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Welcome to Lospec, a home for digitally restrictive art. We create online tools for people creating pixel art and other restrictive digital art.
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New Queue Voting Feature To Help Speed Up Approval Process
A new feature has been added to Lospec that allows all users to vote on submissions in a queue. You can vote for or against a piece being published. This will help good submissions be published faster, and will help moderators make decisions by floating the easiest ones to the top. The queues will now be sorted by votes first, and submission time second.
Keep in mind we approve pieces not based on quality, but whether the submissions follow all the rules for that type of content - so this is how you should vote too. A bad submission with a high vote count will not be immediately approved, and a good submission with a negative score will not be immediately rejected.
In the future this may be improved to be split between each rule, or may trigger automatic approval, but we'll need adequate participation in the voting process before we can consider that.
The voting system is theoretically easy to add to any piece of content or any other place on the site, so if you have some ideas for where else we could use this, let us know!
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The Final Nail In X's Coffin - Rise of the Bluesky
I'm sure by now you've heard of the downfall of twitter, one of the already most controversial websites. In April 2022, the 2nd generation Apartheid billionaire Elmo Musk bought the website for $44 billion dollars.
Since then, Leon has made a series of changes to the site, which made it clear his mission was never to improve the website, but instead mold it into his own personal playground, that reflected his world views and prioritized protecting "free speech" (hate speech) and
With each change he made, the site got more toxic as more good people left, and now it has become far more toxic than it ever was before (and it already had a reputation for being a horrible place).
Yesterday Twitter announced some changes to their Terms of Service which removed the ability for users to opt out of allowing their content to be used to train twitters AI product, Grock.
In response, Lospec has decided to remove it's social media links to these platforms. So if you look at the footer of Lospec now, you'll see Bluesky and Mastodon have replaced the Twitter and Reddit links. We've also changed the hashtag links on palette pages to prioritize other social media websites - and will remove X in a few months when the last few stragglers finally admit that it's dead.
In the meantime, we highly reccomend moving your social media presense to Bluesky - which has had a huge bump in users over the past day due to these changes - or Mastodon another great well-established option.
For similar reasons (forced AI training, shutting down of APIs, toxic user behavior) we've also shut down the /r/Lospec feed on Reddit, disassociated from /r/PixelArt and will no longer cater to that website.
If you log into Lospec via Twitter or Reddit, I highly reccomend you switch to using another platform such as Discord or Reddit, just to be safe.
Hopefully this is not the end of good social media, but rather the beginning.
Lospec is an independent website, created in in 2017 by a bird named skeddles. It was founded on the idea that the
internet needs a more modern place to share pixel art, and other similar but less represented art forms.
When we launched we only had the palette list and the Lospec Pixel Editor,
but over the years we've added many more tools and features.
In January of 2020 we launched our first kickstarter, to help fund the Lospec Gallery. After 2 years the gallery was finally released
in January of 2023, and continues to be updated with new features and improvements. Our mission to continue to improve the site and
add new tools and features that help people create and share art. We are funded mainly by donations, so if you believe in what we're doing
please considering becoming a member of our patreon (which will let you browse the site ad-free).
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Pixel Art Tutorials
Over 500 tutorials!
The biggest collection of pixel art tutorials on the net! Search by topic, author or medium to find the perfect article, video, image or book for you.
A searchable collection of palettes for pixel art. Every palette can be downloaded in 6 different formats, and imported into nearly any software used to create pixel art.
An active community of all kinds of low-spec artists. Get feedback, share progress, join our daily art streams, play games, argue about the definition of pixel art, and much more!
I make simple pixel art when im bored (so very often) and am working on a retro narrative game called tearrot
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