About This Tool
- Choose a canvas size (8x8 up to 64x64) from the top toolbar
- Select a drawing tool from the left sidebar: pencil, eraser, fill, eyedropper, line, or rectangle
- Pick a color from the palette or use the custom color picker
- Click and drag on the canvas to draw pixels
- Add animation frames at the bottom strip and press Play to preview
- Export your artwork as a scaled PNG or animated GIF
- Creating sprites and icons for indie games
- Designing retro-style avatars and emojis
- Prototyping pixel animations and game assets
- Learning pixel art fundamentals and color theory
- Making animated GIFs for social media or messaging
- Use Mirror Mode to draw symmetric sprites twice as fast
- Enable Onion Skinning to line up animation frames precisely
- Zoom in to 16x for detailed work on small canvases
- Use the Fill bucket to quickly block in large color areas
- Export at 8x or 16x scale so pixels look crisp at full size
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