Last updated: February 28, 2025
Interesting in picking up pixel art? Here’s some resources I’ve found useful.
Some of these were already recommended in my previous blog post. For those of you who already read that post, there’s some new links in this post too.
Tutorials
Getting Started
- Pixel Art: Where to Start | Lospec
- The Pixel Art Tutorial | Pixel Joint
- The Ultimate Pixel Art Tutorial by Saultoons | Youtube (14m 14s)
- So you want to learn pixel art? | TofuPixel
Collections
- Tutorials | Lospec
- /r/PixelArtTutorials
- Tutorials by Slynyrd | Patreon
- Tutorials by PixelArtJourney | Tumblr
- Tutorials by Rappenem | DeviantArt
- Tutorials by Saint11
A few tutorials I’ve used
- Rock tutorial by Franrekk | Reddit
- Bush tutorial by Franrekk | Reddit
- Cloud tutorial by 8pxl | Twitter
- Cloud tutorial by Pedro Medeiros | Saint11
- Dithering tutorial by Sadface_RL | Reddit
- Landscape Pixeling by Slynyrd
- Cityscapes by Slynyrd
- Watercolour style by Franrekk | Reddit
Tools
Some pixel artists for inspiration
Artists listed in alphabetical order
- 1041uuu (Bluesky)
- 8pxl (Website, Bluesky, Instagram)
- aleha_84 (Bluesky, Instagram, Tumblr)
- atichii (Bluesky)
- Becky C (Bluesky)
- Camille Unknown (Bluesky)
- evsailey (Bluesky)
- Franek (Bluesky, Instagram)
- Hagl (Bluesky)
- Ko.dll (Bluesky)
- makrustic (Bluesky)
- myartbytes (Bluesky)
- Nura (Bluesky)
- nyura_kim (Bluesky, Instagram)
- One Byte Cafe (Bluesky)
- Pixel Art Journey (Bluesky, Instagram)
- pixelianska (Instagram)
- Rappenem (Bluesky, DeviantArt)
- SalamiChild (Bluesky, Website)
- Slynyrd (Website, Bluesky)
- StuntmAEn Bob (Bluesky)
- TofuPixel (Bluesky, Tumblr)
- v78 (Reddit)
- waneella (Bluesky, Tumblr, Instagram)
- yuugapaint (Twitter)
Drawing prompts + challenges
- Pixel Dailies | Bluesky
- Lospec Dailies
- Swordtember (During September) - Has a few variants. Founded by faith_schaffer
- Colour Wheel Challenge
- Pixel Artvent | PixelArtJourney | Bluesky