I’m talking pixels here. Those little dots on your screens that have been meticulously placed side by side to form an object of crispy clean beauty. I realize most people might not consider things created digitally as “art”, but I do and after all it is MY art right?
Pixel art is more or less what inspired me to get into multimedia design. I remember the first graphic design project I tackled on a computer vividly… I used an archaic version of Microsoft Paint and painted pixel-by-pixel a design for our high school datebook competition. It was a pixilated masterpiece with no anti-aliasing. Fortunately, my design won and it got published… but unfortunately, somebody had taken my artwork and re-created it with smooth vectors! They just didn’t get it. Read the rest of this entry »
