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Digital art: pixels and screens — Art and painting for kids

A digital picture is made of pixels — tiny squares, each showing one colour. The more pixels a picture has (its resolution), the more detail it can show. Pixel art uses big, blocky pixels on purpose. In a drawing app you draw on a blank canvas, often with a stylus, a pen for a touchscreen.

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Tiny squares — “every digital picture is a grid of tiny coloured squares called pixels”

  1. Pixel = one tiny square of colour; resolution = how many pixels; more pixels = more detail.
  2. Canvas = the blank drawing area; stylus = a pen for a touchscreen; zoom changes the view, not the picture.
  3. Count pixel art like a grid: pixels across × pixels down (8 × 8 = 64).

Use it for: Starting with a drawing app or a paint program, making pixel art and understanding screens.

Worked example: 💻 Which digital art word means “a tiny square of colour”? → pixel

  1. Zoom in a lot on a screen picture and you see tiny squares.
  2. Each tiny square of colour is called a pixel.

Check: A pixel-art heart of 8 × 8 squares has 64 pixels ✓

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