Pixel Art - From beginning to hero level

Discover Aseprite, the recommended pixel art tool with a $19.99 lifetime license, trial access, and thorough documentation, and begin your journey into pixel art with practical, course-aligned demos.

Explore layers in pixel art by creating, organizing, and merging layers, grouping them, and testing visibility to build robust animations.

Explore how to pick colors using hexadecimal values, translate hex codes from other apps to your palette, and apply them to your pixel art workflow.

Learn to draw three-dimensional spheres using analogous colors from a palette, with circle construction, shading from the top light, and step-by-step color layering and pixel-perfect filling.

Explore creating color tones by adjusting hue, saturation, and value to build lighter and darker versions. Learn to generate analogous color sets in sprites for pixel art.

Explore shading techniques and palette usage to create multiple cube representations in pixel art, using layers, eyedropper, and canvas sizing to add detail and variety.

Learn to draw a top-down pine tree in an isometric perspective using a shared palette, layered shading, and pixel tools for leaves, depth, and trunk.

Create a coin animation in pixel art by building a gold and black color palette, crafting a front view coin sprite, shading, reflections, and rotating the coin.

Create a spooky wizard character on a 16 by 16 pixel art canvas, defining the body, mask, eyes, and staff with shading and color choices.

Design a 32px retro pixel art character using orange and black shading, building from the legs up with a belt, thorax, and armor details for an Atari-inspired look.

Create a Mandalorian palette by building armor tones, light and dark variants, and a blue accent across layered colors before outlining the Mandalorian in pixel art.

In this idle animation part 3, learn to synchronize weapon movement with the Mandalorian’s body by duplicating and adjusting the weapon model, adding depth and cohesion to the character.

Create the walking leg animation in pixel art by building and refining frames for left and right legs, using color references, shading, and armour details.