PIXEL ART DEFINITION

Pixel Art is the visual artistical style where the images are done using only pixels as building blocks.

They’re drawn with graphic software, but the concept may be expanded: Pixel Art is a aesthetical and cultural language that is based on the original idea of placing small colored dots, mostly squares, on this 2d grid with a recognizible visual outcome.

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Pixel = Pix + El = Picture + Element. Pixel is Picture Element.

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Pixels are the smallest graphic elements either on a raster image or on a dot matrix display device. It can also be defined as the “smallest single component of a digital image”. The pixel have information. It can be:

1. color information (which includes opacity);

2. and position on the screen or image (which can be height or width). 

Therefore, a small pixel is fundamental of all pixel art. And the pixel art, the language and technique of placing these pixels with artistical purpose by a human or a computer designed by a human.