How to Make Pixel Art for an MMORPG

Small different colored Pixels put together make pixel art.

Pixel art involves creating a work of art pixel by pixel. The result will usually look like something you'd see in a classic Nintendo Entertainment System game. A pixel is a unit of measurement on a screen. There are thousands of pixels in the average computer screen. An MMORPG is a massive multiplayer online role playing game. Pixel art is quite common among these online games that thousands of people across the world play every day.

Things You'll Need

• Graphics software

Instructions

1. Launch Microsoft Paint and wait for it to load. Paint comes installed as a standard Windows program.

2. Select the color black by clicking on the black square, generally at the bottom of the screen, in the colors palette. Click on the pencil tool on the tools palette, generally located on the left side of the screen.

3. Use the pencil tool to draw the outline and basic shape of your pixel art. Remember to keep it "blocky" with as many square edges as possible to give it a pixel feel.

4. Click on the different colors within the colors palette, then use the pencil tool to color in your pixel art. The colors and shading should have square and straight edges. If you make any mistakes, click on the eraser tool (located on the tools palette near the pencil tool, it looks like an eraser) and erase the mistakes.

5. Put the finishing touches on the pixel art, adding any remaining colors, or by erasing any parts you don't like, then save your work. Click on "File > Save As," give your work a name, then choose a save location. Click on the drop-down menu next to the words "Save as type" and select "JPEG."

6. Click on the "Save" button.

References

• Metacafe: Drawing Pixelart In MS Paint