find awesome artists and found out that this might be the best place on the internet to do that...

Have a nice weekend!
Daranus

Hi,

Brand new to the forum. Hope to have cool stuff to post soon. Please check my tumblr in the meantime.

http://justinpaulcyr.tumblr.com/

Cheers!