Because aside from the fact that I can easily draw with the mouse, it's very beautiful and doesn't require much when it comes to pixel art. Plus, I enjoy playing with the color palette like pico-8.
There's something about working within limitations that's attractive on its own, but I think the main thing is that those limitations make it a lot easier to make games and animations with a unified visual style compared to being given absolute freedom. It doesn't hurt that people get nostalgic over it, but I think the main thing is that it's the easiest way to do clean, regimented stylization without needing too much discipline.
At 4/24/25 02:49 PM, Guidodinho wrote:At 4/24/25 12:05 PM, xeiavica wrote:At 4/24/25 06:05 AM, Guidodinho wrote:Because it's a pretty easy way to get some satisfying or funny/cute results, without having to focus too much on your dexterity or precision (or trained eye for finer details) Because you can just go around, filling in little blocks on a grid.I disagree with your stance on traditional art. Pixel art still has a time investment to get good at it. In fact, any form of artistic passion has a cost. Either in money, time, or possibly both. So they're both perfectly valid. In fact, knowing traditional art fundamentals can make you significantly better at pixel art or sprite animations, such as perspective and shading.
There's no worrying about your touch with the pen(cil) or marker or brush or whatever.
And it's also accessible as can be, because pixel-art uses very few and inexpensive resources to make. Not dirt-cheap, like a disposable pair of pen&paper. But anybody on a tight budget can acquire some kind of device with a color display to make some pixel-art on.
No need for no fancy new gadgets, or pricy art supplies.
Nah, u agreeing with me bruh, but just on a different degree/level, or whatever.
And I agree witchu: for when it gets serieus, or passionate or ambitious or so, that pixel-art can take a lot of work and detication too.
Just in an entry level kind of way, its sort of easier with pixel-art, to quickly make something entertaining. Can be a little harder to pull off with traditional media in some ways.
pixel art allows you to draw something that looks good with a mouse by trial and error. at least more easily than other forms of art. sure, vectors also allow you to do that, but they're less intuitive and harder to get used to.
