Pixelation

General => General Discussion => Topic started by: hustlerinc on July 19, 2012, 01:04:44 am

Title: Black and white pixel art
Post by: hustlerinc on July 19, 2012, 01:04:44 am
Hi, I'm new to this forum and pixelart.

I would need some inspiration for black and white pixelart. If anyone have any good examples please post them.
Google search didn't give much.

Thank you.
Title: Re: Black and white pixel art
Post by: wurfle on July 19, 2012, 02:34:55 am
Do you mean greyscale or black and white only?
If you are talking about 1bit, I suggest searching for some art from the original gameboy; which is technically black and white even though it doesn't show up that way on the screen.
Title: Re: Black and white pixel art
Post by: hustlerinc on July 19, 2012, 04:05:20 am
Yeah, grayscale is what I mean, didn't know what it was called. Is there any good galleries around? Preferably game graphics. And I'll see what I can find on google about old gameboy.
Title: Re: Black and white pixel art
Post by: Ai on July 19, 2012, 02:14:40 pm
Let's not forget about the Spectrum -- loads of B/W pixel art made for that, since the only display mode required a maximum of two colors per 8x8 cell. Practically, that meant that color usually took a backseat to line and shade.
Title: Re: Black and white pixel art
Post by: rikfuzz on July 20, 2012, 08:31:11 am
Just a couple bits of my work that might be helpful:

Here's some 1bit and 2bit gfx I did for a kindle game. 

(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1534394/kindle.gif)
Game:  Mystery Castle: Dawn of Illusion (http://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Castle-Dawn-of-Illusion/dp/B005SSMKSY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1342772870&sr=1-1) & Mystery Castle: Winter's Night (http://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Castle-Dawn-of-Illusion/dp/B005SSMKSY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1342772870&sr=1-1&keywords=%22mystery+castle%22)


1bit and 2bit boats for another kindle battleships game (EA put out an official (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YO68sFvyL.jpg) version so it got canned). 

(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1534394/shipshape.png)
Title: Re: Black and white pixel art
Post by: hustlerinc on July 21, 2012, 07:21:20 am
Just a couple bits of my work that might be helpful:
(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1534394/shipshape.png)
Wow those ships are way cooler than the ones EA did. You're good.
Title: Re: Black and white pixel art
Post by: Carnivac on August 15, 2012, 12:02:29 pm
Just a couple bits of my work that might be helpful:
(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1534394/shipshape.png)
Wow those ships are way cooler than the ones EA did. You're good.

I agree.  Those are some nice low color ships.