Normally, you want to limit yourself to a color palette. Back in the day, sprite size often dictated how many colors were on the palette as well. If a sprite was 16×16, that meant the artist had 16 colors to work with. Thankfully, technology has advanced since, and we're no longer...
Create grids to show for every pixel, and establish swatches for that limited-colour palette, retro pixel look. Discover more with Adobe Photoshop > Pixel art Illustrator tools. Using Adobe Illustrator to create pixel art means you can easily scale your finished piece for use online with no qua...
This is done through theSwatchespalette, which you can open via theWindow>Swatchesmenu. Select the small menu button to the top right of the palette and then clickLoad Swatches(it's calledOpen Swatch Libraryin Illustrator andAdd Swatchesin Fireworks). If you can't find the file, be sure t...