Piskel

Piskel is a simple, online tool that allows you to create 2D pixel art and animations within your browser.

The site also allows the option for you to download a copy of Piskel to your desktop, making the program available offline as well. The program is easy to use and offers many features, such as the ability to live preview your animations and the ability to save and export your images and gifs to easily distribute and share.

Piskel has an easy to use interface with a variety of tools that can be used in the creation of your pixel art.

By using the variety of tools located in the tool bar on the left-hand side of the screen, you can draw and colour the pixel art you choose to create.

The upper right-hand corner contains the live preview box, where you can view the image and can preview the animation, and select how many frames per second you want your animation to cycle. The more frames per second, the faster your frames will cycle, so take that into account and preview your animation before you export.

The far right-hand side has the tools used for exporting your finished image or gif.

The grid area allows the user to draw their pixel art, in the default size of 32px x 32px. This can be edited in the preferences section as I prefer to work with a screen of 100px x 100px.