How to Make Pixel Art [Tutorial for Beginners] | Adobe Photoshop

Learn all about the basics of pixel art and how you can create your own in Adobe Photoshop.

Also known as 8-bit art, pixel art is originated from retro video games and now a popular art style. In this video, illustrator Jeremy Lord guides us through how he creates pixel art of a pizza, utilizing different tools available on Adobe Photoshop.

Here are the tips covered in this video:

0:00 Pixel Art for Beginners
0:18 Getting started with pixel art
0:25 What is pixel art?
1:07 Different standard pixel art sizes
1:45 Tools to help you create pixel art
4:19 Use the Pencil Tool to align with grid instead of Brushes and adjust the Eraser Tool
9:17 Resize your pixel art

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[Mystical-TEDDY_]

I don’t even have photoshop it was juts a good tutorial and u actually showed how to do everything

[b.benmeziane]

I've been doing graphic design for 11 years, and I was contacted by a client last week to do some pixel art work, and I literally had to create stuff then use the pixelate filter on Photoshop. This video of yours is a goldmine !!

[Damiue]

Non graphic designers / illustrators won't understand the treasure this video actually is. Straight to the point, spot on, so efficient, so professional. It's the ultimate pixel art photoshop workflow

[Gakusangi]

Good to remember that in traditional pixel art, it isn't just a matter of lower resolution, there usually a very limited color pallet to keep in mind as well. Older game consoles could only display so many colors and one had to be reserved as transparent.

[Christolphi]

I'm a professional graphic designer and I've always wanted to get into using pixel art in my work but I couldn't find a workflow that I found simple enough to use efficiently so this is such a treasure.

[uqpodvi]

Best guide on the Internet. I was SO TIRED of tutorials that said, "Open up paintbrush, zoom in and get started by coloring pixels one at a time!"

[muhammad-rvqh]

this is easily the best pixel art guide ive seen

[qokeszj]

im just now trying to learn about pixel art and this video greatly encompasses the beginning steps of what pixel art is, you explained so well! tysm!

[viczav]

This was, by far, the best noob-friendly tutorial of pixel art! Thank you so much!

[angelosa.]

Amasing. Showing the basics to get you started, no bs straight to the point. Thank you :) gonna experiment with some pixelart now.

[NipNapFM]

Thank you so much for this! i recently started doing pixel art in august and have been slowly getting pretty good at pixel art, this will very much ramp up my art skills!

[CallMeDragon]

i’ve been wanting to make pixel art for a long time and the average painting apps just wouldn’t work and i recently got an adobe photoshop account (for school) so i can’t wait to start making some pixel art! this tutorial helped so much so thank you so so much!

[Sora]

Thank you for this! A teacher tried to teach us pixel art... and I say tried because he missed a lot of things, and it was quite weird to learn and, well, in the end, I basically worked extra to try to achieve a good look. This just makes it so muuuuch easier to understand and now I think "ok, I get it".
Excited to try to draw something!

[BlazeStorm]

I wouldn't never thought of downscaling a regular drawing, that's brilliant!

[Jakiyyyyy]

Thank you for the tutorial. This is what I'm looking for. Didn't knew Adobe team itself could teach all these.

[tomasdonovan]

A really useful workflow tool for drawing pixel art is to open up a second window of your art from a different zoom. You can do that through Window>Arrange>New Window for "File Name"

[aikaterine]

I got interested in pixel art after getting invitations of pixel art jobs and seeing lots of job search on it. I think I'm going to try this.
This was the first video I saw and was very helpful!

[pfrodriguez]

this was nicely done. Great vid, thank you!

[jacoboswald]

I have loved pixel art for a long time and want to do it more as a hobby! Thank you so much! This was incredibly helpful!

[UnsafeSafe]

Thx a lot! That’s the first video that finally shows the settings. Most videos skip the first step of setting the canvas and directly show how to create good shapes and shading. You helped me a lot!