Pixel art was brought to the mainstream with the release of gaming consoles in the early eighties. Those 8-bit graphics we all loved back then often evoke feelings of nostalgia and take us back in time. Nostalgia aside, pixel art is a beautiful art form on its own that many of us have come to love. With so few pixels to work with, pixel artist’s have to make each one count.
Today we present 40 Examples Of Eye Popping Pixel Art from some of the best pixel artists around. Be sure to check out their sites for more of their amazing work.
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Beautiful Pixel Art
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Another pixel masterpiece from Keinianz’s model series.
I love these large pixel paintings. Each pixel must be place just right to get the desired results.
Sirfetch’d
This piece is full of detail and has great shadowing.
Great lighting and vivid colors make this one a standout.
Dog
This stunning beauty shows the artist’s mastery of the pixel art form.
Dreamland free tileset
From the future
This little scene looks like something straight out of the old 16-bit video game days.
The world
SIMON LEE made this with a blender.
This piece has awesome character design and charm.
Blade runner
PYCON pixel art
This one has an unusual color pallet and lots of attitude.
Paul Robertson
This one has lots of Sega characters and a cool background.
Another piece from Paul full of action.
Pixelated unicorn avatars 🦄
White and black abstract painting
Great concept and use of color.
House
Frogs pixel art
A great design of a mechanical monkey.
Pixel store retro video game
The large pixels give this piece an impressionistic feel.
AI generated cyborg robotics
Old house
Shop
This isometric design is just awesome.
Tree on a hill
House Art Retro
Art monster
Cover of magazine
Batteries icon pixel art
Walkman
Mountains lake moon night water
This piece is loaded with details.
Game
Alien spaceship
Further resources
- Create your own pixels with the pixel toy.
- Check out a pixel map of Hong Kong.
- Pixel art tutorials to get you started.
- Pixel art forum and galleries.
Photo by Francesco Ungaro
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37 Comments:
More than a year ago
Amazing blog content! I liked your post, I would like to mention a website writing interesting blogs on 8 tips on how to improve eyesight
More than a year ago
What a cracking collection of pixel art, loving some of the designs.
More than a year ago
He's right, voxels are literally 3D pixels. It's a technique with screens that look like the pixels come out of the screen. 3(3 1/2)-dimensional where you don't need 3D glasses for. This is just isometric block art (still very cool though).
More than a year ago
I have created some wood-based pixel art installations for my home. The magnet-based installations are interchangeable so I can change around my walls very quickly when I get a new idea. I'd love some feedback if you have a chance to check it out.
More than a year ago
I feelin' nostalgic right now
More than a year ago
I agree!!:)
More than a year ago
Amazing! All these are super inspiring. I thought the misty forest one looked really cool when I scrolled down the page-- something about how it got bigger really made it look 3D, even though it wasn't.
More than a year ago
Here's a voxelated Ms PacMan...close enough?
More than a year ago
lovely pixelated work i like it
More than a year ago
Have you ever been to ? Pixeltemple has some nice pixelart works too! They use to say "Pixel & Art"!
Cheers,
Cospefogo.
More than a year ago
Reminds me of the nintendo days ;)
More than a year ago
all the "real pixelart" has been done by hand. You can check pixeljoint.com if you don't believe me.
More than a year ago
pixeljoint and wayofthepixel.
More than a year ago
I'm missing a lot of good pixelartists in this post which is a shame "but obviously you can't show all of them".
Anyways Rod Hunt's work doesn't have anything to do with pixelart/voxelart "voxels are 3d pixels". And "gunstarred" and "armyoftrolls" are the same person.
More than a year ago
These are awesome, I've always been a big fan of pixel art
More than a year ago
This looks good on tshirt also.. thanks for sharing!
More than a year ago
no. pixel art describe a particular subcategory of digital artwork that focuses on the artist's complete control of the image at the pixel level, meaning the artist makes conscious decisions about all or most of the pixels on screen, without the aid of automated tools and processes.
More than a year ago
I call it the work of ants... hardworking and amazing.
More than a year ago
Cool examples! I remember there used to be a whole pixel art layout fad a couple years ago when personal blogs were starting to be a trend. Some of them were quite well made.
More than a year ago
some of these are just amazing!
More than a year ago
Agreed - Rod hunt's is definitely not pixels. A few other look like they might be as well. Just low resolution enlarged? Dunno.
All great pieces regardless.
More than a year ago
Nice stuff but the Rod Hunt stuff is vector, not pixel art.
More than a year ago
Quite easily my fave blog article recently. A lot of great stuff here, feeling inspirational.
More than a year ago
Wow, I had so little non-commercial exposure to the great artwork being done in this style.
Really cool to see something so high quality and new!
More than a year ago
"This piece is full of detail and has GREAT SHADOWING."
I guess the pun was intended, because it was very clever. (For those who don't know , the illustration is based on the masterpiece videogame "Shadow of the Colossus".)