Pixel Art

Pixel is a form of Digital Art created with small squares on a grided page or represented as simple cubes in real life art. The images are edited to pixel level which is when they are minimized and drawn individualy with 1x1 squares. Pixel Art is known as a modern form of art and has been for the last 10 - 15 years is used in a wide range of media such as videos, video games, electronic toys, old phones and computers, we had to explore different types of Pixel Art by different artists such as Invader who created a stunning portait of a mans face, with just Rubix cubes!!!

                               

His use of basic colours to create such a detailed picture are just mind blowing, the bright reds and bold blues exaggerate the facial features in his face which really make it stand out. Invader likes to use bold colours to catch his audiences attention, pushing it right in their face.

Mario from "Super Mario Brothers"

In uses a well known retro game character in his artwork called "Mario" and represents him almost exactly like he was in the old retro Snes games he used to be featured in.

We can see the similar use of bold between Invader's work and Mario's outfit. Another difference is there is no tonal shading which is common in most old retro games and game characters because everything back then was very 'simple', but Invader's used simple colours to make it appear shaded.






 Another type of Pixel Art is 8-Bit Art which just like pixel art it simplifys pictures into single pixel colours, this is mostly used in games and music, normally with game charaters.

Megaman

Zelda

    

Keyboard Cat

 

All pictures are from google images.