I was thinking back to the time I posted to when I was having issues with white fuzz appearing whenever I used the bucket tool on my artworks, but… I remembered something that I believe @michelist mentioned about the way the software itself works.
I think Krita is supposed to be something called a “rasterization” program? which means that the canvas is actually composed of extremely small pixels to make an image, this made me realize, could pixel art theoretically be possible?
I’m unsure how you’d set this up since trying to do pixel art intentionally with my normal settings doesn’t really work out so well, but have people made pixel art with krita in the past? and if so, what settings or things do I need to alter/edit to be able to do so myself?
Of course, it is possible, and we have some users regularly posting their works in the Artwork-Categories of this forum.
Krita itself has a few pixel-art brush presets and there are more to get in Brushes and Bundles, which is a subcategory of the Resources-Category.
You must obey that the smallest unit you can use in pixel-art is the pixel, so 1 single dot, this means, you have to plan before you begin your works and ask yourself: “What is the smallest thing I want to show in my work?”! Depending on your skills in composition and planning, it may be a good idea to begin with this tiniest thing you want to display. And to see your pixels on canvas, you just need to zoom in, more and more until Krita will show the canvas to you full of squares, these are the pixels you will work with. When painting slants you will see no clear line but stairs, that is an unavoidable effect (Unless you go up in size and put every single pixel on a canvas of 2Mega-Pixel, which can be viewed like most pictures posted in the forum, to create a large image “Impressionistic” with pixels. But I’m sure others know better than I do, and whether this is common or not).
Here you’ll find an example of over 8 mega-pixel, in this one you can see the stair-effect very clearly, even animations can be found in pixel-art like this one, or this, or this masterpiece.
In principle, you are now ready to begin, maybe you want to watch some tutorials on the topic on YouTube beforehand.
Most definitely Krita can be used for Pixel Art. Just search n the pixel-art tag! I use it for all my pixel Art so that I have just the one tool between Digital painting and Pixel Art. There are some things that are harder e.g. using fixed palettes, keeping colours limited in number and avoiding unwanted transparency, but Krita is immensely powerful for getting the colours just so and dealing with transparency when you want it, like the Angel here: Tropical Collab . In that collaboration I was using Krita and I believe my collabrator was using Pixel Studio. You can see in the last frame where I have tweaked all the colours, something that is much harder to do in Pixel Art tools.
I suggest starting with canvas sizes n bigger than 128x128 pixels.
There are many things I have fund that help to better the experience of creating with Krita, which is not optimised for Pixel Art and i will try and find where I have recorded them and list them here.
My first: Lizard Pixel Art Tips for Pixel Art Pixel perfect line setting for pixel art brushes