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What is Pixel Art?

Artists who work with this style give various definitions, but the essence of them is that pixel art is a type of digital art created on the computer using raster image editing software where pictures are edited on a pixel level. Since this is a rather broad definition encompassing lots of graphical images, it can be extended with the limitation on the number of colors, the size of the picture and its expression. These limitations arouse because pixel art was initially used for drawing pictures for computer games, which must be colorful and efficient without requiring too much computer resources.

Currently, pixel art is actively used in games and applications for mobile phones and other portable devices, often used for internet websites and continues to attract attention. Drawing of high quality pixel graphics is quite difficult and not everyone who can draw, can do it professionally.

There are two trends exist in pixel art: isometry and non-isometry. Isometry is like drawing in 3d but without any actual 3d-processing – such graphics is drawn under a specific angle in a specific projection. This graphics is widely used in games. Non-isometry is, well, everything else.

An activity that has become very popular recently is drawing of dollz. Imho, it’s a separate trend in pixel art, on level with isometry. Many people start to draw with dollz and then develop interest and skills to draw other kind of pictures. A doll is drawn using a base, which can be made by yourself or other person (in this case, a link to the author website is considered good tone). So, the base contains face and body without hair and dress. Everything other must be drawn and the more accurately, beautiful and original it is done, the better.

People who draw dollz are sometimes called dollers. I’d like to add also that this hobby shouldn’t be treated with disdain because this type of art requires skill and imagination. If you like such graphics, you can try to draw it yourself. Everybody is able to learn to draw this way.

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