Artist Dado Almeida walks through making a 64×64 pixel portrait in CLIP STUDIO PAINT, covering a 1-pixel grid setup, turning off anti-aliasing, and cleaning linework by removing duplicate pixels and fixing curve pixel steps. Coloring starts from a limited NES-style palette, then covers value-based shading, manual anti-aliasing for soft transitions, and basic dithering to suggest gradients without extra colors.
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