# How to make good pixel art in 4 steps
**URL:** https://forum.makecode.com/t/how-to-make-good-pixel-art-in-4-steps/26337
**Category:** MakeCode Blog
**Tags:** game, art
**Created:** [January 25, 2024, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/how-to-make-good-pixel-art-in-4-steps/26337 "2024-01-25T22:30:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@goldtopaz](https://forum.makecode.com/u/goldtopaz)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2024, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/how-to-make-good-pixel-art-in-4-steps/26337/1 "2024-01-25T22:30:55Z")
1. find the most amount of colors that match each other to make a color that either a primary, secondary, or third set of colors that I forgot the name of
2. use pillow shading look it up(only if it’s a shiny object)
3. go to goggle images and look a real life image and try coping most of the little details of it
4. circle= appealing , triangles = dangerous, cube = strong
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### Author:  [@DangerNoodle](https://forum.makecode.com/u/DangerNoodle)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2024, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/how-to-make-good-pixel-art-in-4-steps/26337/2 "2024-01-25T23:36:46Z")
tertiary is the word you’re looking for
don’t know why I know that
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### Author:  [@randomuser](https://forum.makecode.com/u/randomuser)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2024, 12:37am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/how-to-make-good-pixel-art-in-4-steps/26337/3 "2024-01-26T00:37:11Z")
Oo pillow shading! Cool!
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### Author:  [@CodeOnTheCob](https://forum.makecode.com/u/CodeOnTheCob)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/how-to-make-good-pixel-art-in-4-steps/26337/4 "2025-02-26T17:58:49Z")
this is dead but could anybody give more tips I only be on makecode for around a month
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### Author:  [@Josef](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Josef)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/how-to-make-good-pixel-art-in-4-steps/26337/5 "2025-03-29T00:47:56Z")
Use a custom Color pallete dark ones are the trend