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The pixel is an amazing thing. It is how you're reading the text on this screen right now. It's a unit of measurement. And for some creative folks, it's a way to make art. Pixel art is a type of digital art that looks like it was intentionally created with the placement of pixels. Each block is a brushstroke; and, together, the bunches of pixels make a whole piece. In this way, pixel art has a mosaic-like quality to it. Many mosaics create images of tiny squares similar to the blockiness that's inherent in pixel art.

In the early days of computers, the hard edges of pixel art were the only type of computer art that you could make. Technology wasn't advanced enough to create the anti-aliasing that we're used to now. But as computer graphics continue to become more and more lifelike, pixel art now references a retro style and a callback to those early computer graphics.

Read on to learn more about pixel art-its history, its waxing and waning in popularity, and how you can make your own.

How Pixel Art Got Its Start

Pixel art was born in the 1970s, albeit very crude in comparison with the digital art of today. Because of technological restrictions and the general newness of the field, users were limited to the graphics they could create. Some of the earliest pixel art was merely squares and rectangles.

SuperPaint was the precursor to modern graphic programs like Photoshop. Developed in 1972 by Richard Shoup, it was used by NASA as a way to illustrate its discoveries and data. Its capabilities included basic graphics and animation, although its contributions would get cut short. In 1979, the pioneering program was put to an end by its development company, Xerox PARC. But that was not before it showed what the future could be. It had features like adjustable paintbrushes, image magnification, and the ability to create full-color images. Its menu was replicated on subsequent graphics applications like MS Paint and MacPaint.

Though revolutionary at the time, SuperPaint was limited in its capabilities-at least what we expect from a graphics program today. As technology continued to advance and computers came with better graphics cards and memory, developers and creatives adjusted accordingly. Even with big limitations (by today's standards), video games included more detailed graphics and pushed the limits of what was possible.

The results were iconic characters and graphics that came from the 8-bit era (spanning 1983-1987) and the 16-bit era (spanning 1987-1993). If you're unfamiliar with what 8-bit and 16-bit are, it, in part, refers to the tonal variation of the image. An 8-bit picture, for instance, will have fewer amounts of tones available for each color than a 16-bit does. The more color tones available, the more detailed that you can get with your image-making. Early Mario (the video game character) is an example of 8-bit while Sonic the Hedgehog is an example of 16-bit.

Once Playstation and the N64 game consoles arrived on the market, it was clear that pixel art was waning popularity. Through these systems, developers worked on creating 3D models as characters, making side-scrolling games feel passé. People wanted the increasingly three-dimensional quality that games like Mario 64 or GoldenEye 007 could offer.

By the mid-aughts, 3D graphics and gaming had become the norm with pixel art much less common and considered retro or vintage.

How do you make pixel art?

Nowadays, a pixel art aesthetic is a stylistic choice that artists make. Perhaps you'd like to try it, too. Whether you're intrigued by the challenge of working in a blocky style or want to give your graphics a retro vibe, you're well on your way to creating pixel art as long as you have a computer graphics program. The following tutorials on YouTube will help you learn the basics of creating pixel art.

What Program to use for Pixel Art? (Paid and Free Software)

How to Make Pixel Art with Adobe Photoshop

The Ultimate Pixel Art Tutorial

Pixelart on iPad

How to Design Characters the Pixel Art Style

Do's and Don'ts of Pixel Art

Contemporary Pixel Art Inspiration

Once you've got a hang of creating your own pixel art, get inspired by some of these contemporary artists keeping the blocky aesthetic alive. You'll notice that some use fewer colors, bigger pixels, but it's up to you how you craft your images. That's part of the fun.

eBoy

Paul Robertson

Ivan Dixon

Kenze Wee

Jubilee

summers spent in the mountains 🌾🌿💛 pic.twitter.com/9FkG2SMIN2

- Jubilee ❣️ (@16pxl) March 10, 2022

above the mist 💜 pic.twitter.com/p6XsEBs3w4

- Jubilee ❣️ (@16pxl) January 30, 2022

i really love painting light with pixel art ✨🌿 pic.twitter.com/800oVLZ7Uw

- Jubilee ❣️ (@16pxl) February 17, 2022

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Presentation of Salvador Dalí

Chapters

Physical description

His biography

Timeline

Physical Description

Physical decription of Salvador Dalí

Dalí has a brown thin stylish mustache He is on the top-center of the photoHe is wearing a tuxedoHe has two brown eyes and brown short hair

Biography

Salvador Dalí's biography

May 11,1904 : Birth of Salvador Dalí i Domènech, first Marquis of Dalí de Púbol in Figueres in Spain. He is a Spanish painter, sculptor, engraver, screenwriter and writer. He is considered to be one of the main representatives of surrealism, and one of the most famous painter of the twentieth century.

Salvador Dalí's biography

- In 1922 : Influenced by Impressionism at a young age, he left Figueres to receive an academic art education in Madrid. There, he befriended Federico García Lorca and Luis Buñuel and built his style among different artistic movements. - In 1923 : He was expelled from the academy for political reason- 1923 to 1926 : he made several expositions of his artwork- In 1927 : He moves to Paris and met his future wife Gala, at this time he became a surrealist and invented the paranoid-critical method.In 1931 : The Persistence of Memory is one of his most famous surrealist paintings.

Salvador Dalí's biography

- 1936 to 1939 : he lived through the Spanish Civil War in exile in Europe and choosed to stay in New York where he made his fortune.In 1949 : He returned to Catalonia and influenced by the scientific developments, he developped a new style called "corpuscular mysticism". 1960 to 1980 : He produced lots of imaginatives artworks, which allowed him to attract public attention, but irritated a part of the art world because of his narcissism and megalomania. Two museums were dedicated to him during this period : " the Salvador Dalí Museum and the Dalí Theatre-Museum".- January 23, 1989 : Dalí's death by heart failure

Timeline

Salvador Dalí's Timeline

Dalí's birth in Figueres, Spain

May 11,1904

Dalí enrolls the Royal Academy of Fine Art

1922

Dalí meets Picasso in Paris

1926

Expulsion in 1923

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Dalí meets Gala

1934

Dalí's autobiography publishing

1942

Dalí begins his work on the Dalí's theatre and Museum

1960

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1929

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Dalí's death by Heart Failure :(

January,23 1989

Dalí is ranked as marquess by King of Spain

1982

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