Tomodachi Pixel Art — Designs & Editor
Three ways to make Palette House pixel art for Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream — browse ready-made designs, draw your own in the in-browser editor, or turn any image into a paint-by-numbers blueprint. Every design carries the exact in-game swatch position for each cell, so you can copy straight onto your island. Free, in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
Pixel-grid helpers like “Living the Grid” popularised the idea of planning Palette House art on a numbered grid; miichart bundles a growing set of those grids ready to copy, plus a draw-from-scratch editor, plus the image converter, plus the in-game palette positions baked into every blueprint.
Ready-made Tomodachi pixel art designs
Tap a design for the full paint-by-numbers blueprint, the in-game Palette House swatch positions for every colour, and a PNG you can keep open on your phone while you paint.
Icons · 7
Cats, frogs, stars, hearts and other recognisable little shapes — great as a poster, a t-shirt motif, or a wall pattern.
Food · 3
Strawberries, sushi, cupcakes and other tasty motifs — perfect for kitchen wallpaper, t-shirt prints, or café posters on your island.
Seasonal · 3
Jack-o-lanterns, Christmas trees and other holiday motifs — swap your island's wardrobe and posters with the season.
Patterns · 10
Checks, stripes, dots and plaids for clothing fabrics and wallpaper-style designs.
Flags · 5
Pride flags as full Palette House paint-by-numbers grids — wave them on a poster on your wall.
Gradients · 2
Smooth colour-band fades — useful as backgrounds, sky panels, or as a base layer to paint over.
Draw your own Tomodachi pixel art
Hand-paint on a 16/32/64 grid with the in-game 84-colour Palette House palette. Every cell carries its exact R·C swatch position, so what you draw in your browser maps 1:1 to what you'll paint in your game. Mirror tools, reference image overlay, undo/redo, and shareable URLs included.
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Turn any image into a Tomodachi pixel art blueprint
Got a photo, logo or character art you want on your island instead? Upload it and the converter maps it onto the same kind of paint-by-numbers Palette House grid — pick Game mode and every cell is labelled with the exact in-game swatch position to paint with.
Upload your own image
A sample Mii is shown below to start — pick any image (a photo, logo, character art…) to replace it. Everything runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded. Square images work best; others are centre-cropped.
Palette
Snaps every cell to a real in-game Palette House swatch and labels it by grid position (e.g. R3·C7 / E2) — paint by the position, no guesswork.
Grid size & colours
The Palette House canvas is 256×256 — a bigger brush ⇒ coarser grid; a 1-stamp square brush ⇒ the finest detail. 8–20 colours is the sweet spot.
How the Palette House works in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream
The Palette House is the design studio inside Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream. It gives you a 256 × 256 painting canvas and a fixed palette of 84 colours — 77 base swatches arranged in an 11-column × 7-row block, plus 7 fully-saturated extras down the side. The grid runs from a top row of white and pale tints, through punchy primaries in the middle, down to a bottom row of black and deep darks; columns sweep from purples and blues through cyans, greens and yellows to oranges, reds and browns. You paint clothing patterns, posters and other custom items with brushes of different sizes and shapes — and a small square brush in pixel-perfect mode stamps exactly one canvas cell at a time, which is what makes a pixel-grid blueprint so useful.
Living the Dream is generous with storage: roughly 300 custom clothing designs and 100 slotsfor each other category, so there's plenty of room to build a wardrobe. Because the game has no design-import feature, the way to recreate a picture is to plan it on a grid and repaint it square by square — which is exactly what this Tomodachi Life pixel art tool is for.
How to use a Tomodachi Life pixel grid blueprint
- 1Pixelate your image. Upload a picture above. Pick a grid size that matches the brush you'll use in-game, and a colour count (start with 12–16).
- 2Download the grid. Hit Download PNG. Keep it open on a phone or second screen, or print it — it's your paint-by-numbers reference.
- 3Open the Palette House. In Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, start a new custom design (clothing, poster, etc.). Choose a brush size that matches your grid.
- 4Paint cell by cell. Work back-to-front: block in the big areas with a bigger brush, then drop down for detail. For each numbered colour on the blueprint, pick the closest swatch in the in-game palette.
- 5Save and use it. Save the design and apply it — to a Mii's clothes, a poster on a wall, or wherever the category allows.
Tips for great Tomodachi Life pixel art
Limit your colours
The cleanest Palette House designs use 8–20 colours. Fewer colours are faster to paint and read better at a small size — bump the colour count up only when you really need the detail.
