Hi, I'm Shadowdrake from Texas, USA. I, uh, I'm generally a lurker but I love all kinds of art, so I'll probably post more art than actual posts.

Hi everyone! I am Sinuo (21/USA). I have just discovered pixel art and am interested in making fantasy landscapes, but right now I am am an absolute beginner to art in general.

GraphicsGale is my software of choice and I am using it alongside a free application called Palette F**k.

If there are any other beginners age 20+ then feel free to hit me up if you want to share tutorials / knowledge(or lack-thereof).

Edited by Sinuo - 02 March 2014 at 7:17pm

Hello mirkats! Here is a tutorial called "THE Famous Cube Tutorial". It teaches basic lines and shading fairly well. The tutorial also uses MS Paint, but feel free to use whatever software you like best.

Also note that each side of the cube has a slightly different shade of blue to give it a lighting effect. This makes it look more 3D.

Also feel free to head on over to pixeljoints tutorial section which is here. While the on-site tutorials are great, don't afraid to scroll past the first seven and look at some of the off-site tutorials as well.

Edited by Sinuo - 02 March 2014 at 8:41pm

Hello folks!

I am a recent graduate in Japanese & Painting, live in New Zealand, and hope to get into making games in a professional capacity.

I grew up on the amiga, megadrive and arcades (RIP), so my admiration of pixel art goes back a long way. I've been doing pixel art as a hobby since I was a teenager, but haven't touched it for the last four years or so.

Right now I'm scrubbing off all the rust and trying to get my drawing confidence back and then, if all goes well, get involved in some work!

Pleased to meet y'all.


Edited by blaster - 14 March 2014 at 10:08pm

Hello everyone :)

My name is Siegfried Croes, 23 years old and from Belgium. I had an account on this site a long time ago but never really posted much cause I was busy with other stuff.

I've studied Digital Arts and Entertainment where I learned to make 2D and 3D graphics, programming in C++ and a bunch of other things like animating, storyboarding, video editing,...

At the moment I'm working as a Multimedia Designer in a company that makes E-learnings and educational games/applications. I do programming (Flash, Unity C#), 2D/3D graphics, animations and web design.

In my free time I (try to) make my own games using Unity :D I've tried doing 3D a few times but it is too much work, especially if you are doing both art and code yourself ;)

A while ago Unity introduced native 2D tools and I started making a 2D game. I've always loved pixel art a lot, I remember back when I was like around 10 I loved doing pixel drawings in MSPaint :P

I've mostly been doing code for the game but since this week I switched to artist mode and started reworking my character sprite. I remembered this site and decided to come back so I can get feedback on my work and to be inspired by others.

I wish you all a nice day :)

Hey PixelJoint,
My name is Christian, also known as 'Adoa' from my graffiti writing days. Im based out of the San Fernando Valley here in Los Angeles, CA. Before i broke my ankle i was heavy into cycling all over LA both Fixed Gear and Road. Literally just found pixel art and was like holy cow the amount of time going into things is a huge! I've already started compiling as many tuts i can find about pixel art. Hoping on designing a card game with pixel art in the near future since it'd be cool to see what i made become reality. Any tips on how i should start learning to pixel push? Very much appreciated, thanks!

Well hello pixel joint. The name is Ran.

I'm probably gonna lurk around here looking for pixel inspiration, and probably disappear when things get busy.

Been a hobbyist spriter since as long as I can remember. But yeah, hello.

Welcome! No one is ever too young for PJ ;)
(WOOOOOOOO, CANADA!)

Welcome everyone :)

Hello I am Richard From Missouri, I Have been wanting to learn how to do pixel art and sprite design so I can make my own games

Hello guys !

First of all, my sincere apologies for my english, I'm french and therefore not a native speaker.²

I've been lurking here for a while now and I think it is finally time to register.
So, I'm RavaTroll - obviously - and I've heard that I'm kind of a pixel artist. I mostly was a well known "artist" on the flash game Everybody Edits ( my profile : http://everybodyedits.com/profiles/?/ravatroll ).
To sum up this game : It's just a regular platformer where players can create ( and share ) their own levels by placing different blocks and various hazard/gravitychanging/special blocks. Each block has a minimap color so you can draw pixel art on the minimap.

