JunkBoy

I highly recommend you check the JunkBoy profile at PixelJoint.com - there's some totally awesome pixel-art! (samples below).

Megapont

Let me introduce some really seriously amazing pixel artists from Russia - the Megapont team. You really need to check their site.

Jalonso at bugpixel.com

Check out some truly master pixel art by Jalonso at http://bugpixel.com. Totally blown my mind. Thanks for Iuri for sharing the link.

Pixelturtle

Please check some totally awesome pixelart by Pixelturtle - seriously good pixel-art.

Margus Teska

Here's some very nice pixel-art tv commercial made by Margus Teska for estonian tv.



You can also check Margus deviantart gallery.

Francis Coulombe

Some extremely good pixel art pieces from Francis Coulombe - animator, pixel artist and indie game designer.
Check his portfolio at frankiesmileshow.com

Ian Schlaepfer aka. Big Brother

Ian has got a great gallery of pixel art at his pixeljoint.com profile. A must see!

Adam "SpriterDex"

Well - SpriterDex pixels are pretty damn sweet. And since he's just 16 - who knows what he can achieve in 5 or 6 years?
In the meanwhile - check out his profile at DeviantArt.

VeryImportantPixels

Guys at VeryImportantPixels are creating a pixelized versions of the famous and important people (both real and fiction) - some of those are really cool!
Btw. There's a twitter contest going - 5 lucky winners will be pixelaized by VeryImporantPixels and placed on their site.

Juan Manuel Daporta

Juan Manuel Daporta is a great pixel art designer based in Venezuela. His pixel art building diorama got a Deviation of the Day award at deviantart.com - that's something!. Take a while and check his Deviant art gallery - it's really worth it.

Zi

Bulgarian pixel artist Zi has got some very pretty collection of his works at Pixeljoint and Deviantart. Those are really worth to check out.

AbyssWolf

I recently stumbled upon a deviantART gallery of AbyssWolf (He's a very talented, young spanish pixel artitis). Those pieces are quite amazing - check them out here.

Arjan Westerdiep - Drububu

Arjan Westerdiep is a pixel artist who creates beautiful, black&white pixel arts. There are some examples of his works on his website (as well as a very nice tutorial about basics of pixel art). His famous work is ic-project - huge illustration of a lighthouse made with only four colors! You can check the illustration here or head to the tutorial section of drububu.com.

Kevin Chaloux

Kevin Chaloux (also known as Kaiseto) is a young but extremely skilled pixel artist. You can check his gallery at pixeljoint or deviantart, or you might head straight to his page (there are some sweet tutorials).

Army of Trolls

Army of Trolls is a portfolio of London born artist Gary J Lucken. He's currently based in Switzerland and produces some very sweet pixel art. That's one of the "must see" portfolios.

Sexy pixels by Siren

Pixel artist Siren is specializing in a sophisticated pixel art female characters. Those are very well done (and sexy;). Check our Siren gallery at deviantart.com

Interview with Vital

Could you introduce yourself a little?
My name is Krzysztof Silski and I'm pixel designer based in Warsaw.
I'm also into hip-hop music (from time to time I'm performing on stage as HypeMan of my friend Med.
I also did some recordings on my own)



Why you interested in pixel art?
It was ages ago and I guess the console games and arcades (I've spent small fortune on those) have a huge
impact here. As soon as I got my first computer I've started to create my own games (didn't know it's called pixel art at that time;)

Could you tell us some more about one of your works?
My favourite is a piece called "Mecha". I've created it some 3 years ago, but I remeber it
pretty clearly. I've just sit down to my PC, launched Paint and figure out I want to create something
huge and scary - so I've started with big, red eye in the center. As the design developed my orginal concept of a
monster was changed to a robot. The piece turned out to be very nice (for my skills at that time).
It got a "pixel art of the week" award on pixeljoint - I couldn't have been happier.



What/Who is the inspiration for you?
Other people work I guess. I can browse the sites like deviantart for hours (checking up all type of
illustrations - not only pixel art). The pixel artists I admire are Ilkke, Jamon, Frost, Exocet and my buddy JohhnySpade.
When I was younger it was Tomasz "Slay" Pacyna who had huge impact on my style (and currently I have a pleasure in working with him).
Also - the element I can't live (and pixel) without is music.



Where we can check your artworks? Do you write any blog or twitter?
There's site pix.art.pl which is my home actually (great kudos to all the people who helped me there) and pixeljoint.com.
From time to time I use digart.pl as well, but I don't really pay that attention to that site. I plan to create my own portfolio (should I mention that
I plan that for few years now?:)



What's the biggest problem you have in your work?
Everything;) I guees animation is something I have to improve. When I need to do some animations at work I tend to smash the pencils and rip my hair apart.



Any plans for the future? Any interesting projects?
I plan to continue my career with pixel art for mobile games, but the things are changing pretty fast in this sector (most mobile phones are capable of rendering 3d). As for other plans - I'm going to get married;) There's also a revolutionary project I'm doing with my friends, which will bring us all a huge pile of money. Fingers crossed for that;)

Retinal Eclipse

Agnes, a Norwegian pixel-art designer is creating a excellent (and quite disturbing) pixel art.
Please check her site http://www.retinaleclipse.com for more.

Dan Fessler

New York based pixel artist Dan Fessler has got some beautiful pixel art on his site. Check it out!.

Derek Yu - http://www.derekyu.com

Derek Yu is a very well know illustrator and pixel artist. Checkout his pixel-art portfolio or blog.