Digital Art
Beginner
60 mins
Teacher/Student led
+75 XP
What you need:
Chromebook/Laptop/PC or iPad/Tablet

Designing a Pixel Landscape

In this lesson, you'll have a blast creating your own pixel art landscape! You'll learn how to use digital tools and your creativity to design a landscape, pixel by pixel.
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    1 - Setting Up Piskel

    1. Open a web browser and go to Piskelapp.com.
    2. Click on 'Create Sprite' to start a new project.

    2 - Resize the drawing area

    We need some space to create our landscape so we will need to resize the drawing area and make it bigger.

    Set it to be width: 100 height: 32.


    3 - Designing the Sky

    Select a color for the sky from the color palette.

    Click on the paint bucket tool and then click on the canvas to fill it with the selected color.


    4 - Creating the Ground

    Select a different color for the ground.

    Use the pencil tool to draw the ground at the bottom of your canvas.


    5 - Adding Trees & Plants

    Choose colors for the trees and plants.

    Draw trees and plants on the ground using the pencil tool.


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