Halloween pixel art: pumpkin, haunted house, ghost

Nine 8-bit Halloween pieces — a glowing carved pumpkin, a haunted house on a hill, and a small blushing ghost — each drawn with crisp square pixels and no anti-aliasing, in a four-colour retro console palette, a monochrome handheld palette, and a richer dithered 16-bit palette. Every piece is magnified large enough to read the grid.

• a retro-game-styled Halloween wallpaper
• a pixel art print or poster
• a sprite reference for a game jam
• a profile picture or banner for a gaming account

Frequently asked questions

Is this real pixel art, or a filter over a photo?

Real pixel art — every piece is drawn on a crisp square grid with no anti-aliasing or smoothing, the way a retro console sprite is built.

What's the difference between the three palettes?

Four-color retro uses a strict console-style palette, monochrome handheld uses four shades of one color like an old handheld screen, and vibrant 16-bit adds richer dithered shading.

Can I use this as a game sprite?

The pieces are delivered as finished illustrations, not sliced sprite sheets — they work well as reference art, wallpapers, or prints, and as a starting point if you redraw them into a sprite.

What size are the files?

Nine square image files, each magnified large so the pixel grid is sharp and visible rather than shrunk down.

About toile

This page is a showcase and a starting point: nine samples already rendered, three readings of the pack crossed with three styles, each shown at the size and ratio it was made for. Take any of them further on the wall with a few words, or ask for all nine again under your own direction; a sign-in keeps what you make, and it is free while Toile is new. The recipe behind each sample — the subject, the style, the palette, the framing — travels with the image rather than staying private to the render: it is in the alt text of every sample and in the page's own structured data, so a search engine reads the same handles a person would.