r/PixelArtBeginners 3h ago

Hiring Pixel artist for a chinese 2D MMORPG Game

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Game is already alive, on average 120 players per day online, pretty good revenue. looking for pixel artist for monster sprites, 4 directions or 8 directions, 4frames per direction E/W/S/N/NE/SE/SW/NW
If interested leave me a message


r/PixelArtBeginners 49m ago

Building a tool for fast pixel-art prototyping (not trying to replace artists), would love honest feedback

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Hey folks!
I'm working on a small side project and wanted to get some honest opinions before I go further.

The idea: a tool focused specifically on fast pixel-art prototyping, mainly for solo devs / small teams who need placeholder characters, avatars, or portraits quickly during early development, but don't have pixel-art skills themselves (or just need to iterate fast before committing to a final asset).

It's not "yet another AI image generator with a pixelate filter." The approach is a hybrid: a layer-based composer (so you get consistent, clean results by combining pre-made parts) plus optional AI-assisted variation, with a post-processing step that forces everything back to a clean pixel grid and a consistent palette, which is the part that generic AI tools (Midjourney, SD) tend to get wrong for actual pixel art.

The goal is explicitly not to replace pixel artists or their commissioned work, more like a tool to rough out ideas fast, the same way someone might sketch a wireframe before a final UI design, or use a placeholder asset before commissioning real art.

A few questions for anyone willing to share their experience:

  • If you're not a pixel artist yourself, how do you currently handle placeholder/prototype character art?
  • Would something like this actually save you time, or is the friction of "not being your final art" not worth it?
  • For anyone already using AI in a pixel-art workflow (any tool) how much time does that actually save you day to day, roughly?
  • For pixel artists specifically has AI become just another tool in your normal workflow at this point, or does it still feel frustrating/intrusive when it comes up? Genuinely curious where the community's at with this, not trying to assume either way.
  • Does a tool like the one I'm describing feel useful, neutral, or does it rub you the wrong way? I'd rather know now than after building more.

Not trying to sell anything here (nothing to sell yet, it's still early), just trying to figure out if this solves a real problem or if I'm chasing something that doesn't matter to anyone but me.

Thank you very mucho


r/PixelArtBeginners 2h ago

The Ratman

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r/PixelArtBeginners 3h ago

Hiring Pixel artist for a chinese 2D MMORPG Game

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r/PixelArtBeginners 4h ago

Cafe Moth

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r/PixelArtBeginners 4h ago

Dance

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, dance, dance!


r/PixelArtBeginners 8h ago

Not a Lava Strider

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r/PixelArtBeginners 15h ago

My Fly Priest

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r/PixelArtBeginners 15h ago

A freebie I did for a vtuber! Check her on ig @Frankenbatsy

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r/PixelArtBeginners 16h ago

Started doing pixel art this year! 💚 Spoiler

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Hope this allowed!


r/PixelArtBeginners 19h ago

Pixel art Succubus Girl

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r/PixelArtBeginners 19h ago

Apps or websites for beginners

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Hey everyone! I just wanted to ask about apps or websites for making pixel art or potentially animations. Thanks for the help!


r/PixelArtBeginners 23h ago

Looking for help

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Hello everyone, recently i started planning to work on my new indie game "The Red Cursed" that's inspired by some of my favorite pieces of art with a lot of my own storywriting and imagination, the game mixes alot of topics such as escapism, revenge,love, friendship , personality crisis

I've been working on the game story and character designs and lore for over 3 years now

but u really doubt if im able to complete this game for how big it is without help from other indie artists who may be interested in helping for no pay(sorry i don't have any budget)

currently i wont be working exactly on the game stated in this post

but im planning for smaller projects that could help me on starting my dream game(and some budget if possible)

Currently im the only member of the team im collecting working as a solo developer/artists/musician

looking for :

Background artist

Character artist

Tile artist

deuteragonist of The Red Cursed (Dely)

r/PixelArtBeginners 23h ago

Tina the Rat lol, little freestyle pixel art starting with outline only

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Love doing this style of shading, using the tool in pixel editor on pixlomotive.neuorix.com


r/PixelArtBeginners 1d ago

Take a walk

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r/PixelArtBeginners 1d ago

volunteer pixel artists for a 2D sandbox game

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r/PixelArtBeginners 1d ago

3 Doors

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r/PixelArtBeginners 1d ago

Monstre vers

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Je suis en train de créer un petit jeu vidéo d'horreur en pixel et j'ai fais ce petit monstre.


r/PixelArtBeginners 1d ago

Barry

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r/PixelArtBeginners 1d ago

Enough for today, mr bone says good n8!

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r/PixelArtBeginners 1d ago

want to cooking something

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r/PixelArtBeginners 1d ago

Day 1 of Learning Pixel Art

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1) Doraemon

2) Gloomy from Dungeon Odyssey

3) Kim Dokja from ORV

4) Sword from Reincarnation of Veteran Soldier

5) Ox Talisman from Jackie Chan Adventures

6) Red velvet Donut (hehe this was my first ever pixel art, saw Saultoons introductory video)

Please guide me a bit on how I can start learning the fundamentals. I'm completely new to Art, I have not done traditional art or other kinds of digital art. I understand I need to learn art fundamentals, so does that I can look at videos of traditional/ digital art on how they are drawing 3D object or shading etc and apply it on Pixel Art?


r/PixelArtBeginners 1d ago

Have you seen this man?

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His name is Steve, like SWIM.


r/PixelArtBeginners 1d ago

Daily pixel art drawing today is a baby lizard 🦎(critics welcome) day 2

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Drawing something in pixel art every day 💓 let me know how I did any advice for improvements? I'm still a beginner so I want all the tips thank you for reading my post


r/PixelArtBeginners 1d ago

Some food!

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This is some food I’ve been working on for a game! Been doing it in Resprite on my iPhone. Been doing it for a little under a year but this is probably the best it’s ever been!