Im looking for resources into the basics of creating 2D pixel art to create game sprites?

Can anyone recommend any good websites, ebooks or books that would be an excellent introduction of how to create pixel art/2D sprites?





Obviously practise, practise, practise but any other resources would be useful. A good book would be useful to read when having downtime away from the pc.





Thanks|||This pixel art tutorial was one of the better ones I've found. The guy's pixel art is pretty sweet too.





http://www.derekyu.com/?page_id=218