/vr/ - Retro Games

As a pixel artist I'd suggest looking at your original resolution stuff, and attempting to recreate the shapes manually with a pen tool. You'll get much more definition out of what kind of shapes you're attempting to represent in low resolution. You also end up controlling what small details show up at all, since based on which resampling algorithm you would use to shrink graphics, some things may get hidden altogether.

For example, details such as the diamond-pattern grip on this deagle would never show up as a consistent pattern if you were to simply shrink a rendering of the gun. Since it's handmade, every detail is where it's meant to be, not where it ends up being.