7/9/2023 0 Comments Hexels make pixels largerThere is a robust set of options for setting things like document qualities, colour and ‘glow’. The normal copy/paste options are present too, but there are no transform (flip, mirror, resize) options – presumably this would have been tricky to implement, and its absence is hardly a showstopper. There are also some you might not expect, like a handy ‘magic wand’ selection tool, or tool to paint just the borders of the hexagon/triangle/whatever. The tools are also mostly what you might expect: paint, line, erase, fill, select, etc. If you can use MS Paint, you’ll manage here. Hexels adheres to the normal sort of drawing app conventions, and as a result it’s very intuitive to use. And if that’s not enough, you can define custom shapes – more on that below. In fact, Hexels goes beyond hexagons, offering several different shapes to draw with, including my personal favourites, triangles (see right). Hexels is a tool that tries to make this as painless as possible. So while pixel art involves painstakingly assembling squares to form pictures, hexel art involves assembling hexagons. So, what’s a hexel? Well, it’s the hexagonal equivalent of the regular square pixel. Again we’re in the realm of the virtual with a review of Hexels, a new grid-based digital drawing tool from Hex-Ray Studios. Tooling Around is an occasional series of posts talking about art/craft tools – physical and virtual.
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