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Course Description: Pixel Painting - Virginia Price and Sheryl Redden

$25.00

Pixel art is a form of digital art using the paint brush tool to place 1-by-1 pixels on a page to create an image or object. The use of other tools such as the Bucket–fill, Path Drawing tool, Outline Drawing tool and the Magic Wand can also be used.

This course will teach you what we have learned about Pixel Art in our several years of exploration of this recent art form. We hope you come away with a better understanding of pixel art.

Subjects covered:

Paint Brush and its settings
How and why to paint in Mode
How to use and create your own color palette
Pixel lines
Pixel Block
Color and Shading
Game board
Other Pixel Shapes
Dithering your Pixel Art
Pixel Grid
Textures and Patterns
Making Dolls
Making a Playhouse, Animals and a Pond
Putting it all together!

Week 1—Paint Brush and settings
- Pixel Lines
- Creating a Block
- Adding Color
- Making a pixel block
- Creating a Game Board
Week 2—Creating other shapes
- Creating Shapes / Dithering
- Pyramid
- Circle
- Cylinder
Week 3—Easy trees, flowers and grass
- Flowers
- Trees
- Leaves
- Grass
Week 4—Grids and Textures
- Grids
- Wall
- Wood
- Rocks
Week 5—Making Dolls
- Doll Base
- Coloring the Base
- Dressing your Doll
- Accessories
Week 6—Making kids, a playhouse, animals and a pond
- Making Kids
- Making a Playhouse
- Making Cute Animals
- Making a Pond
- Putting it all together

Time needed for each lesson: Varies with the individual, but estimated at 3-4 hours per week.

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