Match the grid to your brush
If you'll paint with a chunky square brush, use a small grid (16×16 or 24×24). If you'll do pixel-perfect 1-stamp work, a 48×48 or 64×64 grid captures fine detail — but it's a lot of squares.
Pick iconic, high-contrast images
Logos, flags, emoji, simple character art and bold silhouettes pixelate beautifully. Busy photos with subtle gradients turn to mush at grid resolution — crop in tight on the part that matters.
Paint backgrounds first
Block in the big flat areas with the largest brush, then drop the brush size for outlines and details. Working back-to-front means you don't have to paint around things.
Save a slot budget
Living the Dream gives you about 300 custom clothing designs and 100 slots for every other category. Go wild on clothes; be choosier with posters and the rest.
Make a Mii
Design a Mii in the online Mii creator to wear your custom Palette House outfits.
Mii ideas gallery
Character Miis from games, anime and movies — pair them with matching custom designs.
Mii QR codes
Ready-made Mii QR codes, a decoder, and a maker — all in the browser.
Tomodachi Life pixel art — FAQ
What is the Palette House in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream?
The Palette House is the game's custom-pattern editor — a 256×256 painting canvas with a fixed 84-colour palette (77 base swatches laid out in an 11-column × 7-row grid, plus 7 fully-saturated extras). You use it to paint custom clothing patterns, posters and other designs for your island. Drawing complex things stamp-by-stamp is slow, which is why a pixel-grid blueprint helps.
How do I turn an image into Tomodachi Life pixel art?
Upload an image to the tool above, pick a grid size and a colour count, and leave the palette on "Game" — it pixelates the image and snaps every cell to a real in-game Palette House swatch, then gives you a numbered grid + a colour key with each swatch's grid position (row · column, or E1–E7). In the Palette House, paint cell by cell, jumping to the listed position for each numbered colour. Download the grid as a PNG to keep on a second screen.
Does it export exactly into the game?
There's no file to import — the game has no design-import feature. But the tool's "Game" mode does the next best thing: it builds the design entirely out of the real 84 Palette House swatches and labels each one by its position in the in-game palette, so recreating it is paint-by-numbers rather than guesswork. ("Auto" mode instead reduces the image to its own colours, which you then eyeball-match — useful when you want a specific look the in-game palette can't hit exactly.)
What grid size should I use?
It depends on the brush you'll paint with. A big square brush stamps several cells at once, so a 16×16 or 24×24 grid matches it. The smallest 1-stamp square brush in pixel-perfect mode behaves like one grid cell — pair that with a 48×48 or 64×64 grid for detailed art. Start small; you can always re-process the same image at a finer grid.
How many custom designs can I save in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream?
Roughly 300 slots for custom clothing designs and 100 slots for each of the other categories. So you can build a big wardrobe of patterns, and a smaller set of posters and other custom items.
Is this a Tomodachi pixel art tool like "Living the Grid"?
Same idea — paste an image, get a paint-by-numbers Tomodachi Life grid you can recreate in the Palette House — built into miichart alongside the personality chart, Mii maker, QR tools and a gallery of ready-made designs. It's a free, in-browser Tomodachi pixel art maker; nothing is uploaded.
Is this Tomodachi pixel art maker free?
Yes — completely free, no account, no download. It runs entirely in your browser and your image never leaves your device. The only optional extra is downloading the finished grid as a PNG.
Can I share a Tomodachi Life design with other players?
Share the pixel-grid blueprint (the PNG download) so a friend can repaint it on their island. The Palette House design data itself stays on each player's save — so the blueprint, not a file, is what gets passed around.
Can I draw my own pixel art in the browser?
Yes — the Draw section has an in-browser pixel-art editor that uses the same 84-colour Palette House palette. Pick a brush size (1/2/3), use pencil / fill / eyedropper / eraser, optionally mirror your strokes for symmetric designs, and overlay a reference image as a tracing guide. Download the result as a numbered paint-by-numbers PNG that lists each swatch's in-game position.
How is this different from Living the Grid?
Living the Grid is an image-to-grid converter — you give it a picture, it quantises to the Palette House palette. miichart's editor is a draw-from-scratch tool: blank canvas, pencil, fill, mirror modes, etc. The two are complementary — start in the editor when you have an idea in your head, or use our image converter (same page, below the editor) when you have a picture you want to recreate.