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How to Make Pixel Art Sprites Online

Pixel art is having a moment — and you can make it free in your browser, no download required. Here's how to draw clean sprites, animate them, and even generate them with AI, then export game-ready PNGs, sprite sheets, and GIFs.

Start in Pixel Studio

Open PaintLasso Pixel Studio — a free, browser-based pixel art maker. Choose a canvas size to begin: 16×16 and 32×32 are great for icons and small sprites, 64×64 and up for detailed characters.

Draw pixel-perfect. The pencil places one crisp pixel at a time; fill flood-fills areas; the eyedropper samples colors.
Use a palette. Working from a fixed palette is the secret to cohesive pixel art — lock one and shade with ramps.
Zoom and pan freely with the scroll wheel, and mirror your strokes for symmetric designs.

Animate your sprite

Pixel Studio has a frame timeline with onion skin so you can see the previous and next frames while you draw. Add frames, set your FPS, and hit play to preview a walk cycle or idle animation.

Generate sprites with AI

Short on time or ideas? The new AI Sprites tool lets you bring your own PixelLab API key, describe a sprite (“a knight with a sword”), and generate pixel art right into your inventory — then click or drag it onto the canvas to keep editing by hand.

Export game-ready art

Scaled PNG — export at 1×, 4×, 8× for crisp, non-blurred pixels.
Sprite sheet — all frames in one image, ready for a game engine.
Animated GIF — share your animation anywhere.

Make pixel art now — free

Pixel-perfect tools, frames + animation, palettes, and AI sprites — all in your browser. No download.

Open Pixel Studio →