Constructing Lines and Curves in Pixel Art (Tutorial) 

wouldnt that be dot art

If you get proficient with it, you can use the line drawing feature to draw all the curves and paths you want with single-pixel thickness.

@@NitroNovaMusic Ah so it is, very cool! Can you get it to plan out curvature of a line as well? Like using anchor points but with pixels?

@@BJGpixel You can, as long as you're cool with doing the cleanup! Use the path tool to create multiple anchors as you would in Photoshop (and just like photoshop you can return to a path you created in the paths dockable dialog and keep making changes). Then, while you're editing your path, you can go to the Tool Options dialog and select the Stroke Path button. A new dialog will appear to configure how GIMP will paint this path. True, you can use the Stroke Line option and specify a 1.0 line width, but I figured out a way that vastly decreases the amount of doubles that odd curves produce. The best results I got were when I selected "Stroke with a Paint Tool." If you have your pencil tool set to a pixel brush, the software will place pixels exactly along the path you set. The only flaw with this is that you will undoubtedly create some jaggies. It's great for planning the *exact* curve or zig-zag or outline that you are visualizing, as long as you are okay with spending time on cleaning up the occasional double. You can also use this tool for fills or even selecting according to path (not that I actually use the paths tool for that lol).

@@NitroNovaMusic wow that's really cool, thanks for the detail! I might have to get back into GIMP and try this out, or dig deeper in Photoshop to experiment. I actually normally build by hand or use circle shapes sometimes so this could improve my workflow!

@@BJGpixel I wonder if there are bezier curves in gimp...

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ash4raf what is it?

Hxgonic it’s a app by google

In my opinion it looks a bit like the duck game font

@@imamincraftboi7164 I think they meant the font

I’mA MincraftBoi yeah i didnt mean google docs i meant what the *font* is

Hey thanks so much, I appreciate the support and I'm glad you find the videos useful and fun! From your perspective as a beginner, are there any kinds of videos/topics you'd like to see that haven't been covered anywhere?

Yes, I would really like to know the most efficient way to animate a pixel art character. There is literally a couple of decent quality vidoes on that on YT but those are mostly very basic stuff like idle animations. I would love to see a step by step tutorial on a sword swing animation for example. How about using your Darth Vader sprite for this? :)

@@dako5005 Yes that's a great idea! I'll have to come up with some easy way to present that, thanks for the suggestion :D

Yeah

Same. I have trouble making good sprites for my projects.

Minecraft is just 3D pixels

@@lightninjohn5651 Pixels 16x16

@@lightninjohn5651 so voxels

Minecraft IS pixelart depending on what you're doing

I feel as someone who plays Minecraft I always fail at these

Exactly

that's actually why i'm watching this video >>

That's why I'm sharing this video with a friend

That’s... ...why I’m here -General Kenobi

Hey thanks so much, glad you enjoy em, especially since you've been making pixel art yourself for a bit! Do you post your art online anywhere?

@@BJGpixel got some on insta @instarteiro

@@dpcquak ah cool, oh hey I think I've seen your baby yoda post before! Anyway keep up the good work 👍

Thanks! Gonna try to do some scenes inspired on your tutorials ;)

Definitely

Thank You!

Haha thank you for catching that!! 😅 Oh that's really strange, I wonder what other features are missing if that isn't there?! I suppose you could resize within another app if that's possible. There's also that Pixaki app for iPad, don't know anything of it other than it's for pixel art

Oh, I'm sure there's plenty, it just came out not long ago, haha! I'll check out Pixaki then, thanks for the advice :D

In normal photoshop you do not need to think about near neighbor filtering you just use the pen tool that has no filtering at all. (Not vector pen) But maybe that tool is not present in the mobile version?

Stefan Holmqvist I'm not entirely sure, the only pen tool I see has anti-aliasing on all the brushes. I guess it's just a limitation of the mobile version for now, hopefully they bring some options for us soon!

Yeah, I would be honestly surprised if anyone here didn’t already do this as it’s so basic and intuitive

Well, PewDiePie doesn't get it

Search for the Bresenham algorithm, had to code it for my CG 101 class.

Thanks! :D