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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What a cracking collection of pixel art, loving some of the designs.
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).
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.
I feelin' nostalgic right now
I agree!!:)
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.
Here's a voxelated Ms PacMan...close enough?
lovely pixelated work i like it
Have you ever been to ? Pixeltemple has some nice pixelart works too! They use to say "Pixel & Art"!
Cheers,
Cospefogo.
Reminds me of the nintendo days ;)
all the "real pixelart" has been done by hand. You can check pixeljoint.com if you don't believe me.
pixeljoint and wayofthepixel.
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.
These are awesome, I've always been a big fan of pixel art
This looks good on tshirt also.. thanks for sharing!
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.
I call it the work of ants... hardworking and amazing.
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.
some of these are just amazing!
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.
Nice stuff but the Rod Hunt stuff is vector, not pixel art.
Quite easily my fave blog article recently. A lot of great stuff here, feeling inspirational.
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!
"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".)
a few pics of a space invader painted by my self in a wall of my house.
Great work but gonna use such Pixlated images in commercial environment :)
Nice collection and inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
If you like Paul Robertson's pixel art, you should definitely check out his amazing pixel art film, "Kings of Power 4 Billion %". It's very gory but the detail is amazing and it's just incredibly long and complex.
This king of graphic are great I really like, but I think this king of stuff can only be appreciated by graphic or design guys everyone else can say mmm way it look like that jaja anyway I think people that visit this site are conscious enough of these kind of work :)
Wonderful collection ! Loved the work of Eboy, Coca-Cola ad is awesome.
Wow I have never looked so closely at this sort of art, being more interested in photo reality. However a good number of these are truly excellent and all deserve praise and exposure thanks for the share!
BTW thanks Rob for the URL.
Fantastic!. I loved the Gunstar Red's work!
Pixel sculpture:
funny remark
Isn't anything displayed on a computer screen technically pixel "art"?
Somebody should do a pixelated pac-man in 3D...