when we did our pixelated pictures I found it difficult because you needed to fill each pixels. The picture did not look pixelated because there were too many pixels. I drew a natural picture like mountains, rivers, animals and trees. I put in a bear and a rabbit. The next time I could improve my picture.

I started by planning my picture on a sheet of A3 paper and then I copied it onto pixel paper and It did take a while but then when I was finished it looked very nice.  My drawing had a fox three mountains with a bridge going across and a valley of water on the low side of the mountains even though it did look good I thought the mountains could have been more sharp.I think next time I could make my picture more sharp and I know I will probably be better at actually building the scene on minecraft because drawing Is something I could really work on.

Primary 7 and Primary 7/6 have begun their project to create local Landmarks to be included in a virtual map of Scotland for the BBC project “Build it Scotland”. In order to start considering how computer images are created, we have been composing pictures on graph paper. This involved planning out the scene we were going to create on plain paper and then giving it the pixelated treatment by replicating the picture the best we could on 1mm squared paper. We were forced to overcome difficulties such as presenting curved lines to create certain elements of their picture e.g. the sun or hills. Some of the pupils were able to add animals and other details through manipulation of the “pixels” on the paper.