

Take Ellipse select tool.Īnd enable the Antialiasing option of this tool because we don’t need smoothness in our pixel art work. Now let us draw a character by using the pixel art method. Now again, click on your desired pixel, which you want to remove, and this time pixel will remove in one click of the eraser tool. Make Fade length value of its parameter as 0. It just fades it, and when you make it again and again, click on that one pixel, then it will remove from that area.įor erasing in once click with erase tool just make some settings in a parameter of the eraser tool. If you want to delete any drawn pixel, then take the Eraser tool.Īnd make click on undesired pixels, but you will notice it will not erase pixel in one click. One block indicates one pixel, and once you make click with the pencil tool, it will draw like this. Now click on the square block of this grid. So this is a very important point during working on pixel art. If you increase the size of the pencil tip, it will cover more than one pixel according to size at a time. Take the size of the pencil tip as 1 so that I cover only 1 pixel in one click. We use a pencil tool to draw pixel art pixel art because if you use a brush tool, it gives you a feather in stroke, which will not create a pixel. If you do not get your set value of the grid, then close GIMP and restart it then, you will have this type of grid which is 1 x 1-pixel size. Then go to the Preferences option of the Edit menu.Ĭlick on the Default Grid option of this dialog box and set values of horizontal and vertical as 1, then hit Ok. Our requirement is 1×1 pixel size for pixel art, so if you get this type of large guide. This is not grid size, which we need for pixel art. Now go to the View menu and click on the Show Grid option of scroll down list for having a grid on our document.Īnd you will get your grid lines. Then take the position value of horizontal guide at 50 % of document size and hit Ok.Īgain go with the same option, and this time, choose vertical in this box and with 50 % value, hit Ok.

So for that, go to the Image menu and go to the Guides option, then click on New Guide (by Percent) option. Pixel art has the symmetrical design of any object so let us have a grid line to divide this document in two half horizontally and vertically. Now let us zoom in on a document for seeing it properly. We are using a white background layer just for having suitability during the drawing of pixel art. Now choose the transparency option in this dialog box and hit Ok. So click on Create New button of the layer panel for having a new layer above this white filled layer.

We will create our character of pixel art on a transparent layer so that we can use it on any background. Now we will get this type of document, which is very small.
