Pixel Art, as defined by Wikipedia is “a form of digital art, created through the use of raster graphics software, where images are edited on the pixel level”.

Pixel Art started back in 1972 with Richard Shoup’s SuperPaint application developed at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. The term “Pixel Art” was originally coined by Adele Goldberg and Robert Flegal of in 1982, also at Xerox PARC.

Today, it’s used widely in games and graphic design. We’ve compiled a gallery of 30 wonderful examples of Pixel Art, from artists such as Gary J Lucken, Rhys Davies, Tim Lai, “foolstown“, Paul Stride-Noble and eBoy. — read on for the full gallery.

Vector art, according to Wikipedia; “is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon(s), which are all based on mathematical equations, to represent images in computer graphics”. Read on for 25 great examples of colorful vector art.