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pixel art

pixel art noun: a style of digital art drawn at the pixel level, sometimes having the pixels enlarged for a retro appearance.

pixel art: a style of digital art drawn at the pixel level, sometimes having the pixels enlarged for a retro...
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Noun

pixel art (uncountable)

  1. A style of digital art drawn at the pixel level, sometimes having the pixels enlarged for a retro appearance.
    • 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.2005, Matt Kloskowski, Extreme Photoshop CS, page 132
    • 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 […]2013, Olivier Lecarme, Karine Delvare, The Book of GIMP: A Complete Guide to Nearly Everything, page 69

Questions about pixel art

What does pixel art mean?
Pixel art means a style of digital art drawn at the pixel level, sometimes having the pixels enlarged for a retro appearance.
What part of speech is pixel art?
Pixel art is a noun.

Words near pixel art in the dictionary

  1. Pixarifies
  2. Pixarify
  3. Pixarifying
  4. pixed
  5. pixel
  6. pixel art
  7. pixel artist
  8. pixel artists
  9. pixel hunt
  10. pixel hunted
  11. pixel hunting

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