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Raven Wizard via PixelArt

[manfrommars2049]

Happy New Year! Take the Lospec 2022 Pixel Artists Census! via PixelArt

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Lospec

Lospec is quickly becoming the ultimate website for pixel art resources.

I’ve mentioned the site in my YouTube News episode for November, when it launched with an awesome database of color palettes. 

It includes close to 150 entries, beautifully presented, and searchable by number of colors and tags (if you want, for example, see just system palettes of old computers).

Tutorials

Today an even more gargantuan resource was unveiled: a list of over 500 tutorials, categorized by tags, authors, and mediums—a feat that took multiple months to compile.

Need to focus on a specific topic, such as the very popular drawing of rocks? Over a dozen tutorials awaits your picking.

Want to see all @studiominiboss’ killer GIFs in one place? Here you go.

There are over 100 tutorials for beginners and 20+ for fundamental topics of anti-aliasing and dithering each. Even better, Lospec itself has a guide for beginners that introduces all of the website’s resources to you.

It points to a comprehensive list of software, and pixel art communities where you can post your work, get critique, and grow your skills.

There’s even an on-site editor, handy for quickly diving into our beloved art medium. 

It’s obvious the site’s author, Sam ‘Skeddles’ Keddy, is really pouring his soul into this. From what I’ve seen, it’s the biggest effort so far to pick up from where PixelJoint’s Links section slowly drifted into hibernation (it’s not dead—2017 has seen 3 new entries, but that’s relatively dormant compared to the unprecedented growth of pixel art tutorials produced last year).

This really is a big gift to our community. You can subscribe to updates from @lospec right here on tumblr, and if you can, support Skeddles in his endeavor on Patreon.

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[OC] House on an island by Sam Keddy via PixelArt

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Breeze 

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Distant Lands

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Gurk Achievment Icons

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Wild Town