# Pixel Art × Voxel Art — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=pixel-art+voxel-art
# Pixel Art carries the structure and Voxel Art appears as the accent.
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images that take their structure from Pixel Art (technique, 1970s–) and their accent from Voxel Art (style, 1990s–).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing Pixel Art exists for: icons and controls for small screens that stay clean when scaled up, or game characters and terrain that must read apart at tiny sizes. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from Pixel Art

- Visible pixels
- Limited palettes
- Tiles
- Sprites

Composition: Scale only by whole multiples and keep every element on grid. Type and lettering: Draw letters on the same grid, fixing cap height in pixels.

## Accent comes from Voxel Art, used sparingly

- Contours and surfaces exposing equal cubes
- Curves translated into stepped volume
- A small restricted palette applied face by face
- Box-like scenes read in orthographic or weak perspective

Let one material quality come from it: Fix voxel size and palette first, leaving slopes and curves as stepped volumes rather than subdividing them away.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #f3d36b, carry the structure in #ef6a55 and #26243f, and let a single accent come from #D96D43. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: play, nostalgia, technique.

## Where they fight

- Pixel Art and Voxel Art both belong to Digital Image Techniques, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.

## What goes wrong

- Pixel Art: Downscaling a photograph skips the decision behind every single pixel, and the contours turn muddy the moment the image is enlarged.
- Voxel Art: Square-looking low polygons are not voxel art. Form must be constructed from occupied units of a regular three-dimensional grid.

## Across the four

Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period languages described above.

Design specs for each entry: https://indexstyle.org/styles/pixel-art/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/voxel-art/design.md