Here's a small showcase of my previous works ( Big pictures only shown as links ) :

A banner for a french forum :

Some unfishinished artwork with my own tilesets for an unfinished game, meant to be an EE clone with slopes and more features. Sadly, our developper had no time to work on it so we never had the chance to finish this game. This was supposed to be the "final look of the game" :

Actual screenshots from the alpha ( bigger pic ) :

http://i.imgur.com/DcEi8pj.png

( Character art and the orange and brown sci-fi texture with high contrast weren't mine, but from two friends. )

Monster design - 10 years ago VS now :

One of my Everybody Edits level with a "crew" : ( I was in charge of the "art", they were in charge of the ingame challenges ) :

( You can see it ingame here : http://everybodyedits.com/games/PWrAEJNqJja0I )

I'm currently working on a big tileset for fun, hoping I can share it ( and perhaps monetize it, who knows ? ) with indie devs.
Here's my last preview :

So anyway, I may release some preview of my tilesets here - without the "RavaTroll-Spam" thing on my previous picture ofc.

I guess I'll be seeing you on the forum and pixel-joint sooner or later, so : See you !

Hey everyone.

I'm a 20 something South African with a great fondness for pixelart.
Haven't attempted doing any myself until recently, though I'm having a blast learning from tutorials and online resources.

Great to meet all of you :)

Heyo all!
I'm Toby, or Wonkyth on the web. I'm a game development student in Sydney, Australia, and am typically somewhat graphically challenged.
I've recently been on a somewhat vague, meandering quest of skill-getting, which I have decided includes improving my pixel-pushing abilities from "humble" to "adequate". As practice is the surest road to improvement, I hope to at least doodle something every day, so with any luck you'll be seeing me 'round. :)

Hello All

My name is Paul and I run a game and app development company in Scotland called Pixel Sword.

Before starting my company I worked at Proper Games, Dynamo Games and Ninja Kiwi, in the sunny city of Dundee, Scotland. Currently I'm working on a project called Pixel Raiders and I'm hoping to get my pixel art for this game critiqued.

Thanks

Hi, I'm jtf. I like designing pixel characters but i'm looking to branch out into other types of designs.

Welcome all!

Hello everyone. I'm a 24 year old from Canada. I originally did pixel art as a hobby and used to make Furcadia mods and enter their contests(since I was 14)I've been gradually learning how to become a game dev while doing pixel art for studios on the side. The art on this site is amazing btw, I'm completely jelly of the talent.

Hello everyone, Привет)

My name is Alexei (Алексей), a 24-year old programmer who's trying to get better at spriting. I have a game in development built on the mugen engine that I frequently find myself needing custom sprites for. Now, I'm no artist either. My background is in web development mostly, but I know the mugen engine and many other programming languages well. I hope to learn some new things here and plan to post my sprite progress.

Thanks for reading. :)

Привет! (Hi!)

I'm Evgeny, a 17 years old computer enthusiast. :)
I like pixel art, however, draw pretty bad, and I like developing websites (markup, front-end and back-end). I think this forum and PixelJoint itself is very good place to begin with. ;)

Yo I'm Mike, 20 year old digital artist from Woodridge Illinois. I've been dabbling in pixel art for about 6 years. If I'm not sketching I'm probably spriting or gaming. I'm also making games in rpg maker which I draw all my own graphics for.

I think this is a really cool community you guys have here and I'm looking forward to submitting and viewing pixel art.   

Edited by M-GOD - 03 October 2014 at 9:38am

Welcome all new PJers.
Make use of the site.
Ask questions.
Post WIPs
Check out the FAQ link in my sig.
Review the first 3 posts in the other link on my sig.

Yo! I'm new to the whole "Pixel art" thing, and I wanted to join PJ so I can learn more about it.

Looking forward to improving myself and meeting new people!

Hey, I'm Mike.
I'm a game developer learning pixel art, and thought this would be a great place to learn from.
I've actually lurked around here for a while, and I've used a few of the spritesheets for my little personal games I've made. I've been drawing cartoon and comic book art for a long time (pencil & paper. Not digital), but pixel art is a little tricky to me, as well as using the computer to draw. Hopefully, I'll learn a lot from this site, and I'll be able to make my own grand pixel art for my games and not have to hire some Joe to do it for me. :)

Hello everyone, I'm Donnolus from Puerto Rico, excuse my odd writting pattern, I mainly speak Spanish. I love games and study Game Design, I hope to be able to live off of what I love one day.

I am new to the pixel art scene and have lurked the forums for a while, not really involving myself with any activities as it all seemed very intimidating at the moment but I figured, "what the heck I can't learn if I don't get involved, let's give this a shot." and so here I am. I hope to share and learn with you folks.

Some of my favorite games (related to pixel art) include: TLOZ: AlttP, Minish Cap, Chrono Trigger, Starbound, Castlevania:SoTN, Super Metroid, Fusion, Zero Mission, Pixel Dungeon... Well I hope you get the jist of it. >->;