Gemstone pixel art

A faceted blue gem with a bright sparkle, like a treasure in a video game.

Preview of the finished gemstone pixel art
How it looks finished (rendered from the chart)
Pattern details
Size16 × 16 pixels
Colours5 · hex colours
Total pixels132
DifficultyEasy (2/5)
Finished size16 × 16 px
LicenceCC BY-NC 4.0 — free for personal use with credit

Materials

ColourCodeNamePixelsShareAmount
#1111224635%46 px
#33BBEE4131%41 px
#77EEFF2519%25 px
#1177BB1814%18 px
#FFFFFF22%2 px

About this design

The gem has a classic brilliant-cut silhouette: a flat table on top, a horizontal girdle line and a pointed base. Facets are shown in three blues, lightest on the left and darkest on the right, with white sparkle pixels near the top.

How to use it

Use it as a game collectible, a reward chart sticker or a birthstone card. Recolour it red for ruby, green for emerald or purple for amethyst in the editor and make a set of fuse bead jewels.

Size and bead counts

The picture fills 132 of the 256 squares in its grid, within an area 16 squares wide and 13 tall; the rest stay empty. It uses 5 colours: black 46 (#111122), teal 41 (#33BBEE), light teal 25 (#77EEFF), blue 18 (#1177BB), white 2 (#FFFFFF). Made with 5 mm fuse beads it measures about 8.0 × 6.5 cm and fits on one standard 29 × 29 pegboard. Stitched on 14-count Aida it is about 2.9 × 2.4 cm, or 3.7 × 3.0 cm on 11-count, so add a few centimetres of fabric on every side for the hoop.

Colour chart for gemstone pixel art with a bold line every 8
Colour chart preview. The PDF adds symbols, row and column numbers and the full key.

Colour plan

#111122 does the most work, 35% of the 132 pixels, followed by #33BBEE at 31%. #FFFFFF (2) is used only a little: small details worth marking on the chart so you don't miss them. 48% of the grid is left empty.

Working notes

It is 16 × 16 pixels; at 8× scale it becomes 128 × 128. The busiest row changes colour 9 times.

This is an original CraftPatterns design, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0: stitch it, share it and gift what you make — please credit craftpatterns.app and don't sell the pattern itself. Want to change it? Open it in the pixel art editor.

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