On the pixeljoint forum the question was asked: Why do you love pixel art?
Please read, and in the comments or the original thread, leave your own thoughts about why you love pixel art as well!
Why I got into it
I was born, quite a few years ago as a creative person. People around me realized, but I did not myself.
I was also born as a logic person. In more than just one way.
So, one day, I do not remember how anymore, I introduced myself to isometric pixel art. I believed it was simple, as it followed logical rules, and required no creativity or much skill. Of course I was wrong, but that does not matter. Thing is, I was able to create nice things by using the line tool right.
A year later, a more important thing happened. I found a community. And any community that would have adopted me could have formed me in any way they would have wanted, but it happens to be this pixel community. At the right time.
So that is the reason I kept going on and on.
Why I love it
But you asked me, why do I love pixel art?
I could have fallen in love with many different hobbies, and I might will someday, but I will keep liking this for ever on. And thats just for one thing: Control!
If I draw by pencil, I can never ever remove a line properly after I drew it. Same goes for traditional painting. If I would paint digitally, I would not get the time to do every little pixel of my image right, and I would always be able to spot infinite correctable things I dislike on my image. On a 32×32 pixel canvas, there are no infinite possibilities! Never!
Why I like it
- Great community
- Retro
- Game fans
- Programmers
- Logic
- Impressive
- Gallery
- MSpaint doable
- Iconic
- Skills being learnt valuable for everything
- Palettes
- Animations
- Isometric stylized stuff
I have much more to say, but I simply don’t want to write more/want to waste your reading time more ;)
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it would have been cool if your site’s pixelled too Lol anyways im a PJ lurker ( just lurking to study styles and how to do stuffs, there are lots of great pixel artists there including you :) ) im just starting out as pixel artist and i can say that its really great, because you have all the control you want with the lines,palettes etc so its really up to you on how an image will look like thats what i love about pixel art.. anyways
keep it up!!
You know… I actually check this once in a while. But you never update :/