September 26, 2017

1-Bit

This is a hard theme, but it's also something I really like to work with. The good thing is that learning 1 bit is very useful for working with any type of pixel art, for example:

These props I made for Celeste are not 1-bit per se, but knowing how to work with 1-bit helped me a LOT while designing them.

Here's some other tutorials I made that can be useful

Linked post · August 29, 2017 Usually I avoid too many outlines in pretty much all pixel art I make, since I work with very low resolution, except for a black outside …

Linked post · July 11, 2017 This tutorial was so hard to make, but I hope it's not too confusing. Some softwares can help when it comes to making tiles. <a hr…

Linked post · October 10, 2016 Noise reduction was the most voted topic! I expanded on the topic, and it ended up pretty complex and since I also explained other stuff …

Linked post · May 16, 2017 My original plan was to explain more stuff but I ran out of space :P So, banding will be explained in more details on another tutorial!</…

Comments (3)

Sara Quinn · September 26, 2017

This is what I love most about pixel art... getting an idea across with the least amount of pixels possible. It's so challenging! It's almost like "tricking" the eye into seeing something.

Detheavn · September 26, 2017

I love this art style. It allows for some really cool techniques, for instance: I once saw a video on YouTube about someone combining multiple "1-bit" images into a single one, so they eventually had one image with which they could show every image by simply changing the colour information/palette. I had never thought of this myself, but it looked really impressive... I'm unable to find the video now... I'll update if I find it.

Sara Quinn · September 26, 2017

Please do. It sounds really cool.