Dithering-Pixel-Brushes-pixelglade

Content ID:1751628

  • 13,539
  • Free

This is a pixel art brush set by pixelglade with multiple styles of dithering brushes. Dithering is a technique used for making gradients using a minimal colour palette and involves a series of dots (or squares) - the pixels - organized in patterns to suggest density. The brushes were inspired by NEC-PC-98 and FM-Towns games for PC such as YU-NO. I used some of these brushes to make the sky gradient in the cover artwork.

Make retro-style pixel art with these dithering brushes!


Here are some tips on using these brushes.

First, how are the brushes made?


(Above) These brushes were made by uploading a texture of the pattern.


(Above) Each brush has a preview image instead of the pen icon. This is to make it easy to see which brush you have selected. You can see this again in the image below:


(Above) This is a image preview for the 50 percent 50/50 dither pattern.


(Above) The reverse density button is important if you want to flip the texture to the inverse.


(Above) The default circle brush is used for many brushes, but some use squares (below). Feel free to change it as you like.


A recommended way of organising these brushes is like so:


(Above) To create a gradient, you can make a layer mask and use a parallel linear ruler to keep the pattern aligned. Turning off pen pressure can help as well if you want a specific size gradient.


(Above) If you want to keep the brush strokes horizontal or vertical, the Ruler functions help a lot.

I hope you have fun making pixel art!

DitheringBrushes-1-pixelglade

Update history

2025-07-07 - Updated the description and cover image.

Content ID:1751628

Published : 5 years ago

Last updated : 5 days ago

pixelglade's profile Go to profile

He/him. Pixel Artist // Illustrator. Anime and manga art, PC-98 style pixelart. Small web hobbyist.