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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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Latest CollabCollabers a new weekly challenge # Color Wheel
For this collab you get get to make one of these color wheel thingies that's all the rage on Squawker. The idea (i think) is you draw one character or thing that's mostly that color, in each section of the circle. You can alter the colors from the template, but you should still have a red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, and pink section, in the same spots. If you are colorblind and can't tell the difference between two sections, you may merge them into one. You subjects may leave their circles if you want. You may group up with others in the thread, or you can do it all solo!
Theme: 8 subjects, one of each color Canvas: must use attatched template Palette: no restriction Animation: allowed Entries: 1 max Deadline: July 16th Awards: 1st/2nd/3rd/Participant Submit: Post your scaled up entries in this thread
comment in the thread to join the fun!
Collab discussion takes place on our discord, join the server to participate!
Lospec Will No Longer Be Accepting AI Related Art Submissions
The Lospec Gallery will no longer accept art that uses AI as part of it's process. Previously we allowed this in the reduction category (although we never allowed purely AI generated images). This change is in response to requests from the community to change this rule due to unethical methods used to train AI image generation models, all of which at this time use images taken from artists without permission or compensation.
Thank you for your civil discourse and patience regarding this issue. If you would like to discuss this more, or anything else regardling Lospec's practices, please join the daily discussion on our discord! We are always open to hearing your thoughts.
Here's a list of all the biggest and best pixel art communities on the net.
They all have their strengths and weaknesses, and most people don't stick to just one, so browse around and check them out!
The Lospec Discord is a fun and friendly chatroom for people of all skill levels and interests.
We have boards for Pixel Art, Voxel Art, Palettes, Textmode, Low-poly, Chiptune, and other low-spec art, plus there's always an active collaboration, and channels for getting art feedback.
It's the best way to connect with other Lospec members and stay up to date with what's going on here, so drop in and say hello!
Twitter is great because you can gain followers and have your work seen by the most people, by breaking out of the pixel art sphere.
Lots of game developers and other low-spec artists to connect with. Make sure to use #pixelart on your posts!
Not great for getting critiques due to the format.
Reddit's /r/pixelart forum has over 100,000 members and has the potential to reach more, but most post stay within the smaller ecosystem which is filled pixel artists new and experienced.
Also one of the only places where it's really acceptable to share any pixel art you find elsewhere on the net. Great for beginners.
PixelJoint is a standalone gallery which has been around since 2004.
A little outdated, but still has the biggest (and highest quality) collection of pixel art on the net.
Pieces must meet the gallery's quality standards and be manually approved.
Also hosts a weekly pixel art challenge and has forums where users can get feedback on their work in progress art and discuss other related topics.
Now has it's own discord server.
An old but still active standalone forum which hosts lots of studies and deeper discussions of pixel art.
Has a place for feedback and non-pixel-art as well.
A discord server that started as a chatroom for /r/PixelArt but has taken on a life of it's own, it's pretty active place to get live feedback / share art.
A massive art site that hosts nearly all forms of visual art, including pixel art.
Has no posting requirements or moderation so it's not the greatest place to browse, but you can create your own gallery and amass followers.
A Japanese website that hosts user galleries for many visual art forms.
A bit tricky to navigate for english speakers, but lots of talented Japanese pixel artists post there (where it's known as dotpict).
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
(both of which were far simpler than they are now), 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!
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our next patreon goal: $353 / $500