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3 Major Mistakes Pixel art Beginners make and how to avoid them

Pixel art can look deceptively easy. You might think because it's low resolution it will hide the fact that you’re an ametur artist. This is not the case, more experienced artists can spot a noob from miles away. There are three main short-comings that beginner pixel artists make that I will go over plus some tips and tricks to help you along on your pixel art journey. Let me start first by saying I'm not claiming to be a pixel art master by any means. I only recently started doing pixel art for game development so what I'm sharing with you isn't strictly my own advice but advice I picked up on by reading many pixel art tutorials which I will link to at the bottom of the page. As a game developer I know how precious time is so I'm going to try to condense down what I found to be the most important, useful information from these sources so you don't have to read through them all, (but you probably should anyway). Egregious Pixel Art Sin #1

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