what programs do you use for pixel art?

[Zunne]

I still use good ol' MS Paint, the old Windows XP version. It has absolutely no features and that's what I love about it. Left click = colour, right click = background and I almost exclusively use the line tool. If/when I want to fine-tune the colours I open the image in Photoshop.

Ah yes, good old pixel art that look like Little Timmy made it on Windows XP! (Positive)

[Memory]

i mostly just use KDE Kolourpaint (like MS Paint but for GNU/Linux and etc) for it since it's familiar enough and not a nightmare like Photoshop, GIMP, or Krita are. i just prefer how simple it is..

like, i can do some art with it, it's not looking like a doodle usually. but usually Kolourpaint is for shitposts like the modified camerupt sprite that i attached.
it's also great for me when i wanna just do little touchups to some things. like move a couple pixels away or pick a colour's HEX code or something.

if i myself make pixel art from scratch on it, i can make some G/S/C-esque sprites, but not radioactive colours. i did modify a sprite of the player-character from Platinum though, and i think they turned out well even tho i only used KP :P

[Daryl Sun]

Currently I use Aseprite, after seeing it recommended by many Stardew Valley pixel artists. It's very intuitive to use

Before, however, I used Pixelorama, which took me a while to figure out because it had so many functions, but it's decent as well.

[XEmoCatX]

I used Adobe Photoshop on my school computer to draw a character sprite sheet for my school project back in 2022. I like how my character sprite sheet turned out and I think Adobe Photoshop is pretty good for it. 

[WhiteFelineWonder]

I used to use Piskel many years ago when I used to do sprites of Sonic, but ever since I switched to using Linux I use, or well used to use LibreSprite. I got tired of it crashing whenever I wanted to open more than two files at a time (since LS is an old version of AS iirc), so eventually I switched to Aseprite. While I don't do any sort of custom sprites or pixel art like I used to, it's been instrumental in getting graphics for my site and other things done. Very useful and versatile.

[haumeaGeth]

I'm the little freak that uses pixilart.com. I'd like to try an actual art program at some point, but I don't do pixel art too often, so I haven't really had a use for one yet. pixilart.com is simple, free, has all the tools I've needed, and that's about all there is to say on the matter!

[Memory]

everyone else using dedicated apps, popular well-known apps, or dedicated websites for pixel art
and then me who uses an MS Paint clone.

okay look i don't care for spending money on a dedicated program okay? i just find it kinda funny.

we should make a ring specifically for those who use MS Paint, KolourPaint, JS Paint, and Paint.NET /hj

[AY38910]

everyone else using dedicated apps, popular well-known apps, or dedicated websites for pixel art
and then me who uses an MS Paint clone.

okay look i don't care for spending money on a dedicated program okay? i just find it kinda funny.

we should make a ring specifically for those who use MS Paint, KolourPaint, JS Paint, and Paint.NET /hj

And then me using Moebius or sometimes literally just Notepad and echoing it to terminal

[Slix]

Pixelmator Pro for me! Before that, I used Pixelmator (Classic) for everything pixel related. It's nice because it's a one-time payment app for the Mac, and then it's yours!

[crash-stop]

Not necessarily pixel art, more pixel art like - theres a terminal program called chafa ( available on debian etc) which renders an image within a bash terminal in colour or not depending on how you use it , easy enough to save to image afterwards using scrot or screen capture of your choice. Ive started using it in my own glitch work as I like the aesthetic it gives. Info about chafa here  https://hpjansson.org/chafa/

[crash-stop]

There's also this terminal based pixel art editor I just came across , havent used it yet , have to upgrade to debian 13 to install it but it looks pretty darn useful https://durdraw.org/