While no longer a necessary approach, forcing yourself to create in the boundaries of an old technology or set of techniques can help you as anīelow are some examples of my exploration with pixel art.

Computer graphics and digital art as we know them today have a root, and that is pixel art.īack in the day, there wasn’t a ‘Pixel Art’ style because every art made on a computer needed to be pixel-by-pixel artwork.Īs computers evolved, the capability to render images became more advanced, enabling digital artists to create without the limitations of old hardware.Ĭreating art with these limitations in mind is the core of pixel art as an art form.