Pixel Art

The piece I'm working on now is on the chawls of Mumbai: corresponding life in the chawls to a game. A battle against time, a battle for space. Hence I'm using the gaming style.

I'm trying a style I've always wanted to do: Pixel Art. Pixel art is art drawn pixel by pixel and can be done on most graphics packages. Its quite time consuming, but the final effect looks great. The final result has a very video-game feel, 2d feel.

Technically, its based on an isometric grid: thats just like the stuff engineers work on. A little research on pixel art and i found that its like a whole universe of pixel artists out there. Pixel art uses the isometric view: an engineering technique that is a perspectiveless view. Everything is based on a diamond grid at an angle of 30 degrees. (on the comp, its at 26.565 degrees to be exact).