Pixel Art Books

There are shittons of pixel art tutorials online, but what about actual books? Here are the ones I know of (please share others with me).

How to

Learning Pixel Art by Max Hervieux (best value you will ever buy for $1, very recommended for intermediate–advanced artists, has a Pixel Joint approach/mentality to it)

Pixel Logic - A Guide to Pixel Art by @michafrar and plenty guest artists ($9 or more, lots of content, beautifully designed)

Designing Arcade Computer Game Graphics by Ari Feldman (a big old-school print book, more about game production rather than drawing, now free in digital form)

The Complete Guide to Isometric Pixel Art by Rhys Davies ($4, pretty basic)

Pixel Secrets by @binoftrash​ ($12, another collection of tutorials for beginners)

Pixel Art for Game Developers by Daniel Silver ($40, I didn’t buy it personally, others say it’s basic and overpriced)

Reference

Visual Compendium series (C64, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, NES, SNES) by Bitmap Books ($13 PDFs, $26–32 softcover, $40 hardcover, absolutely stunning design and print full of your favorite scenes and sprites from old video games)

The Masters of Pixel Art (vol 1 and 2) by Nicepixel Publications ($16 eBook (vol 2 only), $45 print, $57 bundle, lots of demo scene artists and art made to old computer specs)

The Art of The Pixel by Edge ($10 print, also digital in the Edge app, special edition magazine with features of many current pixel artists, includes my introduction)

Random

Coloriages pixels by @fulifuli ($12, puzzle-like coloring book)

8-Bit ABCs by John Freeborn (free eBook for showing pixel art to toddlers???)

Point & Click by @andrewscaife ($14, collection of Andrew Scaife’s point-and-click adventure mockups based on TV shows)

Lovely to be included on this list.

My book is out now!

A collection of pixel art, recreating my favourite TV shows as point and click adventure games.

http://www.comicsy.co.uk/andrewscaife/

My book is now on sale for £10, and I’ve reduced the postage for the UK.

http://www.comicsy.co.uk/andrewscaife/

I’m working on a book of pixel art, based on all my favourite TV shows.

The book’s called ‘Point & Click’ and I hope to have it finished by spring next year.

Today seemed like a good day to preview this picture.

Not long now!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a LucasArts point and click adventure game

This was a lot of fun to do. Particularly in thinking about which scenes to draw and also realising just how suitable the Buffy stories are to this type of game. There are so many objects and puzzles to solve. It made me think it would be a good writing exercise to take your story and see if it would fit into this type of game. If it can’t then I suspect it’s probably lacking a little narrative propulsion. 

There are many, many other scenes I could have chosen (I’d still like to do 70s Spike on the subway car) but I thought one for each season was nice.

Some I chose because I wanted to show a specific location. Some I chose based on a gag that I thought would be funny e.g. Cordelia’s spatula and Willow’s broken crayon.

Here’s each episode I used as reference:

Season 1 - Welcome to Hellmouth

Season 2 - Inca Mummy Girl

Season 3 - Homecoming

Season 4 - Hush

Season 5 - Triangle

Season 6 - Grave

Season 7 - Touched

Prints available here.

Where would I be without it.

http://www.comicsy.co.uk/andrewscaife/

Father’s Time by Allistair Mclean and Andrew Scaife

From the Psychedelic Journal of Time Travel #6

Buy it here: http://www.comicsy.co.uk/crazyfoxmachine/

Point & Click by @andrewscaife​ Andrew’s book of TV show recreations as adventure games is featured in the new photo review in Retronator Magazine. It also includes some delicate discussion around ‪pixel art‬ technique.

Read the full feature here.

Really nice and thorough review of my book here, thanks.

I hope the pixel art purists will forgive my transgressions.