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Charcoal drawing pixel art with AI

Retro sprites and scenes with a limited palette. In a charcoal drawing style: smudged, moody tones on rough paper.

Prompts to start from

Each one is a pixel art subject with the charcoal drawing style words added: charcoal drawing, smudged, textured paper

1. pixel art village at night, charcoal drawing, smudged, textured paper Try it
2. 8 bit knight sprite, charcoal drawing, smudged, textured paper Try it
3. pixel art coastal cliff with a lighthouse, charcoal drawing, smudged, textured paper Try it

Settings

• Shape: square. Use 1024x1024 on standard models or 2048x2048 on the 2K model.
• Cheapest way to try it: Fluently XL at $0.010 an image, so $0.10 for ten.
• New accounts get 3 free images a day on the cheaper models.

Tips

• State the colour count.
• Models approximate pixel grids, so clean up in a pixel editor.
• Mention smudging.
• Rough paper adds grain.

Pick a model

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