Use two lighter versions of black (grey and light grey) to indicate where the light source illuminates the character or elements within the composition.Refine shapes to be nearer the real forms.Draw shapes using basic forms: square, rectangle, triangle, circle, etc in black color.It looks very simple but it really produces great results: This is a deceivingly powerful process for doing pixel art. It also looks awesome and it has that little bit of nostalgia that you can rarely find anywhere else. Pixel Art is a very interesting form of art because it has very hard constraints, which make it very challenging and, at the same time, very approachable (since you only need to fill at most 16x16=256 pixels with colors). If you’re born in the 80s like I am, you’ll look at these graphics with lots of nostalgia as it is the defining aesthetic of 8-bit and 16-bit games we use to play as children in Arcade machines and video gaming consoles like the NES, SNES, NeoGeo, Sega Genesis, etc. Pixel Art is a form of digital art where art is created by editing pixels normally at very small scales. Because of that, if you are interested in learning pixel art, I strongly recommend you this course from Udemy: Learn to Create Pixel Art For Your Game run by game developer and artist HeartBeast. Pixel art is a very visual endeavor and it is easier to learn about it by seeing someone do it and practicing than by reading a collection of tips and scripts.

Pixel art master course