pixel art

English
Portrait of a cat made in a 64x64 Pixel art canvas. Includes a zoomed-in window in the bottom left corner to enhance the details of the cat's face.

Noun

pixel art (uncountable)

  1. (computer graphics) A style of digital art drawn at the pixel level, sometimes having the pixels enlarged for a retro appearance.
    • 2005, Matt Kloskowski, Extreme Photoshop CS, page 132:
      What can I say about pixel art other than that the designers who create it have way too much time on their hands? All joking aside, pixel art has taken on a life of its own in recent years.
    • 2013, Olivier Lecarme, Karine Delvare, The Book of GIMP: A Complete Guide to Nearly Everything, page 69:
      The Pencil tool is useful when you want to control exactly how a pixel changes. For example, pixel art is often done using the Pencil tool with a brush size of 1 pixel […]

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