How to Make Pixel Art in Adobe Illustrator Tutorial 

Awesome to hear Fabian!

Excellent tip, thanks for sharing!

Please show this

@@DailyInterestingStoriesByMe I think the method shown in this video is terrible, here's a better tutorial I found ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x-QnptGi68c.html

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Great to hear!

Well, there's a way I know which is much faster. First, you want to set your Preferences set Units of measurement to Point which is like one pixel... for your Grid and Guides to Gridline every = 1pt... and Subdivisions = 1pt. In the toolbar at the top select View and in the dropdown menu select both Snap to Grid and Show Grid. This way you can make a square that's 1x1 pixel in size, click on it, then hold Alt while pressing the arrow keys which will make copies. If you group them, you can make your colors into clusters of pixels. Then, just make a compound shape... If you don't know how then follow these steps: Select the group of squares you want to transform into a shape. In the Pathfinder menu, select the icon that looks like two rectangles being combined. Hidden in the top right of that little menu you'll see an arrow pointing down with four parallel horizontal lines... click on that. Select Make Compound Shape from this dropdown. Now press the Expand button in the menu. You've just made a shape from pixels basically. I do this all the time. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CZl11NTDw-g.html

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Oh course Bohdan, glad you enjoyed it. :)

Thank you very much Helen! :)

Interesting! I was not familiar with aseprite, but it looks great. Aseprite seems much more focused on building sprites for games, so I think it will come down to what your desired output is. Can it export in vector formats? If not, then that would be the benefit to Illustrator. If yes, then it's probably down to personal preference if art is the goal. It seems like Aseprite would clearly be better if you're making sprites for games.

The two methods that I showed in the video are the ones that came to my mind. There may be other better ways though - perhaps someone else can answer to help. :)