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BY JENNIFER NEWELL
An Easier Way to Get a Nice Lawn In February’s issue of beanz we introduced the basics of pixel art using Piskel. For June, we will build off of February’s article and create a pixelated scene that can be used in a Scratch project. Our goal is to make a tiled ground such as the one shown below: A To start, we will go to Piskel (https://www.piskelapp.com/) and log in. If you do not have an
account, go ahead and make one before starting a project. To start a new project, click the yellow Create Sprite button. On the right side of the screen find the gear image that represents the Preference section of the site. B When Preferences opens, find the Grid tab. Be sure to check the Enabled grid box. C Next, choose the smallest grid size and the smallest grid spacing.D
Finally, find the Resize option and set the grid to 16 x 16. Click the yellow Resize button to save this grid size. Now it is time to choose a color for the ground. In this example we will make grass on dirt, so we start with brown. E Once we find a hue of brown that we’re happy with, we can fill in the entire grid with one click by using the paint bucket tool. F
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