I made something similar a while back: <a href="http://jathu.me/pixels/" rel="nofollow">http://jathu.me/pixels/</a><p>Check the source: <a href="https://github.com/jathu/pixels" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jathu/pixels</a>. You can also undo/redo by pressing z and y on the keyboard.
It always makes me smile when I hear the term "8-bit" used to describe art. The strict hardware and software limitations of early computers spawned a complete visual aesthetic!
aseprite [0] a great open source (desktop) pixel art editor<p>[0] - <a href="http://www.aseprite.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.aseprite.org/</a>
Great work @jennmoneydollars! This is fun.<p>I feel that I missed my calling as an artist. <a href="http://imgur.com/zxE2QKC" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/zxE2QKC</a>
If you have any problems, open an issue on GitHub (jennschiffer/make8bitart) or tweet at @jennschiffer. She's about to have time to work on stuff soon hopefully.
My personal favorite: <a href="http://www.danielx.net/pixel-editor/" rel="nofollow">http://www.danielx.net/pixel-editor/</a><p>Source: <a href="https://github.com/STRd6/pixel-editor/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/STRd6/pixel-editor/</a><p>Let me know if you want any tips for reliable undo, Bresenham's line algo, or flood fill.
Cool. This works pretty well with a Surface pen. The only limitation seems to be that it doesn't recognize the eraser as distinct from the tip; it would be neat if the eraser would draw the transparent color.
Check out also Draw![0], you can use it to draw tiny pixel art pictures and GIF animations.<p>Update: I made a while ago to experiment with Redis and the <canvas> element. The code is open source at <a href="https://github.com/potomak/drawbang" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/potomak/drawbang</a>.<p>[0] <a href="http://drawbang.com" rel="nofollow">http://drawbang.com</a>
Getting around the challenges of portably saving files from a JS application by using imgur's API is clever- I may use the same idea in a project I'm working on. I make little coding sandbox things and allowing users to easily record gifs or screenshots without a separate tool would be a boon.
The auto-upload to imgur is a nice touch!<p>This is me: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/5JUJt5g.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/5JUJt5g.png</a>
Well gee, as long as we're adding our competing projects in the comments, here's mine:<p><a href="http://pix.pe" rel="nofollow">http://pix.pe</a>
The flood-fill tool seems a little slow. It seems like it is doing something much more complicated than I would expect (simple breadth-first search) - and I get some weird results with different brush sizes.